How to analyze git repositories with command line tools: We're not in Kansas anymore

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Abstract

Git repositories are an important source of empirical software engineering product and process data. Running the Git command-line tool and processing its output with other Unix tools allows the incremental construction of sophisticated data processing pipelines. Git data analytics on the command-line can be systematically presented through a pattern that involves fetching, selection, processing, summarization, and reporting. For each part of the processing pipeline, we examine the tools and techniques that can be most effectively used to perform the task at hand. The presented techniques can be easily applied, first to get a feeling of version control repository data at hand and then also for extracting empirical results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '18
Subtitle of host publicationCompanion Proceedings
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages540-541
Number of pages2
VolumePart F137351
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-5663-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventICSE 2018: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering - Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 27 May 20183 Jun 2018
Conference number: 40
https://www.icse2018.org/

Conference

ConferenceICSE 2018
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGothenburg
Period27/05/183/06/18
Internet address

Keywords

  • Command-line tools
  • Data analytics
  • empirical software engineering
  • Git
  • Pipes and filters

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