An Algorithm for Gradual Patch Acceptance Detection in Open Source Software Repository Mining

Passakorn PHANNACHITTA; Akinori IHARA; Pijak JIRAPIWONG; Masao OHIRA; Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO

doi:10.1587/transfun.E95.A.1478

An Algorithm for Gradual Patch Acceptance Detection in Open Source Software Repository Mining

Passakorn PHANNACHITTA, Akinori IHARA, Pijak JIRAPIWONG, Masao OHIRA, Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO

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Nowadays, software development societies have given more precedence to Open Source Software (OSS). There is much research aimed at understanding the OSS society to sustain the OSS product. To lead an OSS project to a successful conclusion, researchers study how developers change source codes called patches in project repositories. In existing studies, we found an argument in the conventional patch acceptance detection procedure. It was so simplified that it omitted important cases from the analysis, and would lead researchers to wrong conclusions. In this research, we propose an algorithm to overcome the problem. To prove out our algorithm, we constructed a framework and conducted two case studies. As a result, we came to a new and interesting understanding of patch activities.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E95-A No.9 pp.1478-1489

Publication Date: 2012/09/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1337

DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.1478

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Software Reliability Engineering)

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Passakorn PHANNACHITTA, Akinori IHARA, Pijak JIRAPIWONG, Masao OHIRA, Ken-ichi MATSUMOTO, "An Algorithm for Gradual Patch Acceptance Detection in Open Source Software Repository Mining" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals, vol. E95-A, no. 9, pp. 1478-1489, September 2012, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.1478.
Abstract: Nowadays, software development societies have given more precedence to Open Source Software (OSS). There is much research aimed at understanding the OSS society to sustain the OSS product. To lead an OSS project to a successful conclusion, researchers study how developers change source codes called patches in project repositories. In existing studies, we found an argument in the conventional patch acceptance detection procedure. It was so simplified that it omitted important cases from the analysis, and would lead researchers to wrong conclusions. In this research, we propose an algorithm to overcome the problem. To prove out our algorithm, we constructed a framework and conducted two case studies. As a result, we came to a new and interesting understanding of patch activities.
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