The promises and perils of mining GitHub

By Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. Germán, Daniela E. Damian. IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2009

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems

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In Computer Networks and Communications

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3. Alberto Bacchelli
4. Premkumar T. Devanbu
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1. Georgios Gousios
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6. Vladimir Filkov
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2. Alberto Bacchelli
3. Georgios Gousios
4. Baishakhi Ray
5. Premkumar T. Devanbu
6. Bogdan Vasilescu
7. Vladimir Filkov
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Citations in the corpus

• GHTorrent: Github's data from a firehose (2012, neutral): “In reference [18], Bird et al.”
• Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Contributor's Perspective (2014, methodology): “In this section, we describe our research method in detail.”
• An exploratory study of the pull-based software development model (2014, methodology): “al in [8].”
• DéjàVu: a map of code duplicates on GitHub (2017, methodology): “[Kalliamvakou et al. 2014] manually analyzed a sample of 434 GitHub repositories and found that approximately 37% of them were not used for software development.”
• Synthesizing benchmarks for predictive modeling (2017, background): “There is an increasing interest in mining source code repositories at large scale [16, 47, 48].”
• Understanding the Factors That Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories (2016, background): “Furthermore, most GitHub repositories are forks and have very low activity [15], [16].”
• SourceFinder: Finding Malware Source-Code from Publicly Available Repositories (2020, background): “Other works [33, 34] study how users utilize the various features and functions of GitHub.”
• What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform (2018, background): “Furthermore, most GitHub repositories are forks and have very low activity [35–37]. properties [27, 54–59].”
• Gender and Tenure Diversity in GitHub Teams (2015, methodology): “Validity of extraction of information from G IT H UB can be threatened in a way similar to digital trace data [32] or put in a “peril” by concerns related to mining Git repositories in general [9], or specifically G IT H UB data [34].”
• To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JavaScript (2017, neutral): “For these reasons, projects that use pull requests, issue tracking, and source code management suffer far less from the linking problem [15].”
• Curating GitHub for engineered software projects (2017, background): “Kalliamvakou et al. (2014) identified this noise as one of the nine perils to be aware of when mining GitHub data for software engineering research.”