Integrating Software Repository Mining: A Decision Support Centered Approach

Abstract

Mining software repositories (MSR) research had significantly contributed to software engineering. However, MSR results integration across repo sitories is a recent concern that is getting more attention from researchers each day. Some noticeable research in this sense is related to the approximation between MSR and semantic web, specially linked data approaches which makes it possible to integrat e repositories and mined results. Manifested that way, we believe that current research is not fully addressing the practical integration of MSR results, specially, in software engineering due to not considering that these results needs to be integrated tothe tools as assistance to activity performers, as a kind of decision making support. Based on this statement this research describes an approach, named Sambasore, which is concerned with MSR results inter -repository integration and also to decision makin g support processes, based on tool assistance modelling. To show its feasibility we describe the main concepts, some related works and also a proof of concept experiment applied to a software process modelling tool named Spider PM.