%0 Conference Paper %B 2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering %D 2009 %T Benchmarking Lightweight Techniques to Link E-Mails and Source Code %A Bacchelli, Alberto %A D'Ambros, Marco %A Lanza, Michele %A Robbes, Romain %K argouml %K email %K mailing lists %X During the evolution of a software system, a large amount of information, which is not always directly related to the source code, is produced. Several researchers have provided evidence that the contents of mailing lists represent a valuable source of information: Through e-mails, developers discuss design decisions, ideas, known problems and bugs, etc. which are otherwise not to be found in the system. A technical challenge in this context is how to establish the missing link between free-form e-mails and the system artifacts they refer to. Although the range of approaches is vast, establishing their accuracy remains a problem, as there is no benchmark against which to compare their performance. To overcome this issue, we manually inspected a statistically significant number of e-mails pertaining to the ArgoUML system. Based on this benchmark, we present a variety of lightweight techniques to assign e-mails to software artifacts and measure their effectiveness in terms of precision and recall. %B 2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering %I IEEE %C Lille, France %P 205 - 214 %@ 978-0-7695-3867-9 %R 10.1109/WCRE.2009.44 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/wcre2009.pdf