The GHTorrent dataset and tool suite

TitleThe GHTorrent dataset and tool suite
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsGousios, G
Refereed DesignationRefereed
Secondary TitleMSR ’13: Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Date Published05/2013
Abstract

A common requirement of many empirical software engineering studies is the acquisition and curation of data from software repositories. During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive REST API, which enables researchers to retrieve both the commits to the projects’ repositories and events generated through user actions on project resources. GHTorrent aims to create a scalable off line mirror of GitHub’s event streams and persistent data, and offer it to the research community as a service. In this paper, we present the project’s design and initial implementation and demonstrate how the provided datasets can be queried and processed.

Notes

Example of how to use the data/tool: http://www.gousios.gr/blog/on-github-pull-requests/

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