The SmartSHARK Ecosystem for Software Repository Mining
This addresses the problem of enabling replicable and reproducible research in empirical software engineering for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing repository mining approaches.
The paper tackles the challenge of collecting and analyzing detailed data for software repository mining to support replicable research and open science practices, resulting in the SmartSHARK ecosystem that facilitates such studies.
Software repository mining is the foundation for many empirical software engineering studies. The collection and analysis of detailed data can be challenging, especially if data shall be shared to enable replicable research and open science practices. SmartSHARK is an ecosystem that supports replicable and reproducible research based on software repository mining.