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A graph-based dataset of commit history of real-world Android apps

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Franz-Xaver Geiger,

Ivano Malavolta,

Luca Pascarella,

Dario Di Nucci,

Alberto BacchelliAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '18: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Pages 30 - 33

https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196460

Published: 28 May 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Obtaining a good dataset to conduct empirical studies on the engineering of Android apps is an open challenge. To start tackling this challenge, we present AndroidTimeMachine, the first, self-contained, publicly available dataset weaving spread-out data sources about real-world, open-source Android apps. Encoded as a graph-based database, AndroidTimeMachine concerns 8,431 real open-source Android apps and contains: (i) metadata about the apps' GitHub projects, (ii) Git repositories with full commit history and (iii) metadata extracted from the Google Play store, such as app ratings and permissions.

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A graph-based dataset of commit history of real-world Android apps
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Maintaining software

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MSR '18: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

May 2018

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ISBN:9781450357166

DOI:10.1145/3196398

General Chair:
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Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Kyushu University, Japan
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Drew University

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