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Mining Treatment-Outcome Constructs from Sequential Software Engineering Data
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DOI：10.1109/TSE.2019.2892956.png)
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Many investigations in empirical software engineering look at sequences of data resulting from development or management processes. In this paper, we propose an analytical approach called the Gandhi-Washington Method (GWM) to investigate the impact of recurring events in software projects. GWM takes an encoding of events and activities provided by a software analyst as input. It uses regular expressions to automatically condense and summarize information and infer treatments. Relating the treatments to the outcome through statistical tests, treatment-outcome constructs are automatically mined from the data. The output of GWM is a set of treatment-outcome constructs. Each treatment in the set of mined constructs is significantly different from the other treatments considering the impact on the outcome and/or is structurally different from other treatments considering the sequence of events. We describe GWM and classes of problems to which GWM can be applied. We demonstrate the applicability of this method for empirical studies on sequences of file editing, code ownership, and release cycle time.
Keywords:
Software
Computer bugs
Encoding
Data mining
Software engineering
Testing
Itemsets
Pattern mining
mining software repositories
regular expressions
analytics
release cycle time patterns
code ownership
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