OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool

One of the main challenges for empirical researchers is to collect software data. However, with the emergence of the open source repositories, they have a large amount of software to choose from for mostly any types of research. Moreover, the mining software repositories research area can be further...

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Main Authors:	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham, Mahmud, Iqram
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IACSIT PRESS 2013
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/1/OSSGrab_Software_Repositories_and_App_Store_Mining_Tool.pdf

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spelling	iium-379522014-09-02T02:30:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/ OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Mahmud, Iqram QA76 Computer software One of the main challenges for empirical researchers is to collect software data. However, with the emergence of the open source repositories, they have a large amount of software to choose from for mostly any types of research. Moreover, the mining software repositories research area can be further extended to the mobile apps mining. Generally, searching through large software repositories to look for specific systems can be a daunting task. Therefore, there is a need to build a tool which can expedite and ease the search process so that the researchers can focus on analyzing the data. Our paper presents a tool, OSSGrab, which can be used to automate the search process in the SourceForge software repository, as well as searching through the Android app store. As a result, this tool has managed to save tremendous amount of time that need to be spent for data collection. IACSIT PRESS 2013-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37952/1/OSSGrab_Software_Repositories_and_App_Store_Mining_Tool.pdf Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham and Mahmud, Iqram (2013) OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool. Lecture Notes on Software Engineering, 1 (3). pp. 219-223. ISSN 2301-3559 http://www.lnse.org/papers/49-T100.pdf 10.7763/LNSE.2013.V1.49
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description	One of the main challenges for empirical researchers is to collect software data. However, with the emergence of the open source repositories, they have a large amount of software to choose from for mostly any types of research. Moreover, the mining software repositories research area can be further extended to the mobile apps mining. Generally, searching through large software repositories to look for specific systems can be a daunting task. Therefore, there is a need to build a tool which can expedite and ease the search process so that the researchers can focus on analyzing the data. Our paper presents a tool, OSSGrab, which can be used to automate the search process in the SourceForge software repository, as well as searching through the Android app store. As a result, this tool has managed to save tremendous amount of time that need to be spent for data collection.
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author	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Mahmud, Iqram
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title	OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool
title_short	OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool
title_full	OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool
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title_full_unstemmed	OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool
title_sort	ossgrab: software repositories and app store mining tool
publisher	IACSIT PRESS
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