alison-li/ubcthesis-dataset

Dataset for master's thesis.

Dataset: Reducing the Cognitive and Temporal Costs of Software History Exploration

This repository acts as a public dataset to supplement the work presented in my master's thesis:

Li, Alison. 2022. “Reducing the Cognitive and Temporal Costs of Software History Exploration.” Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+. T, University of British Columbia. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0417465.

The dataset includes:

• A version of the two Java classes from Apache Kafka used throughout the thesis.
  • Topology.java
  • StreamsBuilder.java
• The outputs of the diff metadata provided by Intelligent History.
  • diff-metadata-Topology.txt
  • diff-metadata-StreamsBuilder.txt
• The set of commit history exploration graphs constructed for each participant in a Keynote.
  • exploration-graphs.key
• The session summaries to document the participant interviews from the study presented in the evaluation, also included in the thesis appendix.
  • session-summaries.pdf