A repository with survey data for how project owners (integrators) use pull requests on Github. The repository corresponds to data and code used for the following publication:
G. Gousios, A. Zaidman, M.-A. Storey, and A. van Deursen, “Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Integrator’s Perspective,” in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015.
The contents in this repository are organized as follows:
data: Contains the CSV files with the raw answer set (integrators.csv), the same answer set enriched with data from the GHTorrent dataset (integrators-enriched.csv) and coded answers for 5 open ended questions.doc: Contains the sources to the camera ready version of our ICSE paperR: Contains R scripts to load, analyze and plot the answer data. The file you are mainly interested in isintegrators-analysis.R.
You are welcome to use the data as you please. Further uses not explored in our ICSE paper are the following:
- Slice the dataset and explore answer sets per repository size, project team size, activity and so on.
- Inform the design of tools for handling pull requests
- Ideas for further research
You can use GHTorrent to enrich the dataset by linking the repository names to .
If you find this data useful for your research, please consider citing the work behind this dataset as follows:
@inproceedings{GZSD15,
author = {Gousios, Georgios and Zaidman, Andy and Storey, Margaret-Anne and van Deursen, Arie},
title = {Work Practices and Challenges in Pull-Based Development: The Integrator’s Perspective},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering},
series = {ICSE},
year = {2015},
month = may,
volume = {1},
pages = {358-368},
location = {Florence, Italy},
doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2015.55}
}