OSSGrab: software repositories and app store mining tool

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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	3509/37952
Uncontrolled Keywords:	App store, mining software repositories, open source, tool.
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Normi Sham Awang Abu Bakar
Date Deposited:	02 Sep 2014 10:28
Last Modified:	02 Sep 2014 10:30
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/37952

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