Treasure digging in software development history – Repository Mining In this research, we aim at supporting software comprehension. By analyzing and arranging software development history, we propose methods to present the corresponding data. Especially, we focus on software repository which is our major data source.
Software Repository refers to a development infrastructure that allows developers to collaborate among others for software development via network. It is also a collective term of version control system that manages source code, as well as a mailing list management system that keeps track of discussions among developers.