Paper Info
Title
Open Source Software Documentation Mining for Quality Assessment.
Abstract
Besides source code, the fundamental source of information about Open Source Software lies in documentation, and other non source code files, like README, INSTALL, or HowTo files, commonly available in the software ecosystem. These documents, written in natural language, provide valuable information during the software development stage, but also in future maintenance and evolution tasks. DMOSS1 is a toolkit designed to systematically assess the quality of non source code text found in software packages. The toolkit handles a package as an attribute tree, and performs several tree traverse algorithms through a set of plugins, specialized in retrieving specific metrics from text, gathering information about the software. These metrics are later used to infer knowledge about the software, and composed together to build reports that assess the quality of specific features of the software. This paper discusses the motivations for this work, continues with a description of the toolkit implementation and design goals. Follows an example of its usage to process a software package, and the produced report. Finally some final remarks and trends for future work are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_73
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Keywords
Field
DocType
software quality
README,Software engineering,Software analytics,Source code,Software documentation,Software peer review,Computer science,Software quality,Software construction,Software development
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
206
2194-5357
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nuno Ramos Carvalho1184.94
Alberto Simões25721.73
José João Almeida36021.83