#ECOSYSTEM / Floss - Innovation collaborative

1. Developer-Centric Knowledge Mining from
Large Open-Source Software Repositories
Paris Open Source Summit, Floss - Innovation
collaborative 2017
Alessandra Bagnato - Softeam
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2.  Related activities
- Searching for candidate components
- Evaluating a set of retrieved candidate components to find
the most suitable one
- Understanding how to use the selected components
- Monitoring the selected components
Context
Development of new software systems
by reusing existing open source components
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3. Floss Collaborative Innovation: Open Source Software Analysis & Monitoring
 Open Source Software analysis &
Monitoring: storing, tracking,
searching and analyzing software
artefacts:
• OSSMETER FP7 Project -
Automated Measurement and
Analysis of Open Source Software
(1er October 2012 – 31st December
2014)
• CROSSMINER H2020 Project -
Developer-Centric Knowledge
Mining from
Large Open-Source Software
Repositories
• (1er January 2017 – 31st Dec 2019)

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FP7 OSSMETER
https://github.com/ossmeter/ossmeter
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H2020 CROSSMINER https://github.com/crossminer
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6.  Related activities
- Searching for candidate components
- Evaluating a set of retrieved candidate components to find
the most suitable one
- Understanding how to use the selected components
- Monitoring the selected components
Context
Development of new software systems
by reusing existing open source components
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7.  Challenging tasks
- assessing quality, maturity,
activity of development and user
support is not a straightforward
process
 Different and
heterogeneous source of
information
- e.g., code repositories,
communication channels, bug
tracking systems
Selecting and Using OSS components
Source code
Q&A systems
Bug Reports
API
Documentation
Tutorials
Configuration
Management Systems
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Analysis of OSS projects in OSSMETER
OSS
Project
Communication channel
(Newsgroup/forum/
mailing list)
Source Code
Repository
Bug Tracking
System
OSS Forge
Metadata
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Analysis of OSS projects in OSSMETER
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11.  Wealth of data to present
 Needs to be user-friendly / digestible
 Presentation driven by the quality model
Presentation
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12. The default OSSMETER quality model
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15. CROSSMINER aims at
doing more
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Source code
Q&A systems
Bug Reports
API
Documentation
Tutorials
Configuration
Management Systems
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CROSSMINER: high-level view
Data Preprocessing Capturing Context
Producing
Recommendations
Presenting
Recommendations
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18. Mining and Analysis Tools
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CROSSMINER: high-level view
Data Preprocessing Capturing Context
Producing
Recommendations
Presenting
Recommendations
Knowledge Base
Source Code
Miner
NLP
Miner
Configuration
Miner
Cross project
Analysis
OSS forges
Source Code
Natural
language
channels
Configuration
Scripts
lookup/store
mine
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CROSSMINER: high-level view
Data Preprocessing Capturing Context
Producing
Recommendations
Presenting
Recommendations
Developer
IDE
Knowledge Base
query
recommendations
Data
Storage
Real-time recommendations that serve productivity and quality increase
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CROSSMINER Deployment diagram
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21.  FP7 OSSMETER:
https://github.com/ossmeter/ossmeter
 H2020 CROSSMINER https://github.com/crossminer
 Docker Images for the platform component for
ossmeter & the web app for ossmeter:
https://hub.docker.com/u/crossminer/ (this is a
prototype: images are built from a dedicated git
repo, and pushed to docker hub)
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OSSMETER & CROSSMINER on GitHub & Docker
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Web site: http://www.ossmeter.org/
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Web Site: https://www.crossminer.org/
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24. www.crossminer.org
@crossminer
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25. Thanks!
Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam R&D
Alessandra.bagnato@softeam.fr
alebagnato@yahoo.com
@alebagnato