Integrating Software Repository Mining: A Decision Support Centered Approach

Mining software repositories (MSR) research had significantly contributed to software engineering.However, MSR results integration across repositories is a recent concern that is getting more attentionfrom researchers each day. Some noticeable research in this sense is related to the approximation betweenMSR and semantic web, specially linked data approaches which makes it possible to integrate repositoriesand mined results. Manifested that way, we believe that current research is not fully addressing thepractical integration of MSR results, specially, in software engineering due to not considering that theseresults needs to be integrated to the tools as assistance to activity performers, as a kind of decision makingsupport. Based on this statement this research describes an approach, named Sambasore, which isconcerned with MSR results inter-repository integration and also to decision making support processes,based on tool assistance modelling. To show its feasibility we describe the main concepts, some relatedworks and also a proof of concept experiment applied to a software process modelling tool named SpiderPM.