001. May 1 to May 4

Planned tasks for this week

• task 1: Read background papers on bug detection ✔️
• task 2: Read documentation for repo mining tools ✔️
• task 3: Begin implementation tasks ⌛

Progress

task 1

• downloaded papers to highlight and take notes
• also explored MSR in ualberta library and wiki

task 2

• read documentation for all, but focused on BOA & RepoDriller
• worked through example programs on the boa website

task 3

• read: Bird, Christian, et al. "The promises and perils of mining git." Mining Software Repositories, 2009.
• found 10 Java repositories from Github to mine
  • currently trying to work with RepoDriller; wrote some rough practise code to mine this TestContainers repo for commits with the word 'fix' ➡️ uploaded these files from Eclipse IDE to Github
  • also tried out and liked the python version: PyDriller. Wrote out some code to search for a list of NFR related commit messages in repos entered on the command line ➡️ the code is now on github

Open Problems

• Trying to figure out how to access repos directly from the web without cloning into client computer, if possible

Things we discussed/agreed on

Next steps

• continue Task 3; planning to analyze & document diffs from the 10 repos analyzed this week