DGMF: Fast Generation of Comparable, Updatable Dependency Graphs for Software Repositories

Dependency graphs for software repositories have been utilized in a variety of different research contexts. However, to this date there is no unified data model for such graphs, often prompting researchers to implement domain-specific methodologies from scratch. This greatly hinders comparability and makes it hard to incorporate existing tooling into new contexts. With this work we propose DGMF, a framework for mining dependency graphs via repository-specific, user-defined adapters. DGMF is designed to be fast, to require little repository-specific code, and to produce graphs that are comparable even across different repositories. We present our design and implementation, as well as three predefined adapters and an evaluation.