Software process discovery using link analysis

Data mining is an exhausting yet very useful task. It can help programmers understand the nature of development process and reveal potential problems during the process. Thus more reliable software can be created. As open source software development communities thrive, many software repositories with useful information about the development process become publicly available, enabling us to do research. In this paper, the author explores an approach based on mapping the artifacts to the process activity of FreeBSD repository to study the control-flow of the development process.