Service Oriented Framework for Mining Software Repository

Mining software repository is one of important topic in empirical software engineering. A wide variety of mining tools are published on the Web and we can easily apply individual mining approaches. However, there is no supporting system for sharing the mining techniques, procedures, knowledge and know-how. This sharing problem also poses great difficulties for independent validation and experimental replication from mining researchers. The goal of this paper is to provide a framework that supports sharing the repository mining techniques for reducing mining effort and external validation of analysis results. This paper proposes Service Oriented Framework for Mining Software Repository (SO-MSR) which applied Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the repository mining. Following the SO-MSR, we also develop Metrics Web API which is a prototype system for metrics measurement. Metrics Web API can measure a variety of source code metrics without relying on any types of repositories and programming languages. The proposed system is designed and implemented as a Web service and demonstrated using actual software repository.