Analyzing Software Engineering Processes with Provenance-based Knowledge Graphs

Insights and assessments about the quality, reliability, or trustworthiness of software systems is important for many software applications. Especially for large or mission-critical software systems, reliable measures and assertions are crucial. Since software repositories contain information about source code, software development processes, and team interactions, we extract the provenance of software artifacts from those repositories and store the provenance according to a provenance model defined using W3C PROV data model. We use the recorded provenance to discover insights about the software and its development process, which we apply and evaluate for a large aerospace software system.