A Data Set of Extracted Rationale from Linux Kernel Commit Messages

Abstract

Developer’s commit messages contain information about decisions taken and their rationale. Extracting this information is challenging since we lack a detailed understanding of how developers express these concepts. Our work-in-progress targets this challenge by producing a labelled data set of commit messages for a Linux Kernel component. We report preliminary analyses which suggest that larger commit messages and more experienced developers commits tend towards having 40% of sentences containing rationale. This may indicate a guideline for developers to target.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Dhaouadi:FSE23,
  author    = {Mouna Dhaouadi},
  title     = {A Data Set of Extracted Rationale from Linux Kernel Commit Messages},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {2187--2188},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2023},
}

A Data Set of Extracted Rationale from Linux Kernel Commit Messages

Abstract

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