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In open-source software development environments; textual, numerical and relationship-based data generated are of interest to researchers. Various data sets are available for this data, which is frequently used in areas such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Abdulkadir Şeker , Banu Diri , Halil Arslan

GitHub is the world's largest collection of open source software. Therefore, it is important both to software developers and users to compare and track the popularity of GitHub repositories. In this paper, we propose a framework to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Hudson Borges , Marco Tulio Valente , Andre Hora , Jailton Coelho

Where can we find malware source code? This question is motivated by a real need: there is a dearth of malware source code, which impedes various types of security research. Our work is driven by the following insight: public archives, like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Risul Islam , Ahmad Darki , Vagelis E. Papalexakis , Michalis Faloutsos

The definition of scholarly content has expanded to include the data and source code that contribute to a publication. While major archiving efforts to preserve conventional scholarly content, typically in PDFs (e.g., LOCKSS, CLOCKSS,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Emily Escamilla , Martin Klein , Talya Cooper , Vicky Rampin , Michele C. Weigle , Michael L. Nelson

Software repository hosting services contain large amounts of open-source software, with GitHub hosting more than 100 million repositories, from new to established ones. Given this vast amount of projects, there is a pressing need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi

Research software is crucial in the research process and the growth of Open Science underscores the importance of accessing research artifacts, like data and code, raising traceability challenges among outputs. While it is a clear principle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Domhnall Carlin , Austen Rainer

GitHub repositories consist of various detailed information about the project contributors, the number of commits and its contributors, releases, pull requests, programming languages, and issues. However, no systematic dataset of open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shreyansh Surana , Smit Detroja , Saurabh Tiwari

The SmartSHARK repository mining data is a collection of rich and detailed information about the evolution of software projects. The data is unique in its diversity and contains detailed information about each change, issue tracking data,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Alexander Trautsch , Fabian Trautsch , Steffen Herbold

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code, with more than 150M repositories. However, most of these repositories are not labeled or inadequately so, making it harder for users to find relevant projects. There have been various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi , Claudio Di Sipio , Juri Di Rocco , Davide Di Ruscio

According to GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories, the exposure of secrets (API keys and other credentials) increased two-fold in 2021 compared to 2020, totaling more than six million secrets. However, no benchmark dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Setu Kumar Basak , Lorenzo Neil , Bradley Reaves , Laurie Williams

We present Curated Industrial Developer Repository (CIDR), a large-scale dataset of real-world software repositories collected through direct collaboration with 12 industrial partner organizations. The dataset comprises 2,440 repositories…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Vladislav Savenkov

The fork-based development mechanism provides the flexibility and the unified processes for software teams to collaborate easily in a distributed setting without too much coordination overhead.Currently, multiple social coding platforms…

Hosting over 10 million of software projects, GitHub is one of the most important data sources to study behavior of developers and software projects. However, with the increase of the size of open source datasets, the potential threats to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Can Cheng , Bing Li , Zengyang Li , Peng Liang

In this research, we provide a comprehensive empirical summary of the Python Package Repository, PyPI, including both package metadata and source code covering 178,592 packages, 1,745,744 releases, 76,997 contributors, and 156,816,750…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Ethan Bommarito , Michael Bommarito

Software quality research increasingly relies on large-scale datasets that measure both the product and process aspects of software systems. However, existing resources often focus on limited dimensions, such as code smells, technical debt,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mikel Robredo , Matteo Esposito , Davide Taibi , Rafael Peñaloza , Valentina Lenarduzzi

Modern software development is based on a series of rapid incremental changes collaboratively made to large source code repositories by developers with varying experience and expertise levels. The ZeroIn project is aimed at analyzing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Kalyan Perumalla , Aradhana Soni , Rupam Dey , Steven Rich

Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

The ability to verify research results and to experiment with methodologies are core tenets of science. As research results are increasingly the outcome of computational processes, software plays a central role. GNU Guix is a software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ludovic Courtès , Timothy Sample , Simon Tournier , Stefano Zacchiroli

With the advent of open source software, a veritable treasure trove of previously proprietary software development data was made available. This opened the field of empirical software engineering research to anyone in academia. Data that is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Adam Tutko , Austin Z. Henley , Audris Mockus

Background. Collaborative software development has produced a wealth of version control system (VCS) data that can now be analyzed in full. Little is known about the intrinsic structure of the entire corpus of publicly available VCS as an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Antoine Pietri , Guillaume Rousseau , Stefano Zacchiroli