Empirical Software Engineering

A curated list of awesome lists - @sindresorhus

A curated list of awesome lists covering all topics related to software development and technology.

ESEUR

Code and data repository for reproducing examples from 'Evidence-based Software Engineering' book using publicly available data.

Defects4J

A database of reproducible real-world Java bugs and a framework for controlled software engineering experiments.

Findbugs-maven

A dataset cataloging bugs found in the Maven ecosystem using static analysis of all project versions.

Maven metrics

A dataset of static analysis metrics from 22,730 Java jar files from Maven Central for software quality research.

mzdata

A multi-extract, multi-level dataset of Mozilla Bugzilla issue tracking history spanning 15 years for software engineering research.

npm-miner

A dataset containing analysis results from 5 software quality tools for 2000 popular npm packages.

OCL Expressions on GitHub

A dataset of 9,188 OCL expressions from 504 EMF meta-models in 245 GitHub repositories for empirical OCL studies.

Unix history

A Git repository containing the complete historical evolution of Unix from 1970 to the present day.

astminer

A Kotlin library for extracting path-based code representations and ASTs from multiple languages to prepare code for machine learning models.

buckwheat

A multi-language tokenizer for extracting identifiers from source code using tree-sitter and pygments parsers.

Coming

A tool for mining commits from Git repositories to automatically extract code change pattern instances and features using AST analysis.

CryptOSS

Tooling for collecting and analyzing cryptocurrency open-source software development activity from GitHub.

DbDeo

A tool that analyzes SQL code in software repositories to detect common database design anti-patterns and smells.

DesigniteJava

A Java code quality assessment tool that detects design/implementation smells and computes object-oriented metrics.

Diggit

An agile tool for analyzing Git repositories with modular analyses and joins.

GitEvo

Analyze code evolution in Git repositories using concrete syntax tree metrics for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java.

Maven-miner

A Java toolset that mines the Maven Central repository to build and store a global dependency graph in Neo4j.

Perceval

A command-line tool to fetch and gather data from software repositories and development platforms using modular backends.

Puppeteer

A design configuration smell detection tool for Puppet code that identifies 11 specific code quality issues.

PyDriller

A Python framework for mining and analyzing Git repositories, extracting commits, developers, files, diffs, and source code.

qmcalc

A command-line tool that analyzes C source code files and outputs dozens of code quality metrics related to size, complexity, style, and preprocessor usage.

reaper

A tool that calculates a GitHub repository's quality score based on engineering best practices using metadata and source analysis.

RefactoringMiner

A library that detects refactorings and generates AST diffs for Java, Python, and Kotlin code changes.