On Identifying Similarities in Git Commit Trends—A Comparison Between Clustering and SimSAX

• Software products evolve increasingly fast as markets continuously demand new features and agility to customer’s need. This evolution of products triggers an evolution of software development practices in a different way. Compared to classical methods, where products were developed in projects, contemporary methods for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment develop products as part of continuous programs. In this context, software architects, designers, and quality engineers need to understand how the processes evolve over time since there is no natural start and stop of projects. For example, they need to know how similar two iterations of the same program or how similar two development programs are. In this paper, we compare three methods for calculating the degree of similarity between projects by comparing their Git commit series. We test three approaches—the DNA-motifs-inspired …

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Programvaruteknik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Software Engineering (hsv//eng)

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