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Appendix A
Meta Data Collected for
Software Systems
The meta data captured for each software system (see Table 3.3) in our
data set is summarised in Table A.1. The release history as well as the
meta data used in our study is released as the “Helix Software Evolution
Data Set”, and it available online at:
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/research/projects/helix/.
Item
Name
Short name
Type
Is GUI
License
Commercial
Project URL
Issue Log
Description
Full name of the software system
Short name (one word) of the software system.
This name is used in the reports.
This can one of the following values: Application,
Library, or Framework.
This is a flag that is turned on if the system
provides a graphical user interface for all, or
some part of the functionality.
The open source license that this software system
is distributed under.
This is a flag that is turned on if the project is
sponsored by a commercial organisation.
This the URL of the project’s primary website.
This is a URI. It can be either a pointer to a
local file, or a URL to the issue log.
Table A.1: Meta data captured for each software system
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