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To acquire data for empirical studies, software engineering researchers frequently leverage software repositories as data sources. Indeed, version and bug databases contain a wealth of data on how a product came to be. To turn this data into knowledge, though, requires deep insights into the specific process and product; and it requires careful scrutiny of the techniques used to obtain the data. The central challenge of the future will thus be to combine both automatic and manual empirical analysis.
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Zeller, A. (2013). Can We Trust Software Repositories?. In: Münch, J., Schmid, K. (eds) Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37395-4_14
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