Exploring Architectural Design Decisions in Mailing Lists and their Traceability to Issue Trackers

The online repository for the paper: Exploring Architectural Design Decisions in Mailing Lists and their Traceability to Issue Trackers, published in ECSA 2024. The online repo has the following folders: 1) Classifier: it contains the source code of the classifier and quantitative analysis. Furthermore, there are sufficient details on the classifier performance, and how to replicate the results. 2) Dataset: it contains the datasets we used to perform our analysis. This involves dataset before and after BERT classification, as well as exported json files used for training and analysis. The dataset in a zip file. This is a MySQL database in a zip file. It can be opened separately or opened using the search tool. 3) Qualitative analysis: it contains coding book of design decisions in mailing lists as well as coding book of methods to discuss ADDs between emails and issues, as well as precision charts for the applied similarity algorithms. 4) Searching tool: it contains the jar file and source code of the searching tool. The tool used to annotate and search for emails. It can be used to open the dataset from the zip directly. The tool is a jar file which can be run directly through a double click. The tool is tested on Windows and Linux. The folder also contains keywords to search for architectural emails, as well as documentation.