How are software repositories mined? A systematic literature review of workflows, methodologies, reproducibility, and tools

This is the excel spreadsheet dataset containing our analysis of papers performing mining software repositories research from the conferences ICSE, ESEC/FSE, and MSR from the years 2018 - 2020. The data is broken into columns and can be explained at a high-level as follows:

Column      Content

1                 The paper being analyzed

2                 Does the paper state the data they analyzed is available

3                 Does the paper perform some sort of data analysis or sampling using data others have compiled in the past

4                 Does the paper state a timestamp for when they begin their work

5                 Does the paper state the use of systems pre-built to help with MSR work

6 - 18          Forms of sampling researchers may have employed to select their data

19               What datasets (if any) were used in the analysis

20               What tools (if any) were used in the analysis

21               How they performed their data sampling workflow

22               How they performed their data filtering workflow

23               How they performed their data retrieval workflow

24               Did they create any scripts in each of these workflows

25 - 33        Did they publish a replication package and what is contained within

34               Is the paper describing a tool for research or not

35               Short description of the paper read

36               A high-level category of the work performed in each paper