A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits

• Main Authors: HERBOLD, Steffen, TRAUTSCH, Alexander, LEDEL, Benjamin, AGHAMOHAMMADI, Alireza, GHALEB, Taher Ahmed, KAUR CHAHAL, Kuljit, BOSSENMAIER, Tim, NAGARIA, Bhaveet, MAKEDONSKI, Philip, AHMADABADI, Matin Nili, SZABADOS, Kristóf, SPIEKER, Helge, MADEJA, Matej, HOY, Nathaniel G., TREUDE, Christoph, WANG, Shangwen, RODRÍGUEZ-PÉREZ, Gema, COLOMO-PALACIOS, Ricardo, VERDECCHIA, Roberto, SINGH, Paramvir
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: tangled changes; tangled commits; bug fix; manual validation; research turk; registered report; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8762; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9765/viewcontent/s10664_021_10083_5.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Context: Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple concerns at once. For researchers interested in bugs, tangled commits mean that they actually study not only bugs, but also other concerns irrelevant for the study of bugs.Objective: We want to improve our understanding of the pr...