Dhaouadi2024.bib

@InProceedings{Dhaouadi2024,
  author    = {Dhaouadi, Mouna and Oakes, Bentley James and Famelis, Michalis},
  title     = {Rationale Dataset and Analysis for the Commit Messages of the Linux Kernel Out-of-Memory Killer},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension},
  year      = {2024},
  series    = {ICPC '24},
  pages     = {415–425},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  abstract  = {Code commit messages can contain useful information on why a developer has made a change. However, the presence and structure of rationale in real-world code commit messages is not well studied. Here, we detail the creation of a labelled dataset to analyze the code commit messages of the Linux Kernel Out-Of-Memory Killer component. We study aspects of rationale information, such as presence, temporal evolution, and structure. We find that 98.9\% of commits in our dataset contain sentences with rationale information, and that experienced developers report rationale in about 60\% of the sentences in their commits. We report on the challenges we faced and provide examples for our labelling.},
  doi       = {10.1145/3643916.3644413},
  isbn      = {9798400705861},
  keywords  = {developer rationale, dataset, Linux kernel, commit messages},
  location  = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  numpages  = {11},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3643916.3644413},
}