Mining the Jazz repository: Challenges and opportunities

By integrating various development and collaboration tools into one single platform, the Jazz environment offers several opportunities for software repository miners. In particular, Jazz offers full traceability from the initial re-quirements via work packages and work assignments to the final changes and tests; all these features can be easily ac-cessed and leveraged for better prediction and recommen-dation systems. In this paper, we share our initial expe-riences from mining the Jazz repository. We also give a short overview of the retrieved data sets and discuss pos-sible problems of the Jazz repository and the platform itself. 1