RapidRelease - A Dataset of Projects and Issues on Github with Rapid Releases

Abstract

In the recent years, there has been a surge in the adoption of agile development model and continuous integration (CI) in software development. Recent trends have reduced average release cycle lengths to as low as 1-2 weeks, leading to an extensive number of studies in release engineering. Open-source development (OSD) has also witnessed a rapid increase in release rates, however, no large dataset of open-source projects exists which features high release rates. In this paper, we introduce the RapidRelease dataset, a data showcase of high release frequency open-source projects. The dataset hosts 994 projects from Github, with over 2 million issue reports. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first dataset that can facilitate researchers to empirically study release engineering and agile software development in open-source projects with rapid releases.