Paper accepted at Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal

We are happy to announce that our paper "Addressing Problems with Replicability and Validity of Repository Mining Studies through a Smart Data Platform" was accepted for publication by Springer Empirical Software Engineering.  Within this article, four major problems in the state of practice of software repository mining that threaten the external validity of research results, i.e., the generalizability of drawn conclussions, are discussed. This article is an extension to our MSR publication.
The pre-print of the article is available online at Springer. A free view-only version of the article is available here.