On Identifying Similarities in Git Commit Trendsxe2x80x94A Comparison Between Clustering and SimSAX Software products evolve increasingly fast as markets continuously demand new features and agility to customerxe2x80x99s need. This evolution of products triggers an evolution of software development practices in a different way. Compared to classical methods, where products were developed in projects, contemporary methods for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment develop products as part of continuous programs. In this context, software architects, designers, and quality engineers need to understand how the processes evolve over time since there is no natural start and stop of projects. For example, they need to know how similar two iterations of the same program or how similar two development programs are. In this paper, we compare three methods for calculating the degree of similarity between projects by comparing their Git commit series. We test three approachesxe2x80x94the DNAmotifsinspired SimSAX measure and clustering of subsequences (kMeans and Hierarchical clustering). Our results show that the clustering algorithms are much more sensitive to parameters and often find similarities that are not correct. SimSAX, on the other hand, can be calibrated to find fewer similarities between the projects; the similarities are also more consistent for SimSAX than they are for the clustering. We conclude that it is better to use DNAinspired motifs as they provide more accurate results.

Similarity Analysis of Control Software Using Graph Mining The control software of large scale industrial systems such as machines and plants in the domain of automated Production Systems (aPS) is oftentimes developed using the method clone and own. However, cloning is one of the reason for high maintenance cost in software lifecycle and thus, the need for clone detection is arising. In large scale control software, clone detection is a tedious work, which cannot be performed manually. In order to alleviate the problem of huge number of clones in control software, structural clone detection can be performed. Detecting structural clones can help in better understanding of large scale and complex software, detecting commonlyused design patterns, and software evolution. In this work, the software structure is represented as a call graph depicting software artefacts and their direct dependencies. These call graphs are compared based on graph mining approach to detect similarities between two software structures. The proposed method is adapted and applied to two industrial use cases with different size and complexity. The obtained similar fragments in the software structures are evaluated and verified through manual analysis. The results show that the proposed method is promising approach to capture the similarities between two software structures.