General Chair
Audris Mockus
Avaya, USA
Program Co-chairs
Jim Whitehead
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thomas Zimmermann
Microsoft Research, USA
Challenge Chair
Abram Hindle
University of Waterloo, Canada
Program Committee
Giuliano Antoniol
(École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
Andrew Begel
(Microsoft Corp., USA)
Christian Bird
(UC Davis, USA)
Li-Te Cheng
(IBM Research, USA)
Stephan Diehl
(U. of Trier, Germany)
Massimiliano Di Penta
(U. of Sannio, Italy)
Harald Gall
(U. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Tudor Girba
(U. of Bern, Switzerland)
Mike Godfrey
(U. of Waterloo, Canada)
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
(U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Ahmed Hassan
(Queen's U., Canada)
Reid Holmes
(U. of Washington, USA)
Katsuro Inoue
(U. of Osaka, Japan)
Huzefa Kagdi
(Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA)
Miryung Kim
(U. of Texas (Austin), USA)
Sung Kim
(Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, China)
Michele Lanza
(U. of Lugano, Switzerland)
Andrian Marcus
(Wayne State U., USA)
Ken-ichi Matsumoto
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Tim Menzies
(West Virginia U., USA)
Nachiappan Nagappan
(Microsoft Corp., USA)
Martin Pinzger
(Delft Technical U., Netherlands)
Rahul Premraj
(Vrije U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Lori Pollock
(U. of Delaware, USA)
Bill Pugh
(U. of Maryland, USA)
Martin Robillard
(McGill U., Canada)
Gregorio Robles
(U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Anita Sarma
(U. of Nebraska, USA)
Tao Xie
(North Caroline State U., USA)
Westley Weimer
(U. of Virginia, USA)
Laurie Williams
(North Carolina State U., USA)
Andy Zaidman
(Delft Technical U., Netherlands)
Andreas Zeller
(Saarland U., Germany)
Web Chair
Adrian Schröter
University of Victoria, Canada
Location
Co-located with ICSE 2010,
Cape Town, South Africa
Steering Committee
Ahmed E. Hassan
Queen's University, Canada
Audris Mockus
Avaya, USA
Ric Holt
University of Waterloo, Canada
Katsuro Inoue
Osaka University, Japan
Stephan Diehl
University Trier, Germany
Harald Gall
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Michele Lanza
University of Lugano, Switzerland
Michael W. Godfrey
University of Waterloo, Canada
Earlier MSRs
MSR 2009 – Vancouver
MSR 2008 – Leipzig
MSR 2007 – Minneapolis
MSR 2006 – Shanghai
MSR 2005 – Saint Louis
MSR 2004 – Edinburgh
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Latest news
 Information on the MSR Challenge is now available.
We created a Facebook Event, come and RSVP.
Conference dates set to May 2nd-3rd, 2010.
Program Committee now announced.
Submission Dates now announced.
Follow MSR 2010 on Twitter!
Overview
Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications
between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage
the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are
recognizing the benefits of mining this information to support the maintenance
of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate
novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in
which mining these repositories can help to understand software development and
software evolution, to support predictions about software development, and to
exploit this knowledge concretely in planning future development.
The goal of this two-day working conference is to advance the science and
practice of software engineering via the analysis of data stored in software
repositories.
We solicit short papers (4 pages) and research papers (10 pages). Short
papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe
interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed.
Accepted short papers will present their ideas in poster form during a poster
session at the conference, and in a short lightning talk. Full research papers
are expected to describe new research results, and have a higher degree of
technical rigor than short papers. Accepted full papers will present their
ideas in a research talk at the conference. A selection of the best research papers will be
invited for consideration in a special issue of the Springer journal
Empirical Software Engineering.
Topics
Papers may address issues along the general themes, including but not limited
to the following:
- Analysis of software ecosystems and mining of repositories across multiple projects
- Models for social and development processes that occur in large software projects
- Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of software repositories
- Models of software project evolution based on historical repository data
- Characterization, classification, and prediction of software defects based on analysis of software repositories
- Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences
- Search-based software engineering, including search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components and code fragments for reuse, and software search engines
- Analysis of change patterns and trends to assist in future development
- Visualization techniques and models of mined data
- Techniques and tools for capturing new forms of data for storage in software repositories, such as effort data, fine-grained changes, and refactoring
- Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining
- Characterization of bias in mining and guidelines to ensure quality results
- Meta-models, exchange formats, and infrastructure tools to facilitate the sharing of extracted data and to encourage reuse and repeatability
- Case studies on extracting data from repositories of large long-lived and/or industrial projects
- Methods of integrating mined data from various historical sources
MSR Challenge
MSR Challenge. We invite researchers to demonstrate the usefulness of
their mining tools on the source code repositories, bug data, and
mailing list archives of the FreeBSD distribution, Ultimate Debian
Database, and the GNOME desktop suite by participating in the two MSR
Challenge tracks:
- General. Discover interesting facts about the history of FreeBSD?
distribution, Ultimate Debian Database, and the GNOME desktop suite.
Results should be reported as 4-page submissions, to be included in the
proceedings as challenge papers.
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Prediction. We challenge you to predict the newest bug number for
the Debian project on April 30th, 2010. You can provide 1-page long
descriptions of the rationale behind your prediction. Wild guesses are
also welcome and will put "real" miners under pressure.
The winners of both tracks will receive an award. Click here for a more detailed description of the challenge.
Important Dates
| Submission (research/short papers): | | January 14, 2010 (Abstract: January 11, 2010) |
| Submission (challenge paper): | | February 6, 2010 |
| Submission (challenge predictions): | | February 20, 2010 |
| Author notification (all tracks): | | February 20, 2010 |
| Camera-ready copy: | | April 5, 2010 |
| Conference dates: | | May 2nd-3rd, 2010 |
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Submission
Details to be announced.
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