General Chair
Program Co-chairs
Michael W. Godfrey
University of Waterloo, Canada
Jim Whitehead
University of California, Santa Cruz
Challenge Chair
Christian Bird
UC Davis, USA
Program Committee
Giuliano Antoniol
(École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
Andrew Begel
(Microsoft Corp., USA)
Geoff Clemm
(IBM / Rational, USA)
Stephan Diehl
(U. of Trier, Germany)
Massimiliano di Penta
(U. of Sannio, Italy)
Harald Gall
(U. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Daniel Germán
(U. of Victoria, Canada)
Tudor Girba
(U. of Bern, Switzerland)
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona
(U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Ahmed Hassan
(Queen's U., Canada)
Ric Holt
(U. of Waterloo, Canada)
Huzefa Kagdi
(Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA)
Tohru Kikuno
(Osaka U., Japan)
Miryung Kim
(U. of Texas (Austin), USA)
Sung Kim
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Michele Lanza
(U. of Lugano, Switzerland)
Ben Liblit
(U. of Wisconsin (Madison), USA)
Jonathan Maletic
(Kent State U., USA)
Andrian Marcus
(Wayne State U., USA)
Audris Mockus
(Avaya Labs, USA)
Nachiappan Nagappan
(Microsoft Corp., USA)
Dewayne Perry
(U. of Texas (Austin), USA)
Martin Pinzger
(U. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Lori Pollock
(U. of Delaware, USA)
Martin Robillard
(McGill U., Canada)
Gregorio Robles
(U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Jelber Sayyad Shirabad
(Ottawa U., Canada)
Walt Scacchi
(U. of California (Irvine), USA)
Tao Xie
(North Caroline State U., USA)
Andy Zaidman
(Delft Technical U., Netherlands)
Thomas Zimmermann
(U. of Calgary, Canada)
Poster Chair
Miryung Kim
Univerity of Texas (Austin), USA
Local Arrangement Chair
Dirk Beyer
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Web Chair
Abram Hindle
University of Waterloo, Canada
Location
Co-located with ICSE 2009,
Vancouver, Canada
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
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 MSR 2010 is up and running! Check it out! Submit papers!
Check out these great MSR Caricatures!
Conference banquet dinner details are right here!
Be sure to check out the IBM Jazz Research Reception
The MSR Programme has been updated!
Keynote speaker biographies and abstracts updated!
Second Keynote talk and speaker announced!
Challenge Report Deadline extended to Monday March 16th!
Keynote talk and speaker announced!
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 poster papers (4 pages) and research papers (10 pages). Poster
papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe
interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed.
Accepted poster 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 poster papers. Accepted full papers will present their
ideas in a research talk at the conference. Paper submissions must be formatted
according to ICSE guidelines. 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:
- 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
- Prediction, characterization, and classification 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 to assist in future development
- Visualization techniques and models of mined data
- Techniques, tools, and interchange formats for capturing new forms of data for storage in software
repositories, such as effort data, fine-grain changes, and refactoring
- Approaches, applications, and tools for software repository mining
- Quality aspects and guidelines to ensure quality results in mining
- 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 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 GNOME desktop suite by participating in the two MSR Challenge
tracks:
- General. Discover interesting facts about the history of the GNOME desktop
suite. Results should be reported as 4-page submissions, to be included in
the proceedings as challenge papers.
- Prediction. We challenge you to predict the code growth in core GNOME
projects in terms of source lines of code from February 1st to April 30th, 2009.
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
Click here to submit MSR 2009 abstracts, papers, and poster.
Click here to submit MSR 2009 challenge submissions.
Papers must be in the IEEE CS proceedings style - Two Column Format.
The proceedings for MSR-09 will be published electronically by the IEEE digital library. Additionally, attendees of MSR-09 will be able to download at electronic version during the conference.
MSR 2009 Keynote Presentations
We are proud to announce that we have excellent keynote presentations lined up for MSR 2009.
MSR 2009 First Keynote Presentation
Success Factors of Business Intelligence
Michael McAllister
Director of academic research centres (ARC) at SAP
Business Objects
Abstract:
Business Intelligence (BI) has proven to be a competitive advantage for
organizations, allowing them to better measure, manage, and optimize
their operations. It has provided the means to improve data-driven
decision making and to harmonize an organization's strategy with its
everyday operations. The early success of BI arose in providing a
semantic-level access to heterogeneous data sources beyond
organizations' information technology departments. Retrospective and
predictive analytical components have since increased the value of BI to
the organizations. In this talk, we will discuss success factors and
influences for BI that have arisen by making information available
across an organization and will open a discussion on some of the
near-term and long-term BI challenges.
Bio:
Mike McAllister is director of academic research centres (ARC) at SAP
Business Objects, where he is responsible for creating, leading,
managing and contributing to research partnerships and projects with
academia across North America on topics related to BI. He completed his
PhD in Computer Science at UBC in 1999, then joined Dalhousie University
where he is an Associate Professor. He was also Associate Dean for
Computer Science in 2007-2008 before taking a leave to join SAP to
accelerate the company's investment in research with academia.
MSR 2009 Second Keynote Presentation
This keynote will be shared with ICPC 2009 and occur on the Sunday morning of MSR.
A Brief History of Software - from Bell Labs to Microsoft Research
Thomas Ball
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/~tball/
Abstract:
In the mid 1990s, I was (tangentially) part of an effort in Bell Labs called
the "Code Decay" project. The hypothesis of this project was that over time
code becomes fragile (more difficult to change without introducing problems),
and that this process of decay could be empirically validated. This effort
awakened me to the power of combining statistical expertise with software
engineering expertise to address pressing problems of software production in a
statistically valid manner.
I will revisit some of the work we did in the Code Decay project at Bell Labs
and then turn to what has been happening in this area in Microsoft in the last
five years. In particular, I will trace how we have progressed from studying
the data produced by product teams to validate hypotheses, to being actively
involved with the product groups in creating and evaluating new tools and
techniques for empirically-based software production.
Bio:
Thomas Ball is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he manages the
Software Reliability Research group. Tom
received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993, was with
Bell Labs from 1993-1999, and has been at Microsoft Research since 1999. He is
one of the originators of the SLAM project, a software model checking engine
for C that forms the basis of the Static Driver Verifier tool. Tom's interests
range from program analysis, model checking, testing and automated theorem
proving to the problems of defining and measuring software quality.
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