MSR 2009

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.

Submissions
We solicit poster papers (max: 4 pages) and research papers (max: 10 pages) for the main part of the conference. Additionally, we solicit submissions to the MSR Challenge 2009.


 * Poster papers should discuss controversial issues in the field, or describe interesting or thought provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed. Authors of accepted poster papers will present their ideas in poster form during a poster session at the conference, and in a short lightning talk.
 * Research papers are expected to describe new research results, and have a higher degree of technical rigor than poster papers. Authors of accepted research 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

Important Dates

 * Abstracts due (research/poster papers): Mon 5 Jan 2009 (11:59pm Apia Time)
 * Submission deadline (research/poster papers): Fri 9 Jan 2009
 * Notifications sent out: Fri 6 Feb 2009
 * Camera-ready copy due: Tues 17 Feb 2009
 * Conference dates: Sat/Sun 16-17 May 2009

Committees

 * General Chair:
 * has general chair::Katsuro Inoue, U. of Osaka, Japan


 * Program Co-chairs:
 * has program chair::Michael Godfrey, U. of Waterloo, Canada
 * has program chair::Jim Whitehead, U. of California-Santa Cruz, USA


 * Challenge Chair:
 * has OC member::Christian Bird, UC Davis, USA


 * Program Committee:
 * has PC member::Giuliano Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
 * has PC member::Andrew Begel, Microsoft Corp., USA
 * has PC member::Geoff Clemm, IBM / Rational, USA
 * has PC member::Stephan Diehl, U. of Trier, Germany
 * has PC member::Massimiliano di Penta, U. of Sannio, Italy
 * has PC member::Harald Gall]], U. of Zurich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Daniel German, U. of Victoria, Canada
 * has PC member::Tudor Girba, U. of Bern, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
 * has PC member::Ahmed Hassan, Queen's U., Canada
 * has PC member::Ric Holt, U. of Waterloo, Canada
 * has PC member::Huzefa Kagdi, Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA
 * has PC member::Tohru Kikuno, Osaka U., Japan
 * has PC member::Miryung Kim, U. of Texas-Austin, USA
 * has PC member::Sung Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
 * has PC member::Michele Lanza, U. of Lugano, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Ben Liblit, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
 * has PC member::Jonathan Maletic, Kent State U., USA
 * has PC member::Andrian Marcus, Wayne State U., USA
 * has PC member::Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs, USA
 * has PC member::Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Corp., USA
 * has PC member::Dewayne Perry, U. of Texas-Austin, USA
 * has PC member::Martin Pinzger, U. of Zurich, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Lori Pollock, U. of Delaware, USA
 * has PC member::Martin Robillard, McGill U., Canada
 * has PC member::Gregorio Robles, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
 * has PC member::Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, Ottawa U., Canada
 * has PC member::Walt Scacchi, U. of California-Irvine, USA
 * has PC member::Tao Xie, North Caroline State U., USA
 * has PC member::Andy Zaidman, Delft Technical U., Netherlands
 * has PC member::Thomas Zimmermann, U. of Calgary, Canada