MSR 2011
Eighth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2011)

Title Page

Foreword

Fantasy, Farms, and Freemium: What Game Data Mining Teaches Us About Retention, Conversion, and Virality (Keynote Abstract)
Jim Whitehead
(UC Santa Cruz, USA)

Connecting Technology with Real-world Problems - From Copy-paste Detection to Detecting Known Bugs (Keynote Abstract)
Yuanyuan Zhou
(UC San Diego, USA)

Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, and Emerson Murphy-Hill
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Microsoft Research, USA; North Carolina State University, USA)

A Study of Language Usage Evolution in Open Source Software
Siim Karus and Harald Gall
(University of Tartu, Estonia; University of Zurich, Switzerland)

How Developers Use the Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: The Case of Smalltalk
Oscar Callaú, Romain Robbes, Éric Tanter, and David Röthlisberger
(University of Chile, Chile; University of Bern, Switzerland)

An Exploratory Study of Identifier Renamings
Laleh M. Eshkevari, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Giuliano Antoniol
(École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada; University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy)

Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Localization: A Comparative Study of Generic and Composite Text Models
Shivani Rao and Avinash Kak
(Purdue University, USA)

Comparison of Similarity Metrics for Refactoring Detection
Benjamin Biegel, Quinten David Soetens, Willi Hornig, Stephan Diehl, and Serge Demeyer
(University of Trier, Germany; University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Finding Software License Violations Through Binary Code Clone Detection
Armijn Hemel, Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Rob Vermaas, and Eelco Dolstra
(gpl-violations.org, Netherlands; KolibriFX, Norway; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

A Simpler Model of Software Readability
Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, and Premkumar Devanbu
(UC Davis, USA)

Comparing Fine-Grained Source Code Changes And Code Churn For Bug Prediction
Emanuel Giger, Martin Pinzger, and Harald Gall
(University of Zurich, Switzerland; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Security Versus Performance Bugs: A Case Study on Firefox
Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams, and Ahmed E. Hassan
(Queen's University, Canada)

Empirical Evaluation of Reliability Improvement in an Evolving Software Product Line
Sandeep Krishnan, Robyn R. Lutz, and Katerina Goševa-Popstojanova
(Iowa State University, USA; West Virginia University, USA)

Implementing Quality Metrics and Goals at the Corporate Level
Pete Rotella and Sunita Chulani
(Cisco Systems Inc., USA)

How Do Developers Blog? An Exploratory Study
Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej
(Technische Universität München, Germany)

Entering the Circle of Trust: Developer Initiation as Committers in Open-Source Projects
Vibha Singhal Sinha, Senthil Mani, and Saurabh Sinha
(IBM Research, India)

Social Interactions around Cross-System Bug Fixings: The Case of FreeBSD and OpenBSD
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Marta Cimitile, and Massimiliano Di Penta
(University of Sannio, Italy; Unitelma Sapienza, Italy)

Do Time of Day and Developer Experience Affect Commit Bugginess?
Jon Eyolfson, Lin Tan, and Patrick Lam
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

Automated Topic Naming to Support Cross-project Analysis of Software Maintenance Activities
Abram Hindle, Neil A. Ernst, Michael W. Godfrey, and John Mylopoulos
(UC Davis, USA; University of Toronto, Canada; University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Trento, Italy)

Modeling the Evolution of Topics in Source Code Histories
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Dorothea Blostein
(Queen's University, Canada)

Software Bertillonage: Finding the Provenance of an Entity
Julius Davies, Daniel M. German, Michael W. Godfrey, and Abram Hindle
(University of Victoria, Canada; University of Waterloo, Canada; UC Davis, USA)

Supporting Software History Exploration
Alexander W. J. Bradley and Gail C. Murphy
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

Improving Identifier Informativeness Using Part of Speech Information
David Binkley, Matthew Hearn, and Dawn Lawrie
(Loyola University Maryland, USA)

Bug-fix Time Prediction Models: Can We Do Better?
Pamela Bhattacharya and Iulian Neamtiu
(UC Riverside, USA)

Integrating Software Engineering Data Using Semantic Web Technologies
Yuan-Fang Li and Hongyu Zhang
(Monash University, Australia; Tsinghua University, China)

Improving Efficiency in Software Maintenance
Sergey Zeltyn, Peri Tarr, Murray Cantor, Robert Delmonico, Sateesh Kannegala, Mila Keren, Ashok Pon Kumar, and Segev Wasserkrug
(IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel; IBM Watson Research, USA; IBM Rational Software, USA; IBM India Software Laboratory, India)

An Empirical Analysis of the FixCache Algorithm
Caitlin Sadowski, Chris Lewis, Zhongpeng Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu, and E. James Whitehead, Jr.
(UC Santa Cruz, USA; Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

Visualizing Collaboration and Influence in the Open-Source Software Community
Brandon Heller, Eli Marschner, Evan Rosenfeld, and Jeffrey Heer
(Stanford University, USA)

MSR Challenge 2011: Eclipse, Netbeans, Firefox, and Chrome
Adrian Schröter
(University of Victoria, Canada)

Operating System Compatibility Analysis of Eclipse and Netbeans Based on Bug Data
Xinlei (Oscar) Wang, Eilwoo Baik, and Premkumar Devanbu
(UC Davis, USA)

What Topics do Firefox and Chrome Contributors Discuss?
Mario Luca Bernardi, Carmine Sementa, Quirino Zagarese, Damiano Distante, and Massimiliano Di Penta
(University of Sannio, Italy; Unitelma Sapienza University, Italy)

A Tale of Two Browsers
Olga Baysal, Ian Davis, and Michael W. Godfrey
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

Do Comments Explain Codes Adequately? Investigation by Text Filtering
Yukinao Hirata and Osamu Mizuno
(Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

Apples vs. Oranges? An Exploration of the Challenges of Comparing the Source Code of Two Software Systems
Daniel M. German and Julius Davies
(University of Victoria, Canada)