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2013 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 18–19, 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA

MSR 2013 – Proceedings

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Preface

Title Page
Message from the Chairs

Keynote

What Is Software Development Productivity, Anyway? (Keynote)
Gail C. Murphy
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

Bug Triaging
Sat, May 18, 09:45 - 10:30, Grand Ballroom B

Why So Complicated? Simple Term Filtering and Weighting for Location-Based Bug Report Assignment Recommendation
Ramin Shokripour, John Anvik, Zarinah M. Kasirun, and Sima Zamani
(University of Malaya, Malaysia; Central Washington University, USA)
Which Work-Item Updates Need Your Response?
Debdoot Mukherjee and Malika Garg
(IBM Research, India; IIT Delhi, India)
Bug Report Assignee Recommendation using Activity Profiles
Hoda Naguib, Nitesh Narayan, Bernd Brügge, and Dina Helal
(TU Munich, Germany; German University in Cairo, Egypt)

MSR Goes Mobile
Sat, May 18, 11:00 - 11:30, Grand Ballroom B

Asking for (and about) Permissions Used by Android Apps
Ryan Stevens, Jonathan Ganz, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu, and Hao Chen
(UC Davis, USA)
Retrieving and Analyzing Mobile Apps Feature Requests from Online Reviews
Claudia Iacob and Rachel Harrison
(Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Gerrit Software Code Review Data from Android
Murtuza Mukadam, Christian Bird, and Peter C. Rigby
(Concordia University, Canada; Microsoft Research, USA)
Who Does What during a Code Review? Datasets of OSS Peer Review Repositories
Kazuki Hamasaki, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Norihiro Yoshida, A. E. Camargo Cruz, Kenji Fujiwara, and Hajimu Iida
(NAIST, Japan; Osaka University, Japan)

MSR Challenge
Sat, May 18, 11:35 - 12:30, Grand Ballroom B

Why, When, and What: Analyzing Stack Overflow Questions by Topic, Type, and Code
Miltiadis Allamanis and Charles Sutton
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Deficient Documentation Detection: A Methodology to Locate Deficient Project Documentation using Topic Analysis
Joshua Charles Campbell, Chenlei Zhang, Zhen Xu, Abram Hindle, and James Miller
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Detecting API Usage Obstacles: A Study of iOS and Android Developer Questions
Wei Wang and Michael W. Godfrey
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Encouraging User Behaviour with Achievements: An Empirical Study
Scott Grant and Buddy Betts
(Queen's University, Canada; OUYA, USA)
Is Programming Knowledge Related to Age? An Exploration of Stack Overflow
Patrick Morrison and Emerson Murphy-Hill
(North Carolina State University, USA)
A Discriminative Model Approach for Suggesting Tags Automatically for Stack Overflow Questions
Avigit K. Saha, Ripon K. Saha, and Kevin A. Schneider
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Exploring Activeness of Users in QA Forums
Vibha Singhal Sinha, Senthil Mani, and Monika Gupta
(IBM Research, India)
A Study of Innovation Diffusion through Link Sharing on Stack Overflow
Carlos Gómez, Brendan Cleary, and Leif Singer
(University of Victoria, Canada)
Making Sense of Online Code Snippets
Siddharth Subramanian and Reid Holmes
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Building Reputation in StackOverflow: An Empirical Investigation
Amiangshu Bosu, Christopher S. Corley, Dustin Heaton, Debarshi Chatterji, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Nicholas A. Kraft
(University of Alabama, USA)
An Exploratory Analysis of Mobile Development Issues using Stack Overflow
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Bogdan Dit, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(College of William and Mary, USA)
Answering Questions about Unanswered Questions of Stack Overflow
Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Ahmed Shah Mashiyat, Chanchal K. Roy, and Kevin A. Schneider
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada; University of Toronto, Canada)

Changes and Fixes
Sat, May 18, 14:00 - 15:00, Grand Ballroom B

Will My Patch Make It? And How Fast?: Case Study on the Linux Kernel
Yujuan Jiang, Bram Adams, and Daniel M. German
(Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; University of Victoria, Canada)
Linux Variability Anomalies: What Causes Them and How Do They Get Fixed?
Sarah Nadi, Christian Dietrich, Reinhard Tartler, Richard C. Holt, and Daniel Lohmann
(University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
The Impact of Tangled Code Changes
Kim Herzig and Andreas Zeller
(Microsoft Reserach, UK; Saarland University, Germany)
A Dataset from Change History to Support Evaluation of Software Maintenance Tasks
Bogdan Dit, Andrew Holtzhauer, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Huzefa Kagdi
(College of William and Mary, USA; Wichita State University, USA)
Apache Commits: Social Network Dataset
Alexander C. MacLean and Charles D. Knutson
(Brigham Young University, USA)

Software Evolution
Sat, May 18, 15:00 - 16:00, Grand Ballroom B

Understanding the Evolution of Type-3 Clones: An Exploratory Study
Ripon K. Saha, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider, and Dewayne E. Perry
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
An Empirical Study of the Fault-Proneness of Clone Mutation and Clone Migration
Shuai Xie, Foutse Khomh, and Ying Zou
(Queen's University, Canada; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Intensive Metrics for the Study of the Evolution of Open Source Projects: Case Studies from Apache Software Foundation Projects
Santiago Gala-Pérez, Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona, and Israel Herraiz
(Apache Software Foundation, Spain; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
A Preliminary Investigation of Using Age and Distance Measures in the Detection of Evolutionary Couplings
Abdulkareem Alali, Brian Bartman, Christian D. Newman, and Jonathan I. Maletic
(Kent State University, USA)

Analysis of Bug Reports
Sat, May 18, 16:30 - 17:30, Grand Ballroom B

Search-Based Duplicate Defect Detection: An Industrial Experience
Mehdi Amoui, Nilam Kaushik, Abraham Al-Dabbagh, Ladan Tahvildari, Shimin Li, and Weining Liu
(University of Waterloo, Canada; BlackBerry, Canada)
A Contextual Approach towards More Accurate Duplicate Bug Report Detection
Anahita Alipour, Abram Hindle, and Eleni Stroulia
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Bug Resolution Catalysts: Identifying Essential Non-committers from Bug Repositories
Senthil Mani, Seema Nagar, Debdoot Mukherjee, Ramasuri Narayanam, Vibha Singhal Sinha, and Amit A. Nanavati
(IBM Research, India)
The Eclipse and Mozilla Defect Tracking Dataset: A Genuine Dataset for Mining Bug Information
Ahmed Lamkanfi, Javier Pérez, and Serge Demeyer
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Software Ecosystems, Big Data
Sat, May 18, 17:30 - 18:15, Grand Ballroom B

Mining Source Code Repositories at Massive Scale using Language Modeling
Miltiadis Allamanis and Charles Sutton
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Do Software Categories Impact Coupling Metrics?
Lucas Batista Leite de Souza and Marcelo de Almeida Maia
(UFU, Brazil)
The Maven Repository Dataset of Metrics, Changes, and Dependencies
Steven Raemaekers, Arie van Deursen, and Joost Visser
(Software Improvement Group, Netherlands; TU Delft, Netherlands)
A Historical Dataset for the Gnome Ecosystem
Mathieu Goeminne, Maëlick Claes, and Tom Mens
(University of Mons, Belgium)
A Network of Rails: A Graph Dataset of Ruby on Rails and Associated Projects
Patrick Wagstrom, Corey Jergensen, and Anita Sarma
(IBM Research, USA; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
The GHTorent Dataset and Tool Suite
Georgios Gousios
(TU Delft, Netherlands)

Bug/Change Classification and Localization
Sun, May 19, 09:30 - 10:30, Grand Ballroom B

Discovering, Reporting, and Fixing Performance Bugs
Adrian Nistor, Tian Jiang, and Lin Tan
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; University of Waterloo, Canada)
Improving Bug Localization using Correlations in Crash Reports
Shaohua Wang, Foutse Khomh, and Ying Zou
(Queen's University, Canada; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Testing Principles, Current Practices, and Effects of Change Localization
Steven Raemaekers, Gabriela F. Nane, Arie van Deursen, and Joost Visser
(Software Improvement Group, Netherlands; TU Delft, Netherlands)

Social Mining
Sun, May 19, 11:00 - 12:20, Grand Ballroom B

Fixing the 'Out of Sight Out of Mind' Problem: One Year of Mood-Based Microblogging in a Distributed Software Team
Kevin Dullemond, Ben van Gameren, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Arie van Deursen
(TU Delft, Netherlands; University of Victoria, Canada)
Communication in Open Source Software Development Mailing Lists
Anja Guzzi, Alberto Bacchelli, Michele Lanza, Martin Pinzger, and Arie van Deursen
(TU Delft, Netherlands; University of Lugano, Switzerland; University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Tag Recommendation in Software Information Sites
Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou
(Zhejiang University, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Using Developer Interaction Data to Compare Expertise Metrics
Romain Robbes and David Röthlisberger
(University of Chile, Chile; Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile)
Project Roles in the Apache Software Foundation: A Dataset
Megan Squire
(Elon University, USA)
Apache-Affiliated Twitter Screen Names: A Dataset
Megan Squire
(Elon University, USA)

Search-Driven Development
Sun, May 19, 14:00 - 15:00, Grand Ballroom B

Assisting Code Search with Automatic Query Reformulation for Bug Localization
Bunyamin Sisman and Avinash C. Kak
(Purdue University, USA)
Mining Succinct and High-Coverage API Usage Patterns from Source Code
Jue Wang, Yingnong Dang, Hongyu Zhang, Kai Chen, Tao Xie, and Dongmei Zhang
(Tsinghua University, China; Microsoft Research, China; Peking University, China; North Carolina State University, USA)
Rendezvous: A Search Engine for Binary Code
Wei Ming Khoo, Alan Mycroft, and Ross Anderson
(University of Cambridge, UK)
An Unabridged Source Code Dataset for Research in Software Reuse
Werner Janjic, Oliver Hummel, Marcus Schumacher, and Colin Atkinson
(University of Mannheim, Germany; KIT, Germany)

10 Years of MSR
Sun, May 19, 15:00 - 16:00, Grand Ballroom B

The MSR Cookbook: Mining a Decade of Research
Hadi Hemmati, Sarah Nadi, Olga Baysal, Oleksii Kononenko, Wei Wang, Reid Holmes, and Michael W. Godfrey
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Happy Birthday! A Trend Analysis on Past MSR Papers
Serge Demeyer, Alessandro Murgia, Kevin Wyckmans, and Ahmed Lamkanfi
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Replicating Mining Studies with SOFAS
Giacomo Ghezzi and Harald C. Gall
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
A Historical Dataset of Software Engineering Conferences
Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik, and Tom Mens
(TU Eindhoven, Netherlands; University of Mons, Belgium)

Mining Unstructured Data
Sun, May 19, 16:30 - 17:15, Grand Ballroom B

Automatically Mining Software-Based, Semantically-Similar Words from Comment-Code Mappings
Matthew J. Howard, Samir Gupta, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker
(University of Delaware, USA)
Strategies for Avoiding Text Fixture Smells during Software Evolution
Michaela Greiler, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, and Margaret-Anne Storey
(TU Delft, Netherlands; University of Victoria, Canada)
Contextual Analysis of Program Logs for Understanding System Behaviors
Qiang Fu, Jian-Guang Lou, Qingwei Lin, Rui Ding, Dongmei Zhang, and Tao Xie
(Microsoft Research, China; Microsoft, China; North Carolina State University, USA)
A Dataset for Evaluating Identifier Splitters
David Binkley, Dawn Lawrie, Lori Pollock, Emily Hill, and K. Vijay-Shanker
(Loyola University Maryland, USA; University of Delaware, USA; Montclair State University, USA)
INVocD: Identifier Name Vocabulary Dataset
Simon Butler, Michel Wermelinger, Yijun Yu, and Helen Sharp
(Open University, UK)

Predictor Models
Sun, May 19, 15:15 - 18:00, Grand Ballroom B

Better Cross Company Defect Prediction
Fayola Peters, Tim Menzies, and Andrian Marcus
(West Virginia University, USA; Wayne State University, USA)
Using Citation Influence to Predict Software Defects
Wei Hu and Kenny Wong
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Revisiting Software Development Effort Estimation Based on Early Phase Development Activities
Masateru Tsunoda, Koji Toda, Kyohei Fushida, Yasutaka Kamei, Meiyappan Nagappan, and Naoyasu Ubayashi
(Toyo University, Japan; Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan; NTT, Japan; Kyushu University, Japan; Queen's University, Canada)

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