After two years, I’m happy to announce that our book “The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Date” is now available for order! Many thanks to my collaborators Tom Zimmermann and Tim Menzies as well as the many chapter authors
By Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Charles Sutton Published in Proceedings of 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering Descriptive names are a vital part
I’m serving on the Technical Research track and the Early Research Achievement track program committees this year. Please consider submitting to them! Saner will be held in beautiful Osaka Japan, March 14-18, 2016. SANER is the premier research conference on
I’m serving on the program committee for ASE this year. Please consider submitting to it. The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference series is the premier research forum for automated software engineering. Each year, it brings together researchers and practitioners
By Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, Huzefa Kagdi, and Christian Bird Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories The paper presents an approach, namely iHDev, to recommend developers who are most likely to implement incoming change requests. The basic
By Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, and Christian Bird Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories Over the past decade, both open source and commercial software projects have adopted contemporary peer code review practices as a quality control
By Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, and Michaela Greiler Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories Tool-based code review is growing in popularity and has become a standard part of the development process at Microsoft. Adoption of these
By Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Thomas Zimmermann Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories Changes in software development come in many forms. Some changes are frequent, idiomatic, or repetitive e.g. adding checks
By Michael Barnett, Christian Bird, Joao Brunet, and Shuvendu K. Lahiri Published in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering Code Reviews, an important and popular mechanism for quality assurance, are often performed on a changeset, a set of
By Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, and Thomas Zimmermann Published in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering Developers sometimes take the initiative to build tools to solve problems they face. What motivates developers to build these tools? What