Christian Bird

Christian Bird

Stuff I do at work...

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Publications

2021

  • Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu K. Lahiri. MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers. In CoRR/arXiv (Under Submission), 2021. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu K. Lahiri. DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs. In CoRR/arXiv (Under Submission), 2021. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachiappan Nagappan. A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In ACM Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology, 2021. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Chandra Maddila, Nachiappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Georgios Gousios, Arie Deursen. ConE: A Concurrent Edit Detection Tool for Large Scale Software Development. In ACM Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology, 2021. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Ei Pa Pa Pe-Than, Alexander Nolte, Anna Filippova, Christian Bird, Steve Scallen, James Herbsleb. Corporate Hackathons, How and Why? A Multiple Case Study of Motivation, Projects Proposal and Selection, Goal Setting, Coordination, and Outcomes. In Human-Computer Interaction (Journal), 2021. [pdf] [BibTex]

2020

  • Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou. Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Sonu Mehta, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, B. Ashok, Sumit Asthana, Christian Bird, Aditya Kumar. Rex: Preventing Bugs and Misconfiguration in Large Services Using Correlated Change Analysis. In 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 25-27, 2020, 2020. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Jordan Henkel, Christian Bird, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Thomas Reps. A Dataset of Dockerfiles. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2020. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Jordan Henkel, Christian Bird, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Thomas Reps. Learning from, Understanding, and Supporting DevOps Artifacts for Docker. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2020. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020. [pdf] [BibTex]

2019

  • Sumit Asthana, Rahul Kumar, Ranjita Bhagwan, Christian Bird, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Sonu Mehta, B. Ashok. WhoDo: automating reviewer suggestions at scale. In Proceedings of the ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (Industry Track), 2019. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Vladimir Kovalenko, Nava Tintarev, Evgeny Pasynkov, Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli. Does Reviewer Recommendation Help Developers?. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas Zimmermann. Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (Software Engineering In Practice Track), 2019. [pdf] [BibTex]

2018

  • Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, Terry Coatta. CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft. In ACM Queue, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Alexander Nolte, Ei Pa Pa Pe-Than, Anna Filippova, Christian Bird, Steve Scallen, James D Herbsleb. You Hacked and Now What?:-Exploring Outcomes of a Corporate Hackathon. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Ei Pa Pa Pe Than, Alexander Nolte, Anna Filippova, Christian Bird, Steve Scallen, James Herbsleb. Designing Corporate Hackathons With a Purpose. In IEEE Software, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • P. Devanbu, T. Zimmermann, C. Bird. Belief and Evidence: How Software Engineers Form Their Opinions. In IEEE Software, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Vincent J Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T Barr, Miltiadis Allamanis. Deep learning type inference. In Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton. Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Austin Z Henley, KIvan\cc Mu\cclu, Maria Christakis, Scott D Fleming, Christian Bird. CFar: A Tool to Increase Communication, Productivity, and Review Quality in Collaborative Code Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLine, Daniel M. German. What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2018. [pdf] [BibTex]

2017

  • Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan. Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2017. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Laura Macleod, Michaela Greiler, Margaret-Anne Storey, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka. Code Reviewing in the Trenches: Understanding Challenges, Best Practices, and Tool Needs. In IEEE Software, 2017. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Zheng Gao, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr. To Type or not to Type: On the Effectiveness of Static typing for JavaScript. In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2017. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Amiangshu Bosu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Christian Bird, Jonathan Orbeck, Chris Chockley. Process Aspects and Social Dynamics of Contemporary Code Review: Insights from Open Source Development and Industrial Practice at Microsoft. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2017. [pdf] [BibTex]

2016

  • Christian Bird. Interviews. In Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird. Don't embarrass yourself: Beware of bias in your data. In Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Maria Christakis, Christian Bird. What developers want and need from program analysis: an empirical study. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Edward K Smith, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Michael Washburn, Pvithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. What Went Right and What Went Wrong: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (Software Engineering in Practice Track), 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Premkumar Devanbu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Belief and Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Irene Manotas, Christian Bird, Rui Zhang, David Shepherd, Will Snipes, Ciera Jaspan, Caitlin Sadowski, Lori Pollock, James Clause. An Empirical Study of Practitioners' Perspectives on Green Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, Huzefa Kagdi, Christian Bird. Automatically Recommending Peer Reviewers in Modern Code Review. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2016. [pdf] [BibTex]

2015

  • foo. The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data. In UNKNOWN, 2015. [BibTex]
  • Juliana Saraiva, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Products, Developers, and Milestones: How Should I Build My N-Gram Language Model. In Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) Industry Track, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton. Suggesting Accurate Method and Class Names. In Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann. The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler. Lessons Learned from Building and Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird. Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, Huzefa Kagdi, Christian Bird. Using Developer-Interaction Trails to Triage Change Requests. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Build it yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Michael Barnett, Christian Bird, Joao Brunet, Shuvendu K. Lahiri. Helping Developers Help Themselves: Automatic Decomposition of Code Review Changesets. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Emerson Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan. The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2015. [pdf] [BibTex]

2014

  • Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton. Learning Natural Coding Conventions. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran. Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller. Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (SEIP Track), 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Kivan\cc Mu\cslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka. Transition from Centralized to Decentralized Version Control Systems: A Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan. Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?. In Empirical Software Engineering, 2014. [pdf] [BibTex]

2013

  • Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Diversity in Software Engineering Research. In Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird. Convergent Software Peer Review Practices. In Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachiappan Nagappan, Andrew Begel. Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron. Collecting a Heap of Shapes. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly. Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance. In IEEE Software, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy. Dwelling in Software: aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Daniel M. German. What Effect does Distributed Version Control have on OSS Project Organization. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Release Engineering, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Edward Smith, Robert Loftin, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Improving Developer Participation Rates in Surveys. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Ekrem Kocaguneli, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Tim Menzies. Distributed Development Considered Harmful?. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (Software Engineering in Practice Track), 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Murtuza Mukadam, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby. Gerrit Software Code Review Data from Android. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (Data Track), 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Emerson Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan. The Design of Bug Fixes. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Alberto Bacchelli, Christian Bird. Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, 2013. [pdf] [BibTex]

2012

  • Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill. Adoption and Use of Java Generics. In Empirical Software Engineering, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan. Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis: Do Topics Extracted from Requirements Make Sense to Managers and Developers?. In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis. In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann. The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan. Who? Where? What? Examining Distributed Development in Two Large Open Source Projects. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Collaborative Software Development in Ten Years: Diversity, Tools, and Remix Culture. In Proceedings of the Workshop on The Future of Collaborative Software Development, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. Clones: What \textbfis that Smell?. In Empirical Software Engineering, An International Journal, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German, Premkumar Devanbu. Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 2012. [pdf] [BibTex]

2011

  • Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Wolfram Schulte, Ekrem Kocaguneli. The Inductive Software Engineering Manifesto: Principles for Industrial Data Mining. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird. Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software. In Doctoral Symposium, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird. Failure is a Four Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictor Models in Software Engineering, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird. Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu. Don't Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality . In Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill. Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduceded, Champion, or Ignored. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Alex Teterev. A Theory of Branches as Goals and Virtual Teams. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann. Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research. In Showcase Track, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2011. [pdf] [BibTex]

2010

  • Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles. On the Shoulders of Giants. In FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Foyzur Rahman, Abraham Bernstein. Linkster: Enabling Efficient Manual Mining. In Demonstration Track, Proceedings of the 17th SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird. Conway's Corollary. In Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, 2010. [BibTex]
  • Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Premkumar Devanbu, Abraham Bernstein. The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits. In SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. Thex: Mining Metapatterns in Java. In Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. Clones: What \emphis that Smell?. In Proceedings of the fourth International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2010. [BibTex]
  • Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. Clones: What \emphis that Smell?. In Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov. Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects. In Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. An Empirical Study on the Influence of Pattern Roles on Change-Proneness. In Empirical Software Engineering, An International Journal, 2010. [pdf] [BibTex]

2009

  • Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy. Putting it All Together: Using Socio-Technical Networks to Predict Failures . In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John Duffy, Abraham Bernstein, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu. Fair and Balanced? Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets . In Proceedings of the the Seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. German, Prem Devanbu. The Promises and Perils of Mining Git. In Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su. Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science . In Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy. Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista . In Communications of the ACM, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy. Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista . In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, 2009. [pdf] [BibTex]

2008

  • Christian Bird, David Pattison, Raissa D'Souza, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu. Latent Social Structure in Open Source Projects . In SIGSOFT '08/FSE-16: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2008. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • David Pattison, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu. Talk and Work: a Preliminary Report . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2008. [pdf] [BibTex]

2007

  • Zachary M. Saul, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu, Christian Bird. Recommending Random Walks . In ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering, 2007. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu. Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 2007. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Michael Ogawa, Kwan-Liu Ma, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Alex Gourley. Visualizing Social Interaction in Open Source Software Projects . In Sixth International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization, 2007. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Anand Swaminathan, Greta Hsu. Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, 2007. [pdf] [BibTex]

2006

  • Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan. Mining Email Social Networks . In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories, 2006. [pdf] [BibTex]
  • Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan. Mining Email Social Networks in Postgres . In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track), 2006. [pdf] [BibTex]