Idealists and Pragmatists—An Only Somewhat Self-Indulgent Reflection on the Development of an MSR Paper (and Researcher)
Abstract: Plenty of effort goes into producing an MSR paper. Of course, the argumentation, execution, evaluation, and presentation need to be “on point”. Contributions need to be timely and substantial. In this talk, I will not discuss any of this. Instead, I will reflect on a personal journey that happened to produce an MSR 2014 paper. By tracing the idea from its initial seeds to its appearance in the published version, I will strive to provide insights for the community to reflect upon as we set out to foster a new generation of MSR researchers.
Bio: Dr. Shane McIntosh is the current Ross & Muriel Cheriton Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. At U. Waterloo, Dr. McIntosh leads the Software Repository Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (Software REBELs), whose mission is to enabled the development, maintenance, and operation of intelligent release pipelines. As such, his research interests include software build automation, continuous integration, DevOps, software quality, and of course, mining software repositories.
Tue 16 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
16:00 - 17:30 | Day 2: ClosingMSR Awards / Vision and Reflection / Technical Papers at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich | ||
16:00 30mTalk | MSR in the age of LLMs Vision and Reflection Christoph Treude Singapore Management University | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Idealists and Pragmatists—An Only Somewhat Self-Indulgent Reflection on the Development of an MSR Paper (and Researcher) Vision and Reflection Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo | ||
17:00 30mDay closing | Closing session MSR Awards Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business & Delft University of Technology, Olga Baysal | ||