Award Recipients
The MSR Awards committee would like to announce this year’s award recipients:
The MSR 2024 Distinguished Doctoral Research Award goes to Gunnar Kudrjavets for their contribution to improving code review velocity by empirically challenging prominent beliefs, presenting solutions, and identifying gaps in developers’ and industry needs.
The MSR 2024 Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award goes to Patanamon (Pick) Thongtanunam for their contributions to understanding and improving modern code review practices using mining software repositories techniques.
The MSR 2024 Foundational Contribution Award goes to Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey for their methodological contributions to the community for work that goes beyond statistical models of mined repository data and encourages others to better understand their findings through triangulation using multiple methodologies.
Dates
Tracks
Mon 15 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
Mon 15 Apr
Displayed time zone: Lisbon change
09:00 - 10:30 | Day 1: OpeningTechnical Papers / MSR Awards / Social Events / Tutorials / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Mining Challenge / Registered Reports / Industry Track / MIP Award / Vision and Reflection / Keynotes at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business & Delft University of Technology | ||
09:00 30mDay opening | Opening Session & Award Announcements MSR Awards | ||
09:30 30mAwards | MSR 2024 Foundational Contribution Award talk MSR Awards Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria | ||
10:00 30mTalk | Most Influential Paper Award talk MIP Award Eirini Kalliamvakou GitHub | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee for MSR newcomersSocial Events at Open Space (reserved area) Chair(s): Federica Sarro University College London, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee for MSR newcomers Social Events | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Ecosystems, Reuse and APIs & TutorialsData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers / Tutorials at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Mahmoud Alfadel University of Waterloo, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands | ||
11:00 12mTalk | Thirty-Three Years of Mathematicians and Software Engineers: A Case Study of Domain Expertise and Participation in Proof Assistant Ecosystems Technical Papers Gwenyth Lincroft Northeastern University, Minsung Cho Northeastern University, Mahsa Bazzaz Northeastern University, Katherine Hough Northeastern University, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:12 12mTalk | Boosting API Misuse Detection via Integrating API Constraints from Multiple Sources Technical Papers Can Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jingxuan Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yixuan Tang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhuhang Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tianyue Sun Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | ||
11:24 6mTalk | Availability and Usage of Platform-Specific APIs: A First Empirical Study Technical Papers Pre-print Media Attached File Attached | ||
11:30 4mTalk | AndroLibZoo: A Reliable Dataset of Libraries Based on Software Dependency Analysis Data and Tool Showcase Track Jordan Samhi CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg | ||
11:34 4mTalk | Goblin: A Framework for Enriching and Querying the Maven Central Dependency Graph Data and Tool Showcase Track Damien Jaime Sorbonne Université - Lip6 - SAP, Joyce El Haddad Paris Dauphine-PSL Université, CNRS, LAMSADE, Pascal Poizat Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6 Pre-print File Attached | ||
11:38 4mTalk | Dataset: Copy-based Reuse in Open Source Software Data and Tool Showcase Track Mahmoud Jahanshahi Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee & Vilnius University Pre-print | ||
11:45 45mTalk | Mining Our Way Back to Incremental Builds for DevOps Pipelines Tutorials Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo Pre-print | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Defects, Bugs and IssuesTechnical Papers / MSR Awards / Social Events / Tutorials / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Mining Challenge / Registered Reports / Industry Track / MIP Award / Vision and Reflection / Keynotes at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University | ||
11:00 12mTalk | Enhancing Performance Bug Prediction Using Performance Code Metrics Technical Papers Guoliang Zhao Computer Science of Queen's University, Stefanos Georgio , Safwat Hassan University of Toronto, Canada, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Derek Truong IBM Canada, Toby Corbin IBM UK | ||
11:12 12mTalk | CrashJS: A NodeJS Benchmark for Automated Crash Reproduction Technical Papers Philip Oliver Victoria University of Wellington, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Craig Anslow Victoria University of Wellington, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington | ||
11:24 12mTalk | An Empirical Study on Just-in-time Conformal Defect Prediction Technical Papers Xhulja Shahini paluno - University of Duisburg-Essen, Andreas Metzger University of Duisburg-Essen, Klaus Pohl | ||
11:36 12mTalk | Fine-Grained Just-In-Time Defect Prediction at the Block Level in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Technical Papers Mahi Begoug , Moataz Chouchen ETS, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint | ||
11:48 4mTalk | TrickyBugs: A Dataset of Corner-case Bugs in Plausible Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track Kaibo Liu Peking University, Yudong Han Peking University, Yiyang Liu Peking University, Zhenpeng Chen Nanyang Technological University, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Federica Sarro University College London, Gang Huang Peking University, Yun Ma Peking University | ||
11:52 4mTalk | GitBugs-Java: A Reproducible Java Benchmark of Recent Bugs Data and Tool Showcase Track André Silva KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Nuno Saavedra INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology | ||
11:56 4mTalk | A Dataset of Partial Program Fixes Data and Tool Showcase Track Dirk Beyer LMU Munich, Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Matthias Kettl LMU Munich, Marian Lingsch-Rosenfeld LMU Munich, Moeketsi Raselimo Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
12:00 4mTalk | BugsPHP: A dataset for Automated Program Repair in PHP Data and Tool Showcase Track K.D. Pramod University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.T.N. De Silva University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.U.K. Thabrew University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, Ridwan Salihin Shariffdeen National University of Singapore, Sandareka Wickramanayake University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Pre-print | ||
12:04 4mTalk | AW4C: A Commit-Aware C Dataset for Actionable Warning Identification Data and Tool Showcase Track Zhipeng Liu , Meng Yan Chongqing University, Zhipeng Gao Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study - Zhejiang University, Dong Li , Xiaohong Zhang Chongqing University, Dan Yang Chongqing University | ||
12:08 5mTalk | Predicting the Impact of Crashes Across Release Channels Industry Track | ||
12:13 5mTalk | Zero Shot Learning based Alternatives for Class Imbalanced Learning Problem in Enterprise Software Defect Analysis Industry Track | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Mining ChallengeMining Challenge at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno | ||
14:00 5mTalk | ChatGPT Chats Decoded: Uncovering Prompt Patterns for Superior Solutions in Software Development Lifecycle Mining Challenge Liangxuan Wu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xinyi Hou Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tianming Liu Monash Univerisity, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology | ||
14:05 5mTalk | Write me this Code: An Analysis of ChatGPT Quality for Producing Source Code Mining Challenge Konstantinos Moratis Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Themistoklis Diamantopoulos Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dimitrios-Nikitas Nastos Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Andreas Symeonidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Pre-print | ||
14:10 5mTalk | Quality Assessment of ChatGPT Generated Code and their Use by Developers Mining Challenge Mohammed Latif Siddiq University of Notre Dame, Lindsay Roney University of Notre Dame, Jiahao Zhang , Joanna C. S. Santos University of Notre Dame Pre-print Media Attached File Attached | ||
14:15 5mTalk | Analyzing Developer Use of ChatGPT Generated Code in Open Source GitHub Projects Mining Challenge Balreet Grewal University of Alberta, Wentao Lu University of Alberta, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta Pre-print | ||
14:20 5mTalk | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ChatGPT Mining Challenge Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Mikołaj Fejzer Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Krzysztof Stencel University of Warsaw Pre-print | ||
14:25 5mTalk | Can ChatGPT Support Developers? An Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Generation. Mining Challenge Kailun Jin York University, Chung-Yu Wang York University, Hung Viet Pham York University, Hadi Hemmati York University Pre-print | ||
14:30 5mTalk | The role of library versions in Developer-ChatGPT conversations Mining Challenge Pre-print | ||
14:35 5mTalk | AI Writes, We Analyze: The ChatGPT Python Code Saga Mining Challenge Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University, Md Rakibul Islam Lamar University DOI Pre-print | ||
14:40 5mTalk | ChatGPT in Action: Analyzing Its Use in Software Development Mining Challenge Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Costain Nachuma Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University DOI Pre-print | ||
14:45 5mTalk | Chatting with AI: Deciphering Developer Conversations with ChatGPT Mining Challenge Suad Mohamed Belmont University, Abdullah Parvin Belmont University, Esteban Parra Belmont University | ||
14:50 5mTalk | Does Generative AI Generate Smells Related to Container Orchestration?: An Exploratory Study with Kubernetes Manifests Mining Challenge Yue Zhang Auburn University, Rachel Meredith Auburn University, Wilson Reaves Auburn University, Julia Coriolano Federal University of Pernambuco, Muhammad Ali Babar School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Akond Rahman Auburn University Pre-print | ||
14:55 5mTalk | On the Taxonomy of Developers' Discussion Topics with ChatGPT Mining Challenge | ||
15:00 5mTalk | How to refactor this code? An exploratory study on developer-ChatGPT refactoring conversations Mining Challenge Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, AnushKrishna Venkatakrishnan Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint, Christian Newman , Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec | ||
15:05 5mTalk | Analyzing Developer-ChatGPT Conversations for Software Refactoring: An Exploratory Study Mining Challenge Omkar Sandip Chavan Rochester Institute of Technology, Divya Dilip Hinge Rochester Institute of Technology, Soham Sanjay Deo Rochester Institute of Technology, Yaxuan (Olivia) Wang Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint | ||
15:10 5mTalk | How Do Software Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests Mining Challenge Moataz Chouchen ETS, Narjes Bessghaier ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Mahi Begoug , Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint | ||
15:15 5mTalk | Investigating the Utility of ChatGPT in the Issue Tracking System: An Exploratory Study Mining Challenge Joy Krishan Das University of Saskatchewan, Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Canada Pre-print | ||
15:20 5mTalk | Enhancing User Interaction in ChatGPT: Characterizing and Consolidating Multiple Prompts for Issue Resolution Mining Challenge Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Suborno Deb Bappon Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Canada Pre-print | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Software QualityTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei, Canada | ||
14:00 12mTalk | Not all Dockerfile Smells are the Same: An Empirical Evaluation of Hadolint Writing Practices by Experts Technical Papers Giovanni Rosa University of Molise, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise | ||
14:12 12mTalk | Supporting High-Level to Low-Level Requirements Coverage Reviewing with Large Language Models Technical Papers Anamaria-Roberta Hartl Johannes Kepler University Linz, Christoph Mayr-Dorn JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ, Atif Mashkoor Johannes Kepler University Linz, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University Linz DOI Authorizer link Pre-print | ||
14:24 12mTalk | On the Executability of R Markdown Files Technical Papers Md Anaytul Islam Lakehead University, Muhammad Asaduzzman University of Windsor, Shaowei Wang Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada | ||
14:36 12mTalk | APIstic: A Large Collection of OpenAPI Metrics Technical Papers souhaila serbout Software Institute @ USI, Cesare Pautasso Software Institute, Faculty of Informatics, USI Lugano | ||
14:48 6mTalk | Improving Automated Code Reviews: Learning From Experience Technical Papers Hong Yi Lin The University of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Wachiraphan (Ping) Charoenwet The University of Melbourne | ||
14:55 4mTalk | Multi-faceted Code Smell Detection at Scale using DesigniteJava 2.0 Data and Tool Showcase Track Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University Pre-print | ||
14:59 4mTalk | SATDAUG - A Balanced and Augmented Dataset for Detecting Self-Admitted Technical Debt Data and Tool Showcase Track Edi Sutoyo Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Andrea Capiluppi University of Groningen | ||
15:03 4mTalk | Curated Email-Based Code Reviews Datasets Data and Tool Showcase Track Mingzhao Liang The University of Melbourne, Wachiraphan (Ping) Charoenwet The University of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne | ||
15:07 4mTalk | TestDossier: A Dataset of Tested Values Automatically Extracted from Test Execution Data and Tool Showcase Track Andre Hora UFMG Pre-print Media Attached | ||
15:11 4mTalk | Greenlight: Highlighting TensorFlow APIs Energy Footprint Data and Tool Showcase Track Saurabhsingh Rajput Dalhousie University, Maria Kechagia University College London, Federica Sarro University College London, Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University Pre-print | ||
15:15 5mTalk | When Code Smells Meet ML: On the Lifecycle of ML-specific Code Smells in ML-enabled Systems Registered Reports Gilberto Recupito University of Salerno, Giammaria Giordano University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Dario Di Nucci University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno | ||
15:20 5mTalk | Comparison of Static Analysis Architecture Recovery Tools for Microservice Applications Registered Reports Simon Schneider Hamburg University of Technology, Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Xiaozhou Li University of Oulu, Jacopo Soldani University of Pisa, Italy, Antonio Brogi Università di Pisa, Tomas Cerny University of Arizona, Riccardo Scandariato Hamburg University of Technology, Davide Taibi University of Oulu and Tampere University | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Mobile AppsData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Dario Di Nucci University of Salerno | ||
16:00 12mTalk | Automating GUI-based Test Oracles for Mobile Apps Technical Papers Kesina Baral CQSE America, Jack Johnson , Junayed Mahmud George Mason University, Sabiha Salma George Mason University, Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Jeff Offutt George Mason University, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida | ||
16:12 12mTalk | Global Prosperity or Local Monopoly? Understanding the Geography of App Popularity Technical Papers Liu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Conghui Zheng Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Gareth Tyson Queen Mary University of London, Yi Wang , Shangguang Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | ||
16:24 12mTalk | GuiEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile App UIs Technical Papers Sabiha Salma George Mason University, S M Hasan Mansur George Mason University, Yule Zhang George Mason University, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida | ||
16:36 12mTalk | Comparing Apples to Androids: Discovery, Retrieval, and Matching of iOS and Android Apps for Cross-Platform Analyses Technical Papers Magdalena Steinböck TU Wien, Jakob Bleier TU Wien, Mikka Rainer CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Tobias Urban Institute for Internet Security & secunet Security Networks AG, Christine Utz CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Martina Lindorfer TU Wien | ||
16:48 12mTalk | Keep Me Updated: An Empirical Study on Embedded Javascript Engines in Android Apps Technical Papers Elliott Wen The University of Auckland, Jiaxiang Liu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Giovanni Russello University of Auckland, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington | ||
17:00 12mTalk | Large Language Model vs. Stack Overflow in Addressing Android Permission Related Challenges Technical Papers Sahrima Jannat Oishwee University of Saskatchewan, Natalia Stakhanova University of Saskatchewan, Zadia Codabux University of Saskatchewan, Canada | ||
17:12 4mTalk | DATAR: A Dataset for Tracking App Releases Data and Tool Showcase Track Yasaman Abedini Sharif University of Technology, Mohammad Hadi Hajihosseini Sharif University of Technology, Abbas Heydarnoori Bowling Green State University | ||
17:16 4mTalk | AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future Data and Tool Showcase Track Marco Alecci University of Luxembourg, Pedro Jesús Ruiz Jiménez University of Luxembourg, Kevin Allix Independent Researcher, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Machine learning for Software EngineeringTechnical Papers at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada | ||
16:00 12mTalk | Whodunit: Classifying Code as Human Authored or GPT-4 Generated - A case study on CodeChef problems Technical Papers Oseremen Joy Idialu University of Waterloo, Noble Saji Mathews University of Waterloo, Canada, Rungroj Maipradit University of Waterloo, Joanne M. Atlee University of Waterloo, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo DOI Pre-print | ||
16:12 12mTalk | GIRT-Model: Automated Generation of Issue Report Templates Technical Papers Nafiseh Nikehgbal Sharif University of Technology, Amir Hossein Kargaran LMU Munich, Abbas Heydarnoori Bowling Green State University DOI Pre-print | ||
16:24 12mTalk | MicroRec: Leveraging Large Language Models for Microservice Recommendation Technical Papers Ahmed Saeed Alsayed University of Wollongong, Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Chau Nguyen University of Wollongong | ||
16:36 12mTalk | PeaTMOSS: A Dataset and Initial Analysis of Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software Technical Papers Wenxin Jiang Purdue University, Jerin Yasmin Queen's University, Canada, Jason Jones Purdue University, Nicholas Synovic Loyola University Chicago, Jiashen Kuo Purdue University, Nathaniel Bielanski Purdue University, Yuan Tian Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, George K. Thiruvathukal Loyola University Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, James C. Davis Purdue University DOI Pre-print | ||
16:48 12mTalk | Data Augmentation for Supervised Code Translation Learning Technical Papers Binger Chen Technische Universität Berlin, Jacek golebiowski Amazon AWS, Ziawasch Abedjan Leibniz Universität Hannover | ||
17:00 12mTalk | On the Effectiveness of Machine Learning-based Call-Graph Pruning: An Empirical Study Technical Papers Amir Mir Delft University of Technology, Mehdi Keshani Delft University of Technology, Sebastian Proksch Delft University of Technology Pre-print | ||
17:12 12mTalk | Leveraging GPT-like LLMs to Automate Issue Labeling Technical Papers Giuseppe Colavito University of Bari, Italy, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Nicole Novielli University of Bari, Luigi Quaranta University of Bari, Italy Pre-print | ||
Tue 16 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
Tue 16 Apr
Displayed time zone: Lisbon change
09:00 - 10:30 | Development: practices and humans Data and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Gema Rodríguez-Pérez University of British Columbia (UBC) | ||
09:50 6mTalk | Exploring the Effect of Multiple Natural Languages on Code Suggestion Using GitHub Copilot Technical Papers Kei Koyanagi Kyushu University, Dong Wang Kyushu University, Japan, Kotaro Noguchi Kyushu University, Masanari Kondo Kyushu University, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Kyushu University Pre-print | ||
09:56 4mTalk | A Four-Dimension Gold Standard Dataset for Opinion Mining in Software Engineering Data and Tool Showcase Track Md Rakibul Islam Lamar University, Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Jo Youngeun Lamar University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Ethan J Young Lamar University, Camden M Wilson Lamar University, Gavin J Scott Lamar University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
10:00 4mTalk | Opening the Valve on Pure-Data: Usage Patterns and Programming Practices of a Data-Flow Based Visual Programming Language Data and Tool Showcase Track Anisha Islam Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Kalvin Eng University of Alberta, Abram Hindle University of Alberta | ||
10:04 4mTalk | The PIPr Dataset of Public Infrastructure as Code Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track Daniel Sokolowski University of St. Gallen, David Spielmann University of St. Gallen, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
10:08 4mTalk | A Dataset of Microservices-based Open-Source Projects Data and Tool Showcase Track Dario Amoroso d'Aragona Tampere University, Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Xiaozhou Li University of Oulu, Ruoyu Su University of Oulu, Lauren Adams Baylor University, Ernesto Aponte Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Francis Boyle Baylor University, Patrick Boyle Baylor University, Rachel Koerner Baylor University, Joseph Lee University of Richmond, Fangchao Tian University of Oulu, Yuqing Wang University of Oulu, Jesse Nyyssölä University of Helsinki, Ernesto Quevedo Baylor University, Shahidur Md Rahaman Baylor University, Amr Elsayed Baylor University, Mika Mäntylä University of Helsinki and University of Oulu, Tomas Cerny University of Arizona, Davide Taibi University of Oulu and Tampere University | ||
10:12 4mTalk | SensoDat: Simulation-based Sensor Dataset of Self-driving Cars Data and Tool Showcase Track Christian Birchler Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Bern, Cyrill Rohrbach University of Bern, Switzerland, Timo Kehrer University of Bern, Sebastiano Panichella Zurich University of Applied Sciences | ||
10:16 4mTalk | Incivility in Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Annotated Dataset of Locked GitHub Issue Threads Data and Tool Showcase Track Ramtin Ehsani Drexel University, Mia Mohammad Imran Virginia Commonwealth University, Robert Zita Elmhurst University, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA | ||
10:20 4mTalk | A Dataset of Atoms of Confusion in the Android Open Source Project Data and Tool Showcase Track Davi Batista Tabosa Federal University of Ceará, Oton Pinheiro Federal University of Ceará, Lincoln Rocha Federal University of Ceará, Windson Viana Federal University of Ceará | ||
10:24 4mTalk | PlayMyData: a curated dataset of multi-platform video games Data and Tool Showcase Track Andrea D'Angelo University of L'Aquila, Claudio Di Sipio University of L'Aquila, Cristiano Politowski DIRO, University of Montreal, Riccardo Rubei University of L'Aquila | ||
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 45mKeynote | Questioning the questions we ask about the impact of AI on software engineering Keynotes Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria | ||
09:45 45mTalk | Open Source Software Digital Sociology: Quantifying and Managing Complex Open Source Software Ecosystem Tutorials Minghui Zhou Peking University, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Xin Tan Beihang University | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Process automation & DevOps and Tutorial ITechnical Papers / Tutorials at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Tom Mens University of Mons, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands | ||
11:00 12mTalk | Learning to Predict and Improve Build Successes in Package Ecosystems Technical Papers Harshitha Menon Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Daniel Nichols University of Maryland, College Park, Abhinav Bhatele University of Maryland, College Park, Todd Gamblin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||
11:12 12mTalk | The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds Technical Papers Ajiromola Kola-Olawuyi University of Waterloo, Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana University of Waterloo, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo | ||
11:24 12mTalk | A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Approaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of YourBase Technical Papers Zhili Zeng University of Waterloo, Tao Xiao Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo Pre-print | ||
11:45 45mTalk | Cohort Studies for Mining Software Repositories Tutorials Nyyti Saarimäki Tampere University, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, Davide Taibi University of Oulu and Tampere University , Mikel Robredo University of Oulu | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Software Evolution & AnalysisTechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Industry Track at Grande Auditório Chair(s): Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research | ||
11:00 12mTalk | Unveiling ChatGPT's Usage in Open Source Projects: A Mining-based Study Technical Papers Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana, Antonio Mastropaolo Università della Svizzera italiana, Federica Pepe University of Sannio, Ozren Dabic Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana | ||
11:12 12mTalk | DRMiner: A Tool For Identifying And Analyzing Refactorings In Dockerfile Technical Papers Emna Ksontini University of Michigan - Dearborn, Aycha Abid Oakland University, Rania Khalsi University of Michigan - Flint, Marouane Kessentini University of Michigan - Flint | ||
11:24 12mTalk | A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Open Source License Usage: Practices and Challenges Technical Papers Jiaqi Wu Zhejiang University, Lingfeng Bao Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, Xing Hu Zhejiang University | ||
11:36 12mTalk | Analyzing the Evolution and Maintenance of ML Models on Hugging Face Technical Papers Joel Castaño Fernández Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Silverio Martínez-Fernández UPC-BarcelonaTech, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Link to publication Pre-print | ||
11:48 12mTalk | On the Anatomy of Real-World R Code for Static Analysis Technical Papers Florian Sihler Ulm University, Lukas Pietzschmann Ulm University, Raphael Straub Ulm University, Matthias Tichy Ulm University, Germany, Andor Diera Ulm University, Abdelhalim Dahou GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Pre-print File Attached | ||
12:00 6mTalk | Encoding Version History Context for Better Code Representation Technical Papers Huy Nguyen The University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne Pre-print | ||
12:06 4mTalk | CodeLL: A Lifelong Learning Dataset to Support the Co-Evolution of Data and Language Models of Code Data and Tool Showcase Track Martin Weyssow DIRO, Université de Montréal, Claudio Di Sipio University of L'Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Houari Sahraoui DIRO, Université de Montréal | ||
12:10 4mTalk | Bidirectional Paper-Repository Tracing in Software Engineering Data and Tool Showcase Track Daniel Garijo , Miguel Arroyo Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Esteban González Guardia Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Nicola Tarocco CERN | ||
12:14 4mTalk | DistilKaggle: A Distilled Dataset of Kaggle Jupyter Notebooks Data and Tool Showcase Track Mojtaba Mostafavi Department of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology, Arash Asgari Department of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology, Mohammad Abolnejadian Department of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology, Abbas Heydarnoori Bowling Green State University | ||
12:18 5mTalk | Estimating Usage of Open Source Projects Industry Track | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Process automation & DevOps IITechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo | ||
14:00 12mTalk | Options Matter: Documenting and Fixing Non-Reproducible Builds in Highly-Configurable Systems Technical Papers Georges Aaron RANDRIANAINA Université de Rennes 1, IRISA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, IRISA, University of Rennes, Olivier Zendra Inria, Mathieu Acher University of Rennes, France / Inria, France / CNRS, France / IRISA, France | ||
14:12 12mTalk | How do Machine Learning Projects use Continuous Integration Practices? An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions Technical Papers João Helis Bernardo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte, Daniel Alencar Da Costa University of Otago, Sergio Queiroz de Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte DOI Pre-print | ||
14:24 4mTalk | A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories Data and Tool Showcase Track Guillaume Cardoen University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS | ||
14:28 4mTalk | gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows Data and Tool Showcase Track Pooya Rostami Mazrae University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS, Tom Mens University of Mons | ||
14:32 4mTalk | RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history Data and Tool Showcase Track Natarajan Chidambaram University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS | ||
14:36 12mTalk | An Investigation of Patch Porting Practices of the Linux Kernel Ecosystem Technical Papers Xingyu Li UC Riverside, Zheng Zhang UC Riverside, Zhiyun Qian University of California at Riverside, USA, Trent Jaeger UC Riverside, Chengyu Song University of California at Riverside, USA | ||
14:48 4mTalk | BugsPHP: A dataset for Automated Program Repair in PHP Data and Tool Showcase Track K.D. Pramod University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.T.N. De Silva University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.U.K. Thabrew University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, Ridwan Salihin Shariffdeen National University of Singapore, Sandareka Wickramanayake University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Pre-print | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Day 2: ClosingMSR Awards / Vision and Reflection 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 | ||
Unscheduled Events
| Not scheduled Awards | MSR 2024 Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Reward MSR Awards |
Call for Nominations
The Mining Software Repositories community has introduced a series of three awards, the MSR Distinguished Doctoral Research Award, the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award, and the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
MSR Distinguished Doctoral Research Award
This award recognizes outstanding doctoral research that has the potential to have a strong, long-lasting impact in the research area of mining software repositories.
This award recognizes the research work carried out in the production of a dissertation submitted as one of the requirements for a PhD degree. To be eligible, the dissertation must have been dated in the two years preceding the nomination date. Therefore, for nominations for 2024, dissertations dated December 16, 2021 to December 15, 2023 are eligible. Preference will be given to nominees who have had at least one publication in any MSR track during their doctoral research.
A 4-page dissertation summary, authored by the award winner, will be published in the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN) and referenced from the MSR Award website.
In 2023, the MSR Doctoral Research Award went to Eman Abdullah AlOmar, for her contribution to understanding developer perception of refactoring: literature reviews, mining, tool, and empirical surveys that are being adopted by the community, and industrial trials.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English (the dissertation itself need not be written in English). Self-nominations are possible for this award. Nominations must be submitted through the following form: https://forms.gle/v5WLGAEURdTWuNJ49
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee’s name, affiliation, and email
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- (upload) a PDF of the PhD dissertation
- (upload) the nominee’s CV including the list of publications (each entry in the publication list must specify the role of the nominee using the relevant CRediT roles, see https://credit.niso.org/, and mark whether it’s related to the dissertation produced as part of the doctoral research)
- The name, affiliation, and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award
This award recognizes outstanding junior researchers who have provided outstanding contributions in the area of mining software repositories. The award recognizes research outputs produced by candidates during the early stages of their career. To be eligible, a candidate’s most recent computer-related educational degree (baccalaureate, masters, or doctoral degree) must have been awarded on or after January 1, 2017. If the degree included a defense, the defense must have occurred on or after January 1, 2017. If the degree included a thesis, but did not require a defense, then the final submission of the thesis must have occurred on or after January 1, 2017. The award is named after Dr. Ric Holt (1941 – 2019) who was a professor at the University of Waterloo.
The eligibility period may be extended under the following scenarios:
- Extended sickness leave or part-time employment as a result of ongoing childcare or other caregiving responsibilities. Applicants can, with the prior approval of the Award Chairs, have their eligibility extended on a calculated pro rata for the year count.
- Eligibility may also be extended to take into account any career interruptions experienced due to being the primary caregiver for young children born since their PhD was awarded. If the applicant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child, the applicant is able to extend the period of eligibility by two years per child. The extension of two years per dependent child is inclusive of any periods of parental leave. There is no maximum identified.
For the MSR 2023 Early Career Achievement Award, the recipient was Li Li for his seminal contributions to the state-of-the-art in research and practice of software quality and evolution, especially concerning the evolution of Android apps and the Android OS.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English and submitted through the following form (self-nominations are not possible for this award): https://forms.gle/uFUyodVsu7ZpuD9TA
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee’s name, affiliation, and email
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- A short nomination statement (max 2.000 characters, approx. 250 words)
- (upload) detailed nomination (unlimited length) in PDF format
- The name and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
MSR Foundational Contribution Award
The MSR Foundational Contribution Award recognizes individuals, or groups of individuals, having produced fundamental contributions in the field of mining software repositories, which helped many others (not limited to the MSR community) to build on it to advance the state of the art. It could be a tool, a dataset, a repository, or a mixture of contributions opening new research areas. It is not a requirement that such a research contribution has been presented at the MSR conference at some point. Having received other recognitions for the same contribution does not preclude an individual from being nominated for the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
In 2023, the MSR Foundational Contribution Award went to Audris Mockus, for his fundamental contributions to mining software repositories, starting with his early case studies of Apache and Mozilla to his introduction of the World of Code infrastructure.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English and submitted through the following form (self-nominations are not possible for this award): https://forms.gle/etQyupwhwhMp47GbA
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee(s)’s name, affiliation, and email (the MSR Foundational Contribution Award can be assigned to a set of people who, e.g., worked together on a contribution)
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- A short nomination statement (max 2.000 characters, approx. 250 words)
- (upload) detailed nomination (unlimited length) in PDF format
- The name and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
Further information concerning all the awards
Eligibility criteria
Award Committee Chairs, Award Committee Members, the current and the 1st past Steering Committee Chairs of MSR cannot nominate, cannot be nominated, and cannot endorse (write letters). Everyone else, including Steering Committee Members, can nominate, be nominated, and endorse (write letters).
Awards Criteria
- Research contribution: For all awards, we will consider the extent to which the candidate’s work advances the existing knowledge, theories, or practices. We’ll look for research that introduces novel concepts, approaches, or solutions to existing problems. For the Foundational Contribution Award, it will be expected that the contributions enable others in the MSR community and beyond to advance the state of the art.
- Impact: For all awards, we will consider the extent to which the contributions have impacted or have the potential to impact the field of mining software repositories.
- Merit relative to opportunity: The overall quality and impact of contributions and achievements will be given more weight than the quantity or rate of particular achievements, recognizing that these factors may be affected by personal circumstances and working arrangements.
Important Dates
- Nominations deadline: December 15, 2023, 23:59 AOE
- Notification: March 15, 2024
- Award ceremony: At the MSR 2024 conference
MSR Award Co-Chairs
- Gustavo Pinto, University of Pará, Brazil
- Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
| Fri 15 Mar 2024 Notification |
| Fri 15 Dec 2023 Nomination Deadline |
Kelly BlincoeMSR Awards Co-chair
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Gustavo PintoMSR Awards Co-chair
Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Zup Innovation
Brazil
Eman Abdullah AlOmar
Stevens Institute of Technology
United States
Daniel Alencar Da Costa
University of Otago
New Zealand
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spain
Li Li
Beihang University
China
Audris Mockus
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Vilnius University
United States