MSR 2005: International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories

MSR 2005: International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
2005.msrconf.org

17th May 2005
Saint Louis,
Missouri, USA

Co-located with ICSE 2005,
IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/icse05/

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MSR 2004 Website (MSR 2004 Summary)

Organizers

Ahmed E. Hassan
(aeehassa at plg dot uwaterloo.ca)
Richard C. Holt
(holt at plg dot uwaterloo.ca)
School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada

Stephan Diehl
(diehl at cs dot uni-sb.de)
Dept. of Computer Science
Catholic University Eichstätt
Germany

Program Committee

Alexander Dekhtyar
  (U. of Kentucky, USA)
Premkumar T. Devanbu
  (UC Davis, USA)
Stephen G. Eick
  (SSS Research, Inc.)
Harald Gall
  (U. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Les Gasser
  (U. of Illinois, UC, USA)
Daniel German
  (U. of Victoria, Canada)
Jane Hayes
  (U. of Kentucky, USA)
Katsuro Inoue
  (Osaka U., Japan)
Philip Johnson
  (U. of Hawaii, USA)
Tim Lethbridge
  (U. of Ottawa, Canada)
Gail Murphy
  (U. of British Columbia, Canada)
Audris Mockus
  (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Thomas J. Ostrand
  (AT&T Research, USA)
Dewayne Perry
  (U. of Texas, USA)
Jelber Sayyad Shirabad
  (U. of Ottawa, Canada)
Annie Ying
  (IBM Research, USA)
Andreas Zeller
  (Saarland U., Germany)

Location

Co-located with ICSE 2005,
St. Louis, Missouri,
USA

Overview

Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are beginning to recognize the potential benefit of mining this information to support the maintenance of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in which mining these repositories can help to understand software development, to support predictions about software development, and to plan various aspects of software projects.

The goal of this one-day workshop is to establish a community of researchers and practitioners who are working to recover and use the data stored in software repositories to further understanding of software development practices. We expect the presentations and discussions in this workshop to continue on a number of general themes and challenges, from the previous workshop (MSR 2004) held at ICSE 2004, such as:

Engineering challenges related to the infrastructure and tools needed to recover useful data from these repositories
Methods of integrating mined data from various historical sources
Development and validation of approaches to visualize and present such data
Use of recovered history for system understanding and analysis of change patterns
Modeling of defects and software reliability using data from such repositories
Uncovering of the social processes and interaction between the development community
Discovery of techniques to facilitate software reuse

Since MSR 2004 was the first workshop to focus on the field of mining software repositories, it was exploratory in nature with a variety of results in different areas of the field. We expect MSR 2005 to retain an exploratory feel while at the same time promoting collaboration and systematic comparison of approaches and techniques. This mixture of exploratory work with systematic comparisons and collaborations should assist in maturing the field of mining software repositories and in directing it to take a central role in supporting software development practices.

Topics

We solicit position papers that address issues along the general themes, including but not limited to the following:

Approaches to study the quality of the mined data along with guidelines to ensure the quality of the recovered data
Proposals for exchange formats, meta-models, and infrastructure tools to facilitate the sharing of extracted data and to encourage reuse and repeatability
Models for social and development processes that occur in large software development projects
Search techniques to assist developers in finding suitable components for reuse
Techniques to model reliability and defect occurrences
Analysis of change patterns to assist in future development
Case studies on extracting data from repositories of large long lived projects
Suggestions for benchmarks, consisting of large software repositories, to be shared among the community

Submission Details

Position papers should be at most 5 pages. The papers must be in ACM 2-column format. Authors need to indicate their intent to submit a paper by 11th February 2005 - the title of the paper and abstract will need to be submitted online. The full paper should be submitted online by 21st February 2005 as PDF. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 21st March 2005. The final version of the paper is due on 4th April 2005.

We are looking for papers that can serve as the basis for fruitful discussions. Papers will be selected so that a broad range of stakeholders from across the software engineering discipline will be represented in the workshop. Accepted papers will be posted on the workshop web site prior to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital library under MSR 2005 workshop proceedings.

For more details msr2005 @ msr.uwaterloo.ca.