Schedule for CISC 864: Mining Software Engineering Data (Fall 2007)

Week 1 (Sep 14): Introduction and Course Overview Intro Lecture based on ICSE 2007 Tutorial by Tao Xie and Ahmed E. Hassan. Admin details You need to access the papers below using an on campus machine or using the Queen's Libary proxy Week 2 (Sep 21): Evolution I Does Code Decay? Assessing the Evidence from Change Management Data Stephen G. Eick, Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, J. S. Marron, and Audris Mockus Lionel Marks The FreeBSD Project: A Replication Case Study of Open Source Development Trung T. Dinh-Trong and James M. Bieman Hsiao-Ming Tsou Evolution Patterns of Open-Source Software Systems and Communities Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Nishinaka, Kouichi Kishida, and Yunwen Ye Haroon Malik Week 3 (Sep 28): Evolution II An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors Andy Chou, Junfeng Yang, Benjamin Chelf, Seth Hallem, Dawson Engler Jing Huang Functional Paleontology: The Evolution of User-Visible System Services Annie I. Antón, Colin Potts Shan Li Who should fix this bug? John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew, and Gail C. Murphy Istehad Chowdhury Week 4 (Oct 5): ICSM Presenter Presenter Presenter Presenter Week 5 (Oct 12): Guiding Development Assignment 1 DUE -- Oct 12 Hipikat: recommending pertinent software development artifacts Davor Cubranic and Gail C. Murphy Lionel Marks Mining version histories to guide software changes Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl, Andreas Zeller Hsiao-Ming Tsou Mining large software compilations over time: another perspective of software evolution Gregorio Robles, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Martin Michlmayr, Juan Jose Amor Brian Chan Week 6 (Oct 19): Bug Detection Project Proposal DUE -- OCT 19 Automatic identification of bug-introducing changes Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Kai Pan, E., and James Whitehead, Jr. Haroon Malik Scalable statistical bug isolation Ben Liblit, Mayur Naik, Alice X. Zheng, Alex Aiken, and Michael I. Jordan Shan Li Bugs as deviant behavior: A general approach to inferring errors in systems code Dawson Engler, David Yu Chen, Seth Hallem, Andy Chou, and Benjamin Chelf Jing Huang Week 7 (Oct 26): Tools and Mining Challenges Perracotta: Mining temporal API rules from imperfect traces Jinlin Yang, David Evans, Deepali Bhardwaj, Thirumalesh Bhat, and Manuvir Das Hsiao-Ming Tsou Identifying reasons for software change using historic databases. Audris Mockus and Larry G. Votta Lionel Marks Developer identification methods for integrated data from various sources Geographic location of developers at SourceForge Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Brian Chan Brian Chan Week 8 (Nov 2): Visualization of Software Repositories Assignment 2 DUE -- Nov 2 On the use of visualization to support awareness of human activities in software development: a survey and a framework Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Davor Cubranic, and Daniel M. German Jing Huang Visualizing software changes Stephen G. Eick, Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, Audris Mockus, and Paul Schuster Istehad Chowdhury Clustering software artifacts based on frequent common changes Dirk Beyer and Andreas Noack Haroon Malik Week 9 (Nov 9): Code Reuse, Reuse Patterns, and Searching Quality Assessment based on Attribute Series of Software Evolution Jacek Ratzinger, Harald Gall, and Martin Pinzger Lionel Marks XSnippet: Mining for Sample Code Naiyana Tansalarak and Kajal T. Claypool Shan Li Mining System-User Interaction Traces for Use Case Models Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, and Paul Sorenson Hsia-Ming Tsou Week 10 (Nov 16): Bug Prediction Predicting fault incidence using software change history Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, J. S. Marron, and Harvey P. Siy Jing Huang Static analysis tools as early indicators of pre-release defect density Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Ball Istehad Chowdhury Predictors of customer perceived software quality Audris Mockus, Ping Zhang, and Paul Luo Li Haroon Malik Week 11 (Nov 23): Bring A Paper To Class Week Have things changed now?: an empirical study of bug characteristics in modern open source software Brian Chan Presenter Presenter Presenter Week 12 (Nov 30): Project Presentations Presenter Presenter Presenter Presenter Project Report DUE -- DEC 14