Schedule for CISC 880: Mining Software Engineering Data (Fall 2008)

Schedule for CISC 880: Mining Software Engineering Data (Fall 2008)

Week 1 (Sep 8): Introduction and Course Overview

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Intro Lecture based on ICSE 2008 Tutorial by Ahmed E. Hassan and Tao Xie.
Assigned Reading:The Road Ahead for Mining Software Repositories by Ahmed E. Hassan

You need to access the papers below using an on campus machine or using the Queen's Libary proxy

Week 2 (Sep 15): Evolution I

An Empirical Study of Operating Systems Errors Andy Chou, Junfeng Yang, Benjamin Chelf, Seth Hallem, Dawson Engler
Who should fix this bug? John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew, and Gail C. Murphy
Functional Paleontology: The Evolution of User-Visible System Services Annie I. Antón, Colin Potts

Week 3 (Sept 22): Bug Prediction

Predicting fault incidence using software change history Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, J. S. Marron, and Harvey P. Siy
Mining metrics to predict component failures Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, and Andreas Zeller
Predictors of customer perceived software quality Audris Mockus, Ping Zhang, and Paul Luo Li
Predicting Bugs from History Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Andreas Zeller (Evolution Book)	[READING]

Week 4 (Sep 29): ICSM

Week 5 (Oct 6): Guiding Development

Assignment 0 DUE -- OCT 6

Hipikat: recommending pertinent software development artifacts Davor Cubranic and Gail C. Murphy
Mining version histories to guide software changes Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl, Andreas Zeller
What Makes a Good Bug Report? Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, Cathrin Weiss, Rahul Premraj, and Thomas Zimmermann

Week 6 (Oct 13): OFF (Thanksgiving)

Week 7 (Oct 20): Visualization of Software Repositories

Assignment 1 DUE -- OCT 20

Analysing Software Repositories to Understand Software Evolution Marco D’Ambros, Harald Gall, Michele Lanza, and Martin Pinzger
Visualizing software changes Stephen G. Eick, Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, Audris Mockus, and Paul Schuster
Seeking the source: software source code as a social and technical artifact Cleidson de Souza, Jon Froehlich, and Paul Dourish

Project Proposal DUE -- OCT 24

Week 8 (Oct 27): Bug Detection

Capturing, indexing, clustering, and retrieving system history Ira Cohen, Steve Zhang, Moises Goldszmidt, Julie Symons, Terence Kelly, and Armando Fox
Scalable statistical bug isolation Ben Liblit, Mayur Naik, Alice X. Zheng, Alex Aiken, and Michael I. Jordan
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

Week 9 (Nov 3): Tools and Mining Challenges

Automatic identification of bug-introducing changes Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Kai Pan, E., and James Whitehead, Jr.
Identifying reasons for software change using historic databases. Audris Mockus and Larry G. Votta
Developer identification methods for integrated data from various sources Geographic location of developers at SourceForge Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

Week 10 (Nov 10): Code Reuse, Reuse Patterns, and Searching (might change)

Quality Assessment based on Attribute Series of Software Evolution Jacek Ratzinger, Harald Gall, and Martin Pinzger
XSnippet: Mining for Sample Code Naiyana Tansalarak and Kajal T. Claypool
Mining System-User Interaction Traces for Use Case Models Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, and Paul Sorenson

Week 11 (Nov 17): Bring A Paper To Class Week

Week 12 (Nov 24): Project Presentations

Project Report DUE -- DEC 14