This document provides an overview and summary of the MSR 2014 conference program. It includes statistics on paper submissions and acceptance rates by track. A trend of increasing submissions over time is shown. Popular topics of accepted papers are listed by number of accepts over total submissions. The selection process and thanks to reviewers and authors are noted. Details are given on the program including sessions, presentations, discussions and awards.
4. Popular topics 1
(# of accepts/# of submissions)
• Analysis of software ecosystems and mining of
repositories across multiple projects (11/34, 32%)
• Approaches, applications, and tools for software
repository mining (8/29, 29%)
• Characterization, classification, and prediction of
software defects based on analysis of software
repositories (12/26, 46%)
• Analysis of change patterns and trends to assist in
future development (8/22, 36%)
• Analysis of natural language artifacts in software
repositories (5/17, 29%)
5. Popular topics 1
(# of accepts/# of submissions)
•Prediction of future software qualities via analysis of
software repositories (2/16, 12%)
•Empirical studies on extracting data from repositories of
large long-lived and/or industrial projects (4/13, 32%)
•Models of software project evolution based on historical
repository data (6/13, 46%)
•Techniques and tools for capturing new forms of data for
storage in software repositories, such as effort data,
fine-grained changes, and refactoring (4/13, 31%)
•Models for social and development processes that occur in
large software projects (4/12, 33%)
6. Selection Process
Each paper reviewed by three PC members
Open e-discussion held on all papers taken
into consideration for acceptance
List of accepted papers available to PC
members 48 hours before notification
7. Thanks to...
PC Members of research/practice,
data showcase and challenge track
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Additional reviewers
9. The Program Overview
• 1 keynote
• 12 interesting technical sessions
• 1 challenge and 1 data showcase
• working lunches (with short paper and data
showcase posters)
10. MSR Sessions
presentation presentation presentation discussion
12 min for full paper presentations
+ 3 min QA
5 min for short papers
!
About 30-15 min of discussion at the end of each session