Program

The final MSR program is now available in PDF.

Chris Parnin, Christian Bird and Emerson Murphy-Hill. Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored [Slides]
Siim Karus and Harald Gall. A Study of Language Usage Evolution in Open Source Software [Slides]
Oscar Callaú, Romain Robbes, Éric Tanter and David Röthlisberger. How Developers Use the Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: the Case of Smalltalk [Slides]
Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Giuliano Antoniol. An Exploratory Study of Identifier Renamings [Slides]

Shivani Rao and Avinash Kak. Retrieval from Software Libraries for Bug Localization: A Comparative Study with Generic and Composite Text Models [Slides]
Benjamin Biegel, Quinten David Soetens, Willi Hornig, Stephan Diehl and Serge Demeyer.Comparison of Similarity Metrics for Refactoring Detection [Slides]
Armijn Hemel, Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Rob Vermaas and Eelco Dolstra. Finding Software License Violations Through Binary Code Clone Detection [Slides]
Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle and Prem Devanbu. A Simpler Model of Software Readability

Xinlei Wang, Eilwoo Baik and Premkumar Devanbu. Operating System Compatibility Analysis of Eclipse and Netbeans Based on Bug Data
Mario Luca Bernardi, Carmine Sementa, Quirino Zagarese, Damiano Distante and Massimiliano Di Penta. What Topics do Firefox and Chrome Contributors Discuss? [Slides]
Olga Baysal, Ian Davis and Michael Godfrey. A Tale of Two Browsers [Slides]
Yukinao Hirata and Osamu Mizuno. Do Comments Explain Codes Adequately? [Slides]
Daniel German and Julius Davies. Apples Vs. Oranges? An exploration of the challenges of comparing the source code of two software systems

Yuan-Fang Li and Hongyu Zhang. Integrating Software Engineering Data Using Semantic Web Technologies [Slides]
Dave Binkley, Matthew Hearn and Dawn Lawrie. Improving identifier informativeness using Part of Speech Information [Slides]
Pamela Bhattacharya and Iulian Neamtiu. Bug-fix Time Prediction Models: Can we do better?
Brandon Heller, Eli Marschner and Jeffrey Heer. Visualizing Collaboration and Influence in the Open-Source Software Community [Slides]
Sergey Zeltyn, Peri Tarr, Murray Cantor, Robert Delmonico, Sateesh Kannegala, Mila Keren, Ashok Pon Kumar and Segev Wasserkrug. Improving Efficiency in Software Maintenance
Caitlin Sadowski, Chris Lewis, Zhongpeng Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu and E. James Whitehead. An Empirical Analysis of the FixCache Algorithm [Slides]

Emanuel Giger, Martin Pinzger and Harald Gall. Comparing Fine-Grained Source Code Changes And Code Churn For Bug Prediction [Slides]
Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan. Security vs Performance bugs: A Case Study on Firefox
Sandeep Krishnan, Robyn Lutz and Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova. Empirical Evaluation of Reliability Improvement in an Evolving Software Product Line [Slides]
Pete Rotella and Sunita Chulani. Implementing Quality Metrics and Goals at the Corporate Level [Slides]

Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej. How Do Developers Blog? An Exploratory Study [Slides]
Vibha Singhal Sinha, Senthil Mani and Saurabh Sinha. Entering the Circle of Trust: Developer Initiation as Committers in Open-Source Projects [Slides]
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Marta Cimitile and Massimiliano Di Penta. Social Interactions around Cross-System Bug Fixings: the Case of FreeBSD and OpenBSD [Slides]
Jon Eyolfson, Lin Tan and Patrick Lam. Do time of day and developer experience affect commit bugginess? [Slides]

Abram Hindle, Neil Ernst, Mike Godfrey and John Mylopoulos. Automated topic naming to support cross-project analysis of software maintenance activities [Slides]
Stephen Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Dorothea Blostein. Modeling the Evolution of Topics in Historical Software Repositories [Slides]
Julius Davies, Abram Hindle, Michael Godfrey and Daniel German. Software Bertillonage: Finding the Provenance of an Entity [Slides]
Alexander W. J. Bradley and Gail C. Murphy. Supporting Software History Exploration [Slides]