AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Robert DeLIne, Brian Houck
October 2025
Christian Bird
Principal Researcher
论文与出版物
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Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Veronica Pimenova, Sarah Fakhoury, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Madeline Endres
September 2025
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GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLine , Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
作者：Microsoft
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Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
October 2023
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Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
ICSE SEIP | May 2023
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Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
ACM Queue | January 2023
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Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '22) | November 2022
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DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE'22) | May 2022
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MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
August 2021
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A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
August 2020
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Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
作者：Microsoft
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A Dataset of Dockerfiles
Jordan Henkel, Shuvendu Lahiri, Christian Bird, Thomas Reps
ICSE 2020 | July 2020
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Learning from, Understanding, and Supporting DevOps Artifacts for Docker
Jordan Henkel, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Thomas Reps
42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'20) | May 2020
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Rex: Preventing Bugs and Misconfiguration in Large Services using Correlated Change Analysis
Sonu Mehta, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Maddila, Christian Bird, Sumit Asthana, Aditya Kumar
Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) | February 2020
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Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
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WhoDo: Automating Reviewer Suggestions at Scale
Sumit Asthana, Rahul Kumar, Ranjita Bhagwan, Chetan Bansal, Christian Bird, Chandra Maddila, Sonu Mehta, B. Ashok
ESEC/FSE 2019 | August 2019
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Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Nachi Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann (tzimmer), Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | August 2019, pp. 1-1
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Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLIne, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachi Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Tom Zimmermann
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019) - Software Engineering in Practice track | May 2019
ICSE 2019 Best Paper Award
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Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
To appear.
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The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
To appear.
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel M. German
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | December 2018, 第 45 卷(1): pp. 87-106
DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
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Deep learning type inference
Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Miltos Allamanis
2018 Foundations of Software Engineering | October 2018
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel German
Transactions on Software Engineering | November 2017
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Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
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To Type or not to Type: On the Effectiveness of Static typing for JavaScript
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2017
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Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton
MSR-TR-2016-1116 | November 2016
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Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
作者：Microsoft
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What Developers Want and Need from Program Analysis: An Empirical Study
Maria Christakis, Christian Bird
31st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'16) | September 2016
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Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2016
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
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Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
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Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
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Code Reviewing in the Trenches: Understanding Challenges, Best Practices and Tool Needs
Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Laura MacLeod, Jacek Czerwonka
MSR-TR-2016-27 | May 2016
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Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
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Suggesting accurate method and class names
Miltos Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
2015 Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2015
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Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
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Appendix to Beliefs, Practices and Personalities of Software Engineers
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-44 | June 2015
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Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
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Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
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Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, 第 20 卷: pp. 479-515
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Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
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The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, 第 41 卷(1): pp. 65-81
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Learning Natural Coding Conventions
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
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Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
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Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
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Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
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Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
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Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
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Appendix to Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2014-28 | February 2014
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
E-CSCW | January 2014
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Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
ACM ESEM | October 2013
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13) | September 2013
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
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Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
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Diversity in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
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Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
IEEE Software | August 2013
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
Distinguished Paper Award
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Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
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Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
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Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
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Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
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The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
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Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
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Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
MSR-TR-2012-83 | August 2012
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Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering | April 2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
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Appendix to Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2012-33 | March 2012
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Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
MSR-TR-2011-146 | November 2011
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The Inductive Software Engineering Manifesto: Principles for Industrial Data Mining
Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Wolfram Schulte, Ekrem Kocaganeli, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Sofware Engineering | November 2011
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Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
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Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
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Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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A Theory of Branches as Goals and Virtual Teams
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Alex Teterev
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering | May 2011
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Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
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Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research | November 2010
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research
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The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Premkumar Devanbu, Abraham Bernstein
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2010
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
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An Analysis of the Effect of Code Ownership on Software Quality across Windows, Eclipse, and Firefox
Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2010-140 | October 2010
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Clones: What is that Smell?
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
MSR Best Paper Award
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Thex: Mining Metapatterns in Java
Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects
Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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Putting it All Together: Using Socio-Technical Networks to Predict Failures
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2009
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019) Highlights from 30 years of ISSRE - Influential Paper Award
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Communications of the ACM | August 2009, 第 52 卷(8): pp. 85-93
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Fair and Balanced? Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John Duffy, Abraham Bernstein, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the Seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2009
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Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2009
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
ISBN: 978-1-4244-3453-4
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2009
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
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The Promises and Perils of Mining Git
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David Hamilton, Daniel M. German, Prem Devanbu
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2009
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
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Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science
Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su
Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | April 2009
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Talk and Work: a Preliminary Report
Proceedings of the Fifth International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60558-024-1
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Recommending Random Walks
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2007
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
ISBN: 978-1-59593-811-4
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Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2007
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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Mining Email Social Networks in Postgres
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track) | May 2006
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track)
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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Mining Email Social Networks
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories | May 2006
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Robert DeLIne, Brian Houck
October 2025
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Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Veronica Pimenova, Sarah Fakhoury, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Madeline Endres
September 2025
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GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLine , Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
作者：Microsoft
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Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
October 2023
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MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
August 2021
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Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLIne, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachi Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Tom Zimmermann
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019) - Software Engineering in Practice track | May 2019
ICSE 2019 Best Paper Award
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Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton
MSR-TR-2016-1116 | November 2016
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Clones: What is that Smell?
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
MSR Best Paper Award
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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Robert DeLIne, Brian Houck
October 2025
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Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
ICSE SEIP | May 2023
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Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
ACM Queue | January 2023
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A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
August 2020
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel M. German
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | December 2018, 第 45 卷(1): pp. 87-106
DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
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Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13) | September 2013
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
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Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
MSR-TR-2012-83 | August 2012
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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Robert DeLIne, Brian Houck
October 2025
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Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Veronica Pimenova, Sarah Fakhoury, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Madeline Endres
September 2025
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GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLine , Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
作者：Microsoft
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Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
October 2023
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Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
ICSE SEIP | May 2023
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Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
ACM Queue | January 2023
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Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '22) | November 2022
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DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE'22) | May 2022
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MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
August 2021
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A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
August 2020
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Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
作者：Microsoft
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A Dataset of Dockerfiles
Jordan Henkel, Shuvendu Lahiri, Christian Bird, Thomas Reps
ICSE 2020 | July 2020
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Learning from, Understanding, and Supporting DevOps Artifacts for Docker
Jordan Henkel, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Thomas Reps
42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'20) | May 2020
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Rex: Preventing Bugs and Misconfiguration in Large Services using Correlated Change Analysis
Sonu Mehta, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Maddila, Christian Bird, Sumit Asthana, Aditya Kumar
Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) | February 2020
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Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
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WhoDo: Automating Reviewer Suggestions at Scale
Sumit Asthana, Rahul Kumar, Ranjita Bhagwan, Chetan Bansal, Christian Bird, Chandra Maddila, Sonu Mehta, B. Ashok
ESEC/FSE 2019 | August 2019
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Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Nachi Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann (tzimmer), Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | August 2019, pp. 1-1
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Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLIne, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachi Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Tom Zimmermann
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019) - Software Engineering in Practice track | May 2019
ICSE 2019 Best Paper Award
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Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
To appear.
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The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
To appear.
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Deep learning type inference
Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Miltos Allamanis
2018 Foundations of Software Engineering | October 2018
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel German
Transactions on Software Engineering | November 2017
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Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
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To Type or not to Type: On the Effectiveness of Static typing for JavaScript
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2017
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Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton
MSR-TR-2016-1116 | November 2016
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Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
作者：Microsoft
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What Developers Want and Need from Program Analysis: An Empirical Study
Maria Christakis, Christian Bird
31st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'16) | September 2016
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Code Reviewing in the Trenches: Understanding Challenges, Best Practices and Tool Needs
Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Laura MacLeod, Jacek Czerwonka
MSR-TR-2016-27 | May 2016
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Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
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Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
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“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
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Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
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Suggesting accurate method and class names
Miltos Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
2015 Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2015
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Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
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Appendix to Beliefs, Practices and Personalities of Software Engineers
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-44 | June 2015
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Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
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Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
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Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, 第 20 卷: pp. 479-515
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Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
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The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, 第 41 卷(1): pp. 65-81
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Learning Natural Coding Conventions
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
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Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
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Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
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Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
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Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
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Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
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Appendix to Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2014-28 | February 2014
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
E-CSCW | January 2014
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13) | September 2013
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
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Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
IEEE Software | August 2013
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Diversity in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
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Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
Distinguished Paper Award
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Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
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Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
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Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
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Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
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The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
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Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
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Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering | April 2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
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Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
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Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
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Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
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Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
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Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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Putting it All Together: Using Socio-Technical Networks to Predict Failures
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2009
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019) Highlights from 30 years of ISSRE - Influential Paper Award
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Communications of the ACM | August 2009, 第 52 卷(8): pp. 85-93
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Fair and Balanced? Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John Duffy, Abraham Bernstein, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the Seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2009
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Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2009
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
ISBN: 978-1-4244-3453-4
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Rex: Preventing Bugs and Misconfiguration in Large Services using Correlated Change Analysis
Sonu Mehta, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Maddila, Christian Bird, Sumit Asthana, Aditya Kumar
Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) | February 2020
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Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
ACM ESEM | October 2013
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research | November 2010
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research
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Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science
Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su
Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | April 2009
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Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
MSR-TR-2012-83 | August 2012
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A Theory of Branches as Goals and Virtual Teams
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Alex Teterev
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering | May 2011
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Appendix to Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2012-33 | March 2012
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Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2016
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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The Inductive Software Engineering Manifesto: Principles for Industrial Data Mining
Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Wolfram Schulte, Ekrem Kocaganeli, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Sofware Engineering | November 2011
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Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Premkumar Devanbu, Abraham Bernstein
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2010
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
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Thex: Mining Metapatterns in Java
Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects
Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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The Promises and Perils of Mining Git
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David Hamilton, Daniel M. German, Prem Devanbu
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2009
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
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Talk and Work: a Preliminary Report
Proceedings of the Fifth International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60558-024-1
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Recommending Random Walks
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2007
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
ISBN: 978-1-59593-811-4
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Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2007
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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Mining Email Social Networks in Postgres
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track) | May 2006
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track)
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
MSR-TR-2011-146 | November 2011
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An Analysis of the Effect of Code Ownership on Software Quality across Windows, Eclipse, and Firefox
Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2010-140 | October 2010
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Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science
Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su
Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | April 2009
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Mining Email Social Networks
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories | May 2006
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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An Analysis of the Effect of Code Ownership on Software Quality across Windows, Eclipse, and Firefox
Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2010-140 | October 2010
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2009
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Robert DeLIne, Brian Houck
October 2025
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MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
August 2021
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Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Veronica Pimenova, Sarah Fakhoury, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Madeline Endres
September 2025
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A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
August 2020
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GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLine , Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
作者：Microsoft
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Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
作者：Microsoft
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Mining Semantic Loop Idioms from Big Code
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Marron, Charles Sutton
MSR-TR-2016-1116 | November 2016
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Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
作者：Microsoft
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Code Reviewing in the Trenches: Understanding Challenges, Best Practices and Tool Needs
Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Laura MacLeod, Jacek Czerwonka
MSR-TR-2016-27 | May 2016
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Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
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Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
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Appendix to Beliefs, Practices and Personalities of Software Engineers
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2015-44 | June 2015
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Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
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Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
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Appendix to Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2014-28 | February 2014
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Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
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Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
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Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
MSR-TR-2012-83 | August 2012
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Appendix to Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
MSR-TR-2012-33 | March 2012
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Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
MSR-TR-2011-146 | November 2011
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An Analysis of the Effect of Code Ownership on Software Quality across Windows, Eclipse, and Firefox
Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
MSR-TR-2010-140 | October 2010
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Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
October 2023
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Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
ACM Queue | January 2023
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DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE'22) | May 2022
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Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
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Moving from Closed to Open Source: Observations from Six Transitioned Projects to GitHub
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Nachi Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann (tzimmer), Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | August 2019, pp. 1-1
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Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
To appear.
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The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
To appear.
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel M. German
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | December 2018, 第 45 卷(1): pp. 87-106
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What Makes a Great Manager of Software Engineers?
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLIne, Daniel German
Transactions on Software Engineering | November 2017
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Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, 第 20 卷: pp. 479-515
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The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, 第 41 卷(1): pp. 65-81
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Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
IEEE Software | August 2013
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Communications of the ACM | August 2009, 第 52 卷(8): pp. 85-93
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Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
ICSE SEIP | May 2023
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Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '22) | November 2022
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A Dataset of Dockerfiles
Jordan Henkel, Shuvendu Lahiri, Christian Bird, Thomas Reps
ICSE 2020 | July 2020
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Learning from, Understanding, and Supporting DevOps Artifacts for Docker
Jordan Henkel, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Thomas Reps
42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'20) | May 2020
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Rex: Preventing Bugs and Misconfiguration in Large Services using Correlated Change Analysis
Sonu Mehta, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal, Chandra Maddila, Christian Bird, Sumit Asthana, Aditya Kumar
Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) | February 2020
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WhoDo: Automating Reviewer Suggestions at Scale
Sumit Asthana, Rahul Kumar, Ranjita Bhagwan, Chetan Bansal, Christian Bird, Chandra Maddila, Sonu Mehta, B. Ashok
ESEC/FSE 2019 | August 2019
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Software Engineering for Machine Learning: A Case Study
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLIne, Harald Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachi Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Tom Zimmermann
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019) - Software Engineering in Practice track | May 2019
ICSE 2019 Best Paper Award
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Deep learning type inference
Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Miltos Allamanis
2018 Foundations of Software Engineering | October 2018
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Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
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To Type or not to Type: On the Effectiveness of Static typing for JavaScript
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2017
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What Developers Want and Need from Program Analysis: An Empirical Study
Maria Christakis, Christian Bird
31st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'16) | September 2016
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Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2016
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
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Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
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“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
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Suggesting accurate method and class names
Miltos Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
2015 Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2015
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Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
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Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
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Learning Natural Coding Conventions
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
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Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
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Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
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Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
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Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
E-CSCW | January 2014
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Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
ACM ESEM | October 2013
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13) | September 2013
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
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Diversity in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
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Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
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Collecting a Heap of Shapes
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
Distinguished Paper Award
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Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
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Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
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Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
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The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
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Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering | April 2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
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The Inductive Software Engineering Manifesto: Principles for Industrial Data Mining
Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Wolfram Schulte, Ekrem Kocaganeli, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Sofware Engineering | November 2011
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Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
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Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
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Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
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A Theory of Branches as Goals and Virtual Teams
Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Alex Teterev
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering | May 2011
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Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
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Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, Gregorio Robles
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research | November 2010
FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research
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The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Premkumar Devanbu, Abraham Bernstein
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2010
SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
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Thex: Mining Metapatterns in Java
Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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Clones: What is that Smell?
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
MSR Best Paper Award
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Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects
Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov
Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2010
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Putting it All Together: Using Socio-Technical Networks to Predict Failures
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2009
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2019) Highlights from 30 years of ISSRE - Influential Paper Award
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Fair and Balanced? Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John Duffy, Abraham Bernstein, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar Devanbu
Proceedings of the the Seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | August 2009
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Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2009
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
ISBN: 978-1-4244-3453-4
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The Promises and Perils of Mining Git
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David Hamilton, Daniel M. German, Prem Devanbu
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2009
Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
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Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2009
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
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Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science
Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, Zhendong Su
Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | April 2009
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Talk and Work: a Preliminary Report
Proceedings of the Fifth International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60558-024-1
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Recommending Random Walks
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2007
ESEC-FSE '07: Proceedings of the the Sixth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
ISBN: 978-1-59593-811-4
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Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories | May 2007
ISBN: 0-7695-2950-X
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Mining Email Social Networks in Postgres
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track) | May 2006
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories (Challenge Track)
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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Mining Email Social Networks
Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Anand Swaminathan
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories | May 2006
ISBN: 1-59593-397-2
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