Software Mining
SS2007

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Empirical Software Engineering (19th April '07)

• W. F. Tichy, "Should Computer Scientists Experiment More?", IEEE Computer, 31, pp. 32-40, May, 1998. [PDF]
• N. Fenton, S. L. Pfleeger, and R. L . Glass, "Science and Substance: A Challenge to Software Engineering," IEEE Software, vol. 11, no. 4., pp. 86-95, July, 1994. [PDF]
• S. L. Pfleeger, "Albert Einstein and Empirical Software Engineering," IEEE Computer, vol. 32, pp. 32-38, October 1999. [PDF]

Lecture 2 - Pre-Processing CVS Archives (26th April '07)

• T. Zimmermann and P. Weissgerber, "Preprocessing CVS Data for Fine-grained Analysis," in Procs. of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2004. [PDF]
• T. Zimmermann, "Fine-grained pProcessing of CVS Archives with APFEL," in Procs. of the 2006 OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange, (Portland, USA), ACM Press, October 2006. [PDF]
• S. Kim, T. Zimmermann, M. Kim, A. E. Hassan, A. Mockus, T. Girba, M. Pinzger, E. J. Whitehead Jr., and A. Zeller, "TA-RE: An Exchange Language for Mining Software Repositories," in Procs. of the 3rd International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, (Shanghai, China), pp. 22-25, May 2006. [PDF]
• J. Sliwerski, T. Zimmermann, and A. Zeller, "When do Changes Induce Fixes?," in Procs. of the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, (St. Loius, USA), pp. 24-28, May 2005 [PDF] (Sections 1-3 only).

Lecture 3 - Guiding Software Development (3rd May 2007)

• D. Cubranic, G. Murphy, J. Singer, and K. S. Booth, "Hipikat: A Project Memory for Software Development," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 31, pp. 446-465, June 2005. [PDF]
• T. Zimmermann, P. Weissgerber, S. Diehl, and A. Zeller, "Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 31, pp. 429-445, June 2005. [PDF]

Lecture 4 - Software Navigation (10th May 2007)

• Norman Vinson, "Design guidelines for landmarks to support navigation in virtual environments." CHI 1999. [PDF]
• Anthony Cox, Maryanne Fisher, and Philip O'Brien, "Theoretical considerations on navigating codespace with spatial cognition." PPIG 2005. [PDF]
• Janice Singer, Robert Elves, and Margaret-Anne D. Storey, NavTracks: "Supporting Navigation in Software Maintenance." ICSM 2005. [PDF]
• Martin P. Robillard, "Automatic generation of suggestions for program investigation." ESEC/FSE 2005. [PDF]
• Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy, "Using task context to improve programmer productivity." FSE 2006. [PDF]
• NavTracks: http://www.thechiselgroup.org/navtracks
• TagSea: http://tagsea.sourceforge.net/
• Suade: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~swevo/suade/
• Mylar: http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/

Lecture 5 - Code Search and Reuse (24th May 2007)

• Y. Ye and G. Fischer, "Supporting Reuse by Delivering Task-Relevant and Personalised Information", ICSE 2002. [PDF]
• R. Holmes and R. J. Walker, "Supporting the Investigation and Planning of Pragmatic Reuse Tasks", ICSE 2007. [PDF]
• R. Holmes, R. J. Walker and G. Murphy, "Approximate Structural Context Matching: An Approach to Recommend Relevant Examples"; IEEE TSE 2006. [PDF]

Lecture 6 - A Toolbox for Software Mining (31th May 2007)

Lecture 7 - Defect Detection (14th June 2007)

• Yichen Xie, Dawson R. Engler: Using redundancies to find errors. SIGSOFT FSE 2002: 51-60 [PDF]
• Bill Pugh: FindBugs - Find Bugs in Java Programs. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• Andrzej Wasylkowski, Andreas Zeller: Detecting Object Usage Anomalies. ESEC/FSE 2007, to appear
• Ben Liblit, Mayur Naik, Alice X. Zheng, Alexander Aiken, Michael I. Jordan: Scalable statistical bug isolation. PLDI 2005: 15-26 [PDF]

Lecture 8 - Defect Prediction (21th June 2007)

• Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller: Predicting Vulnerable Software Components. Technical Report, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, February 2007. [Website]
• Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Andreas Zeller: Mining metrics to predict component failures. ICSE 2006: 452-461 [PDF]
• Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, E. James Whitehead Jr., Andreas Zeller: Predicting Faults from Cached History. ICSE 2007: 489-498 [PDF]

Lecture 9 - Clone Detection (28th June 2007)

• Rainer Koschke: Identifying and Removing Software Clones. A book chapter which will be published in a book on software evolution. You can get a copy in Tom's office.

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