News

• 27 April 2023: Honoured to join the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as an Associate Editor.
• 28 March 2023: Two papers accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering:
  • “18 Million Links in Commit Messages: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay”, led by Tao Xiao and with Sebastian Baltes, Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, Takashi Ishio, and Kenichi Matsumoto
  • “The Impact of a Continuous Integration Service on the Delivery Time of Merged Pull Requests”, led by João Helis Bernardo and with Daniel Alencar da Costa and Uirá Kulesza
• 10 March 2023: “Understanding the Role of External Pull Requests in the NPM Ecosystem“, led by Vittunyuta Maeprasart and with Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Raula Kula, and Kenichi Matsumoto, accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering. Preprint on arXiv.
• 8 March 2023: Two papers accepted at MSR 2023:
  • C. Treude and H. Hata. She Elicits Requirements and He Tests: Software Engineering Gender Bias in Large Language Models
  • D. Wang, T. Xiao, C. Treude, R. Kula, H. Hata, and Y. Kamei. Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow
• 7 March 2023: “Barriers and Self-Efficacy: A Large-Scale Study on the Impact of OSS Courses on Student Perceptions”, led by Larissa Salerno and with Simone de França Tonhão and Igor Steinmacher, accepted at ITiCSE 2023.
• 28 February 2023: Two papers accepted at CHASE 2023:
  • R. Garcia, C. Treude, and W. La. Towards Understanding the Open Source Interest in Gender-Related GitHub Projects
  • R. Rebouças de Almeida, C. Treude, and U. Kulesza. What’s behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debt
• 26 February 2023: Three papers accepted at ICSE 2023 workshops:
  • C. Treude. Navigating Complexity in Software Engineering: A Prototype for Comparing GPT-n Solutions (BotSE 2023)
  • Y. Fan, C. Arora, and C. Treude. Stop Words for Processing Software Engineering Documents: Do they Matter? (NLBSE 2023)
  • A. Torres, S. Baltes, C. Treude, and M. Wagner. Applying information theory to software evolution (NLBSE 2023)
• 13 February 2023: “NCQ: Code reuse support for Node.js developers”, led by Brittany Reid and with Marcelo d’Amorim and Markus Wagner, accepted at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Preprint on arXiv and tool and data available on GitHub.
• 17 January 2023: “Overcoming Challenges in DevOps Education through Teaching
  Methods”, led by Samuel Ferino, Marcelo Fernandes, Elder Cirilo, Lucas Agnez, Bruno Batista, Uirá Kulesza, and Eduardo Aranha, accepted for the SEET track of ICSE 2023.
• 2 January 2023: “Does Deep Learning improve the performance of duplicate bug report detection? An empirical study”, led by Yuan Jiang, Xiaohong Su, Chao Shang, and Tiantian Wang, accepted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software.
• 25 November 2022: “Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem”, led by Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai and with Dong Wang, Raula Kula, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Takashi Ishio, and Kenichi Matsumoto, accepted at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Preprint on arXiv.
• 5 August 2022: Three new pre-prints available:
  • C. Treude. Taming Multi-Output Recommenders for Software Engineering. (ASE 2022 NIER)
  • R. Kula and C. Treude. In War and Peace: The Impact of World Politics on Software Ecosystems. (ESEC/FSE 2022 IVR)
  • F. Tian and C. Treude. Adding Context to Source Code Representations for Deep Learning. (ICSME 2022 NIER)
• 27 July 2022: “In War and Peace: The Impact of World Politics on Software Ecosystems”, led by Raula Kula, accepted for the Ideas, Visions and Reflections track of ESEC/FSE 2022. Preprint coming soon.
• 22 July 2022: “Adding Context to Source Code Representations for Deep Learning” with Fuwei Tian accepted for the ICSME 2022 NIER track. Preprint coming soon.
• 9 July 2022: “Taming Multi-Output Recommenders for Software Engineering” accepted for the ASE 2022 NIER track. Preprint available soon.
• 15 June 2022: “How to Formulate Specific How-To Questions in Software Development?”, led by Mingwei Liu and with Xin Peng, Andi Marcus, Jiazhan Xie, Huanjun Xu, and Yanjun Yang, accepted at ESEC/FSE 2022.
• 28 April 2022: “Hierarchical Semantic-Aware Neural Code Representation”, led by Yuan Jiang, Xiaohong Su, and Tiantian Wang, accepted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software.
• 21 April 2022: “Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review Across Categories and Domains“, led by Terence Wong and with Markus Wagner, accepted for publication in Information and Software Technology. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 8 April 2022: “Is Surprisal in Issue Trackers Actionable?”, led by James Caddy and with Markus Wagner, Earl Barr, and Miltos Allamanis, accepted as Registered Report at MSR 2022.
• 9 March 2022: “Does This Apply to Me? An Empirical Study of Technical Context in Stack Overflow”, led by Akalanka Galappaththi and Sarah Nadi, accepted at MSR 2022.
• 19 February 2022: Two papers accepted at the First International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering:
  • B. Reid, M. Wagner, M. d’Amorim, and C. Treude: “Software Engineering User Study Recruitment on Prolific: An Experience Report”
  • F. Ebert, A. Serebrenik, C. Treude, N. Novielli, and F. Castor: “On Recruiting Experienced GitHub Contributors for Interviews and Surveys on Prolific”
• 14 February 2022: Preprints of our two ICSE 2022 papers are now available:
  • N. Shimada, T. Xiao, H. Hata, C. Treude, ‪and K. Matsumoto: “GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source”
  • N. Zhang, C. Liu, X. Xia, C. Treude, Y. Zou, D. Lo, and Z. Zheng: “ShellFusion: Answer Generation for Shell Programming Tasks via Knowledge Fusion”
• 3 January 2022: “DevOps Education: An Interview Study of Challenges and Recommendations”, led by Marcelo Fernandes, Samuel Ferino, Anny K. Fernandes, Uirá Kulesza, and Eduardo Aranha, accepted for the SEET track of ICSE 2022.
• 3 December 2021: Two papers accepted at ICSE 2022:
  • N. Shimada, T. Xiao, H. Hata, C. Treude, ‪and K. Matsumoto: “GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source”
  • N. Zhang, C. Liu, X. Xia, C. Treude, Y. Zou, D. Lo, and Z. Zheng: “ShellFusion: Answer Generation for Shell Programming Tasks via Knowledge Fusion”
• 16 November 2021: Pre-print of “Gender Influence on Communication Initiated within Student Teams” led by Rita Garcia, Chieh-Ju Trinity Liao, and Ariane Pearce, to appear at SIGCSE 2022, now available.
• 10 November 2021: “How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study“, led by Maurício Aniche and Andy Zaidman, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 12 October 2021: “A Fine-grained Data Set and Analysis of Tangling in Bug Fixing Commits“, led by Steffen Herbold, accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 3 October 2021: “API-Related Developer Information Needs in Stack Overflow” led by Mingwei Liu and co-authored with Xin Peng, Andrian Marcus, Shuangshuang Xing, and Chengyuan Zhao, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• 3 October 2021: Distinguished Paper award for “Analyzing DevOps Teaching Strategies: An Initial Study”, led by Samuel Ferino, Marcelo Fernandes, Anny K. Fernandes, Uirá Kulesza, and Eduardo Aranha, at the IIER track of SBES 2021.
• 2 October 2021: “GitHub Repositories with Links to Academic Papers: Public Access, Traceability, and Evolution” led by Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai and co-authored with Bodin Chinthanet, Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, Jin Guo, and Kenichi Matsumoto, accepted for publication in the Journal of Systems and Software. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 28 September 2021: “Gender Influence on Communication Initiated within Student Teams” led by Rita Garcia, Chieh-Ju Trinity Liao, and Ariane Pearce accepted at SIGCSE 2022. Preprint available soon.
• 24 September 2021: “An Empirical Study of Developers’ Discussions about Security Challenges of Different Programming Languages” led by Roland Croft and co-authored with Yongzheng Xie, Mansooreh Zahedi, and M. Ali Babar, accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 22 September 2021: “GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption”, led by Hideaki Hata and co-authored with Nicole Novielli, Sebastian Baltes, and Raula Kula, accepted for publication in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 20 September 2021: New job: I’ve joined the University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering.
• 19 September 2021: Invited to the PC of ICPC 2022. Papers are due in January.
• 2 September 2021: Won Facebook Research Award with Markus Wagner: “Socialz — Multi-objective automated social fuzz testing”, USD 92k.
• 5 August 2021: “Contrasting Third-Party Package Management User Experience”, led by Syful Islam, Raula Kula, Takashi Ishio, and Kenichi Matsumoto, accepted for the NIER track of ICSME 2021.
• 27 July 2021: Invited to the PC of MSR 2022. Papers are due in January.
• 20 July 2021: “Analyzing DevOps Teaching Strategies: An Initial Study”, led by Samuel Ferino, Marcelo Fernandes, Anny K. Fernandes, Uirá Kulesza, and Eduardo Aranha, accepted for the IIER track of SBES 2021.
• 11 July 2021: “Challenges for Inclusion in Software Engineering: The Case of the Emerging Papua New Guinean Society” with Raula Kula, Hideaki Hata, Sebastian Baltes, Igor Steinmacher, Marco Gerosa, and Winifred Kula Amini accepted for publication in IEEE Software. Pre-print on arXiv.
• 26 June 2021: Invited to the PC of ESEC/FSE 2022. Papers due in March.
• 21 May 2021: Best Paper Award for “Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study” at TechDebt 2021 for work led by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Rafael do Nascimento Ribeiro, and ‪Uirá Kulesza.
• 20 May 2021: Two papers accepted at ESEC/FSE 2021:
  • Mingwei Liu, Xin Peng, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Xuefang Bai, Gang Lyu, Jiazhen Xie, and Xiaoxin Zhang: “Learning-based Extraction of First-Order Logic Representations of API Directives”
  • Jiakun Liu, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, David Lo, Yun Zhang, and Xin Xia: “Characterizing Search Activities on Stack Overflow”
• 10 May 2021: Invited to the PC of the REproducibility Studies and NEgative Results track at SANER 2022. Papers are due in November.
• 19 April 2021: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for our ICSE 2021 paper “Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow” led by Kaibo Cao, with Chunyang Chen, Sebastian Baltes, and Xiang Chen.
• 1 April 2021: “Software Engineering in Australasia” with Sherlock A. Licorish, John Grundy, Kelly Blincoe, Stephen MacDonell, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Li Li, and Jean-Guy Schneider now avaiable in the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.
• 27 February 2021: “Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study” with Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Rafael do Nascimento Ribeiro, and ‪Uirá Kulesza accepted at TechDebt 2021. Pre-print available on arXiv.
• 23 February 2021: Two papers accepted at MSR 2021:
  • Timothy Kinsman, Mairieli Wessel, Marco Gerosa, and Christoph Treude: “How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?”
  • Mahfouth Alghamdi, Shinpei Hayashi, Takashi Kobayashi, and Christoph Treude: “Characterising the Knowledge about Primitive Variables in Java Code Comments”
• 20 February 2021: Invited to the PC of the ICSME 2021 NIER track. Papers are due in June!
• 9 January 2021: Three papers accepted at ICSE 2021:
  • Kaibo Cao, Chunyang Chen, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, and Xiang Chen: “Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow”
  • Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, Takashi Ishio, and Christoph Treude: “Same File, Different Changes: The Potential of Meta-Maintenance on GitHub”
  • Marco Gerosa, Igor Wiese, Bianca Trinkenreich, Georg Link, Gregorio Robles, Christoph Treude, Igor Steinmacher, and Anita Sarma: “The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source”
• 22 December 2020: “Combining Query Reduction and Expansion for Text-Retrieval-Based Bug Localization” with Juan Manuel Florez, Oscar Chaparro, and Andi Marcus accepted at SANER 2021.
• 6 December 2020: “How Successful Are Open Source Contributions From Countries with Different Levels of Human Development?” with Leonardo Furtado, Bruno Cartaxo, and Gustavo Pinto accepted for publication in IEEE Software.
• 15 October 2020: Honoured to be elected to the ICSME Steering Committee.
• 30 July 2020: “Generating Concept based API Element Comparison Using a Knowledge Graph” with Yang Liu, Mingwei Liu, Xin Peng, Zhenchang Xing, and Xiaoxin Zhang accepted for ASE ’20.
• 21 July 2020: “Beyond Accuracy: Assessing Software Documentation Quality” with Justin Middleton and Thushari Atapattu accepted for the Visions and Reflections Track of ESEC/FSE 2020. Preprint on arXiv.
• 3 July 2020: “Wait For It: Identifying “On-Hold” Self-Admitted Technical Debt” with Rungroj Maipradit, Hideaki Hata, and Kenichi Matsumoto accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering. Preprint on arXiv.
• 5 June 2020: “The Impact of Automated Feature Selection Techniques on the Interpretation of Defect Models”, led by Jirayus Jiarpakdee and Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, accepted for Empirical Software Engineering.
• 27 May 2020: “Human-Like Summaries from Heterogeneous and Time-Windowed Software Development Artefacts” with Mahfouth Alghamdi and Markus Wagner accepted at PPSN 2020. Preprint on arXiv.
• 20 May 2020: Three papers accepted at ESEC/FSE 2020!
  – “API Method Recommendation via Explicit Matching of Functionality Verb Phrases” with Wenkai Xie, Xin Peng, Mingwei Liu, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoxin Zhang, and Wenyun Zhao;
  – “A Theory of the Engagement in Open Source Projects via Summer of Code Programs” with Jefferson Silva, Igor Wiese, Daniel German, Marco Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher; and
  – “Selecting third-party libraries: The practitioners’ perspective” with Enrique Vargas, Maurício Aniche, Magiel Bruntink, and Georgios Gousios.
• 2 May 2020: “Optimising the Fit of Stack Overflow Code Snippets into Existing Code” led by Brittany Reid with Markus Wagner accepted as a full workshop paper at the 9th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement. Preprint on arXiv.
• 1 April 2020: The preprint of our Registered Report “The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol” led by Ingrid Nunes with Fabio Calefato is now available. It will be presented at MSR 2020 and is also available on the Open Science Framework (OSF) website.
• 26 March 2020: Preprint of “What is the Vocabulary of Flaky Tests?” with Gustavo Pinto, Breno Miranda, Supun Dissanayake, Marcelo d’Amorim, and Antonia Bertolino, to appear as a full paper at MSR ’20, now available.
• 14 March 2020: “Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow” with Sebastian Baltes and Martin Robillard accepted for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Preprint available on arXiv.
• 5 March 2020: Registered Report “The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol” led by Ingrid Nunes with Fabio Calefato accepted at MSR 2020. Preprint will be available soon.
• 2 March 2020: “What is the Vocabulary of Flaky Tests?” with Gustavo Pinto, Breno Miranda, Supun Dissanayake, Marcelo d’Amorim, and Antonia Bertolino accepted as a full paper at MSR ’20. Preprint will be available in a few weeks.
• 12 February 2020: Together with Sebastian Baltes and Markus Wagner, we’ve been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for work on “Rewriting software documentation for non-native speakers”.
• 2 February 2020: Our Empirical Software Engineering paper “SIEVE: Helping Developers Sift Wheat from Chaff via Cross-Platform Analysis” will be presented as Journal First at ICSE 2020.
• 15 January 2020: “Code Duplication on Stack Overflow”, led by Sebastian Baltes, accepted at the NIER track of ICSE 2020.
• 20 December 2019: Invited to the PC of ASE 2020. Papers are due in April.
• 19 December 2019: “Essential Sentences for Navigating Stack Overflow Answers”, led by Sarah Nadi, accepted as full paper at SANER 2020. Preprint will be available soon.
• 9 December 2019: “Posit: Simultaneously Tagging Natural and Programming Languages” with Profir-Petru Pârțachi, Santanu Dash, and Earl T. Barr accepted at ICSE 2020. Preprint will be available soon.
• 2 December 2019: “Google Summer of Code: Student Motivations and Contributions” with Jefferson Silva, Igor Wiese, Daniel German, Marco Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher accepted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software. Preprint available on arXiv.
• 15 November 2019: KG4SE 2020, the First International Workshop on Knowledge Graph for Software Engineering, will be co-located with ICSE 2020 and co-organised by Zhenchang Xing, Xin Peng, Andi Marcus, myself, and Xin Xia. Call for papers.
• 15 November 2019: Preprint of “Understanding Wikipedia as a Resource for Opportunistic Learning of Computing Concepts”, led by Martin Robillard and to appear at SIGCSE 2020, now available.
• 10 October 2019: Our paper “Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions”, to appear at ASE 2019 with Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li, will receive an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
• 10 October 2019: Invited to join the Program Committee of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE). Papers are due in late January.
• 4 October 2019: “Understanding Wikipedia as a Resource for Opportunistic Learning of Computing Concepts” with Martin Robillard accepted at SIGCSE 2020.
• 22 September 2019: Invited to join the Program Committee of the 28th Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE). Papers are due in early March.
• 19 September 2019: Our paper “Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack Overflow” received the Best Technical Paper Award at ESEM 2019! Work led by former University of Adelaide undergrad Emillie Thiselton.
• 5 September 2019: Invited to the PC of MSR 2020. Papers are due in January.
• 3 September 2019: Preprint of “Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions”, to appear at ASE 2019 with Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li, now available.
• 28 August 2019: “SIEVE: Helping Developers Sift Wheat from Chaff via Cross-Platform Analysis” with Agus Sulistya, Artha Prana, Abhishek Sharma, and David Lo accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering. Preprint on arXiv.
• 28 August 2019: Invited to the PC of the 10th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP 2019). Papers are due in late September.
• 21 August 2019: Invited to the PC of the Late Breaking Ideas Track at SANER 2020. Submissions are due in December.
• 6 August 2019: “Automatic Generation of Pull Request Descriptions” with Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Shanping Li accepted at ASE 2019. Preprint will be available next month.
• 31 July 2019: Preprint of “Comprehending Test Code: An Empirical Study” with Chak Shun Yu and Maurício Aniche, to appear at ICSME 2019, now available.
• 30 July 2019: Preprint of “A Case Study on Automated Fuzz Target Generation for Large Codebases” with Matthew Kelly and Alex Murray, to appear at the ESEM 2019 Industry Track, now available.
• 20 July 2019: “A Case Study on Automated Fuzz Target Generation for Large Codebases” with Matthew Kelly and Alex Murray accepted at the ESEM 2019 Industry Track. Camera-ready version available by the end of the month.
• 17 July 2019: Preprint of “Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack Overflow” with Emillie Thiselton, to appear at ESEM 2019, now available. The Sublime Text plugin Pycee is available on GitHub.
• 13 July 2019: Two short papers accepted at ICSME 2019: “Tracy: A Business-driven Technical Debt Prioritization Framework” with Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida and Uirá Kulesza (short paper) and “Supporting Software Architecture Maintenance by Providing Task-specific Recommendations” with Matthias Galster and Kelly Blincoe (late-breaking idea). Pre-prints available by the end of July.
• 21 June 2019: “Are Pieces of Contextual Information Suitable for Predicting Co-Changes? An Empirical Study” with Igor Wiese, Rodrigo Takashi Kuroda, Igor Steinmacher, Gustavo Oliva, Reginaldo Ré, and Marco Gerosa accepted for publication in Software Quality Journal. Preprint will be available soon.
• 11 June 2019: “Factors Influencing Test Code Comprehension: A Controlled Experiment” with Chak Shun Yu and Maurício Aniche accepted at ICSME 2019, the 35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. Preprint (and new title) will be available in July.
• 28 May 2019: “Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack Overflow” with Emillie Thiselton accepted at ESEM 2019, the 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. Preprint will be available soon.
• 21 May 2019: Invited to the PC of the Industry Track of ESEM 2019. Papers are due June 10!
• 17 May 2019: Invited to the PC of the Replication and Negative Results track of the 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation. Papers are due June 20 (abstracts) and June 25.
• 8 May 2019: Book chapters for “Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering” now available. I co-authored “How Team Awareness Influences Perceptions of Developer Productivity” with Fernando Figueira Filho and “Software Engineering Dashboards: Types, Risks, and Future” with Peggy Storey.
• 6 May 2019: Preprint of “Toward Human-Like Summaries Generated from Heterogeneous Software Artefacts” with Mahfouth Alghamdi and Markus Wagner, to appear at the 7th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement at GECCO 2019, now available.
• 18 April 2019: “Toward Human-Like Summaries Generated from Heterogeneous Software Artefacts” with Mahfouth Alghamdi and Markus Wagner accepted as short paper at the 7th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement at GECCO 2019.
• 25 March 2019: Joined the Board of Distinguished Reviewers for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
• 22 March 2019: I’ve been invited to give a hands-on tutorial on qualitative data analysis in software engineering at MSR 2019 in Montreal. Hope to see you there!
• 15 March 2019: Preprint of “Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java” with Anwar Alqaimi and Patanamon Thongtanunam, to be presented at MSR 2019 in May, now available.
• 10 March 2019: Preprint of “Predicting Good Configurations for GitHub and Stack Overflow Topic Models” with Markus Wagner, to be presented at MSR 2019 in May, now available.
• 3 March 2019: Our IEEE Software paper “Let me in: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects” with Igor Steinmacher and Marco Gerosa will be presented in the Journal First track of ICGSE this year.
• 2 March 2019: Two full papers accepted at MSR 2019: “Predicting Good Configurations for GitHub and Stack Overflow Topic Models” with Markus Wagner and “Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java” with Anwar Alqaimi and Patanamon Thongtanunam. Preprints will be available soon.
• 1 March 2019: Invited to the PC of SBES 2019, the 33rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering. Papers are due May 3rd (April 26 abstracts).
• 27 February 2019: Invited to the PC of the ASE 2019 Demo Track. Submissions are due June 19.
• 18 February 2019: Preprint of “9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay” with Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, and Takashi Ishio, to appear at ICSE 2019, now available.
• 22 January 2019: Preprint of “Unveiling Exception Handling Guidelines adopted by Java Developers” with Hugo Melo and Roberto Coelho, to be presented at SANER 2019 next month, now available.
• 15 January 2019: Two journal first submissions accepted for presentation at ICSE 2019: “Automatically Categorizing Software Technologies” (to appear in TSE, preprint) and “Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files” (to appear in EMSE, preprint).
• 3 December 2018: Invited to the PC of ICSE 2020. Papers are due in August!
• 24 December 2018: Joined the Review Board of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• 14 December 2018: “Witt: Querying Technology Terms based on Automated Classification” with Mathieu Nassif and Martin Robillard accepted as tool demo at ICSE 2019. Preprint, video, and tool will be available soon.
• 12 December 2018: “9.6 Million Links in Source Code Comments: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay” with Hideaki Hata, Raula Kula, and Takashi Ishio accepted at ICSE 2019. Preprint will be available soon.
• 4 December 2018: Invited to the PC of ICSME 2019. Papers are due in early April.
• 1 December 2018: “Unveiling Exception Handling Guidelines adopted by Java Developers” with Hugo Melo and Roberto Coelho accepted at SANER 2019. Preprint will be available soon.
• 13 October 2018: Invited to the PC of MSR 2019. Papers are due in January.
• 26 September 2018: ICSME 2020 will be held at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide, Australia!
• 21 September 2018: “Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files” with Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Ferdian Thung, Thushari Atapattu, and David Lo accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering. Preprint available on arXiv.
• 23 July 2018: Invited to the PC of ESEC/FSE 2019, the 27th Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering in Tallinn, Estonia. Papers are due February 20, 2019!
• 13 July 2018: Our special issue proposal for IEEE Software “20 Years of Open Source: Impact on Software Engineering practice” has been accepted. Submission deadline is April 1, 2019 and we have four guest editors who are looking forward to your papers: Gregorio Robles, Igor Steinmacher, Paul Adams, and myself. The full CfP is available here.
• 6 July 2018: “Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-case Study” with Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Uirá Kulesza, Aliandro Lima, and D’Angellys Cavalcanti Feitosa accepted at the industry track of ICSME ’18, the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. Preprint available soon.
• 3 July 2018: We’ve been invited to present “Unusual Events in GitHub Repositories”, to appear in the August issue of JSS and co-authored by Larissa Leite and Mauricio Aniche, as a Journal First paper at ICSME in Madrid.
• 5 June 2018: “AutoSpearman: Automatically Mitigating Correlated Software Metrics for Interpreting Defect Models” with Jirayus Jiarpakdee and Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn accepted at ICSME ’18, the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. Preprint available soon.
• 29 May 2018: Invited to the PC of SAGRA 2018, the 4th Workshop on Sustainable Architecture: Global Collaboration, Requirements, Analysis at ECSA 2018. Papers due June 30.
• 7 May 2018: Our application for a NC State – University of Adelaide Starter Grant with Emerson Murphy-Hill was successful. Research to commence in July.
• 1 May 2018: Later this month, we’re organising the Adelaide Autumn School on Software Engineering. Researchers affiliated with institutions in Australia and New Zealand can still register here.
• 29 April 2018: “Unusual Events in GitHub Repositories” with Larissa Leite and Maurício Aniche accepted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software. Preprint available here.
• 28 April 2018: “Automatically Categorizing Software Technologies” with Mathieu Nassif and Martin Robillard accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Preprint available here.
• 16 April 2018: We’re organising the first Software Documentation Generation Challenge, co-located with ICSME in Madrid in September 2018. Qualifier submissions are due July 20!
• 16 April 2018: New IEEE Software blog post “Which design best practices should be taken care of?” by Johannes Bräuer, Reinhold Plösch, Matthias Saft, and Christian Körner.
• 5 April 2018: Honoured to receive the Distinguished Reviewer Award for Outstanding Service as a Reviewer for the Journal on Empirical Software Engineering.
• 21 March 2018: Preprint of “SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts” with Sebastian Baltes, Lorik Dumani, and Stephan Diehl, to be presented at MSR 2018, now available.
• 13 March 2018: Preprint of “Where does Google find API documentation?” with Maurício Aniche, to be presented at the 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution, is now available.
• 5 March 2018: “Where does Google find API documentation?” with Maurício Aniche accepted at the 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution, co-located with ICSE 2018. Preprint coming soon.
• 2 March 2018: “SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts” with Sebastian Baltes, Lorik Dumani, and Stephan Diehl accepted as full paper at MSR 2018.  Preprint will be available soon.
• 21 February 2018: I joined the Editorial Board of Empirical Software Engineering as a board member.
• 12 February 2018: Preprint of “How Modern News Aggregators Help Development Communities Shape and Share Knowledge” with Maurício Aniche, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese, Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Marco Gerosa, to appear at ICSE 2018, now available.
• 23 January 2018: Invited to the ICSE 2019 Program Committee. Papers are due August 24th.
• 1 January 2018: For the next three years, our research will be funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme. See blog post for details.
• 14 December 2017: “How Modern News Aggregators Help Development Communities Shape and Share Knowledge” with Maurício Aniche, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Wiese, Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Marco Gerosa accepted at ICSE 2018! Preprint will be available soon.
• 6 December 2017: Moved to Japan to work at NAIST on a JSPS fellowship for the next two months.
• 6 December 2017: New IEEE blog post: “Gazes to Traces: Tracing Developers’ Eyes to Automate Traceability Link Recovery” by Bonita Sharif and Huzefa Kagdi.
• 5 December 2017: Invited to the PC of WAPI 2018, the 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution to be held at ICSE 2018. Papers due Feb 5.
• 26 November 2017: “Let me in: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects” with Igor Steinmacher and Marco Gerosa accepted for IEEE Software. Preprint will be available soon.
• 21 November 2017: New IEEE Software blog post: “Can We Trust the Stack Overflow Netiquette? Evidence-based Guidelines for Asking Good Technical Questions” by Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile and Nicole Novielli.
• 3 November 2017: The video of my talk at the 55th CREST Open Workshop is now online: [video]. Check out the other talks on the workshop website.
• 13 October 2017: Invited to the PC of MSR 2018, the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories. Papers are due in January!
• 4 October 2017: We’re looking for a PhD student interesting in research on NLP-based log file analysis, see here for details.
• 2 October 2017: NLP2Code, recently presented at ICSME 2017, is now open source. We’re looking forward to your pull requests on GitHub: https://github.com/ctreude/nlp2code
• 7 September 2017: “The Impact of Rapid Release Cycles on the Integration Delay of Fixed Issues” with Daniel A. da Costa, Shane McIntosh, Uirá Kulesza, and Ahmed E. Hassan accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering.
• 15 August 2017: “Code Smells for Model-View-Controller Architectures” with Maurício Aniche, Gabriele Bavota, Marco Gerosa, and Arie van Deursen accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering.
• 8 August 2017: Pre-print of “On-Demand Developer Documentation”, to appear at ICSME NIER 2017 in Shanghai, now available.
• 29 July 2017: Pre-print of “Understanding Stack Overflow Code Fragments” with Martin Robillard, to appear at ICSME NIER 2017 in Shanghai, now available.
• 22 July 2017: Two ICSME NIER papers accepted: “Understanding Stack Overflow Code Fragments” with Martin Robillard and “On-Demand Developer Documentation” with Martin Robillard, Andrian Marcus, Gabriele Bavota, Oscar Chaparro, Neil Ernst, Marco Gerosa, Michael Godfrey, Michele Lanza, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gail Murphy, Laura Moreno, David Shepherd, and Edmund Wong. Pre-prints coming soon.
• 21 July 2017: “NLP2Code: Code Snippet Content Assist via Natural Language Tasks” with Brock A. Campbell accepted as a tool demo at ICSME 2017. Pre-print available on arXiv and tool demo available on YouTube.
• 17 July 2017: Our TaskNav task extraction algorithm, which extracts task phrases from sentences, is now available as a web app.  Try it here!
• 1 July 2017: Invited to the PC for FSE 2018, the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. Papers are due March 9, 2018.
• 30 June 2017: Invited to the PC for SANER 2018, the 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering.
• 8 May 2017: We’re looking for a PhD student interesting in research on automatically documenting the Blockchain API as well as applications based on this API, see here for details.
• 8 May 2017: Invited to the PC of the ICSE 2018 ACM Student Research Competition.
• 6 May 2017: Invited to the PC of SCORE 2018, the Student Contest on Software Engineering at ICSE 2018.
• 10 April 2017: New blog post: “Which NLP library should I choose to analyze software documentation?”
• 4 April 2017: New IEEE Software Blog post: “Scaling up the software development process” by Mark Basham.
• 30 March 2017: Preprint of MSR 2017 paper “Choosing an NLP Library for Analyzing Software Documentation: A Systematic Literature Review and a Series of Experiments” with Fouad Nasser A. Al Omran now available.
• 16 March 2017: “Choosing an NLP Library for Analyzing Software Documentation: A Systematic Literature Review and a Series of Experiments” with Fouad Nasser A. Al Omran accepted at MSR 2017, the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories.
• 27 February 2017: New blog post on the IEEE Software blog: “Sustainable Software Design” by Martin Robillard.
• 19 February 2017: “A Preliminary Evaluation of a Gamification Framework to Jump Start Collaboration Behavior Change” with Flávio Steffens, Sabrina Marczak, Fernando Figueira Filho, and Cleidson de Souza accepted as Notes paper in CHASE 2017.
• 17 February 2017: Invited to the Program Committee of ICSME NIER 2017, the New Ideas track of the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. Papers are due June 26 (abstracts June 19).
• 6 February 2017: New IEEE Software Blog post: “Empowering Users to Build IoT Software with a Puzzle-like Environment” by Yijun Yu, Pierre A. Akiki, and Arosha K. Bandara
• 24 January 2017: Invited to the Program Committee of SCAM 2017, the 17th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation. Papers are due in June (CfP).
• 23 January 2017: “NLP2Code: Code Snippet Content Assist via Natural Language Tasks” with Brock Campbell now available on arXiv and YouTube.
• 30 November 2016: Invited to the Program Committee of ICSME 2017, the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution in Shanghai. Here’s the CfP, abstracts are due March 30, 2017.
• 13 November 2016: New blog post by Danilo Silva and colleagues on the IEEE Software Blog: “Why we refactor? Here are 44 different reasons, according to GitHub contributors”
• 13 October 2016: Invited to the Program Committee of ICGSE, the 12th International Conference on Global Software Engineering. Papers are due December 19.
• 12 September 2016: New blog post by Maurício Aniche on the IEEE Software Blog: “Should we care about context-specific code smells?”
• 16 August 2016: Preprint of Empirical Software Engineering paper “Exception Handling Bug Hazards in Android: Results from a Mining Study and an Exploratory Survey” with Roberta Coelho, Lucas Almeida, Georgios Gousios and Arie van Deursen now available.
• 12 August 2016: Preprint of “SATT: Tailoring Code Metric Thresholds for Different Software Architectures” with Maurício Aniche, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, and Marco Gerosa, to appear at SCAM ’16, now available.
• 30 July 2016: “SATT: Tailoring Code Metric Thresholds for Different Software Architectures” with Maurício Aniche, Andy Zaidman, Arie van Deursen, and Marco Gerosa accepted at SCAM ’16!
• 30 July 2016: Preprint of “Who is who in the mailing list? Comparing six disambiguation heuristics to identify multiple addresses of a participant” with Igor Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, José Teodoro da Silva, and Marco Gerosa, to appear at ICSME ’16, now available.
• 10 July 2016: “Using contextual information to predict co-changes” with Igor Wiese, Reginaldo Ré, Igor Steinmacher, Rodrigo Takashi Kuroda, Gustavo Oliva, and Marco Gerosa accepted in Journal of Systems and Software.
• 5 July 2016: Preprint of “A Validated Set of Smells in Model-View-Controller Architectures” with Maurício Aniche, Gabriele Bavota, Arie van Deursen, and Marco Gerosa, to appear at ICSME ’16, now available.
• 1 July 2016: Preprint of “Developers’ Perceptions on Object-Oriented Design and Architectural Roles” with Maurício Aniche and Marco Gerosa to appear at SBES ’16, the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, now available.
• 29 June 2016: Invited to the PC of WASHES 2016, the 1st Workshop on Social, Human, and Economic Aspects of Software @ SBQS 2016.
• 28 June 2016: “Exception Handling Bug Hazards in Android: Results from a Mining Study and an Exploratory Survey” with Roberta Coelho, Lucas Almeida, Georgios Gousios and Arie van Deursen accepted in Empirical Software Engineering.
• 22 June 2016: “Developers’ Perceptions on Object-Oriented Design and Architectural Roles” with Maurício Aniche and Marco Gerosa accepted at SBES ’16, the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering.
• 15 June 2016: Two papers accepted at ICSME ’16: “A Validated Set of Smells in Model-View-Controller Architectures” with Maurício Aniche, Gabriele Bavota, Arie van Deursen, and Marco Gerosa and “Who is who in the mailing list? Comparing six disambiguation heuristics to identify multiple addresses of a participant” with Igor Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, José Teodoro da Silva, and Marco Gerosa.
• 2 May 2016: “Why not use open source code examples? A Case Study of Prejudice in a Community of Practice” by Ohad Barzilay now available on the IEEE Software blog.
• 22 April 2016: SSE ’16, the 8th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, has been accepted as a workshop at FSE 2016. Papers are due July 1st!
• 21 April 2016: Invited to the PC of SANER 2017, the 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering.
• 19 April 2016: Invited to the PC of SBCARS 2016, the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse.
• 17 April 2016: Invited to the PC of ISEC 2017, the 10th India Software Engineering Conference.
• 16 April 2016: Invited to the PC of Student Research Competition of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering.
• 29 March 2016: “Should software developers be replaced by the crowd?”, a new blog post by Thomas LaToza and André van der Hoek, now available on the IEEE Software blog.
• 11 February 2016: Preprint of ICSE ’16 paper “Overcoming Open Source Project Entry Barriers with a Portal for Newcomers” with Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Conte, and Marco Gerosa now available.
• 1 February 2016: IEEE Software Blog: “Using Biometrics to Assess a Developer’s Cognitive and Emotional States” by Sebastian Müller and Thomas Fritz now online.
• 29 January 2016: Preprint of ICSE ’16 paper “Augmenting API Documentation with Insights from Stack Overflow” with Martin Robillard now available.
• 29 January 2016: Invited to the FSE 2016 Artifacts program committee.
• 18 January 2016: Joined the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia, as a faculty member.
• 15 December 2015: Two papers accepted at ICSE ’16: “Augmenting API Documentation with Insights from Stack Overflow” with Martin Robillard and “Overcoming Open Source Project Entry Barriers with a Portal for Newcomers” with Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Conte, and Marco Gerosa.
• 14 December 2015: “The Social Side of Software Platform Ecosystems” by C. de Souza, F. Figueira Filho, M. Miranda, R. Ferreira, myself, and L. Singer accepted at CHI ’16!
• 13 December 2015: Invited to the PC of the Artifacts Track of ICSME 2016. See http://icsme2016.github.io/cfp/artifacts-track.html for more information.
• 3 December 2015: Invited to the PC of CHASE 2016. Papers are due January 22.
• 25 November 2015: My Bluesoft talk on TaskNav is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONp-dzltI0I
• 23 November 2015: Invited to the PC for CSI-SE 2016, the 3rd International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering, co-located with ICSE 2016. Submit by January 22.
• 23 November 2015: Invited to the ERA track PC for ICSME 2016. Papers are due June 24 / July 1.
• 19 November 2015: The first blog post on IEEE Software’s new blog is live: Igor Steinmacher on Supporting newcomers to Open Source Software.
• 16 November 2015: Invited to the PC of the 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) in Orange County, California next August. Abstracts due in late January.
• 16 November 2015: Invited to the 2014/2015 Review Board for the Empirical Software Engineering journal.
• 9 November 2015: Joined the IEEE Software Blog as an Associate Editor for the area of Human Factors. The first blog posts will be published within the next few days.
• 22 October 2015: Invited to the PC of SCAM 2016. Papers are due in June.
• 10 September 2015: Invited to the PC of MSR 2016. Papers are due in January.
• 10 August 2015: Preprint of our ICSME 2015 ERA paper “Assessing Developer Contribution with Repository Mining-Based Metrics” now available.
• 3 August 2015: “Automating the Performance Deviation Analysis for Multiple System Releases: an Evolutionary Study” by Felipe A. Pinto, Uirá Kulesza and myself accepted at SCAM 2015.
• 29 July 2015: New blog post about our ESEC/FSE 2015 demo paper: “UEDashboard: New Research Prototype to Detect Unusual Events in SVN Repositories”.
• 24 July 2015: “Assessing Developer Contribution with Repository Mining-based Metrics” by Jalerson Lima, Fernando Figueira Filho, Uirá Kulesza and myself accepted as an ERA paper at ICSME 2015.
• 15 July 2015: Preprint of “Summarizing and Measuring Development Activity”, to appear as full paper at ESEC/FSE ’15, now available.
• 15 July 2015: Preprint of “UEDashboard: Awareness of Unusual Events in Commit Histories”, to appear as demo paper at ESEC/FSE ’15, now available.
• 15 July 2015: Preprint of “Challenges in Analyzing Software Documentation in Portuguese”, to appear at SBES ’15, now available.
• 1 July 2015: Now working at IME/USP in São Paulo as a postdoctoral researcher with Marco A. Gerosa.
• 30 June 2015: “UEDashboard: Awareness of Unusual Events in Commit Histories” by Larissa Leite, myself and Fernando Figueira Filho accepted as a FSE 2015 tool demo! More information will be available soon.
• 26 June 2015: “Challenges in Analyzing Software Documentation in Portuguese” with Carlos Prolo and Fernando Figueira Filho accepted at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering in Belo Horizonte! Blog post and preprint will be available soon.
• 26 May 2015: “Summarizing and Measuring Development Activity” with Fernando Figueira Filho and Uirá Kulesza has been accepted at ESEC / FSE 2015 in Bergamo! Preprint and blog post will be made available soon.
• 11 May 2015: Invited to the SANER ERA 2016 PC. Early Research Achievements papers are due in November.
• 8 May 2015: “An Automatic Approach to Detect Unusual Events in Software Repositories” by Larissa Leite, myself, and Fernando Figueira Filho accepted as a position paper at the 2nd Latin American School on Software Engineering (ELA-ES 2015), to be held from June 30 to July 3, 2015, in Porto Alegre. [Preprint]
• 26 April 2015: Vote now for our TaskNav video as best ICSE 2015 Demo Video by liking it on YouTube: TaskNav Video.
• 7 April 2015: Invited to the Program Committee for SSE 2015, the 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, co-located with FSE 2015. Papers are due June 5!
• 28 March 2015: Invited to the Program Committee for the First International Workshop of Open Innovation in Software Engineering (OISE 2015). Papers are due May 11.
• 7 March 2015: Invited to the Program Committee for the Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL) 2015 in Natal. Papers are due on May 11.
• 27 February 2015: Invited to the PC of this year’s ICSME ERA track. Papers are due in June.
• 21 January 2015: “TaskNav: Task-based Navigation of Software Documentation” with Mathieu Sicard, Marc Klocke, and Martin Robillard accepted as an ICSE 2015 Demo. See blog post for more details on TaskNav.
• 12 January 2015: I’m a co-organizer for Martin Robilliard’s Bellairs 2015 Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis in Software Engineering in Barbados in February 2015.
• 12 January 2015: Invited to the PC of SBCARS 2015, the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse, co-located with CBSoft 2015 in Belo Horizonte.
• 5 January 2015: “Studying Gamification as a Collaboration Motivator for Virtual Software Teams: Social Issues, Cultural Issues, and Research Methods” with Sabrina Marczak, Fernando Figueira Filho, Leif Singer, Flávio Steffens, David Redmiles, and Ban Al-Ani accepted at the CSCW 2015 workshop on “Doing CSCW Research in Latin America: Differences, Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned”
• 18 December 2014: “Extracting Development Tasks to Navigate Software Documentation” with Martin Robillard and Barthélémy Dagenais accepted at IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• 10 December 2014: Invited to the PC of the 2nd International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE) at ICSE 2015. Submissions due January 23.
• 4 December 2014: Invited to the PC of CHASE 2015 at ICSE 2015. Submssions due January 23.
• 6 October 2014: Invited to the PC of the Mining Challenge of MSR 2015. Use your mining tools and approaches on a common data set and submit by February 21.
• 22 September 2014: Invited to the PC of MSR 2015, to be held in Florence, Italy, on 16-17 May 2015. Abstracts are due February 6, papers are due February 13.
• 19 September 2014: Invited to the ERA track PC of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering SANER ’15 in Montreal, Canada. ERA abstracts/papers are due in late November/early December.
• 1 September 2014: Started working at DIMAp/UFRN in Natal, Brazil.
• 6 August 2014: Invited to the PC of ICSME 2015, to be held in Bremen, Germany, next year. Papers will be due in Spring 2015.
• 6 May 2014: Invited to the PC of SSE 14, the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, co-located with FSE 2014 in Hong Kong. Submit by early July!
• 1 March 2014: Invited to the PC of the Early Research Achivements track of ICSME 2014. Abstracts are due June 23rd, papers are due June 30th.
• 18 December 2013: I’m a co-organizer for Martin Robilliard’s Bellairs 2014 Workshop on Representing Programming Knowledge in Barbados in February 2014!
• 9 December 2013: Invited to the PC of CSI-SE, the ICSE 2014 workshop on Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering. Papers are due January 24!
• 8 December 2013: Invited to the CHASE 2014 PC. Papers are due January 24!
• 7 November 2013: Invited to the PC for MSR 2014. Abstracts due January 31, papers due February 7.
• 28 October 2013: Invited to the PC for the MSR 2014 Mining Challenge. This year’s challenge focuses on a GitHub data set. Submissions due Feb 21.
• 5 August 2013: Invited to the PC for the Tool Demo track of the CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week. Submissions are due in October!
• 23 July 2013: Invited to the PC for the Early Research Achievements track of the CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week. Submissions are due in October!
• 10 June 2013: Book chapter on “Facilitating Crowd Sourced Software Engineering via Stack Overflow” with Ohad Barzilay and Alexey Zagalsky now available online: [Springer]
• 30 May 2013: Invited to the PC for Posters at ICSE 2014. Looking forward to reading your extended abstracts and posters early next year. Deadline is January 14!
• 21 May 2013: Co-authored short paper “Blogging Developer Knowledge: Motivations, Challenges and Future Directions” [preprint] with Chris Parnin and Peggy Storey received “Most Promising Idea Award” at ICPC 2013!
• 18 April 2013: Co-authored short paper “Blogging Developer Knowledge: Motivations, Challenges and Future Directions” with Chris Parnin and Peggy Storey accepted at the ERA track of ICPC 2013!
• 23 March 2013: Invited to PC of the 5th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE 2013), co-located with ESEC/FSE 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Follow the workshop updates here.
• 28 February 2013: Co-authored short paper “Analyzing the Friendliness of Exchanges in an Online Software Developer Community” with Brendan Cleary et al. accepted at CHASE 2013.
• 10 February 2013: Invited to PC of the Early Research Achievements Track of ICPC 2013 in San Francisco. I look forward to reading about your new ideas and emerging results!
• 7 February 2013: Invited to PC of SCORE 2013, co-located with ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. I’m looking forward to reading your reports!
• 4 February 2013: Our visualization of Stack Overflow data with Lars Grammel and Chris Parnin won the Stack Overflow visualization contest!
• 22 January 2013: Invited to PC of ICPC 2013’s tool demo track, co-located with ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. I look forward to your demos!
• 15 January 2013: Invited to PC of CHASE 2013, co-located with ICSE 2013 in San Francisco. I’m looking forward to reading your papers!
• 4 January 2013: Co-authored paper “Mutual Assessment in the Social Programmer Ecosystem” with Leif Singer et al. nominated for Best Paper at CSCW 2013
• 5 November 2012: Joined the ICSE 2014 organization team as Publicity Chair. See you all in Hyderabad in June 2014!

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