MSR 2025 Foundational Contribution Award by David Lo: Charting New Gold Mines: Expanding the World of MSR
Mining Software Repositories (MSR) has fueled decades of discovery, transforming how we understand and engineer software. In this talk, I reflect on a journey of charting new “gold mines” that have expanded the world of MSR. I revisit early pioneering efforts in MSR for Trustworthy AI (MSR4TAI), where bug repositories were mined to uncover insights into the reliability of machine learning systems, and in MSR for Automated Program Repair (MSR4APR), where bug fixes from thousands of version control systems were mined to power automated program repair — charting new directions in mining for insight and mining for automation. Building on these foundations, recent work continues this dual pursuit: moving from mining bug repositories to mining LLM ecosystems, uncovering hidden structures and relationships among LLMs to gain deeper insights; and moving from passively mining fix patterns to actively generating synthetic artifacts that fuel automated repair. These new directions challenge and inspire us to rethink what it means to mine software repositories. As we celebrate the paths forged, we look forward to new frontiers — and invite the next generation of miners to discover the unseen riches that lie ahead.
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | Plenary: MIP + FCAMIP Award / FCA Award / Vision and Reflection at 214 Chair(s): Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Vilnius University, Martin Pinzger Universität Klagenfurt, Romain Robbes CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, Patanamon Thongtanunam The University of Melbourne | ||
09:00 30mAwards | MSR 2025 Most Influential Paper Award: Toward deep learning software repositoriesMost Influential Paper Award MIP Award Martin White Syneos Health, Christopher Vendome Miami University, Mario Linares-Vásquez Universidad de los Andes, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary | ||
09:30 30mAwards | MSR 2025 Foundational Contribution Award by David Lo: Charting New Gold Mines: Expanding the World of MSR FCA Award David Lo Singapore Management University Pre-print | ||
10:00 30mTalk | The Standard of Rigor for MSR Research: A 20-Year Evolution Vision and Reflection Bogdan Vasilescu Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Pre-print |