MSR 2025
Mon 28 - Tue 29 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025

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 Apr

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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
30m
Awards
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
30m
Awards
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
30m
Talk
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