Dates
Tracks
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Mon 28 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Mon 28 Apr
Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 30mDay opening | Official Opening Program | ||
09:30 60mKeynote | Mining BOMs for Improving Supply Chain Efficiency & Resilience Keynotes Kate Stewart Linux Foundation | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Defects, bugs, and issuesData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at 214 Chair(s): Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal, Minhaz Zibran Idaho State University | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Learning from Mistakes: Understanding Ad-hoc Logs through Analyzing Accidental Commits Technical Papers Yi-Hung Chou University of California, Irvine, Yiyang Min Amazon, April Wang ETH Zürich, James Jones University of California at Irvine Pre-print | ||
11:10 10mTalk | On the calibration of Just-in-time Defect Prediction Technical Papers Xhulja Shahini paluno - University of Duisburg-Essen, Jone Bartel University of Duisburg-Essen, paluno, Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen, paluno | ||
11:20 10mTalk | An Empirical Study on Leveraging Images in Automated Bug Report Reproduction Technical Papers Dingbang Wang University of Connecticut, Zhaoxu Zhang University of Southern California, Sidong Feng Monash University, William G.J. Halfond University of Southern California, Tingting Yu University of Connecticut | ||
11:30 10mTalk | It’s About Time: An Empirical Study of Date and Time Bugs in Open-Source Python Software Technical Papers Shrey Tiwari Carnegie Mellon University, Serena Chen University of California, San Diego, Alexander Joukov Stony Brook University, Peter Vandervelde University of California, Santa Barbara, Ao Li Carnegie Mellon University, Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University | ||
11:40 10mTalk | Enhancing Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Models with Developer-Centric Features Technical Papers Emanuela Guglielmi University of Molise, Andrea D'Aguanno University of Molise, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise | ||
11:50 10mTalk | Revisiting Defects4J for Fault Localization in Diverse Development Scenarios Technical Papers Md Nakhla Rafi Concordia University, An Ran Chen University of Alberta, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Shaohua Wang Central University of Finance and Economics | ||
12:00 5mTalk | Mining Bug Repositories for Multi-Fault Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track | ||
12:05 5mTalk | HaPy-Bug - Human Annotated Python Bug Resolution Dataset Data and Tool Showcase Track Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Mikołaj Fejzer Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Radosław Woźniak Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Łukasz Halada University of Wrocław, Poland, Aleksander Kazecki Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Mykhailo Molchanov Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, Krzysztof Stencel University of Warsaw | ||
12:10 5mTalk | SPRINT: An Assistant for Issue Report Management Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Security and legal aspectsIndustry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at 215 Chair(s): Mohammad Ghafari TU Clausthal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack Technical Papers | ||
11:10 10mTalk | Software Composition Analysis and Supply Chain Security in Apache Projects: an Empirical Study Technical Papers Sabato Nocera University of Salerno, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Giuseppe Scanniello University of Salerno, Natalia Juristo Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Pre-print | ||
11:20 10mTalk | Good practice versus reality: a landscape analysis of Research Software metadata adoption in European Open Science Clusters Technical Papers | ||
11:30 10mTalk | Towards Security Commit Message Standardization Technical Papers Sofia Reis Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID, Rui Abreu INESC-ID; University of Porto, Corina Pasareanu CMU, NASA, KBR | ||
11:40 10mTalk | From Industrial Practices to Academia: Uncovering the Gap in Vulnerability Research and Practice Technical Papers | ||
11:50 5mTalk | Patch Me If You Can—Securing the Linux Kernel Industry Track Gunnar Kudrjavets Amazon Web Services, USA Pre-print | ||
11:55 5mTalk | OSS License Identification at Scale: A Comprehensive Dataset Using World of Code Data and Tool Showcase Track Mahmoud Jahanshahi Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Knoxville, David Reid University of Tennessee, Adam McDaniel University of Tennessee Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee | ||
12:00 5mTalk | SCRUBD: Smart Contracts Reentrancy and Unhandled Exceptions Vulnerability Dataset Data and Tool Showcase Track Chavhan Sujeet Yashavant Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Mitrajsinh Chavda Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Saurabh Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, Amey Karkare IIT Kanpur, Angshuman Karmakar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Pre-print | ||
12:05 5mTalk | ICVul: A Well-labeled C/C++ Vulnerability Dataset with Comprehensive Metadata and VCCs Data and Tool Showcase Track Chaomeng Lu DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven, Tianyu Li DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven, Toon Dehaene KU Leuven, Bert Lagaisse DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven | ||
12:10 5mTalk | A Dataset of Software Bill of Materials for Evaluating SBOM Consumption Tools Data and Tool Showcase Track Rio Kishimoto Osaka University, Tetsuya Kanda Notre Dame Seishin University, Yuki Manabe The University of Fukuchiyama, Katsuro Inoue Nanzan University, Shi Qiu Toshiba, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University | ||
12:15 5mTalk | Wild SBOMs: a Large-scale Dataset of Software Bills of Materials from Public Code Data and Tool Showcase Track Luis Soeiro LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Thomas Robert LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Stefano Zacchiroli Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Pre-print | ||
12:20 5mTalk | MaLAware: Automating the Comprehension of Malicious Software Behaviours using Large Language Models (LLMs) Data and Tool Showcase Track BIKASH SAHA Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Nanda Rani Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Sandeep K. Shukla Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | ||
13:00 - 13:30 | |||
14:00 - 15:30 | MSR 2025 Mining ChallengeMining Challenge at 215 Chair(s): Joyce El Haddad Université Paris Dauphine - PSL , Damien Jaime Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6, Pascal Poizat Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6 | ||
14:00 4mTalk | Analyzing Dependency Clusters and Security Risks in the Maven Central Repository Mining Challenge | ||
14:04 4mTalk | Chasing the Clock: How Fast Are Vulnerabilities Fixed in the Maven Ecosystem? Mining Challenge Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Rajshakhar Paul Wayne State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:08 4mTalk | Decoding Dependency Risks: A Quantitative Study of Vulnerabilities in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Costain Nachuma Idaho State University, Md Mosharaf Hossan Idaho State University, Asif Kamal Turzo Wayne State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:12 4mTalk | Faster Releases, Fewer Risks: A Study on Maven Artifact Vulnerabilities and Lifecycle Management Mining Challenge Md Shafiullah Shafin Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, S. M. Mahedy Hasan Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:16 4mTalk | Insights into Dependency Maintenance Trends in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Barisha Chowdhury Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, S. M. Mahedy Hasan Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:20 4mTalk | Insights into Vulnerability Trends in Maven Artifacts: Recurrence, Popularity, and User Behavior Mining Challenge Courtney Bodily Idaho State University, Eric Hill Idaho State University, Andreas Kramer Idaho State University, Leslie Kerby Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:24 4mTalk | Understanding Software Vulnerabilities in the Maven Ecosystem: Patterns, Timelines, and Risks Mining Challenge Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Rajshakhar Paul Wayne State University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:28 4mTalk | Dependency Update Adoption Patterns in the Maven Software Ecosystem Mining Challenge Baltasar Berretta College of Wooster, Augustus Thomas College of Wooster, Heather Guarnera The College of Wooster | ||
14:32 4mTalk | Analyzing Vulnerability Overestimation in Software Projects Mining Challenge Taha Draoui University of Michigan-Flint, Faten Jebari University of Michigan-Flint, Chawki Ben Slimen University of Michigan-Flint, Munjaap Uppal University of Michigan-Flint, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint | ||
14:36 4mTalk | Dependency Dilemmas: A Comparative Study of Independent and Dependent Artifacts in Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Mehedi Hasan Shanto Khulna University, Muhammad Asaduzzman University of Windsor, Manishankar Mondal Khulna University, Shaiful Chowdhury University of Manitoba | ||
14:40 4mTalk | Cascading Effects: Analyzing Project Failure Impact in the Maven Central Ecosystem Mining Challenge Mina Shehata Belmont University, Saidmakhmud Makhkamjonoov Belmont University, Mahad Syed Belmont University, Esteban Parra Belmont University | ||
14:45 4mTalk | Do Developers Depend on Deprecated Library Versions? A Mining Study of Log4j Mining Challenge Haruhiko Yoshioka Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Sila Lertbanjongngam Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Masayuki Inaba Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Youmei Fan Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takashi Nakano Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazumasa Shimari Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Osaka University, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:49 4mTalk | Mining for Lags in Updating Critical Security Threats: A Case Study of Log4j Library Mining Challenge Hidetake Tanaka Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazuma Yamasaki Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Momoka Hirose Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takashi Nakano Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Youmei Fan Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazumasa Shimari Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Osaka University, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:53 4mTalk | On the Evolution of Unused Dependencies in Java Project Releases: An Empirical Study Mining Challenge Nabhan Suwanachote Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yagut Shakizada Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bin Lin Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:57 4mTalk | Out of Sight, Still at Risk: The Lifecycle of Transitive Vulnerabilities in Maven Mining Challenge Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Mikołaj Fejzer Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Krzysztof Rykaczewski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Krzysztof Stencel University of Warsaw | ||
15:01 4mTalk | Popularity and Innovation in Maven Central Mining Challenge Nkiru Ede Victoria University of Wellington, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Ulrich Zülicke Victoria University of Wellington Pre-print | ||
15:05 4mTalk | Software Bills of Materials in Maven Central Mining Challenge Yogya Gamage Universtité de Montréal, Nadia Gonzalez Fernandez Université de Montréal, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal | ||
15:09 4mTalk | The Ripple Effect of Vulnerabilities in Maven Central: Prevalence, Propagation, and Mitigation Challenges Mining Challenge | ||
15:13 4mTalk | Tracing Vulnerabilities in Maven: A Study of CVE lifecycles and Dependency Networks Mining Challenge Pre-print | ||
15:17 4mTalk | Understanding Abandonment and Slowdown Dynamics in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Kazi Amit Hasan Queen's University, Canada, Jerin Yasmin Queen's University, Canada, Huizi Hao Queen's University, Canada, Yuan Tian Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto, Steven Ding Pre-print | ||
15:21 4mTalk | Characterizing Packages for Vulnerability Prediction Mining Challenge Saviour Owolabi University of Calgary, Francesco Rosati University of Calgary, Ahmad Abdellatif University of Calgary, Lorenzo De Carli University of Calgary, Canada | ||
15:25 4mTalk | Understanding the Popularity of Packages in Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Sadman Jashim Sakib University of Windsor, Muhammad Asaduzzaman University of Windsor, Curtis Bright University of Windsor, Cole Morgan University of Windsor | ||
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Tue 29 Apr
Displayed 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 MIP Award | ||
09:30 30mAwards | MSR 2025 Foundational Contribution Award FCA Award | ||
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 | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Build systems and DevOpsData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers / Tutorials at 215 Chair(s): Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi | ||
11:00 7mTalk | Build Scripts Need Maintenance Too: A Study on Refactoring and Technical Debt in Build Systems Technical Papers Anwar Ghammam Oakland University, Dhia Elhaq Rzig University of Michigan - Dearborn, Mohamed Almukhtar Oakland University, Rania Khalsi University of Michigan - Flint, Foyzul Hassan University of Michigan at Dearborn, Marouane Kessentini Grand Valley State University | ||
11:07 7mTalk | LLMSecConfig: An LLM-Based Approach for Fixing Software Container Misconfigurations Technical Papers Ziyang Ye The University of Adelaide, Triet Le The University of Adelaide, Muhammad Ali Babar School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide Pre-print | ||
11:14 7mTalk | How Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Update Their Dependencies? An Empirical Study on Terraform Module Updates Technical Papers Mahi Begoug , Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Moataz Chouchen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada | ||
11:21 7mTalk | TerraDS: A Dataset for Terraform HCL Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track Christoph Buehler University of St. Gallen, David Spielmann University of St. Gallen, Roland Meier armasuisse, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen Pre-print | ||
11:28 7mTalk | OSPtrack: A Labeled Dataset Targeting Simulated Execution of Open-Source Software Data and Tool Showcase Track Zhuoran Tan University of Glasgow, Christos Anagnostopoulos University of Glasgow, Jeremy Singer University of Glasgow | ||
11:35 7mTalk | CARDS: A collection of package, revision, and miscelleneous dependency graphs Data and Tool Showcase Track Euxane TRAN-GIRARD LIGM, CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel, Laurent BULTEAU LIGM, CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel, Pierre-Yves DAVID Octobus S.c.o.p. Pre-print | ||
11:42 7mTalk | GHALogs: Large-scale dataset of GitHub Actions runs Data and Tool Showcase Track Florent Moriconi EURECOM, AMADEUS, Thomas Durieux TU Delft, Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Aurélien Francillon EURECOM | ||
11:50 40mTutorial | Agents for Software Development Tutorials Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | AI for SE (2)Technical Papers / Industry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track at 214 Chair(s): Giuseppe Destefanis Brunel University London, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal | ||
14:00 10mTalk | Automatic High-Level Test Case Generation using Large Language Models Technical Papers Navid Bin Hasan Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Md. Ashraful Islam Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Junaed Younus Khan Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Sanjida Senjik Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Anindya Iqbal Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh | ||
14:10 10mTalk | Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories Technical Papers Mahan Tafreshipour University of California at Irvine, Aaron Imani University of California, Irvine, Eric Huang University of California, Irvine, Eduardo Santana de Almeida Federal University of Bahia, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine, Iftekhar Ahmed University of California at Irvine Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Towards Detecting Prompt Knowledge Gaps for Improved LLM-guided Issue Resolution Technical Papers Ramtin Ehsani Drexel University, Sakshi Pathak Drexel University, Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA Pre-print | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Intelligent Semantic Matching (ISM) for Video Tutorial Search using Transformer Models Technical Papers | ||
14:40 10mTalk | Language Models in Software Development Tasks: An Experimental Analysis of Energy and Accuracy Technical Papers Negar Alizadeh Universiteit Utrecht, Boris Belchev University of Twente, Nishant Saurabh Utrecht University, Patricia Kelbert Fraunhofer IESE, Fernando Castor University of Twente | ||
14:50 10mTalk | TriGraph: A Probabilistic Subgraph-Based Model for Visual Code Completion in Pure Data Technical Papers Anisha Islam Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Abram Hindle University of Alberta | ||
15:00 5mTalk | Inferring Questions from Programming Screenshots Technical Papers Faiz Ahmed York University, Xuchen Tan York University, Folajinmi Adewole York University, Suprakash Datta York University, Maleknaz Nayebi York University | ||
15:05 5mTalk | Human-In-The-Loop Software Development Agents: Challenges and Future Directions Industry Track Jirat Pasuksmit Atlassian, Wannita Takerngsaksiri Monash University, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Kla Tantithamthavorn Monash University, Ruixiong Zhang Atlassian, Shiyan Wang Atlassian, Fan Jiang Atlassian, Jing Li Atlassian, Evan Cook Atlassian, Kun Chen Atlassian, Ming Wu Atlassian | ||
15:10 5mTalk | FormalSpecCpp: A Dataset of C++ Formal Specifications Created Using LLMs Data and Tool Showcase Track Madhurima Chakraborty University of California, Riverside, Peter Pirkelbauer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Qing Yi Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Software qualityTechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at 215 Chair(s): Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario | ||
14:00 10mTalk | PyExamine: A Comprehensive, Un-Opinionated Smell Detection Tool for Python Technical Papers | ||
14:10 10mTalk | Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes. Technical Papers Julien Malka LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France, Stefano Zacchiroli Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, Théo Zimmermann Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Refactoring for Dockerfile Quality: A Dive into Developer Practices and Automation Potential Technical Papers Emna Ksontini University of Michigan - Dearborn, Meriem Mastouri University of Michigan, Rania Khalsi University of Michigan - Flint, Wael Kessentini DePaul University | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Smells-sus: Sustainability Smells in IaC Technical Papers | ||
14:40 10mTalk | Evidence is All We Need: Do Self-Admitted Technical Debts Impact Method-Level Maintenance? Technical Papers Shaiful Chowdhury University of Manitoba, Hisham Kidwai University of Manitoba, Muhammad Asaduzzman University of Windsor | ||
14:50 5mTalk | DPy: Code Smells Detection Tool for Python Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
14:55 5mTalk | CoMRAT: Commit Message Rationale Analysis Tool Data and Tool Showcase Track Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal, Bentley Oakes Polytechnique Montréal, Michalis Famelis Université de Montréal Media Attached | ||
15:00 5mTalk | E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects Data and Tool Showcase Track Sergio Di Meglio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Valeria Pontillo Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Sergio Di Martino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | ||
15:05 5mTalk | TestMigrationsInPy: A Dataset of Test Migrations from Unittest to Pytest Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
15:10 5mTalk | pyMethods2Test: A Dataset of Python Tests Mapped to Focal Methods Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
15:15 5mTalk | DataTD: A Dataset of Java Projects Including Test Doubles Data and Tool Showcase Track | ||
15:20 5mTalk | JPerfEvo: A Tool for Tracking Method-Level Performance Changes in Java Projects Data and Tool Showcase Track Kaveh Shahedi Polytechnique Montréal, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Heng Li Polytechnique Montréal | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Plenary: ClosingProgram / Vision and Reflection at 214 Chair(s): Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Future of AI4SE: From Code Generation to Software Engineering? Vision and Reflection Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, New York; | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Reshaping MSR (and SE) empirical evaluations in 2030 Vision and Reflection Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy | ||
17:00 15mDay closing | Closing Session Program Bram Adams Queen's University, Olga Baysal Carleton University, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands | ||
17:15 15mDay closing | MSR 2026 Presentation Program | ||
Call for Nominations
The Mining Software Repositories community gives three awards: the MSR Distinguished Doctoral Research Award, the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award, and the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
MSR Distinguished Doctoral Research Award
This award recognizes outstanding doctoral research that has the potential to have a strong and long-lasting impact in the research area of mining software repositories.
This award recognizes the research work for a dissertation submitted as a requirement for a PhD degree. To be eligible, the degree had to have been granted within the two years preceding the nomination date. Therefore, for nominations for 2025, PhD degrees awarded from December 16, 2022 to December 15, 2024 are eligible. Preference will be given to nominees who have had at least one publication in any MSR track during their doctoral research.
A 4-page dissertation summary, authored by the award winner, will be published in the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN) and referenced from the MSR Award website.
In 2024, the MSR Doctoral Research Award went to Gunnar Kudrjavets for their contribution to improving code review velocity by empirically challenging prominent beliefs, presenting solutions, and identifying gaps in developers’ and industry needs.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English (the dissertation itself need not be written in English). Self-nominations are possible for this award. Nominations must be submitted through the following form: https://forms.gle/sj2sjHPEag8huMsP8
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee’s name, affiliation, and email
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- (upload) a PDF of the PhD dissertation
- (upload) the nominee’s CV including the list of publications (each entry in the publication list must specify the role of the nominee using the relevant CRediT roles, see https://credit.niso.org/, and mark how it is related to the dissertation produced as part of the doctoral research)
- The name, affiliation, and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award
This award recognizes outstanding junior researchers who have provided outstanding contributions in the area of mining software repositories. The award recognizes a candidate’s research output produced during the early stages of their career. To be eligible, a candidate’s most recent computer-related educational degree (baccalaureate, master’s, or doctoral degree) must have been awarded on or after January 1, 2018. If the degree included a defense, the defense must have occurred on or after January 1, 2018. If the degree included a thesis but did not require a defense, then the final submission of the thesis must have occurred on or after January 1, 2018. The award is named after Dr. Ric Holt (1941 – 2019) who was a professor at the University of Waterloo and made foundational contributions to our field, including organizing the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories in 2004.
The eligibility period may be extended under the following scenarios:
- Extended sickness leave or part-time employment as a result of ongoing childcare or other caregiving responsibilities. Applicants can, with the prior approval of the Award Chairs, have their eligibility extended on a calculated pro rata for the year count.
- Eligibility may also be extended to take into account any career interruptions experienced due to being the primary caregiver for young children born since their PhD was awarded. If the applicant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child, the applicant is able to extend the period of eligibility by two years per child. The extension of two years per dependent child is inclusive of any periods of parental leave. There is no maximum identified.
For the MSR 2024 Early Career Achievement Award, the recipient was Patanamon (Pick) Thongtanunam for her contributions to understanding and improving modern code review practices using mining software repositories techniques.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English and submitted through the following form (self-nominations are not possible for this award): https://forms.gle/QytzM9hxS5xBvd6q6
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee’s name, affiliation, and email
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- A short nomination statement (max 2.000 characters, approx. 250 words)
- (upload) detailed nomination (unlimited length) in PDF format
- The name and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
MSR Foundational Contribution Award
The MSR Foundational Contribution Award recognizes individuals, or groups of individuals, having produced fundamental contributions in the field of mining software repositories, which helped many others (not limited to the MSR community) to build on it to advance the state of the art. It could be a tool, a dataset, a repository, or a mixture of contributions opening new research areas. It is not a requirement that such a research contribution has been presented at the MSR conference at some point. Having received other recognitions for the same contribution does not preclude an individual from being nominated for the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
In 2024, the MSR Foundational Contribution Award went to Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey for their methodological contributions to the community for work that goes beyond statistical models of mined repository data and encourages others to better understand their findings through triangulation using multiple methodologies.
Nomination procedure
This award is based on nominations written in English and submitted through the following form (self-nominations are not possible for this award): https://forms.gle/Nfd12bpGi4XxULx87
The nomination form will ask for the following:
- The nominator’s name, affiliation, and email
- The nominee(s)’s name, affiliation, and email (the MSR Foundational Contribution Award can be assigned to a set of people who, e.g., worked together on a contribution)
- A proposed citation for the award (max 180 characters, approx. 25 words)
- A short nomination statement (max 2.000 characters, approx. 250 words)
- (upload) detailed nomination (unlimited length) in PDF format
- The name and email of up to three references who are available to write a support letter within 4 weeks upon request (letters will be sought if the nominee is short-listed for the award)
Further information concerning all the awards
Eligibility criteria
Award Committee Chairs, Award Committee Members, the current and the 1st past Steering Committee Chairs of MSR cannot nominate, cannot be nominated, and cannot endorse (write letters). Everyone else, including Steering Committee Members, can nominate, be nominated, and endorse (write letters).
Awards Criteria
- Research contribution: For all awards, we will consider the extent to which the candidate’s work advances the existing knowledge, theories, or practices. We’ll look for research that introduces novel concepts, approaches, or solutions to existing problems. For the Foundational Contribution Award, it will be expected that the contributions enable others in the MSR community and beyond to advance the state of the art.
- Impact: For all awards, we will consider the extent to which the contributions have impacted or have the potential to impact the field of mining software repositories.
- Merit relative to opportunity: The overall quality and impact of contributions and achievements will be given more weight than the quantity or rate of particular achievements, recognizing that these factors may be affected by personal circumstances and working arrangements.
Important Dates
- Nominations deadline: December 16, 2024, 23:59 AOE
- Notification: March 14, 2025
- Award ceremony: At the MSR 2025 conference
MSR Award Co-Chairs
- Audris Mockus, The University of Tennessee, USA
- Patanamon (Pick) Thongtanunam, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
| Fri 14 Mar 2025 Notification |
| Mon 16 Dec 2024 Nominations Deadline |
Audris MockusMSR Awards Co-chair
The University of Tennessee
Patanamon ThongtanunamMSR Awards Co-chair
The University of Melbourne
Australia
Georgios Gousios
Endor Labs & Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Sonia Haiduc
Florida State University
United States
Abram Hindle
University of Alberta
Canada
Gunnar Kudrjavets
Amazon Web Services, USA
United States
Minghui Zhou
Peking University
China