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- “Maybe We Need Some More Examples:” Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
  
  Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLIne, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler
  
  2026 International Conference on Software Engineering | July 2026
  
  PDF DOI
- Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era
  
  Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal
  
  ICSE SEIP ’25 | April 2025
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Preprint
- GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
  
  Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF
- DevEx in Action: A study of its tangible impacts
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Abi Noda, Michaela Greiler, Brian Houck, Margaret-Anne Storey
  
  ACM Queue | January 2024, Vol 21(6)
  
  Publication
- Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
  
  Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint
- The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers
  
  Brian Houck, Henry Yelin, Jenna Butler, Nicole Forsgren, Alison McMartin
  
  May 2023
  
  PDF
- Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
  
  Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2023
  
  PDF
- Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
  
  Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
  
  ACM Queue | January 2023
  
  DOI PDF
- “It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools
  
  Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  December 2022
  
  arXiv | December 2022
  
  Preprint
- Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
  
  The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE ’22) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub
  
  Jenny T. Liang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers
  
  Jazette Johnson, Andrew Begel, Richard Ladner, Denae Ford
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project
- ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors
  
  Denae Ford, Nischal Shrestha, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Attracting and Retaining OSS contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
  
  Mariam Guizani, Tom Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
  
  Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE’22) | May 2022
  
  Preprint Publication Project
- Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
  
  Jenny T. Liang , Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from Cloud Incidents
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2022, Vol 27(4)
  
  Publication
- Technical report
  
  Chandra Maddila, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Kim Herzig, Arie van Deursen
  
  MSR-TR-2021-28 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Off Productivity and Quality
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Brian Houck, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2021-26 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
  
  Souti Chattoadhyay, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | October 2021
  
  PDF Video Project
- Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS
  
  Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, David Lo, Rahul Purandare, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  ICSE 2022 | September 2021
  
  DOI Publication
- MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs
  
  Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- “Is My Mic On?” Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication
  
  Makayla Moster, Denae Ford, Paige Rodeghero
  
  ICSE JSEET | May 2021
  
  Publication Video
- Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
  
  Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF Video Video Video Project Project
- Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track | May 2021
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- MIS Quarterly
  
  Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, Nicole Forsgren
  
  MIS Quarterly | March 2021, Vol 45(1): pp. 455-459
  
  Publication
- The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Maddila, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna Butler
  
  ACM Queue | February 2021, Vol 19(1): pp. 20-48
  
  Publication Video
- Large-Scale Intent Analysis for Identifying Large-Review-Effort Code Changes
  
  Song Wang, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Information and Software Technology | February 2021, Vol 130
  
  Publication
- ‘How Was Your Weekend?’ Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
  
  Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | January 2021
  
  Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks
  
  Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE BigData | December 2020
  
  PDF
- Survey on Onboarding Software Engineers During a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2020-36 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  August 2020
  
  ArXiv | August 2020
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Taxonomy of Software Delivery Performance Profiles: Investigating the Effects of DevOps Practices
  
  Marcus A. Rothenberger, Jez Humble, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Dustin Smith, Nicole Forsgren
  
  2020 (AMCIS) Americas Conference on Information Systems | August 2020
  
  Publication
- An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs
  
  Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ESEM 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication
- The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) | May 2020
  
  Publication
- Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
  
  Publication DOI Project Project
- Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
  
  Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson
  
  PLoS Computational Biology | September 2019, Vol 15
  
  PDF DOI
- Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests
  
  Denae Ford, Mahnaz Behroozi, Alexander Serebrenik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Internationl Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Reed Milewicz, Alexander Serebrenik
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE ICSE 2nd International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
  
  Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Author's Version
- Understanding Software Developer Activity via Windows 10 Telemetry
  
  Spencer Buja, Thomas Zimmermann, Philippe Kirsanov, Ankit Tandon, Xue Liu, Jay Windsor, Henok Addis
  
  MSR-TR-2019-42 | April 2019
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Presented at the 2019 Wharton People Analytics Conference. Finalist for the White Paper Competition
- The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
  
  Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Publication
- How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?
  
  Titus Barik, Denae Ford, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2018
  
  Publication DOI
- Selfies as Social Movements: Influences on Participation and Perceived Impact on Stereotypes
  
  Fannie Liu, Denae Ford, Laura Dabbish, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | November 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- Dazed: Measuring the Cognitive Load of Solving Technical Interview Problems At the Whiteboard
  
  Mahnaz Behroozi, Alison Lui, Ian Moore, Denae Ford , Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering – New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ICSE NIER) | May 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- “We Don’t Do That Here”: How Collaborative Editing with Mentors Improves Engagement in Social Q&A Communities
  
  Denae Ford , Kristina Lustig, Jeremy Banks, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow?
  
  Denae Ford , Alisse Harkins, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2017
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2017
  
  PDF PDF Project
- The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Leslie Rand-Pickett, Chris Parnin
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE). | May 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Appendix to Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Scientists
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1127 | December 2016
  
  PDF
- A Cross-Tool Communication Study on Program Analysis Tool Notifications
  
  Brittany Johnson, Rahul Pandita, Justin Smith, Denae Ford, Sarah Elder, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Sarah Heckman, Caitlin Sadowski
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- Paradise Unplugged: Identifying Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow
  
  Denae Ford, Justin Smith, Philip J. Guo, Chris Parnin
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- “What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
  
  Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
  
  Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication Publication
- Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
  
  Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Studying Sustained Attention and Cognitive States in Remote Technical Interviews
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM ICER 3rd International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) | November 2015
  
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- Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
  
  Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
  
  PDF
- How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  September 2015
  
  PDF
- Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
  
  Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
  
  PDF
- Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces
  
  Christopher Theisen, Kim Herzig, Patrick Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Laurie Williams
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  Please note that this paper is not yet published, but accepted for inclusion.
  
  PDF Project
- Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
  
  Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
  
  PDF
- Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Exploring Causes of Frustration for Software Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2015
  
  PDF DOI
- Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
  
  Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
  
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF PDF
- The Art of Testing Less without Sacrificing Quality
  
  Kim Herzig, Michaela Greiler, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2015-30 | April 2015
  
  PDF
- Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security | April 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security
  
  PDF Project
- Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, Vol 20: pp. 479-515
  
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- The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, pp. 1-34
  
  Publication Project
- Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
  
  Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
  
  MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
  
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- The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, Vol 41(1): pp. 65-81
  
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- The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications
  
  Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-149 | November 2014
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Learning Natural Coding Conventions
  
  Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
  
  Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Software Developers’ Perceptions of Productivity
  
  André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Tom Zimmermann
  
  FSE ’14: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
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- Using Pre-Release Test Failures to Build Early Post-Release Defect Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- The First Hour Experience: How the Initial Play can Engage (or Lose) New Players
  
  Gifford Cheung, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  CHI PLAY ’14: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play | October 2014
  
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- Appendix to The Health of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-119 | September 2014
  
  PDF
- Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
  
  Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
  
  MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
  
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- Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
  
  Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ESEM ’14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
  
  ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
  
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- The Impact of Test Ownership and Team Structure on the Reliability and Effectiveness of Quality Test Runs
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- An Empirical Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | July 2014, Vol 40(7)
  
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- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Cowboys, Ankle Sprains, and Keepers of Quality: How Is Video Game Development Different from Software Development?
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
  PDF Project
- Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
  
  Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
  
  Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project
- Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
  
  Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
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- Off With Their Assists: An Empirical Study of Driving Skill in Forza Motorsports 4
  
  Thomas Debeauvais, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Kevin Carter, Ryan Cooper, Dan Greenawalt, Tyson Solberg
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2014) | April 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Motion Sickness Susceptibility in Software Developers
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-24 | March 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Branching Taxonomy
  
  Brendan Murphy, Jacek Czerwonka, Laurie Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2014-23 | February 2014
  
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- Predicting Defects Using Change Genealogies
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Rau, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 24nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2013
  
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- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering (Technical Report MSR-TR-2013-111)
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-111 | October 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
  
  Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
  
  ACM ESEM | October 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Appendix to Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-84 | September 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
  
  Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ’13) | September 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
  
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- Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
  
  Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
  
  Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
  
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- Diversity in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
  
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- Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
  
  Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
  
  IEEE Software | August 2013
  
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- Collecting a Heap of Shapes
  
  Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
  
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Structural and Temporal Patterns-Based Features
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Jithin Thomas
  
  Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE) 2013 | May 2013
  
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- Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
  
  Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
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- It’s not a Bug, It’s a Feature: How Misclassification Impacts Bug Prediction
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
  
  Jeff Huang, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013) | February 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013)
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Tangled Code Changes
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | January 2013
  
  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2487085.2487113
  
  PDF
- A Field Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF
- Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
  
  Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF Project
- Empirical analysis of user data in game software development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
  
  PDF
- Empirical Analysis of User Data in Game Software Development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
  
  Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  MSR-TR-2012-94 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Compatibility Testing via Patterns-Based Trace Comparison
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Pradip Vallathol, Pankaj Gupta
  
  MSR-TR-2012-87 | August 2012
  
  PDF
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Reopened
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Philip J. Guo, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project Project
- Goldfish Bowl Panel: Software Development Analytics
  
  Tim Menzies, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Data-Driven Games User Research
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Bruce Phillips, Nachi Nagappan, Chuck Harrison
  
  Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Game User Research (CHI-GUR 2012) | May 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Appendix to A Field Study of Refactoring Rationale, Benefits, and Challenges at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2012-4 | January 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
  
  Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
  
  MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction
  
  Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, Andrian Marcus, Tom Zimmermann, David Cok
  
  Proceedings of the 26st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011) | November 2011
  
  PDF
- An Explanatory Analysis on Eclipse Beta-Release Bugs Through In-Process Metrics
  
  Ayse Tosun Misirli, Brendan Murphy, Tom Zimmermann, Ayse Basar
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Integration Resolution Algorithm for Mining Multiple Branches in Version Control Systems (Industry Track)
  
  Alexander Tarvo, Tom Zimmermann, Jacek Czerwonka
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project Project
- Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
  
  Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
  
  Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
  
  Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
  
  Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
  
  Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
  
  PDF
- Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
  
  Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  
  PDF Project
- “Not My Bug!” and Other Reasons for Software Bug Report Reassignments
  
  Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Empirical Study of the Factors Relating Field Failures and Dependencies
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Kim Herzig, Rahul Premraj
  
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project Project
- CRANE: Failure Prediction, Change Analysis and Test Prioritization in Practice – Experiences from Windows
  
  Jacek Czerwonka, Rajiv Das, Nachi Nagappan, Alex Tarvo, Alex Teterev
  
  International Conference on Software Testing | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2011-8 | January 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Raymond P. L. Buse
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER)
  
  PDF Project
- Change Bursts as Defect Predictors
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
  
  PDF Project Project
- Security Trend Analysis with CVE Topic Models
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  , Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2010-111 | August 2010
  
  Accepted at the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER). Please cite the workshop paper instead.
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows
  
  Philip J. Guo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams
  
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | April 2010
  
  Most Influential Paper Award at ICST 2020 MIP Practical
  
  PDF Project
- Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2009-135 | September 2009
  
  PDF Project Project
- Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
  
  Communications of the ACM | August 2009, Vol 52(8): pp. 85-93
  
  Publication Project Project
- Coordination in large-scale software teams
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan, Christopher Poile, Lucas Layman
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2009
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE)
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4244-3712-2
  
  Publication Project
- On Equivalence Partitioning of Code Paths inside OS Kernel Components
  
  Constantin Sârbu, Nachi Nagappan, Neeraj Suri
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems (STFSSD) | March 2009
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7695-3572-2
  
  Publication Project
- Guest Editors’ Introduction: Mining Software Archives
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
  
  IEEE Software | January 2009, Vol 26: pp. 24-25
  
  PDF Project
- The Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat’s Packages
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) | January 2009
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Defects using Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2008
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  
  Publication Publication Project Project

- “Maybe We Need Some More Examples:” Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
  
  Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLIne, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler
  
  2026 International Conference on Software Engineering | July 2026
  
  PDF DOI
- GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
  
  Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF
- Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
  
  Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from Cloud Incidents
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2022, Vol 27(4)
  
  Publication
- MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- MIS Quarterly
  
  Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, Nicole Forsgren
  
  MIS Quarterly | March 2021, Vol 45(1): pp. 455-459
  
  Publication
- The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) | May 2020
  
  Publication
- “Maybe We Need Some More Examples:” Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
  
  Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLIne, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler
  
  2026 International Conference on Software Engineering | July 2026
  
  PDF DOI
- Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era
  
  Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal
  
  ICSE SEIP ’25 | April 2025
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Preprint
- GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
  
  Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF
- DevEx in Action: A study of its tangible impacts
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Abi Noda, Michaela Greiler, Brian Houck, Margaret-Anne Storey
  
  ACM Queue | January 2024, Vol 21(6)
  
  Publication
- Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
  
  Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint
- The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers
  
  Brian Houck, Henry Yelin, Jenna Butler, Nicole Forsgren, Alison McMartin
  
  May 2023
  
  PDF
- Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
  
  Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2023
  
  PDF
- Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
  
  Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
  
  ACM Queue | January 2023
  
  DOI PDF
- “It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools
  
  Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  December 2022
  
  arXiv | December 2022
  
  Preprint
- Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub
  
  Jenny T. Liang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
  
  The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE ’22) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers
  
  Jazette Johnson, Andrew Begel, Richard Ladner, Denae Ford
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project
- ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors
  
  Denae Ford, Nischal Shrestha, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Attracting and Retaining OSS contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
  
  Mariam Guizani, Tom Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
  
  Jenny T. Liang , Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
  
  Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE’22) | May 2022
  
  Preprint Publication Project
- SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from Cloud Incidents
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2022, Vol 27(4)
  
  Publication
- Technical report
  
  Chandra Maddila, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Kim Herzig, Arie van Deursen
  
  MSR-TR-2021-28 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Off Productivity and Quality
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Brian Houck, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2021-26 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
  
  Souti Chattoadhyay, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | October 2021
  
  PDF Video Project
- Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS
  
  Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, David Lo, Rahul Purandare, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  ICSE 2022 | September 2021
  
  DOI Publication
- MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs
  
  Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- “Is My Mic On?” Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication
  
  Makayla Moster, Denae Ford, Paige Rodeghero
  
  ICSE JSEET | May 2021
  
  Publication Video
- Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
  
  Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF Video Video Video Project Project
- Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track | May 2021
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- MIS Quarterly
  
  Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, Nicole Forsgren
  
  MIS Quarterly | March 2021, Vol 45(1): pp. 455-459
  
  Publication
- The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Maddila, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna Butler
  
  ACM Queue | February 2021, Vol 19(1): pp. 20-48
  
  Publication Video
- Large-Scale Intent Analysis for Identifying Large-Review-Effort Code Changes
  
  Song Wang, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Information and Software Technology | February 2021, Vol 130
  
  Publication
- ‘How Was Your Weekend?’ Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
  
  Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | January 2021
  
  Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks
  
  Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE BigData | December 2020
  
  PDF
- Survey on Onboarding Software Engineers During a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2020-36 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  August 2020
  
  ArXiv | August 2020
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Taxonomy of Software Delivery Performance Profiles: Investigating the Effects of DevOps Practices
  
  Marcus A. Rothenberger, Jez Humble, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Dustin Smith, Nicole Forsgren
  
  2020 (AMCIS) Americas Conference on Information Systems | August 2020
  
  Publication
- An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs
  
  Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ESEM 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication
- The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) | May 2020
  
  Publication
- Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
  
  Publication DOI Project Project
- Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
  
  Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson
  
  PLoS Computational Biology | September 2019, Vol 15
  
  PDF DOI
- How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Reed Milewicz, Alexander Serebrenik
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE ICSE 2nd International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests
  
  Denae Ford, Mahnaz Behroozi, Alexander Serebrenik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Internationl Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Understanding Software Developer Activity via Windows 10 Telemetry
  
  Spencer Buja, Thomas Zimmermann, Philippe Kirsanov, Ankit Tandon, Xue Liu, Jay Windsor, Henok Addis
  
  MSR-TR-2019-42 | April 2019
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Presented at the 2019 Wharton People Analytics Conference. Finalist for the White Paper Competition
- Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
  
  Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Author's Version
- The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
  
  Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Publication
- How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?
  
  Titus Barik, Denae Ford, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2018
  
  Publication DOI
- Dazed: Measuring the Cognitive Load of Solving Technical Interview Problems At the Whiteboard
  
  Mahnaz Behroozi, Alison Lui, Ian Moore, Denae Ford , Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering – New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ICSE NIER) | May 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- “We Don’t Do That Here”: How Collaborative Editing with Mentors Improves Engagement in Social Q&A Communities
  
  Denae Ford , Kristina Lustig, Jeremy Banks, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow?
  
  Denae Ford , Alisse Harkins, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2017
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2017
  
  PDF PDF Project
- The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Leslie Rand-Pickett, Chris Parnin
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE). | May 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Appendix to Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Scientists
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1127 | December 2016
  
  PDF
- Paradise Unplugged: Identifying Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow
  
  Denae Ford, Justin Smith, Philip J. Guo, Chris Parnin
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- A Cross-Tool Communication Study on Program Analysis Tool Notifications
  
  Brittany Johnson, Rahul Pandita, Justin Smith, Denae Ford, Sarah Elder, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Sarah Heckman, Caitlin Sadowski
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- “What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
  
  Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
  
  Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication Publication
- Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
  
  Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Studying Sustained Attention and Cognitive States in Remote Technical Interviews
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM ICER 3rd International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) | November 2015
  
  PDF
- Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
  
  Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
  
  PDF
- How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  September 2015
  
  PDF
- Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
  
  Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
  
  PDF
- Exploring Causes of Frustration for Software Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2015
  
  PDF DOI
- The Art of Testing Less without Sacrificing Quality
  
  Kim Herzig, Michaela Greiler, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces
  
  Christopher Theisen, Kim Herzig, Patrick Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Laurie Williams
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  Please note that this paper is not yet published, but accepted for inclusion.
  
  PDF Project
- Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
  
  Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
  
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF PDF
- Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
  
  Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
  
  PDF
- The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2015-30 | April 2015
  
  PDF
- Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, Vol 20: pp. 479-515
  
  PDF
- Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security | April 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security
  
  PDF Project
- The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, pp. 1-34
  
  Publication Project
- Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
  
  Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
  
  MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
  
  PDF
- The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, Vol 41(1): pp. 65-81
  
  PDF
- The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications
  
  Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-149 | November 2014
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Using Pre-Release Test Failures to Build Early Post-Release Defect Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- Learning Natural Coding Conventions
  
  Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
  
  Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Software Developers’ Perceptions of Productivity
  
  André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Tom Zimmermann
  
  FSE ’14: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF
- The First Hour Experience: How the Initial Play can Engage (or Lose) New Players
  
  Gifford Cheung, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  CHI PLAY ’14: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play | October 2014
  
  PDF
- Appendix to The Health of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-119 | September 2014
  
  PDF
- The Impact of Test Ownership and Team Structure on the Reliability and Effectiveness of Quality Test Runs
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
  
  Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
  
  MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
  
  PDF
- Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
  
  Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ESEM ’14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
  
  ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
  
  PDF
- An Empirical Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | July 2014, Vol 40(7)
  
  PDF
- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Cowboys, Ankle Sprains, and Keepers of Quality: How Is Video Game Development Different from Software Development?
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
  PDF Project
- Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
  
  Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
  PDF
- Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
  
  Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
  
  Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project
- Off With Their Assists: An Empirical Study of Driving Skill in Forza Motorsports 4
  
  Thomas Debeauvais, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Kevin Carter, Ryan Cooper, Dan Greenawalt, Tyson Solberg
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2014) | April 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Motion Sickness Susceptibility in Software Developers
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-24 | March 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering (Technical Report MSR-TR-2013-111)
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-111 | October 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Appendix to Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-84 | September 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
  
  Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ’13) | September 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
  
  PDF
- Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
  
  Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
  
  Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
  
  PDF
- Diversity in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
  
  PDF
- Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
  
  Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
  
  IEEE Software | August 2013
  
  PDF
- Collecting a Heap of Shapes
  
  Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
  
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Structural and Temporal Patterns-Based Features
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Jithin Thomas
  
  Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE) 2013 | May 2013
  
  PDF
- Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
  
  Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
  PDF
- It’s not a Bug, It’s a Feature: How Misclassification Impacts Bug Prediction
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
  
  Jeff Huang, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013) | February 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013)
  
  PDF Project
- Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
  
  Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF Project
- A Field Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF
- Empirical analysis of user data in game software development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
  
  PDF
- Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Empirical Analysis of User Data in Game Software Development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
  
  Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  MSR-TR-2012-94 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Compatibility Testing via Patterns-Based Trace Comparison
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Pradip Vallathol, Pankaj Gupta
  
  MSR-TR-2012-87 | August 2012
  
  PDF
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Reopened
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Philip J. Guo, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project Project
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Goldfish Bowl Panel: Software Development Analytics
  
  Tim Menzies, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF
- Data-Driven Games User Research
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Bruce Phillips, Nachi Nagappan, Chuck Harrison
  
  Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Game User Research (CHI-GUR 2012) | May 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Appendix to A Field Study of Refactoring Rationale, Benefits, and Challenges at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2012-4 | January 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
  
  Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
  
  MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction
  
  Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, Andrian Marcus, Tom Zimmermann, David Cok
  
  Proceedings of the 26st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011) | November 2011
  
  PDF
- Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project Project
- Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
  
  Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
  
  Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Integration Resolution Algorithm for Mining Multiple Branches in Version Control Systems (Industry Track)
  
  Alexander Tarvo, Tom Zimmermann, Jacek Czerwonka
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Explanatory Analysis on Eclipse Beta-Release Bugs Through In-Process Metrics
  
  Ayse Tosun Misirli, Brendan Murphy, Tom Zimmermann, Ayse Basar
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
  
  Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
  
  Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
  
  PDF
- Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
  
  Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  
  PDF Project
- “Not My Bug!” and Other Reasons for Software Bug Report Reassignments
  
  Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Empirical Study of the Factors Relating Field Failures and Dependencies
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Kim Herzig, Rahul Premraj
  
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project Project
- CRANE: Failure Prediction, Change Analysis and Test Prioritization in Practice – Experiences from Windows
  
  Jacek Czerwonka, Rajiv Das, Nachi Nagappan, Alex Tarvo, Alex Teterev
  
  International Conference on Software Testing | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2011-8 | January 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Raymond P. L. Buse
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER)
  
  PDF Project
- Security Trend Analysis with CVE Topic Models
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Change Bursts as Defect Predictors
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
  
  PDF Project Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  , Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2010-111 | August 2010
  
  Accepted at the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER). Please cite the workshop paper instead.
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows
  
  Philip J. Guo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams
  
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | April 2010
  
  Most Influential Paper Award at ICST 2020 MIP Practical
  
  PDF Project
- Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2009-135 | September 2009
  
  PDF Project Project
- Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
  
  Communications of the ACM | August 2009, Vol 52(8): pp. 85-93
  
  Publication Project Project
- Coordination in large-scale software teams
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan, Christopher Poile, Lucas Layman
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2009
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE)
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4244-3712-2
  
  Publication Project
- On Equivalence Partitioning of Code Paths inside OS Kernel Components
  
  Constantin Sârbu, Nachi Nagappan, Neeraj Suri
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems (STFSSD) | March 2009
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7695-3572-2
  
  Publication Project
- The Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat’s Packages
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) | January 2009
  
  PDF Project
- Guest Editors’ Introduction: Mining Software Archives
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
  
  IEEE Software | January 2009, Vol 26: pp. 24-25
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Defects using Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2008
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  
  Publication Publication Project Project
- Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
  
  Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2023
  
  PDF
- Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
  
  Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
  
  ACM Queue | January 2023
  
  DOI PDF
- “It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools
  
  Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  December 2022
  
  arXiv | December 2022
  
  Preprint
- Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub
  
  Jenny T. Liang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers
  
  Jazette Johnson, Andrew Begel, Richard Ladner, Denae Ford
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project
- ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors
  
  Denae Ford, Nischal Shrestha, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Attracting and Retaining OSS contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
  
  Mariam Guizani, Tom Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
  
  Jenny T. Liang , Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
  
  Souti Chattoadhyay, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | October 2021
  
  PDF Video Project
- Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS
  
  Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, David Lo, Rahul Purandare, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  ICSE 2022 | September 2021
  
  DOI Publication
- Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs
  
  Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- “Is My Mic On?” Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication
  
  Makayla Moster, Denae Ford, Paige Rodeghero
  
  ICSE JSEET | May 2021
  
  Publication Video
- Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
  
  Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF Video Video Video Project Project
- Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  August 2020
  
  ArXiv | August 2020
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
  
  Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson
  
  PLoS Computational Biology | September 2019, Vol 15
  
  PDF DOI
- How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Reed Milewicz, Alexander Serebrenik
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE ICSE 2nd International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests
  
  Denae Ford, Mahnaz Behroozi, Alexander Serebrenik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Internationl Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?
  
  Titus Barik, Denae Ford, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2018
  
  Publication DOI
- Selfies as Social Movements: Influences on Participation and Perceived Impact on Stereotypes
  
  Fannie Liu, Denae Ford, Laura Dabbish, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | November 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- Dazed: Measuring the Cognitive Load of Solving Technical Interview Problems At the Whiteboard
  
  Mahnaz Behroozi, Alison Lui, Ian Moore, Denae Ford , Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering – New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ICSE NIER) | May 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- “We Don’t Do That Here”: How Collaborative Editing with Mentors Improves Engagement in Social Q&A Communities
  
  Denae Ford , Kristina Lustig, Jeremy Banks, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow?
  
  Denae Ford , Alisse Harkins, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2017
  
  PDF DOI Video
- The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Leslie Rand-Pickett, Chris Parnin
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE). | May 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Paradise Unplugged: Identifying Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow
  
  Denae Ford, Justin Smith, Philip J. Guo, Chris Parnin
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- Studying Sustained Attention and Cognitive States in Remote Technical Interviews
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM ICER 3rd International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) | November 2015
  
  PDF
- Exploring Causes of Frustration for Software Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2015
  
  PDF DOI
- Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
  
  Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ’13) | September 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
  
  PDF
- Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
  
  Jeff Huang, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Branching Taxonomy
  
  Brendan Murphy, Jacek Czerwonka, Laurie Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2014-23 | February 2014
  
  PDF
- Predicting Defects Using Change Genealogies
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Rau, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 24nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2013
  
  PDF
- Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
  
  Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
  
  ACM ESEM | October 2013
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Tangled Code Changes
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | January 2013
  
  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2487085.2487113
  
  PDF
- Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track | May 2021
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces
  
  Christopher Theisen, Kim Herzig, Patrick Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Laurie Williams
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  Please note that this paper is not yet published, but accepted for inclusion.
  
  PDF Project
- Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security | April 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security
  
  PDF Project
- Security Trend Analysis with CVE Topic Models
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams
  
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | April 2010
  
  Most Influential Paper Award at ICST 2020 MIP Practical
  
  PDF Project
- Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks
  
  Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE BigData | December 2020
  
  PDF
- An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs
  
  Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ESEM 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication
- The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, pp. 1-34
  
  Publication Project
- Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2017
  
  PDF PDF Project
- The Art of Testing Less without Sacrificing Quality
  
  Kim Herzig, Michaela Greiler, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces
  
  Christopher Theisen, Kim Herzig, Patrick Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Laurie Williams
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  Please note that this paper is not yet published, but accepted for inclusion.
  
  PDF Project
- The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2015-30 | April 2015
  
  PDF
- Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security | April 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security
  
  PDF Project
- The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, pp. 1-34
  
  Publication Project
- Using Pre-Release Test Failures to Build Early Post-Release Defect Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- The Impact of Test Ownership and Team Structure on the Reliability and Effectiveness of Quality Test Runs
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
  
  Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2009-135 | September 2009
  
  PDF Project Project

- “Maybe We Need Some More Examples:” Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use
  
  Courtney Miller, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Mara Ulloa, Sankeerti Haniyur, Robert DeLIne, Margaret-Anne Storey, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler
  
  2026 International Conference on Software Engineering | July 2026
  
  PDF DOI
- Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era
  
  Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal
  
  ICSE SEIP ’25 | April 2025
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Preprint
- Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools
  
  Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2023
  
  PDF
- Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub
  
  Jenny T. Liang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Christian Bird, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri, Elizabeth Dinella
  
  The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE ’22) | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers
  
  Jazette Johnson, Andrew Begel, Richard Ladner, Denae Ford
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project
- ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors
  
  Denae Ford, Nischal Shrestha, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Attracting and Retaining OSS contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
  
  Mariam Guizani, Tom Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
  
  Jenny T. Liang , Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Video Project Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS
  
  Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Denae Ford, Ayushi Rastogi, David Lo, Rahul Purandare, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  ICSE 2022 | September 2021
  
  DOI Publication
- Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs
  
  Souti Chattopadhyay, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- “Is My Mic On?” Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication
  
  Makayla Moster, Denae Ford, Paige Rodeghero
  
  ICSE JSEET | May 2021
  
  Publication Video
- Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
  
  Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF Video Video Video Project Project
- Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
  
  ICSE SEIP | May 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track | May 2021
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- ‘How Was Your Weekend?’ Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
  
  Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne Storey, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ICSE 2021 | January 2021
  
  Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2021
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project
- Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks
  
  Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE BigData | December 2020
  
  PDF
- A Taxonomy of Software Delivery Performance Profiles: Investigating the Effects of DevOps Practices
  
  Marcus A. Rothenberger, Jez Humble, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Dustin Smith, Nicole Forsgren
  
  2020 (AMCIS) Americas Conference on Information Systems | August 2020
  
  Publication
- An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs
  
  Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Awadallah
  
  ESEM 2020 | July 2020
  
  Publication
- The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub
  
  Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) | May 2020
  
  Publication
- How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Reed Milewicz, Alexander Serebrenik
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE ICSE 2nd International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests
  
  Denae Ford, Mahnaz Behroozi, Alexander Serebrenik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Internationl Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI Video
- How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?
  
  Titus Barik, Denae Ford, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin
  
  ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | November 2018
  
  Publication DOI
- Selfies as Social Movements: Influences on Participation and Perceived Impact on Stereotypes
  
  Fannie Liu, Denae Ford, Laura Dabbish, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | November 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- Dazed: Measuring the Cognitive Load of Solving Technical Interview Problems At the Whiteboard
  
  Mahnaz Behroozi, Alison Lui, Ian Moore, Denae Ford , Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering – New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ICSE NIER) | May 2018
  
  PDF DOI
- “We Don’t Do That Here”: How Collaborative Editing with Mentors Improves Engagement in Social Q&A Communities
  
  Denae Ford , Kristina Lustig, Jeremy Banks, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | April 2018
  
  PDF DOI Video
- Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) | November 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow?
  
  Denae Ford , Alisse Harkins, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2017
  
  PDF DOI Video
- The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Leslie Rand-Pickett, Chris Parnin
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE). | May 2017
  
  PDF DOI
- Paradise Unplugged: Identifying Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow
  
  Denae Ford, Justin Smith, Philip J. Guo, Chris Parnin
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- A Cross-Tool Communication Study on Program Analysis Tool Notifications
  
  Brittany Johnson, Rahul Pandita, Justin Smith, Denae Ford, Sarah Elder, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Sarah Heckman, Caitlin Sadowski
  
  International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) | November 2016
  
  PDF DOI
- “What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development
  
  Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016 SEIP Track) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering
  
  Prem Devanbu, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication Publication
- Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company
  
  Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2016) | May 2016
  
  PDF Publication
- Studying Sustained Attention and Cognitive States in Remote Technical Interviews
  
  Denae Ford, Titus Barik, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the ACM ICER 3rd International Workshop on Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) | November 2015
  
  PDF
- How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  September 2015
  
  PDF
- Exploring Causes of Frustration for Software Developers
  
  Denae Ford, Chris Parnin
  
  In proceedings of the IEEE ICSE 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2015
  
  PDF DOI
- The Art of Testing Less without Sacrificing Quality
  
  Kim Herzig, Michaela Greiler, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF Project
- Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces
  
  Christopher Theisen, Kim Herzig, Patrick Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Laurie Williams
  
  Companion Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  Please note that this paper is not yet published, but accepted for inclusion.
  
  PDF Project
- Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets
  
  Mike Barnett, Christian Bird, Shuvendu Lahiri, Joao Brunet
  
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2015
  
  PDF PDF
- Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
  
  Amiangshu Bosu, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2015
  
  PDF
- Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security | April 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security
  
  PDF Project
- Using Pre-Release Test Failures to Build Early Post-Release Defect Prediction Models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- Learning Natural Coding Conventions
  
  Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Charles Sutton
  
  Proceedings of the ACM SigSoft Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Software Developers’ Perceptions of Productivity
  
  André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Tom Zimmermann
  
  FSE ’14: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2014
  
  PDF
- The First Hour Experience: How the Initial Play can Engage (or Lose) New Players
  
  Gifford Cheung, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  CHI PLAY ’14: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play | October 2014
  
  PDF
- The Impact of Test Ownership and Team Structure on the Reliability and Effectiveness of Quality Test Runs
  
  Kim Herzig, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
  
  PDF Publication Publication Project
- Mining Energy Traces to Aid in Software Development: An Empirical Case Study
  
  Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ESEM ’14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements | September 2014
  
  ESEM '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurements
  
  PDF
- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Cowboys, Ankle Sprains, and Keepers of Quality: How Is Video Game Development Different from Software Development?
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
  PDF Project
- Understanding and Improving Software Build Teams
  
  Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014)
  
  PDF
- Extrinsic Influence Factors in Software Reliability: A Study of 200,000 Windows Machines
  
  Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) | June 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Transition from Centralized to Distributed VCS: A Microsoft Case Study on Reasons, Barriers, and Outcomes
  
  Kivanc Muslu, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project
- Off With Their Assists: An Empirical Study of Driving Skill in Forza Motorsports 4
  
  Thomas Debeauvais, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Kevin Carter, Ryan Cooper, Dan Greenawalt, Tyson Solberg
  
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2014) | April 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Defects Using Change Genealogies
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Rau, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 24nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering | November 2013
  
  PDF
- Have Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?
  
  Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Laurie Williams, Nachi Nagappan, Andrew Begel
  
  ACM ESEM | October 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software projects
  
  Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW ’13) | September 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13)
  
  PDF
- Convergent Software Peer Review Practices
  
  Peter C. Rigby, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the the joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) | August 2013
  
  Preprint available upon request to cbird@microsoft.com or peter.rigby@concordia.ca
  
  PDF
- Diversity in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013) | August 2013
  
  PDF
- Collecting a Heap of Shapes
  
  Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Mark Marron
  
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2013 | July 2013
  
  Distinguished Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Structural and Temporal Patterns-Based Features
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Jithin Thomas
  
  Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE) 2013 | May 2013
  
  PDF
- Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review
  
  Christian Bird, Alberto Bacchelli
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
  PDF
- It’s not a Bug, It’s a Feature: How Misclassification Impacts Bug Prediction
  
  Kim Herzig, Sascha Just, Andreas Zeller
  
  Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering | May 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
  
  Jeff Huang, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
  
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013) | February 2013
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2013)
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Tangled Code Changes
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | January 2013
  
  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2487085.2487113
  
  PDF
- Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis
  
  Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF Project
- A Field Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012) | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012)
  
  PDF
- Empirical analysis of user data in game software development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement | November 2012
  
  Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
  
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- Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012) | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Empirical Analysis of User Data in Game Software Development
  
  Kenneth Hullett, Nachi Nagappan, Eric Schuh, John Hopson
  
  Proceedings of Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF Project
- The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
  
  Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Reopened
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Philip J. Guo, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project Project
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Goldfish Bowl Panel: Software Development Analytics
  
  Tim Menzies, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track) | June 2012
  
  PDF
- Data-Driven Games User Research
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Bruce Phillips, Nachi Nagappan, Chuck Harrison
  
  Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Game User Research (CHI-GUR 2012) | May 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction
  
  Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, Andrian Marcus, Tom Zimmermann, David Cok
  
  Proceedings of the 26st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011) | November 2011
  
  PDF
- Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering
  
  PDF Project Project
- Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution
  
  Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research
  
  Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering | September 2011
  
  PDF
- Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software
  
  Christian Bird
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Integration Resolution Algorithm for Mining Multiple Branches in Version Control Systems (Industry Track)
  
  Alexander Tarvo, Tom Zimmermann, Jacek Czerwonka
  
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Explanatory Analysis on Eclipse Beta-Release Bugs Through In-Process Metrics
  
  Ayse Tosun Misirli, Brendan Murphy, Tom Zimmermann, Ayse Basar
  
  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ 2011) | September 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored
  
  Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, Emerson Murphy-Hill
  
  Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories | May 2011
  
  PDF
- Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research
  
  Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  
  PDF Project
- “Not My Bug!” and Other Reasons for Software Bug Report Reassignments
  
  Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- An Empirical Study of the Factors Relating Field Failures and Dependencies
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Kim Herzig, Rahul Premraj
  
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | March 2011
  
  PDF Project Project
- CRANE: Failure Prediction, Change Analysis and Test Prioritization in Practice – Experiences from Windows
  
  Jacek Czerwonka, Rajiv Das, Nachi Nagappan, Alex Tarvo, Alex Teterev
  
  International Conference on Software Testing | March 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Raymond P. L. Buse
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER)
  
  PDF Project
- Security Trend Analysis with CVE Topic Models
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Tom Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Change Bursts as Defect Predictors
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Tom Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) | November 2010
  
  Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
  
  PDF Project Project
- Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows
  
  Philip J. Guo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Brendan Murphy
  
  Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2010
  
  PDF Project
- Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan, Laurie Williams
  
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) | April 2010
  
  Most Influential Paper Award at ICST 2020 MIP Practical
  
  PDF Project
- Coordination in large-scale software teams
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan, Christopher Poile, Lucas Layman
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE) | May 2009
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering (CHASE)
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4244-3712-2
  
  Publication Project
- On Equivalence Partitioning of Code Paths inside OS Kernel Components
  
  Constantin Sârbu, Nachi Nagappan, Neeraj Suri
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems (STFSSD) | March 2009
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7695-3572-2
  
  Publication Project
- The Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat’s Packages
  
  Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) | January 2009
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Defects using Network Analysis on Dependency Graphs
  
  Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | May 2008
  
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
  
  Publication Publication Project Project
- GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming
  
  Ti-Chung Cheng, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Nicole Forsgren, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2024-31 | August 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF
- Technical report
  
  Chandra Maddila, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Kim Herzig, Arie van Deursen
  
  MSR-TR-2021-28 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Off Productivity and Quality
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Brian Houck, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2021-26 | October 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Survey on Onboarding Software Engineers During a Pandemic
  
  Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  MSR-TR-2020-36 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2020-28 | August 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Understanding Software Developer Activity via Windows 10 Telemetry
  
  Spencer Buja, Thomas Zimmermann, Philippe Kirsanov, Ankit Tandon, Xue Liu, Jay Windsor, Henok Addis
  
  MSR-TR-2019-42 | April 2019
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Presented at the 2019 Wharton People Analytics Conference. Finalist for the White Paper Competition
- Appendix to Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Scientists
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1127 | December 2016
  
  PDF
- Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer
  
  Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2016-75 | October 2016
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects
  
  Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2015-82 | October 2015
  
  PDF
- Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity
  
  Thomas Zimmermann, Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2015-66 | August 2015
  
  PDF
- The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  MSR-TR-2015-30 | April 2015
  
  PDF
- Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform
  
  Christian Bird, Trevor Carnahan, Michaela Greiler
  
  MSR-TR-2015-22 | February 2015
  
  PDF
- The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications
  
  Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-149 | November 2014
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to The Health of Software Engineering Research
  
  David Lo, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-119 | September 2014
  
  PDF
- Appendix to Do It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company
  
  Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Edward K. Smith
  
  MSR-TR-2014-118 | September 2014
  
  PDF
- Motion Sickness Susceptibility in Software Developers
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2014-24 | March 2014
  
  PDF Project
- Branching Taxonomy
  
  Brendan Murphy, Jacek Czerwonka, Laurie Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2014-23 | February 2014
  
  PDF
- Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering (Technical Report MSR-TR-2013-111)
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-111 | October 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Appendix to Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering
  
  Andrew Begel, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2013-84 | September 2013
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Appendix to The Design of Bug Fixes
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2013-22 | April 2013
  
  PDF Project
- Predicting Method Crashes with Bytecode Operations
  
  Sunghun Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Nicolas Bettenburg, Shivkumar Shivaji
  
  MSR-TR-2012-94 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Representativeness in Software Engineering Research
  
  Meiyappan Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  MSR-TR-2012-93 | September 2012
  
  PDF
- Compatibility Testing via Patterns-Based Trace Comparison
  
  Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Pradip Vallathol, Pankaj Gupta
  
  MSR-TR-2012-87 | August 2012
  
  PDF
- Appendix to A Field Study of Refactoring Rationale, Benefits, and Challenges at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2012-4 | January 2012
  
  PDF Project
- Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development
  
  Ashish Gupta, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
  
  MSR-TR-2011-106 | November 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Information Needs for Software Development Analytics
  
  Raymond P.L. Buse, Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2011-8 | January 2011
  
  PDF Project
- Analytics for Software Development
  
  , Tom Zimmermann
  
  MSR-TR-2010-111 | August 2010
  
  Accepted at the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER). Please cite the workshop paper instead.
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Coordination in Large-Scale Software Development: Helpful and Unhelpful Behaviors
  
  Andrew Begel, Nachi Nagappan
  
  MSR-TR-2009-135 | September 2009
  
  PDF Project Project
- DevEx in Action: A study of its tangible impacts
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Abi Noda, Michaela Greiler, Brian Houck, Margaret-Anne Storey
  
  ACM Queue | January 2024, Vol 21(6)
  
  Publication
- Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
  
  Jenny Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Tom Zimmermann
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint
- Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools
  
  Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit
  
  ACM Queue | January 2023
  
  DOI PDF
- DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs
  
  Elizabeth Dinella, Todd Mytkowicz, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Christian Bird, Mayur Naik, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE’22) | May 2022
  
  Preprint Publication Project
- SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from Cloud Incidents
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2022, Vol 27(4)
  
  Publication
- Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
  
  Souti Chattoadhyay, Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann
  
  ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) | October 2021
  
  PDF Video Project
- MIS Quarterly
  
  Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Rajiv Kohli, Nicole Forsgren
  
  MIS Quarterly | March 2021, Vol 45(1): pp. 455-459
  
  Publication
- The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think
  
  Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Maddila, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Jenna Butler
  
  ACM Queue | February 2021, Vol 19(1): pp. 20-48
  
  Publication Video
- Large-Scale Intent Analysis for Identifying Large-Review-Effort Code Changes
  
  Song Wang, Chetan Bansal, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Information and Software Technology | February 2021, Vol 130
  
  Publication
- Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity
  
  Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Jacek Czerwonka, Brendan Murphy, Eirini Kalliamvakou
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2019
  
  Publication DOI Project Project
- Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
  
  Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson
  
  PLoS Computational Biology | September 2019, Vol 15
  
  PDF DOI
- Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
  
  Andre N. Meyer, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | April 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Author's Version
- The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers
  
  Brittany Johnson, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | February 2019
  
  To appear.
  
  Publication
- Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges
  
  Miryung Kim, Tom Zimmermann, Robert DeLIne, Andrew Begel
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | September 2017
  
  PDF PDF Project
- Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?
  
  Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Nachi Nagappan
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, Vol 20: pp. 479-515
  
  PDF
- The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models
  
  Kim Herzig
  
  Empirical Software Engineering | April 2015, pp. 1-34
  
  Publication Project
- The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It
  
  Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | January 2015, Vol 41(1): pp. 65-81
  
  PDF
- An Empirical Study of Refactoring Challenges and Benefits at Microsoft
  
  Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
  
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | July 2014, Vol 40(7)
  
  PDF
- Leveraging the Crowd: How 48,000 Users Helped Improve Lync Performance
  
  Robert Musson, Jacqueline Richards, Danyel Fisher, Christian Bird, Brian Bussone, Sandipan Ganguly
  
  IEEE Software | August 2013
  
  PDF
- Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
  
  Christian Bird, Nachi Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
  
  Communications of the ACM | August 2009, Vol 52(8): pp. 85-93
  
  Publication Project Project
- Guest Editors’ Introduction: Mining Software Archives
  
  Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
  
  IEEE Software | January 2009, Vol 26: pp. 24-25
  
  PDF Project
- The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers
  
  Brian Houck, Henry Yelin, Jenna Butler, Nicole Forsgren, Alison McMartin
  
  May 2023
  
  PDF
- MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers
  
  Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Todd Mytkowicz, Negar Ghorbani, Sarah Fakhoury, Elizabeth Dinella, Christian Bird, Neel Sundaresan, Shuvendu Lahiri
  
  August 2021
  
  Publication Project
- “It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools
  
  Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Tom Zimmermann, Denae Ford
  
  December 2022
  
  arXiv | December 2022
  
  Preprint
- A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  
  Denae Ford, Margaret-Anne Storey, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Sonia Jaffe, Chandra Maddila, Jenna Butler, Brian Houck, Nachi Nagappan
  
  August 2020
  
  ArXiv | August 2020
  
  Publication Video Video Project Project

Software Analysis and Intelligence in Engineering Systems (SAINTES) Group

Publications

“Maybe We Need Some More Examples:” Individual and Team Drivers of Developer GenAI Tool Use

Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era

GEMS: Generative Expert Metric System through Iterative Prompt Priming

DevEx in Action: A study of its tangible impacts

Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?

The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers

Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools

Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools

“It would work for me too”: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools

Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers

Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub

Program-L: Online Help Seeking Behaviors by Blind and Low Vision Programmers

ReBOC: Recommending Bespoke Open Source Software Projects to Contributors

Attracting and Retaining OSS contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard

DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale

DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs

Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity

SoftNER: Mining knowledge graphs from Cloud Incidents

Technical report

Appendix to How Developers and Managers Define and Trade Off Productivity and Quality

Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity

Including Everyone, Everywhere: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges of Geographic Gender-Inclusion in OSS

MergeBERT: Program Merge Conflict Resolution via Neural Transformers

Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs

“Is My Mic On?” Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication

Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good

Please Turn Your Cameras On: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers during a Pandemic

Anomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub

MIS Quarterly

The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think

Large-Scale Intent Analysis for Identifying Large-Review-Effort Code Changes

‘How Was Your Weekend?’ Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19

Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks

Survey on Onboarding Software Engineers During a Pandemic

A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Appendix to A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Taxonomy of Software Delivery Performance Profiles: Investigating the Effects of DevOps Practices

An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs

The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub

Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity

Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

Beyond the Code Itself: How Programmers Really Look at Pull Requests

How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers

Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers

Understanding Software Developer Activity via Windows 10 Telemetry

The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers

How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?

Selfies as Social Movements: Influences on Participation and Perceived Impact on Stereotypes

Dazed: Measuring the Cognitive Load of Solving Technical Interview Problems At the Whiteboard

“We Don’t Do That Here”: How Collaborative Editing with Mentors Improves Engagement in Social Q&A Communities

Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions

Someone Like Me: How Does Peer Parity Influence Participation of Women on Stack Overflow?

Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges

The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates

Appendix to Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Scientists

A Cross-Tool Communication Study on Program Analysis Tool Notifications

Paradise Unplugged: Identifying Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow

Appendix to Personas in Practice: Adapting Knowledge Worker Actions to Software Engineer

“What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: An Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Game Development

Belief & Evidence in Empirical Software Engineering

Beliefs, Practices, and Personalities of Software Engineers: A Survey in a Large Software Company

Studying Sustained Attention and Cognitive States in Remote Technical Interviews

Appendix to Transitioning from Closed Source to Open Source: Analysis and Observations from Six Projects

How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research

Appendix to The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity

Approximating Attack Surfaces with Stack Traces

Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft

Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules

Exploring Causes of Frustration for Software Developers

Helping developers help themselves: Automatic decomposition of code review changesets

The Art of Testing Less without Sacrificing Quality

The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams

Challenges with Applying Vulnerability Prediction Models

Do Topics Make Sense to Managers and Developers?

The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models

Lessons Learned From Deploying a Code Review Analytics Platform

The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It

The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications