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11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2014), May 31 – June 1, 2014, Hyderabad, India

MSR 2014 – Proceedings

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Frontmatter

Title Page
Article: msr14foreword-fm000-p (type: Frontmatter) doi:
Welcome from the Chairs
Article: msr14foreword-fm001-p (type: Frontmatter) doi:

Keynote

Is Mining Software Repositories Data Science? (Keynote)
Audris Mockus
(Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Article: msr14keynotes-keynotesid1-p (type: Invited Talk Abstract (1 page)) doi:

Green Mining

Mining Energy-Greedy API Usage Patterns in Android Apps: An Empirical Study
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(College of William and Mary, USA; University of Sannio, Italy; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; University of Molise, Italy)
Article: msr14main-mainid40-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
GreenMiner: A Hardware Based Mining Software Repositories Software Energy Consumption Framework
Abram Hindle, Alex Wilson, Kent Rasmussen, E. Jed Barlow, Joshua Charles Campbell, and Stephen Romansky
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid118-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Mining Questions about Software Energy Consumption
Gustavo Pinto, Fernando Castor, and Yu David Liu
(Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil; SUNY Binghamton, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid110-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Code Clones and Origin Analysis

Prediction and Ranking of Co-change Candidates for Clones
Manishankar Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy, and Kevin A. Schneider
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid124-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Incremental Origin Analysis of Source Code Files
Daniela Steidl, Benjamin Hummel, and Elmar Juergens
(CQSE, Germany)
Article: msr14main-mainid5-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Oops! Where Did That Code Snippet Come From?
Lisong Guo, Julia Lawall, and Gilles Muller
(INRIA, France; LIP6, France; Sorbonne, France; UPMC, France)
Article: msr14main-mainid75-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Bug Characterizing

Works For Me! Characterizing Non-reproducible Bug Reports
Mona Erfani Joorabchi, Mehdi Mirzaaghaei, and Ali Mesbah
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid120-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Characterizing and Predicting Blocking Bugs in Open Source Projects
Harold Valdivia Garcia and Emad Shihab
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid126-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
An Empirical Study of Dormant Bugs
Tse-Hsun Chen, Meiyappan Nagappan, Emad Shihab, and Ahmed E. Hassan
(Queen's University, Canada; Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid96-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Mining Repos and QA Sites

The Promises and Perils of Mining GitHub
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, Leif Singer, Daniel M. German, and Daniela Damian
(University of Victoria, Canada; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid31-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Mining StackOverflow to Turn the IDE into a Self-Confident Programming Prompter
Luca Ponzanelli, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Michele Lanza
(University of Lugano, Switzerland; University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy)
Article: msr14main-mainid77-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Mining Questions Asked by Web Developers
Kartik Bajaj, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Ali Mesbah
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid16-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Process Mining Multiple Repositories for Software Defect Resolution from Control and Organizational Perspective
Monika Gupta, Ashish Sureka, and Srinivas Padmanabhuni
(IIIT Delhi, India; Infosys, India)
Article: msr14main-mainid9-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Mining Applications

MUX: Algorithm Selection for Software Model Checkers
Varun Tulsian, Aditya Kanade, Rahul Kumar, Akash Lal, and Aditya V. Nori
(Indian Institute of Science, India; Microsoft Research, India)
Article: msr14main-mainid135-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Improving the Effectiveness of Test Suite through Mining Historical Data
Jeff Anderson, Saeed Salem, and Hyunsook Do
(Microsoft, USA; North Dakota State University, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid28-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Finding Patterns in Static Analysis Alerts: Improving Actionable Alert Ranking
Quinn Hanam, Lin Tan, Reid Holmes, and Patrick Lam
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid151-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Impact Analysis of Change Requests on Source Code Based on Interaction and Commit Histories
Motahareh Bahrami Zanjani, George Swartzendruber, and Huzefa Kagdi
(Wichita State University, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid117-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Defect Prediction

An Empirical Study of Just-in-Time Defect Prediction using Cross-Project Models
Takafumi Fukushima, Yasutaka Kamei, Shane McIntosh, Kazuhiro Yamashita, and Naoyasu Ubayashi
(Kyushu University, Japan; Queen's University, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid41-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Towards Building a Universal Defect Prediction Model
Feng Zhang, Audris Mockus, Iman Keivanloo, and Ying Zou
(Queen's University, Canada; Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid101-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Code Review and Code Search

The Impact of Code Review Coverage and Code Review Participation on Software Quality: A Case Study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK Projects
Shane McIntosh, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, and Ahmed E. Hassan
(Queen's University, Canada; Kyushu University, Japan; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid42-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Modern Code Reviews in Open-Source Projects: Which Problems Do They Fix?
Moritz Beller, Alberto Bacchelli, Andy Zaidman, and Elmar Juergens
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; CQSE, Germany)
Article: msr14main-mainid10-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Thesaurus-Based Automatic Query Expansion for Interface-Driven Code Search
Otávio A. L. Lemos, Adriano C. de Paula, Felipe C. Zanichelli, and Cristina V. Lopes
(Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil; University of California at Irvine, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid93-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Effort Estimation and Reuse

Estimating Development Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects by Mining Software Repositories: A Case Study of OpenStack
Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Carlos Cervigón, Andrea Capiluppi, and Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Brunel University, UK; Bitergia, Spain)
Article: msr14main-mainid94-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
An Industrial Case Study of Automatically Identifying Performance Regression-Causes
Thanh H. D. Nguyen, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Mohamed Nasser, and Parminder Flora
(Queen's University, Canada; BlackBerry, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid154-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Revisiting Android Reuse Studies in the Context of Code Obfuscation and Library Usages
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Andrew Holtzhauer, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(College of William and Mary, USA; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Article: msr14main-mainid107-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Mining Mix

Syntax Errors Just Aren't Natural: Improving Error Reporting with Language Models
Joshua Charles Campbell, Abram Hindle, and José Nelson Amaral
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid38-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Do Developers Feel Emotions? An Exploratory Analysis of Emotions in Software Artifacts
Alessandro Murgia, Parastou Tourani, Bram Adams, and Marco Ortu
(University of Antwerp, Belgium; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; University of Cagliari, Italy)
Article: msr14main-mainid55-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
How Does a Typical Tutorial for Mobile Development Look Like?
Rebecca Tiarks and Walid Maalej
(University of Hamburg, Germany)
Article: msr14main-mainid81-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:
Unsupervised Discovery of Intentional Process Models from Event Logs
Ghazaleh Khodabandelou, Charlotte Hug, Rebecca Deneckère, and Camille Salinesi
(Sorbonne, France)
Article: msr14main-mainid25-p (type: Full Paper (10 pages)) doi:

Short Research/Practice Papers

Tracing Dynamic Features in Python Programs
Beatrice Åkerblom, Jonathan Stendahl, Mattias Tumlin, and Tobias Wrigstad
(Stockholm University, Sweden; Uppsala University, Sweden)
Article: msr14main-mainid49-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Does Misclassification Affect Bug Localization?
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Tien-Duy B. Le, and David Lo
(Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Article: msr14main-mainid52-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Classifying Unstructured Data into Natural Language Text and Technical Information
Thorsten Merten, Bastian Mager, Simone Bürsner, and Barbara Paech
(Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Article: msr14main-mainid61-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Collaboration in Open-Source Projects: Myth or Reality?
Yuriy Tymchuk, Andrea Mocci, and Michele Lanza
(University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Article: msr14main-mainid63-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Improving the Accuracy of Duplicate Bug Report Detection using Textual Similarity Measures
Alina Lazar, Sarah Ritchey, and Bonita Sharif
(Youngstown State University, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid98-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Undocumented and Unchecked: Exceptions That Spell Trouble
Maria Kechagia and Diomidis Spinellis
(Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Article: msr14main-mainid103-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Innovation Diffusion in Open Source Software: Preliminary Analysis of Dependency Changes in the Gentoo Portage Package Database
Remco Bloemen, Chintan Amrit, Stefan Kuhlmann, and Gonzalo Ordóñez–Matamoros
(University of Twente, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid106-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Dictionary to Translate Change Tasks to Source Code
Katja Kevic and Thomas Fritz
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Article: msr14main-mainid108-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
New Features for Duplicate Bug Detection
Nathan Klein, Christopher S. Corley, and Nicholas A. Kraft
(Oberlin College, USA; University of Alabama, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid125-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Mining Modern Repositories with Elasticsearch
Oleksii Kononenko, Olga Baysal, Reid Holmes, and Michael W. Godfrey
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid150-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:

Mining Challenge

A Study of External Community Contribution to Open-Source Projects on GitHub
Rohan Padhye, Senthil Mani, and Vibha Singhal Sinha
(IBM Research, India)
Article: msr14main-mainid197-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Understanding "Watchers" on GitHub
Jyoti Sheoran, Kelly Blincoe, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Daniela Damian, and Jordan Ell
(University of Victoria, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid200-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Do Developers Discuss Design?
João Brunet, Gail C. Murphy, Ricardo Terra, Jorge Figueiredo, and Dalton Serey
(Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil; University of British Columbia, Canada; Federal University of Lavras, Brazil)
Article: msr14main-mainid195-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Magnet or Sticky? An OSS Project-by-Project Typology
Kazuhiro Yamashita, Shane McIntosh, Yasutaka Kamei, and Naoyasu Ubayashi
(Kyushu University, Japan; Queen's University, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid206-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Security and Emotion: Sentiment Analysis of Security Discussions on GitHub
Daniel Pletea, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Alexander Serebrenik
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid202-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Sentiment Analysis of Commit Comments in GitHub: An Empirical Study
Emitza Guzman, David Azócar, and Yang Li
(TU München, Germany)
Article: msr14main-mainid203-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Analysing the 'Biodiversity' of Open Source Ecosystems: The GitHub Case
Nicholas Matragkas, James R. Williams, Dimitris S. Kolovos, and Richard F. Paige
(University of York, UK)
Article: msr14main-mainid210-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Co-evolution of Project Documentation and Popularity within Github
Karan Aggarwal, Abram Hindle, and Eleni Stroulia
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid192-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
An Insight into the Pull Requests of GitHub
Mohammad Masudur Rahman and Chanchal K. Roy
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid205-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:

Data Showcase

A Dataset for Pull-Based Development Research
Georgios Gousios and Andy Zaidman
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid168-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
The Bug Catalog of the Maven Ecosystem
Dimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panos Louridas, Georgios Gousios, and Diomidis Spinellis
(Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid175-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Dataset of Feature Additions and Feature Removals from the Linux Kernel
Leonardo Passos and Krzysztof Czarnecki
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid178-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Kataribe: A Hosting Service of Historage Repositories
Kenji Fujiwara, Hideaki Hata, Erina Makihara, Yusuke Fujihara, Naoki Nakayama, Hajimu Iida, and Kenichi Matsumoto
(NAIST, Japan)
Article: msr14main-mainid190-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Lean GHTorrent: GitHub Data on Demand
Georgios Gousios, Bogdan Vasilescu, Alexander Serebrenik, and Andy Zaidman
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid174-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Code Clone Oracle
Daniel E. Krutz and Wei Le
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid176-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Generating Duplicate Bug Datasets
Alina Lazar, Sarah Ritchey, and Bonita Sharif
(Youngstown State University, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid182-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
FLOSS 2013: A Survey Dataset about Free Software Contributors: Challenges for Curating, Sharing, and Combining
Gregorio Robles, Laura Arjona Reina, Alexander Serebrenik, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Jesús M. González-Barahona
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid184-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Green Miner's Dataset: Mining the Impact of Software Change on Energy Consumption
Chenlei Zhang and Abram Hindle
(University of Alberta, Canada)
Article: msr14main-mainid185-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Gentoo Package Dependencies over Time
Remco Bloemen, Chintan Amrit, Stefan Kuhlmann, and Gonzalo Ordóñez–Matamoros
(University of Twente, Netherlands)
Article: msr14main-mainid177-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Models of OSS Project Meta-Information: A Dataset of Three Forges
James R. Williams, Davide Di Ruscio, Nicholas Matragkas, Juri Di Rocco, and Dimitris S. Kolovos
(University of York, UK; University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Article: msr14main-mainid179-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Dataset of Clone References with Gaps
Hiroaki Murakami, Yoshiki Higo, and Shinji Kusumoto
(Osaka University, Japan)
Article: msr14main-mainid180-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
A Dataset for Maven Artifacts and Bug Patterns Found in Them
Vaibhav Saini, Hitesh Sajnani, Joel Ossher, and Cristina V. Lopes
(University of California at Irvine, USA)
Article: msr14main-mainid189-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
OpenHub: A Scalable Architecture for the Analysis of Software Quality Attributes
Gabriel Farah, Juan Sebastian Tejada, and Dario Correal
(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Article: msr14main-mainid172-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Understanding Software Evolution: The Maisqual Ant Data Set
Boris Baldassari and Philippe Preux
(SQuORING Technologies, France; LIFL, France; CNRS, France; INRIA, France; University of Lille, France)
Article: msr14main-mainid181-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:

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