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MSR 2019
Sun 26 - Mon 27 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2019

Since 2013, the MSR conference has included a Data Showcase. The purpose of the Data Showcase is to provide a forum to share and discuss the important data sets that underpin the work of the Mining Software Repositories community.

The important dates for the Data Showcase are:

  • Abstracts Due: February 1, 2019

  • Papers Due: February 6, 2019

  • Author Notification: March 1, 2019

  • Camera Ready: March 15, 2019

Please see the Call for Data Showcase Papers for all details.

Dates
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Sun 26 May

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09:05 - 10:30
Keynote + Q&A + DiscussionMSR 2019 Keynote at Place du Canada
09:05
45m
Talk
Keynote: We Won! Now What?
MSR 2019 Keynote
A: Robert DeLine Microsoft Research
09:50
10m
Q&A for Keynote
MSR 2019 Keynote

10:00
30m
Discussion: Ethical MSR
MSR 2019 Keynote
Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
11:00 - 11:45
Session II: Defect Prediction and Testing (Part 1)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Patanamon Thongtanunam The University of Melbourne
11:00
15m
Full-paper
DeepJIT: An End-To-End Deep LearningFramework for Just-In-Time Defect Prediction
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Thong Hoang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Kyushu University
11:16
15m
Full-paper
Lessons learned from using a deep tree-based model for software defect prediction in practice
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Trang Pham Deakin University, Shien Wee Ng University of Wollongong, Truyen Tran , John Grundy Monash University, Aditya Ghose , Taeksu Kim , Chul-Joo Kim
11:32
6m
Short-paper
Empirical study in using version histories for change risk classification
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
11:39
6m
Short-paper
Snoring: a Noise in Defect Prediction Datasets
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Aalok Ahluwalia , Davide Falessi California Polytechnic State University, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio
11:00 - 11:45
Session I: Representations for Mining (Part 1)MSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
11:00
15m
Full-paper
SCOR: Source Code Retrieval With Semantics and Order
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached
11:16
6m
Short-paper
PathMiner : A Library for Mining of Path-Based Representations of Code
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Vladimir Kovalenko TU Delft, Egor Bogomolov Higher School of Economics, JetBrains Research, Timofey Bryksin , Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:23
15m
Full-paper
Import2vec: learning embeddings for software libraries
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Bart Theeten Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium, Frederik Vandeputte , Tom Van Cutsem Nokia Bell Labs
Pre-print
11:39
6m
Talk
Semantic Source Code Models Using Identifier Embeddings
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Vasiliki Efstathiou Athens University of Economics and Business, Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business
Pre-print
11:55 - 12:30
Session IV: Defect Prediction and Testing (Part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
11:55
6m
Talk
A Dataset of Non-Functional Bugs
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Aida Radu , Sarah Nadi University of Alberta
Pre-print
12:01
6m
Short-paper
Does UML Modeling Associate with Higher Software Quality in Open-Source Software?
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Adithya Raghuraman , Truong Ho-Quang , Michel Chaudron Chalmers University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
12:07
6m
Short-paper
STRAIT: A Tool for Automated Software Reliability Growth Analysis
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Stanislav Chren Masaryk University, Radoslav Micko , Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University, Bruno Rossi Masaryk University
Pre-print
12:13
6m
Talk
A Data Set of Program Invariants and Error Paths
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Dirk Beyer LMU Munich
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:19
6m
Short-paper
Test Coverage in Python Programs
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Hongyu Zhai , Casey Casalnuovo University of California at Davis, USA, Prem Devanbu University of California
12:25
6m
Short-paper
On the Effectiveness of Manual and Automatic Unit Test Generation: Ten Years Later
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Domenico Serra , Giovanni Grano University of Zurich, Fabio Palomba , Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:55 - 12:30
Session III: Representations for Mining (Part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Nicole Novielli University of Bari
11:55
15m
Full-paper
Exploring Word Embedding Techniques to Improve Sentiment Analysis of Software Engineering Texts
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Eeshita Biswas , K. Vijay-Shanker , Lori Pollock University of Delaware, USA
Pre-print
12:10
6m
Talk
Cleaning StackOverflow for Machine Translation
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Musfiqur Rahman Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Peter Rigby Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Dharani Palani Concordia University, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
12:16
15m
Full-paper
Predicting Good Configurations for GitHub and Stack Overflow Topic Models
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide, Markus Wagner
Pre-print
13:50 - 14:35
Discussion: Data vs. Theory-driven ResearchMSR 2019 Paper Presentations at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Michael W. Godfrey University of Waterloo, Canada, Andy Zaidman TU Delft
14:45 - 15:30
Session VI: Energy and EconomicsMSR 2019 Data Showcase / MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Maleknaz Nayebi Polytechnique Montréal
14:45
15m
Full-paper
Recommending Energy-Efficient Java Collections
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Pre-print
15:01
6m
Talk
GreenHub Farmer: Real-world data for Android Energy Mining
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Rui Pereira HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho & Universidade da Beira Interior, Marco Couto HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, João Paulo Fernandes Release/LISP, CISUC, Bruno Cabral , Hugo Matalonga University of Minho, Simão Melo de Sousa , Fernando Castor Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
Pre-print
15:08
6m
Talk
GreenSource: a large-scale collection of Android code, tests and energy metrics
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Rui Rua HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Marco Couto HASLab/INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, João Saraiva University of Minho, Portugal
15:15
6m
Short-paper
Striking Gold in Software Repositories? An Econometric Study of Cryptocurrencies on GitHub
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Asher Trockman University of Evansville, Rijnard van Tonder Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
15:22
6m
Talk
Panel Data of Cryptocurrency Development Activity on GitHub
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Rijnard van Tonder Carnegie Mellon University, Asher Trockman University of Evansville, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University
14:45 - 15:30
Session V: Large-Scale MiningMSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Robert Dyer Bowling Green State University
14:45
15m
Full-paper
Time Present and Time Past: Analyzing the Evolution of JavaScript Code in the Wild
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Dimitris Mitropoulos , Panos Louridas , Vitalis Salis , Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business
Pre-print
15:01
6m
Talk
The Software Heritage Graph Dataset: public software development under one roof
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Antoine Pietri Inria, Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business, Stefano Zacchiroli University Paris Diderot and Inria, France
Pre-print
15:08
15m
Full-paper
World of Code: An Infrastructure for Mining the Universe of Open Source VCS Data
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Yuxing Ma , Christopher Bogart Carnegie Mellon University, Sadika Amreen , Russell Zaretzki , Audris Mockus University of Tennessee - Knoxville
15:24
6m
Short-paper
Crossflow: A Framework for Distributed Mining of Software Repositories
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Dimitris Kolovos University of York, Patrick Neubauer University of York, UK, Konstantinos Barmpis , Nicholas Matragkas , Richard Paige McMaster University
Pre-print

Mon 27 May

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08:45 - 09:30
Session II: Automatic SummarizationMSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Xin Xia Monash University
08:45
15m
Full-paper
Generating Commit Messages from Diffs using Pointer-generator Network
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Qin Liu , Zihe Liu School of Software Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Hongming Zhu , Hongfei Fan , Bowen Du , Yu Qian
09:00
15m
Full-paper
Automatically Generating Documentation for Lambda Expressions in Java
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Anwar Alqaimi , Patanamon Thongtanunam The University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide
Pre-print
09:15
15m
Full-paper
Extracting API Tips from Developer Question and Answer Websites
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Shaohua Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Nhathai Phan , Yan Wang , Yong Zhao
08:45 - 09:30
Session I: APIs & Dependencies (Part 1)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Philipp Leitner Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg
08:45
15m
Full-paper
Investigating Next-Steps in Static API-Misuse Detection
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Sven Amann CQSE GmbH, Hoan Nguyen Iowa State University, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt, Germany
Pre-print
09:00
15m
Full-paper
Identifying Experts in Software Libraries and Frameworks among GitHub Users
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
João Eduardo Montandon Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Luciana L. Silva , Marco Tulio Valente Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Pre-print
09:15
15m
Full-paper
Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Simone Scalabrino University of Molise, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Mario Linares-Vasquez Universidad de los Andes, Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Rocco Oliveto University of Molise
09:40 - 10:30
Session IV: SecurityMSR 2019 Data Showcase / MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Sarah Nadi University of Alberta
09:40
15m
Full-paper
Automated Software Vulnerability Assessment with Concept Drift
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Triet Le The University of Adelaide, Bushra Sabir , Muhammad Ali Babar
09:55
6m
Talk
A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
10:01
15m
Full-paper
Negative Results on Mining Crypto-API Usage Rules in Android Apps
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Jun Gao University of Luxembourg, SnT, Pingfan Kong Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Li Li Monash University, Australia, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, SnT
10:16
6m
Talk
A Dataset of Parametric Cryptographic Misuses
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Anna-Katharina Wickert TU Darmstadt, Germany, Michael Reif TU Darmstadt, Germany, Michael Eichberg TU Darmstadt, Germany, Anam Dodhy , Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt, Germany
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
10:22
6m
Talk
RmvDroid: Towards A Reliable Android Malware Dataset with App Metadata
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Junjun Si , Hao Li , Yao Guo Peking University
09:40 - 10:30
Session III: APIs & Dependencies (Part 2)MSR 2019 Data Showcase / MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Georgios Gousios TU Delft
09:40
6m
Talk
The Maven Dependency Graph: a Temporal Graph-based Representation of Maven Centra
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Amine Benelallam , Nicolas Harrand , César Soto-Valero KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Olivier Barais
Pre-print
09:46
15m
Full-paper
The Emergence of Software Diversity in Maven Central
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
César Soto-Valero KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Amine Benelallam , Nicolas Harrand , Olivier Barais , Benoit Baudry KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Pre-print
10:01
15m
Full-paper
Dependency Versioning in the Wild
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, David J. Pearce Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Jacob Stringer , Amjed Tahir Massey University, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
Pre-print
10:16
15m
Full-paper
Splitting APIs: An Exploratory Study of Software Unbundling
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
11:00 - 11:45
Session VI: Software Quality (part 1)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Fabio Palomba University of Zurich
11:00
15m
Full-paper
The Rise of Android Code Smells: Who Is to Blame?
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Sarra Habchi University of Lille, Romain Rouvoy University Lille 1 and INRIA, Naouel Moha University of Montreal
11:15
15m
Full-paper
Assessing Diffusion and Perception of Test Smells in Scala Projects
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Jonas De Bleser Sofware Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dario Di Nucci Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Full-paper
style-analyzer: fixing code style inconsistencies with interpretable unsupervised algorithms
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Pre-print
11:00 - 11:45
Session V: Collaboration & Communication (Part 1)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Peter Rigby Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
11:00
15m
Full-paper
An Empirical Study of Multiple Names and Email Addresses in OSS Version Control Repositories
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Jiaxin Zhu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jun Wei Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
11:15
15m
Full-paper
Characterizing the Roles of Contributors in Open-source Scientific Software Projects
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories, Gustavo Pinto UFPA, Paige Rodeghero University of Notre Dame
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Full-paper
git2net - Mining Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks from Large git Repositories
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Christoph Gote Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Ingo Scholtes , Frank Schweitzer
DOI Pre-print
11:55 - 12:30
Session VIII: Software Quality (part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers / MSR 2019 Data Showcase at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University
11:55
15m
Full-paper
A Large-scale Study about Quality and Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
João Felipe Pimentel , Leonardo Murta Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Vanessa Braganholo , Juliana Freire
Pre-print
12:10
15m
Full-paper
Cross-language clone detection by learning over abstract syntax trees
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Daniel Perez Imperial College London, Shigeru Chiba University of Tokyo, Japan
Pre-print
12:25
6m
Talk
SeSaMe: A Data Set of Semantically Similar Java Methods
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Marius Kamp , Patrick Kreutzer , Michael Philippsen Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
11:55 - 12:30
Session VII: Collaboration & Communication (Part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
11:55
15m
Full-paper
Can Issues Reported at Stack Overflow Questions be Reproduced? An Exploratory Study
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Masud Rahman University of Saskatchewan , Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
Pre-print
12:10
15m
Full-paper
Exploratory Study of Slack Q&A Chats as a Mining Source for Software Engineering Tools
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Preetha Chatterjee University of Delaware, USA, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, Lori Pollock University of Delaware, USA, Vinay Augustine , Nicholas A. Kraft ABB Corporate Research
Pre-print
12:25
6m
Short-paper
Impacts of Daylight Saving Time on Software Development
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Junichi Hayashi Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Shinsuke Matsumoto Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto Osaka University
Pre-print
13:50 - 14:35
Discussion: SE for AI for SEMSR 2019 Paper Presentations at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Neil Ernst University of Victoria, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
14:45 - 15:30
Session X: Building on DataMSR 2019 Data Showcase / MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Centre-Ville
Chair(s): Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, Canada
14:45
15m
Full-paper
Standing on Shoulders or Feet? The Usage of the MSR Data Papers
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Zoe Kotti Athens University of Economics and Business, Diomidis Spinellis Athens University of Economics and Business
Pre-print
15:00
6m
Talk
Boa Meets Python: A Boa Dataset of Data Science Software in Python Language
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Sumon Biswas Iowa State University, Md Johirul Islam Iowa State University, Yijia Huang , Hridesh Rajan Iowa State University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:06
6m
Talk
A Benchmark of Data Loss Bugs for Android Apps
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Oliviero Riganelli , Marco Mobilio , Daniela Micucci University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca
15:12
6m
Talk
RapidRelease - A Dataset of Projects and Issues on GitHub with Rapid Release
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Saket Joshi Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
15:18
6m
Short-paper
A Tool to Analyze Packages in Software Containers
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Ahmed Zerouali UMONS, Valerio Cosentino Bitergia, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Tom Mens University of Mons
Pre-print
15:24
6m
Talk
An Empirical History of Permission Requests and Mistakes in Open Source Android Apps
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Gian Luca Scoccia , Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Virginia Pujols , Ben Christians , Daniel Krutz Rochester Institute of Technology
14:45 - 15:30
Session IX: TraceabilityMSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Francisco Servant Virginia Tech
14:45
15m
Full-paper
Predicting Co-Changes between Functionality Specifications and Source Code in Behavior Driven Development
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Aidan Z.H. Yang Queen's University, Canada, Daniel Alencar Da Costa Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
15:01
6m
Short-paper
Tracing Back Log Data to its Log Statement: From Research to Practice
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Daan Schipper , Maurício Aniche Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology
Pre-print
15:08
6m
Short-paper
Beyond GumTree: A hybrid approach to generate edit scripts
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Junnosuke Matsumoto , Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto Osaka University
Pre-print
15:15
6m
Short-paper
The Impact of Systematic Edits in History Slicing
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Ryosuke Funaki , Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology
Pre-print
15:22
6m
Short-paper
Scalable Software Merging Studies with MERGANSER
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Moein Owhadi-Kareshk , Sarah Nadi University of Alberta

Accepted Papers

Title
A Benchmark of Data Loss Bugs for Android Apps
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
A Dataset of Non-Functional Bugs
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print
A Dataset of Parametric Cryptographic Misuses
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
A Data Set of Program Invariants and Error Paths
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
An Empirical History of Permission Requests and Mistakes in Open Source Android Apps
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Boa Meets Python: A Boa Dataset of Data Science Software in Python Language
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print Media Attached
Cleaning StackOverflow for Machine Translation
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
GreenHub Farmer: Real-world data for Android Energy Mining
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print
GreenSource: a large-scale collection of Android code, tests and energy metrics
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Panel Data of Cryptocurrency Development Activity on GitHub
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
RapidRelease - A Dataset of Projects and Issues on GitHub with Rapid Release
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
RmvDroid: Towards A Reliable Android Malware Dataset with App Metadata
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Semantic Source Code Models Using Identifier Embeddings
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print
SeSaMe: A Data Set of Semantically Similar Java Methods
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
The Maven Dependency Graph: a Temporal Graph-based Representation of Maven Centra
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print
The Software Heritage Graph Dataset: public software development under one roof
MSR 2019 Data Showcase
Pre-print

Call for Data Showcase Papers

Data Showcase papers should describe data sets that are curated by their authors and made available to use by others. Ideally, these data sets should be of value to others in the community, should be preprocessed or filtered in some way, and should provide an easy-to-understand schema. Data showcase papers are expected to include:

  • a description of the data source,
  • a description of the methodology used to gather it (provenance; the tool used to create/generate/gather the data, if such a tool has been used, see below),
  • a description of the storage mechanism, including a schema if applicable,
  • if the data has been used by authors or others, a description of how this was done including references to previously published papers,
  • a description of the originality of the data set (that is, even if the dataset has been used in a published article, its complete description must be unpublished),
  • ideas for future research questions that could be answered using the data set,
  • ideas for further improvements that could be made to the data set, and
  • any limitations and/or challenges in creating or using the data set.

The data set should be made available at the time of submission of the paper for review, but will be considered confidential until publication of the paper. At latest upon publication of the paper the authors should archive data on preserved archives that can provide a digital object identifier (DOI) such as zenodo.org, figshare.com or institutional preserved archives. In this way the data will become citable; DOI-based citation of the dataset should be included in the camera-ready version. If the size of the dataset exceeds the limits imposed by the preserved archives (e.g., 50GB for zenodo), the authors can store their data on Archive.org and refer to the URL in their camera-ready version.

Data showcase papers are not:

  • empirical studies
  • tool demos
  • data sets that are
    • based on poorly explained or untrustworthy heuristics for data collection, or
    • result of trivial application of generic tools.

We expect all datasets to be accompanied by the source code of the tool that was used to create them, along with clear documentation on how to run the tool in order to recreate the datasets. The tool should be open source, accompanied by an appropriate license; the source code should be citable, i.e., refer to a specific release and have a DOI. GItHub provides an easy way to make source code citable. If you cannot provide the source code or the source code clause is not applicable (e.g., because the dataset consists of qualitative data), please provide a short explanation of why this is not possible.

Submission

Submit your data paper (maximum 4 pages, plus 1 additional page of references) to EasyChair on or before February 6th, 2019 (abstract due February 1st).

Submitted papers will undergo single-blind peer review. We opt for single-blind peer review (as opposed to the double-blind peer review of the main track) due to the requirement above to describe the ways how data has been used in the previous studies, including the bibliographic reference to those studies. Such reference is likely to disclose the authors’ identity.

To make research data sets and research software accessible and citable, we further encourage authors to attend to the FAIR rules, i.e. data should be: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

The submission must conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

Papers submitted for consideration should not have been published elsewhere and should not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. The submission must also comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship. To submit please use the EasyChair link.

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete an IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions. At least one author of each paper is expected to present the results at the MSR conference. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2019. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to the published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.

A selection of the best papers will be invited to EMSE Special Issue.

Important Dates

Abstracts Due: February 1, 2019

Papers Due: February 6, 2019

Author Notification: March 1, 2019

Camera Ready: March 15, 2019

Organization

Nicole Novielli, University of Bari, Italy

Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands