To Mock or Not To Mock?
Whenever we write a new piece of software, we have to decide whether we want to test it in its reals context and/or in isolation. The latter case is commonly...
MSR17
The Unix History Repository: Its creation, contents, and use.
MSR’s keynote is given by Diomidis Spinellis about the Unix History Repository. Unix is very large system originating from the Bell Laboratories. Many ideas ...
An Empirical Analysis on the Docker Container Ecosystem on Github
Docker containers power the infrastructure of modern deployments. Docker quickly became a de-facto standard in industry and made lightweight virtualization a...
Travis Torrent Mining Challenge
Travis is a free-of-charge continuous integration service tightly integrated with GitHub. Travis Torrent is a dataset containing build data about 1.200 Java ...
Research Infrastructure for MSR: Needs, Wants, and Where We Are
Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is an important research direction in the software engineering area. Today, researchers are exploring not only traditional...
Predicting Likelihood of Requirement Implementation within the Planned Iteration
The work was motivated by IBM’s desire to predict whether a feature would make it in the planned iteration. The work builds on previous work that predicts co...
Extracting Code Segments and Their Descriptions from Research Articles
Code examples from various source, such as StackOverflow or documentation, have been explored to support goals such as code recommendation, comment generatio...