MSR 2020
Mon 29 - Tue 30 June 2020
co-located with ICSE 2020
Tue 30 Jun 2020 16:15 - 16:30 at MSR:Zoom2 - Visions & Reflections Chair(s): Venera Arnaoudova

Research in Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is research involving human subjects, as the repositories usually contain data about developers’ interactions with the repositories. Therefore, any research in the area needs to consider the ethics implications of the intended activity before starting. This paper presents a discussion of the ethics implications of MSR research, using the mining challenges from the years 2010 to 2019 as a case study. It highlights problems that one may encounter in creating such datasets, and discusses ethics challenges that may be encountered when using existing datasets. An analysis of 102 accepted papers to the Mining Challenge Track suggests that none had an explicit discussion of ethics considerations. Whilst this does not necessarily mean ethics were not considered, the sparsity of discussion leads us to suggest that the MSR community should at least increase awareness by openly discussing ethicas considerations.

Tue 30 Jun

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16:00 - 17:00
Visions & ReflectionsTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom2
Chair(s): Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University

Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack)

16:00
15m
Live Q&A
The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHubMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Danielle Gonzalez Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Nachiappan Nagappan Microsoft Research
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:15
15m
Live Q&A
Ethical Mining – A Case Study on MSR Mining ChallengesACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Nicolas Gold University College London, Jens Krinke University College London
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:30
15m
Live Q&A
From Innovations to Prospects: What Is Hidden Behind Cryptocurrencies?MSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Ang Jia Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi Xu , Di Cui Xi'an Jiaotong University, Wenying Wei , Zijiang Yang Western Michigan University, Kai Ye , Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:45
15m
Live Q&A
What constitutes Software? An Empirical, Descriptive Study of ArtifactsMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached