The Mining Software Repositories community has introduced a series of two awards, the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award and the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
For more information, please check the Mining Software Repositories Awards 2020 website.
Award Winners
Mon 29 JunDisplayed time zone: (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time change
11:00 - 12:00 | Build, CI, & DependenciesTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom Chair(s): Raula Gaikovina Kula NAIST Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack) | ||
11:00 12mLive Q&A | A Tale of Docker Build Failures: A Preliminary StudyMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Yiwen Wu National University of Defense Technology, Yang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, China, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology, Huaimin Wang Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:12 12mLive Q&A | Using Others' Tests to Avoid Breaking UpdatesMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Suhaib Mujahid Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Shane McIntosh McGill University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:24 12mLive Q&A | A Dataset of DockerfilesMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Jordan Henkel University of Wisconsin–Madison, A: Christian Bird Microsoft Research, A: Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, A: Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Media Attached | ||
11:36 12mLive Q&A | Empirical Study of Restarted and Flaky Builds on Travis CIMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Thomas Durieux KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Rui Abreu Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:48 12mLive Q&A | LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log AnalysisMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Carolin Brandt Delft University of Technology, A: Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, A: Andy Zaidman TU Delft, A: Moritz Beller Facebook, USA Pre-print Media Attached | ||
Tue 30 JunDisplayed time zone: (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time change
11:00 - 12:00 | SecurityData Showcase / Technical Papers at MSR:Zoom2 Chair(s): Dimitris Mitropoulos Athens University of Economics and Business Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack) | ||
11:00 12mLive Q&A | Did You Remember To Test Your Tokens?MSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Danielle Gonzalez Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Michael Rath Technische Universität Ilmenau, Mehdi Mirakhorli Rochester Institute of Technology DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:12 12mLive Q&A | Automatically Granted Permissions in Android appsMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Paolo Calciati IMDEA Software Institute, Konstantin Kuznetsov Saarland University, CISPA, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Media Attached | ||
11:24 12mLive Q&A | PUMiner: Mining Security Posts from Developer Question and Answer Websites with PU LearningMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Triet Le The University of Adelaide, David Hin , Roland Croft , Muhammad Ali Babar The University of Adelaide DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:36 12mLive Q&A | A C/C++ Code Vulnerability Dataset with Code Changes and CVE SummariesMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Jiahao Fan New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, A: Yi Li New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, A: Shaohua Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, A: Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas Media Attached | ||
11:48 12mLive Q&A | The Impact of a Major Security Event on an Open Source Project: The Case of OpenSSLMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers James Walden Northern Kentucky University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:00 - 13:45 | Award TalksMSR Awards at MSR:Zoom Chair(s): Andy Zaidman TU Delft Live YouTube: https://youtu.be/97JCEBPZHkU | ||
13:00 22mTalk | Most Influential Paper TalkMSR - Award Talk MSR Awards A: Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), A: Marco D'ambros , A: Romain Robbes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | ||
13:22 22mTalk | MSR Foundational Contribution TalkMSR - Award Talk MSR Awards | ||
13:45 - 14:00 | "Closing" & MSR 2021MSR Plenary at MSR:Zoom Chair(s): Georgios Gousios Delft University of Technology, Sunghun Kim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta Live YouTube: https://youtu.be/97JCEBPZHkU | ||
14:30 - 15:00 | Tutorial 2: Software AnalyticsEducation / Technical Papers at MSR:Zoom2 Chair(s): Abram Hindle University of Alberta, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Q/A for tutorial (Joining info available on Slack) | ||
14:30 30mTutorial | Mutation Testing Meets Software Analytics: A Hands-On TutorialMSR - Tutorial Education Media Attached | ||
Unscheduled Events
| Not scheduled Awards | Honorable Mention for MIP Award MSR Awards | ||
| Not scheduled Awards | Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award MSR Awards |
Call for Nomination
The Mining Software Repositories community has introduced a series of two awards, the MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award and the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award
This award recognizes outstanding junior researchers who have provided outstanding contributions in the area of mining software repositories. The award recognizes research outputs produced by candidates during the early stages of their career. To be eligible, a candidate’s most recent computer-related educational degree (baccalaureate, masters, or doctoral degree) must have been awarded on or after January 1, 2013. If the degree included a defense, the defense must have occurred on or after January 1, 2013. If the degree included a thesis, but did not require a defense, then the final submission of the thesis must have occurred on or after January 1, 2013. The award is named after Dr. Ric Holt (1941 – 2019) who was a professor at the University of Waterloo.
For the MSR 2019 Early Career Achievement Award, the recipient is Emad Shihab for contributions to the state of the art in research and practice in software quality assurance as well as outreach and education efforts throughout the international MSR community.
MSR Foundational Contribution Award
The MSR Foundational Contribution Award recognizes individuals, or groups of individuals, having produced fundamental contributions in the field of mining software repositories, which helped many others (not limited to the MSR community) to build on it to advance the state of the art. It could be a tool, a dataset, a repository, or a mixture of contributions opening new research areas. It is not a requirement that such a research contribution has been presented at the MSR conference at some point. Having received other recognitions for the same contribution does not preclude an individual to be nominated for the MSR Foundational Contribution Award.
For the MSR 2019 Foundational Contribution Award, the recipient is Katsuro Inoue for fostering a vibrant international community around software clone analysis and the development of the CCFinder clone detector, which has enabled countless others to do research involving code clones.
Nominations Procedure
The awards are based on nominations. Nomination letters must be sent via email, in PDF format, to the addresses:
ying.zou@queensu.ca;a.e.zaidman@tudelft.nl
Along with the nomination letter, the nominator must enclose between one and three reference letters. Letters cannot be from the nominator herself, and can be typically short reference letter (1-2 pages), although longer letters are welcome. Self-nominations are disallowed.
The nomination letter must contain:
- Nominator Name
- Nominator Affiliation
- Nominator Email
- Nominee(s) Name(s) (can be multiple people for the MSR Foundational Contribution Award)
- Nominee(s) Affiliation(s)
- Nominee(s) Email(s)
- Proposed citation (25 words)
- Short nomination statement (max 250 words)
- Detailed nomination (not limited)
- (attached) up to three reference letters in PDF format
Eligibility criteria
Award Committee Chairs, Award Committee Members, the current and the 1st past Steering Committee Chairs of MSR cannot nominate, cannot be nominated, and cannot endorse (write letters).
Everyone else, including Steering Committee Members, can nominate, be nominated, and endorse (write letters).
2020 Award recipients
For the MSR Foundational Contribution award the recipient is
Jonathan Maletic and Michael Collard for the srcML infrastructure, which addresses many hard problems in source code parsing and has fostered a wide range of research innovations throughout software engineering.
For the Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award the recipient is
Alberto Bacchelli for his seminal contributions to modern code review.
MSR honorable mention as a Most Influential Paper from MSR 2010 is
“Replicating MSR: A study of the potential replicability of papers published in the Mining Software Repositories proceedings”, by Gregorio Robles for highlighting the importance of replication in mining software repositories.
| Mon 25 - Tue 26 May 2020 Award ceremony |
| Mon 2 Mar 2020 Notification |
| Mon 3 Feb 2020 Nominations deadline |
Ying ZouMSR Award Co-Chair
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Andy ZaidmanMSR Award Co-Chair
TU Delft
Netherlands
Bram Adams
MCIS, Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Christian Bird
Microsoft Research
United States
Sonia Haiduc
Florida State University
United States
Abram Hindle
University of Alberta
Canada
Tim Menzies
North Carolina State University
United States
Emad Shihab
Concordia University
Canada