MSR 2005 international workshop on mining software repositories

A one-day workshop on the topic of mining software repositories was held at ICSE 2005 in St. Louis, Missouri. Researchers and practitioners in this field try to transform static record keeping software repositories to active ones. These repositories enable researchers to gain empirically based understanding of software development, while software practitioners use them to predict and plan various aspects of their project. After the surprisingly high number of submissions and attendance of the first iteration of the MSR workshop in 2004, it turned out that MSR 2005 even attracted more people. We finally had XX registered participants for the workshop. Due to the high quality of submitted papers, we decided to squeeze 22 papers into one day by having 11 of the papers be presented as Lightning talks ? an euphemism for 5 minutes presentations. There was a very vivid combined discussions and demo session after these talks. When asking the audience at the end of the workshop, they indicated...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt, Stephan Diehl
• Keywords: ICSE 2005, Lightning Talks Session, Mining Software Repositories, Repositories Enable Researchers, Software Engineering