MSR course SS 2016: Research projects

Summary

Work in teams on different research projects in the MSR context.

Logistics

Group building and topic to group assignment during meeting on Tuesday, 24 May
Mandatory student consultations with Hakan Aksu on Tuesday, 31 May
Student presentations during course slot on Tuesday, 14 June
Submit your code, .pdf and sources of your presentation to svn: https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/softlang/msrcourse/msr16/students/

Developer interview on experience
- What are the underlying hypotheses?
- What answering behaviour do we rely on?
- What psychological factors are important?
- What should we ask?
- How should we contact the interview partners?
- How we should evaluate the results?
- What makes a successful developer interview?
- The team prepares the actual interview very well.
- The method shall work preferably for our "projects of interest".

Identity management
- What are the differences between committers and authors?
- How do we identify that different commit identities belong to the same developer?
- What developer information can we access / use?
- What methods of identity management can we use?
- How many developers?
- How many commiters?
- What is the distribution of commit counts for committers versus authors?
- The team actually addresses these questions for our "projects of interest".

Commit classification
- Initially, two classes of commits should be identified:
  - Commits that fix bus
  - Commits that should not count as experience (because of reasons like reorganization)
- What are the challenges in such a context?
  - For instance, how to deal with issues being reopened?
  - Whether or not to assume experience for developers commenting on an issue?
  - …
- Which methods can we use to identify the classes?
  - bug assignment methods?
  - clone detection methods?
  - natural language processing?
  - other methods?
- The team actually addresses these questions for our "projects of interest".

Commit classification
- Jannik Beck
- Matthias Paul
- Johannes Klöckner
- Tobias Schmidt

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