Funded by Google Research Award

by kim September 7, 2010
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Google rewarded Andreas Zeller‘s research proposal was successful. Google rewarded our chair with a Google Research Award. The money funds my new research project conducted with and within Google.

Member of MSR2011 Challenge Committee

by kim September 7, 2010

Adrian Schröter asked me to be MSR 2011 challenge committee member. Thanks Adrian!

Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – ISSRE 2010

by kim August 3, 2010

In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that the features of such change bursts have the highest predictive power for defect-prone components. With precision and recall values well above 90%, change bursts [...]

Making Software: Rough Cuts Version

by kim July 16, 2010
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Andreas Zeller and myself wrote a book chapter for the book “Making Software” that will be published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. later this year. The editors Andy Oram and Greg Wilson have made “leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held [...]

Seminar: MSA 2010

by kim April 12, 2010

Software archives mining deals with the automated extraction, collection, and abstraction of data from the information generated during the software development process (e.g. source code archives, bug tracking systems, etc.). This seminar (7 CP) introduces the notion of software archives and teaches recent software archives mining techniques. More details here

Chair moves

by kim March 20, 2010
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On the 29th of March 2010, the software engineering chair moves to building E1 1 on the University campus. I am already working in my new office: Building E1 1, 1st floor, room 1.15. We also got new phone numbers (mine is +49 681 302 70986) but the old numbers will be forwarded to the [...]

Capturing the Long-Term Impact of Changes – ICSE 2010

by kim February 17, 2010

Developers change source code to add new functionality, fix bugs, or refactor their code. Many of these changes have immediate impact on quality or stability. However, some impact of changes may become evident only in the long term. The goal of this thesis is to explore the long-term impact of changes by detecting dependencies between [...]

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