CPSC 689-010 Software Ecosystems Fall 2026

Week 1 Class 2 Thu Aug 27 Posted: Aug 27

After Class

• Presentations: As we start the student presentations, keep the following in mind:
  • Include slide numbers on every slide.
  • Include the paper’s title, authors, venue, and publication date.
  • Do not include a “Thank You” slide.
  • Put all potential discussion questions on a single slide and end your presentation on this slide. This makes it easier to refer back to the questions during discussion.
  • If you are presenting the first paper, set up before class and be ready to start promptly at 9:15 am. Lower the screen, turn on the projector, and make sure your presentation is in Slide Show View or Play Mode.
  • We have approximately 35 minutes per paper, including discussion. Aim for a 20-minute presentation, leaving about 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
  • Have the complete paper open and readily accessible so that we can refer to it during the discussion.
  • Send me a PDF of your slides, one slide per page, by 8:45 am on the day you are presenting.

Announcements

• Participation scores in Brightspace
• Need volunteers for the papers on Tuesday and Thursday

Agenda

• Notes: Background
• The Promises and Perils of Mining Git by Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. German, and Premkumar Devanbu. The 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'09). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009, pp. 1-10, DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069475.
• See Brightspace for a PDF of the presentations

• Papers for Tuesday. Read these before class on Tuesday:

  • R. Di Cosmo and S. Zacchiroli, “Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code”, in iPRES 2017 - 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2017, pp. 1–10. Presenter: Niraj Jaishwal

  • Y. Ma et al., “World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data”, Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 22, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10664-020-09905-9. Presenter: Mike Weyandt

  I need volunteers to present. Email me your paper preference. If I do not have a volunteer by Friday at 3 pm, I will randomly assign the paper to one of you.

• Papers for Thursday:

  • E. Kalliamvakou, G. Gousios, K. Blincoe, L. Singer, D. M. German, and D. Damian, “The promises and perils of mining GitHub” in Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, in MSR 2014. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, May 2014, pp. 92–101. doi: 10.1145/2597073.2597074 Presenter: Collin Jett

  • A. Ait, J. L. C. Izquierdo and J. Cabot, "An Empirical Study on the Survival Rate of GitHub Projects" 2022 IEEE/ACM 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022, pp. 365-375, doi: 10.1145/3524842.3527941 Presenter: Luke Gegick

  I need volunteers to present each paper. Email me your paper preference. If I do not have a volunteer by Monday at 3 pm, I will randomlyassign the paper to one of you.