CPSC 689-010 Software Ecosystems Spring 2025

Archive

• Week 6 Class 12 Thu Feb 20 Posted: Feb 20

  After Class

  • I will present on Tuesday, Feb 25. The paper to read is:

    M. L. Collard, H. H. Kagdi and J. I. Maletic, "An XML-based lightweight C++ fact extractor" 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension, 2003., Portland, OR, USA, 2003, pp. 134-143, doi:10.1109/WPC.2003.1199197

  • Papers for Thursday, Feb 27

    I have volunteers for the following:

    • Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang, and Brad A. Myers. 2024. "A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges". In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 52, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3608128
    • Antonio Borrelli, Vittoria Nardone, Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Gerardo Canfora, and Massimiliano Di Penta. 2020. "Detecting Video Game-Specific Bad Smells in Unity Projects". In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 198–208. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387454

  Agenda

  • K. Eng and A. Hindle, "Revisiting Dockerfiles in Open Source Software Over Time" 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pp. 449-459, doi: 10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00057

  • A. Foundjem, E. E. Eghan and B. Adams, "A Grounded Theory of Cross-Community SECOs: Feedback Diversity Versus Synchronization" in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 4731-4750, 1 Oct. 2023, doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3313875.

  • Exercise 4: Research Paper Idea II Due: Noon Friday, Feb 21

    Refine your research paper idea based on my previous feedback and the feedback from your classmates. Include the following:

    1. Title or general area
    2. Short (one-paragraph) description
    3. Research questions, at least 3
    4. Research papers you would cite
    5. Research papers we could cover in class (subset of 4)

• Week 6 Class 12 Thu Feb 20 Posted: Feb 20

  Agenda

  • K. Eng and A. Hindle, "Revisiting Dockerfiles in Open Source Software Over Time" 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pp. 449-459, doi: 10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00057

  • A. Foundjem, E. E. Eghan and B. Adams, "A Grounded Theory of Cross-Community SECOs: Feedback Diversity Versus Synchronization" in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 4731-4750, 1 Oct. 2023, doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3313875.

  • Exercise 4: Research Paper Idea II Due: Noon Friday, Feb 21

    Refine your research paper idea based on my previous feedback and the feedback from your classmates. Include the following:

    1. Title or general area
    2. Short (one-paragraph) description
    3. Research questions, at least 3
    4. Research papers you would cite
    5. Research papers we could cover in class (subset of 4)

• Week 5 Class 10 Thu Feb 13 Posted: Feb 13

  After Class

  • President's Day Observance Tuesday, Feb 18 University open, no classes

  • Papers for Thursday, Feb 20:

  • K. Eng and A. Hindle, "Revisiting Dockerfiles in Open Source Software Over Time" 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pp. 449-459, doi: 10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00057

  • A. Foundjem, E. E. Eghan and B. Adams, "A Grounded Theory of Cross-Community SECOs: Feedback Diversity Versus Synchronization" in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 4731-4750, 1 Oct. 2023, doi:10.1109/TSE.2023.3313875.

  • Exercise 4: Research Paper Idea II Due: Noon Friday, Feb 21

    Refine your research paper idea based on my previous feedback and the feedback from your classmates. Include the following:

    1. Title or general area
    2. Short (one-paragraph) description
    3. Research questions, at least 3
    4. Research papers you would cite
    5. Research papers we could cover in class (subset of 4)

  Agenda

  • Flint, S.W., Chauhan, J. & Dyer, R. "Pitfalls and guidelines for using time-based Git data" Empirical Software Engineering 27, 194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10200-y

  • Tapajit Dey and Audris Mockus, "Effect of Technical and Social Factors on Pull Request Quality for the NPM Ecosystem". Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382494.3410685

• Week 5 Class 9 Tue Feb 11 Posted: Feb 11

  Announcements

  Papers for Thursday, Feb 13. I need volunteers by 4:30 pm on Tuesday, Feb 11.

  • Flint, S.W., Chauhan, J. & Dyer, R. "Pitfalls and guidelines for using time-based Git data" Empirical Software Engineering 27, 194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10200-y

  • Tapajit Dey and Audris Mockus, "Effect of Technical and Social Factors on Pull Request Quality for the NPM Ecosystem". Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382494.3410685

  Agenda

  • Speed Presentations

    Line up according to my instructions in class.

    Each round:

    • Start with groups of 2
    • Will last for 7 minutes
    • The first person present's and you discuss for 3.5 minutes
    • The second person present's and you discuss for 3.5 minutes
    • Get the other person's signature

    You will be directed where to move for the next round.

• Week 4 Class 8 Thu Feb 06 Posted: Feb 06

  After Class

  Papers for Thursday, Feb 13. I need volunteers by 4:30 pm on Monday, Feb 10.

  • Flint, S.W., Chauhan, J. & Dyer, R. "Pitfalls and guidelines for using time-based Git data" Empirical Software Engineering 27, 194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10200-y

  • Tapajit Dey and Audris Mockus, "Effect of Technical and Social Factors on Pull Request Quality for the NPM Ecosystem". Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382494.3410685

  Announcement

  • Speed Presentations

    In the next class we will be doing speed presentations. Bring you research ideas to class after taking into account my feedback (posted soon).

    There will be no paper presentations next class.

  Agenda

  • Lukas Moldon, Markus Strohmaier, and Johannes Wachs. 2021. "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub". In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '21). IEEE Press, 549–561.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058

  • "Dependency Update Adoption Patterns in the Maven Software Ecosystem" Pre-print is in Brightspace.

• Week 4 Class 7 Tue Feb 04 Posted: Feb 04

  After Class

  Papers for Thursday, Feb 6:

  • Lukas Moldon, Markus Strohmaier, and Johannes Wachs. 2021. "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub". In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '21). IEEE Press, 549–561.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058

  • "Dependency Update Adoption Patterns in the Maven Software Ecosystem" Pre-print is in Brightspace.

  Announcement

  Exercise 3

  Create a list of at least 4 research paper ideas. Put them in a form that can be shared with the rest of the class. Due Feb 5 at 4:30 pm.

  Agenda

  • Igor Steinmacher, Gustavo Pinto, Igor Scaliante Wiese, and Marco A. Gerosa. 2018. "Almost there: a study on quasi-contributors in open source software projects". In the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18). pp. 256–266, https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180208

  • Michael W. Godfrey and Daniel M. German., "The Past, Present, and Future of Software Evolution", Invited paper in Proceedings of Frontiers of Software Maintenace track at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Sept 28-Oct 4 2008, Beijing, China

• Week 3 Class 6 Thu Jan 30 Posted: Jan 30

  After Class

  Papers for Tuesday, Feb 4:

  • Igor Steinmacher, Gustavo Pinto, Igor Scaliante Wiese, and Marco A. Gerosa. 2018. "Almost there: a study on quasi-contributors in open source software projects". In the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18). pp. 256–266, https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180208

  • Michael W. Godfrey and Daniel M. German., "The Past, Present, and Future of Software Evolution", Invited paper in Proceedings of Frontiers of Software Maintenace track at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Sept 28-Oct 4 2008, Beijing, China

  Exercise 3

  Create a list of at least 4 research paper ideas. Put them in a form that can be shared with the rest of the class.

  Due Feb 5 at 4:30 pm.

  Announcement

  • Exercises

  Agenda

  • R. Paul, A. Bosu, and K. Z. Sultana, "Expressions of Sentiments during Code Reviews: Male vs. Female" IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2019, pp. 26–37. doi: 10.1109/SANER.2019.8667987

  • Martin Obaidi, Lukas Nagel, Alexander Specht, and Jil Klünder. "Sentiment analysis tools in software engineering: A systematic mapping study" Information and Software Technology, v 151, Nov 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107018

• Week 3 Class 5 Tue Jan 28 Posted: Jan 28

  Agenda

  • D. Dig and R. Johnson, "How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring" Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 83–107, Mar. 2006

  • R. Kikas, G. Gousios, M. Dumas, and D. Pfahl, "Structure and Evolution of Package Dependency Networks" in 2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 2017, pp. 102–112. doi: 10.1109/MSR.2017.55

  Papers for Thursday, Jan 30

  • R. Paul, A. Bosu, and K. Z. Sultana, "Expressions of Sentiments during Code Reviews: Male vs. Female" IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2019, pp. 26–37. doi: 10.1109/SANER.2019.8667987

  • Martin Obaidi, Lukas Nagel, Alexander Specht, and Jil Klünder. "Sentiment analysis tools in software engineering: A systematic mapping study" Information and Software Technology, v 151, Nov 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107018

• Week 2 Class 4 Thu Jan 23 Posted: Jan 23

  After Class

  Papers For Tuesday, Jan 28

  • D. Dig and R. Johnson, "How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring" Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 83–107, Mar. 2006

  • R. Kikas, G. Gousios, M. Dumas, and D. Pfahl, "Structure and Evolution of Package Dependency Networks" in 2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 2017, pp. 102–112. doi: 10.1109/MSR.2017.55

  I need volunteers for the following papers for Thursday, Jan 30. Let me know by 8 am on Tuesday, or I will assign these.

  • R. Paul, A. Bosu, and K. Z. Sultana, "Expressions of Sentiments during Code Reviews: Male vs. Female" IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2019, pp. 26–37. doi: 10.1109/SANER.2019.8667987

  • Martin Obaidi, Lukas Nagel, Alexander Specht, and Jil Klünder. "Sentiment analysis tools in software engineering: A systematic mapping study" Information and Software Technology, v 151, Nov 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107018

  Announcements

  • Participation scores in Brightspace
  • Exercises

  Agenda

  • 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

  • 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

• Week 2 Class 3 Tue Jan 21 Posted: Jan 21

  Special Note Class on Tuesday, Jan 21, will be online in Teams. You should have an entry in your Teams Calendar. If not, I will post a link on Brightspace.

  Announcements

  • Participation scores in Brightspace

  Agenda

  • Papers Today:

    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.

    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.

  • 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

    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

• Week 1 Class 2 Thu Jan 16 Posted: Jan 16

  Special Note Class on Tuesday, Jan 21, will be online in Teams. You should have an entry in your Teams Calendar. If not, I will post a link on Brightspace.

  For Class on Tuesday

  • Crossword is posted. Link now works. Due by Noon on Tuesday.

  • 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

    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

    I need volunteers to present. Email me your paper preference. If I do not have a volunteer by Monday at 5 pm, I will assign the paper to one of you.

  Announcements

  • Remote Teaching In anticipation of the forecasted cold and possible extreme wind chills, class on Tuesday, Jan. 21, will be remote. We will meet via Teams.
  • Exercise scores in Brightspace
  • Need volunteers for the papers on Tuesday
  • On Friday, I will post papers for Thursday
  • Have a crossword for this paper. I will post it after class.

  Agenda

  • 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 link to the slides

  • Papers for Tuesday. Read these before class on Tuesday. I need a volunteer for each paper:

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • Exercise 2: The Promises and Perils of Mining Git Crossword

• Week 1 Class 1 Tue Jan 14 Posted: Jan 14

  Agenda

  • Inspiration
  • Syllabus
  • Exercise 1: Survey Results

  • GitHub You are required to have a GitHub account.

    Optionally, you can apply for the Student Github Developer Pack and get a free GitHub Pro account. To apply, your account email can be a school account or a personal account if you upload documents to prove your current enrollment status.

  • Research Paper for Thursday The main part of the content of the course are the research paper presentations and discussions. All students are expected to read the research paper before the class meeting, and be able to discuss it after the presentation. The first paper will be covered on Thursday, Jan 16.

    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.

  • Notes: Background
• Welcome Posted: Jan 09

  Greetings and welcome to CPSC 689 Software Ecosystems for Spring 2025.

  • Exercise 1: Survey Fill out the CPSC 689 Software Ecosystems Survey. Due Tuesday, Jan 14 by 10:30 am.
  • Syllabus The syllabus for the course is on the main course page. I am still refining it, so it is a draft. I will finalize the syllabus before our first class meeting.

  • GitHub You are required to have a GitHub account.

    Optionally, you can apply for the Student Github Developer Pack and get a free GitHub Pro account. To apply, your account email can be a school account or a personal account if you upload documents to prove your current enrollment status.

  • First Research Paper The main part of the content of the course are the research paper presentations and discussions. All students are expected to read the research paper before the class meeting, and be able to discuss it after the presentation. The first paper will be covered on Thursday, Jan 16.

    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 you on Tuesday, Jan 14 at 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in Arts & Sciences (CAS) room 134