Thomas Zimmermann received the Diploma degree in computer science from
the University of Passau, and the PhD degree from Saarland University,
Germany. He is a researcher in the Software Reliability Research Group
at Microsoft Research, and an adjunct assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. His
research interests include empirical software engineering, mining
software repositories, software reliability, and development tools.

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Public Audience

English

60 Minutes

Saarbrücken

Software engineering is an data rich activity: changes to source code
are recorded in version archives, bugs are reported to issue tracking
systems, and communications are archived in e-mails and newsgroups. The
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESM) group at Microsoft
Research analyzes such data to better understand various software
development issues from an empirical perspective. In this talk, I will
highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our
research on socio technical congruence, bug reporting and triaging, and
data-driven software engineering. I will highlight our unique ability to
leverage industrial data and developers and the ability to make near
term impact on Microsoft via the results of our studies. The work
presented in this talk has been done by Chris Bird, Brendan Murphy,
Nachi Nagappan, myself, and many others who have visited our group over
the past years.

Thomas Zimmermann

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