Sharing Data and Models in Software Engineering

Foreword

Prof. Prem Devanbu, Computer Science, University of California, Davis, California, USA, June 10, 2014

During the last decade, there have been several thriving research conferences on data mining and software engineering. Two of them, called MSR and PROMISE, both happened to meet at the International Conference on Software Engineering. Due to some cosmic quirk of scheduling, MSR and PROMISE often meet at the same time, in the same corridor, sometimes even in the next room. But both events had full schedules so we rarely made it to each other sessions.

At that time, I was involved in MSR (the Mining Software Repositories conference) while the authors of this book were mostly involved in PROMISE. Naturally, we were very curious about ...