Publications:
You can find the last few years paper
below. For older papers, please refer to my DBLP entry. If you need copies of any of
my papers, please do drop me a note! I am very happy to send you copies of my
papers! :)
2020
Hung Viet-Pham, Shangshu Qian, Jiannan Wang, Thibaud Lutellier,
Jonathan Rosenthal, Lin Tan, L., Yaoliang Yu, Nachiappan Nagappan:
Problems and Opportunities in Training Deep-Learning Software
Systems: An Analysis of Variance, To Appear: Automated Software Engineering
Conference (ASE), 2020.
Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas
Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah:
An Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using
Search Logs. To appear: Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Conference (ESEM), 2020.
Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan:
The State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub. To appear: Mining
Software Repositories (MSR) Conference, 2020. [paper]
2019
Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine,
Harald C. Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas
Zimmermann:
Software engineering for machine learning: a case study. ICSE
(SEIP) 2019: 291-300 [paper]
Adithya Abraham Philip, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rahul Kumar, Chandra
Shekhar Maddila, Nachiappan Nagappan:
FastLane: test minimization for rapidly deployed large-scale online
services. ICSE 2019: 408-418 [paper]
Song Wang, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Adithya Abraham
Philip:
Leveraging Change Intents for Characterizing and Identifying
Large-Review-Effort Changes. PROMISE 2019: 46-55 [paper]
Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan:
Predicting pull request completion time: a case study on large
scale cloud services. Industry Track. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2019: 874-882 [paper]
2018
Ayushi Rastogi, Nachiappan Nagappan, Georgios Gousios, Andre van
der Hoek:
Relationship between geographical location and evaluation of
developer contributions in github. ESEM 2018: 22:1-22:8 [paper]
2017
Jeff Huang, Eddie Q. Yan, Gifford Cheung, Nachiappan Nagappan,
Thomas Zimmermann:
Master Maker: Understanding Gaming Skill Through Practice and
Habit From Gameplay Behavior. topiCS 9(2): 437-466 (2017) [paper]
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, David Lo, Julia Lawall, Nachiappan
Nagappan:
Code Coverage and Post-release Defects: A Large-Scale Study on
Open Source Projects. IEEE Trans. Reliability 66(4): 1213-1228 (2017) [paper]
Denae Ford, Tom Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan:
Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on
Knowledge Worker Actions. ESEM 2017: 394-403 [paper]
Ayushi Rastogi, Suresh Thummalapenta, Thomas Zimmermann,
Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka:
Ramp-up Journey of New Hires: Do strategic practices of software
companies influence productivity? ISEC 2017: 107-111 [paper]
2016
Xin Xia, David Lo, Sinno Jialin Pan, Nachiappan Nagappan, Xinyu
Wang:
HYDRA: Massively Compositional Model for Cross-Project Defect
Prediction. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 42(10): 977-998 (2016) [paper]
Ayushi Rastogi, Nachiappan Nagappan:
On the Personality Traits of GitHub Contributors. ISSRE 2016:
77-86 [paper]
Ayushi Rastogi, Nachiappan Nagappan:
Forking and the Sustainability of the Developer Community
Participation - An Empirical Investigation on Outcomes and Reasons. SANER 2016:
102-111 [paper]
2015
Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan
Nagappan:
Do topics make sense to managers and developers? Empirical
Software Engineering 20(2): 479-515 (2015) [paper]
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird,
Nachiappan Nagappan:
The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It. IEEE
Trans. Software Eng. 41(1): 65-81 (2015) [paper]
Erik Harpstead, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jose J.
Guajardo, Ryan Cooper, Tyson Solberg, Dan Greenawalt:
What Drives People: Creating Engagement Profiles of Players from
Game Log Data. CHI PLAY 2015: 369-379 [paper]
Ayushi Rastogi, Suresh Thummalapenta, Thomas Zimmermann,
Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka:
Ramp-Up Journey of New Hires: Tug of War of Aids and Impediments.
ESEM 2015: 96-105 [paper]
Kim Herzig, Nachiappan Nagappan:
Empirically Detecting False Test Alarms Using Association Rules.
ICSE (2) 2015: 39-48 [paper]
Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, Nachiappan
Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, David Lo:
Understanding the Test Automation Culture of App Developers. ICST
2015: 1-10 [paper]
Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Nachiappan
Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann:
The Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications. MSR
2015: 34-44 [paper]
Kim Herzig, Nachiappan Nagappan:
The Impact of Test Ownership and Team Structure on the
Reliability, Effectiveness of Quality Test Runs. Software Engineering &
Management 2015: 105-106
David Lo, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann:
How practitioners perceive the relevance of software engineering
research. ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2015: 415-425 [paper]