Christian Bird
Email: cbird/microsoft/com
I am currently a Researcher at Microsoft Research working on Empirical Software Engineering as part of the Research in Software Engineering RiSE group. I received my bachelor's degree in CS from Brigham Young University and my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis, studying empirical software engineering under my advisor Prem Devanbu. I'm currently working on ways to use data to guide decisions of stakeholders in large software projects.
I currently work with Thomas Zimmermann and Nachi Nagappan in the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research.
For a complete list of publications, positions held, etc., please see my CV.
Recent Publications
2013
- Ekrem Kocaguneli, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Tim Menzies, Distributed Development Considered Harmful?, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (Software Engineering in Practice track), IEEE, May 2013
- Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird, Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE, May 2013
- Emerson Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, and Nachiappan Nagappan, The Design of Bug Fixes, in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), IEEE, May 2013
2012
- Christian Bird and Thomas Zimmermann, Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis, in Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2012
- Abram Hindle, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, and Nachiappan Nagappan, Relating Requirements to Implementation via Topic Analysis, in Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), IEEE, 25 September 2012
- Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, and Thomas Zimmermann, The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality, in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 19 September 2012
- Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, and Christian Bird, Representativeness in Software Engineering Research, no. MSR-TR-2012-93, 5 September 2012
- Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird, Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review, no. MSR-TR-2012-83, August 2012
- Christian Bird and Nachiappan Nagappan, Who? Where? What? Examining Distributed Development in Two Large Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE, June 2012
- Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abram Hindle, Daniel M. German, and Premkumar Devanbu, Cohesive and Isolated Development with Branches, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, Springer, April 2012
- Christian Bird and Thomas Zimmermann, Appendix to Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis, no. MSR-TR-2012-33, 16 March 2012
- Thomas Zimmermann and Christian Bird, Collaborative Software Development in Ten Years: Diversity, Tools, and Remix Culture, in Proceedings of the CSCW Workshop on the Future of Collaborative Software Development (FutureCSD 2012), ACM, February 2012
2011
- Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Mark Marron, Collecting a Heap of Shapes, no. MSR-TR-2011-135, December 2011
- Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, and Syed Emran, Detecting Energy Patterns in Software Development, no. MSR-TR-2011-106, 16 November 2011
- Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Wolfram Schulte, and Ekrem Kocaganeli, The Inductive Software Engineering Manifesto: Principles for Industrial Data Mining, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Sofware Engineering, ACM, November 2011
