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
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, ACM, September 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
- Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, and Christian Bird, Failure is a Four-Letter Word: A Parody in Empirical Research, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering, ACM, September 2011
- Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, brendan murphy, Harald Gall, and Premkumar Devanbu, Don't Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality, in Proceedings of the the eighth joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering, ACM, September 2011
- Qiaona Hong, Sunghun Kim, S. C. Cheung, and Christian Bird, Understanding a Developer Social Network and its Evolution, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE, September 2011
- Christian Bird, Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE, September 2011
