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
• 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, Sociotechnical Coordination and Collaboration in Open Source Software, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE, 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, Thomas Zimmermann, and Alex Teterev, A Theory of Branches as Goals and Virtual Teams, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 29 May 2011
• Chris Parnin, Christian Bird, and Emerson Murphy-Hill, Java Generics Adoption: How New Features are Introduced, Championed, or Ignored, in Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, ACM, 27 May 2011
• Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachi Nagappan, and Thomas Zimmermann, Empirical Software Engineering at Microsoft Research, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 19 March 2011

2010

• Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, and Premkumar Devanbu, An Empirical Study on the Influence of Pattern Roles on Change-Proneness, in Empirical Software Engineering, an International Journal, Springer Verlag, 24 December 2010
• Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Premkumar Devanbu, and Abraham Bernstein, The Missing Links: Bugs and Bug-fix Commits, in SIGSOFT '10/FSE-18: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2010
• Christian Bird, Adrian Bachman, Foyzur Rahman, and Abraham Bernstein, Linkster: Enabling Efficient Manual Mining, in Demonstration Track, Proceedings of the 17th SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, ACM, November 2010
• Earl Barr, Christian Bird, Eric Hyatt, Tim Menzies, and Gregorio Robles, On the Shoulders of Giants, in FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2010
• Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Harald Gall, Premkumar Devanbu, and Brendan Murphy, An Analysis of the Effect of Code Ownership on Software Quality across Windows, Eclipse, and Firefox, no. MSR-TR-2010-140, October 2010
• Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, and Premkumar Devanbu, Clones: What is that Smell?, in Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE Computer Society, May 2010
• Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, and Vladimir Filkov, Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE Computer Society, May 2010
• Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, and Premkumar Devanbu, Thex: Mining Metapatterns in Java, in Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE Computer Society, May 2010

2009

• Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, and Brendan Murphy, Putting it All Together: Using Socio-Technical Networks to Predict Failures, in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, November 2009
• Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, and Brendan Murphy, Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista, in Communication of the ACM, 1 August 2009
• Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John Duffy, Abraham Bernstein, Vladimir Filkov, and Premkumar Devanbu, Fair and Balanced? Bias in Bug-Fix Datasets, in Proceedings of the the Seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on The Foundations of Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2009
• Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, and Brendan Murphy, Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality? An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, May 2009
• Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, David J. Hamilton, Daniel M. German, and Prem Devanbu, The Promises and Perils of Mining Git, in Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, May 2009
• Christian Bird, Earl Barr, Andre Nash, Premkumar Devanbu, Vladimir Filkov, and Zhendong Su, Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science, in Proceedings of the Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SIAM, April 2009

2006

• Christian Bird, Alex Gourley, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, and Anand Swaminathan, Mining Email Social Networks, in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Mining software repositories, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, May 2006