Welcome. My name is Thomas "TomZ" Zimmermann and since November 2008, I am a Researcher at Microsoft Research in Seattle, USA. In addition, I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. I received my PhD from Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
My research focuses on improving programmer productivity and I developed techniques and tools that make both managers and developers aware of history. Learning from past successes and failures will help us to create better software.
For more information on my current research at Microsoft, visit Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Research (ESM) at Microsoft. To find out more about my previous work logon to my personal homepage.
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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
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Philip J. Guo, and Brendan Murphy, Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Reopened, in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012 SEIP Track), IEEE, June 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
Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, and Nachiappan Nagappan, Appendix to A Field Study of Refactoring Rationale, Benefits, and Challenges at Microsoft, no. MSR-TR-2012-4, 11 January 2012
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
Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, Andrian Marcus, and Thomas Zimmermann, Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction, in Proceedings of the 26st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011), IEEE, 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
Ayse Tosun Misirli, Brendan Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann, and Ayse Basar, An Explanatory Analysis on Eclipse Beta-Release Bugs Through In-Process Metrics, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ 2011), ACM, September 2011
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