Dr. Ying Zou is a Canada Research Chair in Software Evolution at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queens University in Canada. She is a prior recipient of the IBM CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year, and the IBM Faculty Award. Her research interests include Software Evolution, Empirical Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Computing. She is a senior IEEE member, a Member-at-Large in the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Service Computing.

Code clones are identical or similar code fragments. Code clones are introduced intentionally or accidentally by copy-and-paste actions. Once created, clones must be maintained as they evolve throughout the lifetime of a software system. Approximately 20% of code can be clones, with clones generally considered as a contributing factor to software defects. Due to the large amounts of clones, the limited resources available and time-to-market pressure, it is often intractable for developers to manage clones. In this talk, I share some of our experience and research findings in the effective management of clones throughout the evolution of large-scale software systems.

Jonathan I. Maletic, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University, Kent Ohio USA. He received the Ph.D. and M.S., both in Computer Science, from Wayne State University in 1995 and 1989 respectively. His research interests are centered on software evolution, with a focus on the comprehension, analysis, manipulation, transformation, reverse engineering, and visualization of large-scale software systems. Prof. Maletic has authored over 140 refereed publications. Three of his publications have received Most Influential Paper Awards. He is regularly funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and has averaged approximately $150K USD annually in external funding over the past 10 years. He regularly serves on numerous program committees including, but not limited to, the International Conference on Software Maintenance & Evolution (ICSME), the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), and the Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). He was general chair of ICSME 2019, program chair of both ICPC 2016 and ICSM 2012. He has also served on the steering committee for ICPC, ICSME, and VISSOFT. Prof. Maletic has graduated 18 doctoral students, 15 of whom hold an academic position. Six of these individuals have been awarded US NSF funding and two of these have received NSF CAREER awards.

srcML (srcML.org) is an infrastructure consisting of an XML representation for C/C++/C#/Java source code along with efficient parsing technology to convert source code to-and-from the srcML format. It is widely used by both academic researchers and industry practitioners alike. The project has been under development for over 15 years, with the first public release in 2005. The focus of the talk is on how the project progressed from a rough-around-the-edges research prototype to a highly scalable and robust software system. Included is a discussion of the problems encountered while constructing high-quality software in an academic environment. The need to develop testing platforms for the various builds and releases proves to be a large technical hurdle. Securing longterm developer expertise is also a struggle. The intent is to present the experiences of the srcML development team in choosing tools, processes, and platforms to support the wider adoption of the infrastructure. Additionally, there is an overview of the research that has leveraged srcML that highlights the diversity of projects and topics. The srcML infrastructure is freely available for download and licensed under GPL. The website has complete documentation on the format and language support, and downloadable executables for MS Windows, Mac OS, and various GNU Linux distributions.

Christian Bird is a principal researcher in the Software Analysis and Intelligence (SAINT) group at Microsoft Research. He is primarily interested in the relationship between software design, social dynamics, and processes in large development projects and in developing tools and techniques to help software teams. He has studied software development both quantitatively and qualitatively at Microsoft, IBM, and in the Open Source realm. Most recently his work has focused on developer productivity, code review, and release engineering. He has published in the top software engineering venues, has received multiple distinguished and test of time paper awards, and was given the ACM SigSoft Early Career Research award. Christian received B.S. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.

As a basic industrial research lab, Microsoft Research expects its members to both publish basic research and put it into practice. Unfortunately, moving from a validated technique or model in a published paper to a state where that same technique is being used by and providing value to software development projects on a regular basis in a consistent and timely fashion is a time consuming, fraught, and difficult task. We have attempted to make this transition, which we call "Tech Transfer", many times in the Software Analysis and Intelligence (SAINT) group at Microsoft Research. Much like research in general, there have been both triumphs and setbacks, but each experience has provided valuable insight and informed our next effort. This talk shares our experiences from successes and failures and provides lessons and guidance that can be used by others trying to transfer their research into practice in both industrial and academic contexts.