Scale effects and other stories
Scale effects and other stories
Location:
Seacliff A/B
Track:
Time:
Monday, 2:50pm - 3:40pm
Abstract:
This talk describes a few gems we found when mining the source code of 30,000 open source Java projects. You will hear about how scale affects the internal structure of projects and whether the popularity of libraries is correlated with internal software metrics such as bug density.
Crista Lopes is a Professor of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on software engineering for large-scale data and systems. Early in her career, she was a founding member of the team at Xerox PARC that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming. Along with her research program, she is also a prolific software developer. Her open source contributions include being one of the core developers of OpenSimulator, a virtual world server. She is also a founder of Encitra, a company specializing in online virtual reality for early-stage sustainable urban redevelopment projects. She has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, including a prestigious CAREER Award. She claims to be the only person in the world who is both an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Ohloh Kudos Rank 9.