Hall of Fame—Distinguished Papers

• Towards Building a Universal Defect Prediction Model
  Feng Zhang, Audris Mockus, Iman Keivanloo and Ying Zou
• The Impact of Code Review Coverage and Code Review Participation on Software Quality: A Case Study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK Projects
  Shane Mcintosh, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan
• Automatically Mining Software-based, Semantically-similar Words from Comment-Code Mappings
  Matthew J. Howard, Lori Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker, and Samir Gupta
• Think Locally, Act Globally: Improving Defect and Effort Prediction Models
  Nicolas Bettenburg, Meiyappan Nagappan, and Ahmed E. Hassan
• Green mining: A methodology of relating software change to power consumption
  Abram Hindle
• How Developers Use the Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: the Case of Smalltalk
  Oscar Callaú, Romain Robbes, Éric Tanter, and David Röthlisberger
• Clones: What is that Smell?
  Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, and Premkumar Devanbu
• Mining search topics from a code search engine usage log
  Sushil Krishna Bajracharya and Cristina Videira Lopes
• AMAP: automatically mining abbreviation expansions in programs to enhance software maintenance tools
  Emily Hill, Zachary P. Fry, Haley Boyd, Giriprasad Sridhara, Yana Novikova, Lori L. Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker
• Identifying Changed Source Code Lines from Version Repositories
  Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, and Massimiliano Di Penta
• Mining Large Software Compilations over Time: Another Perspective of Software Evolution
  Gregorio Robles, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Martin Michlmayr, and Juan Jose Amor

Hall of Fame—Mining Challenge Winners

• Sentiment Analysis of Commit Messages in GitHub: An Empirical Study
  Emitza Guzman, David Azócar and Yang Li
• Encouraging User Behaviour with Achievements: An Empirical Study
  Scott Grant and Buddy Betts
• Do the Stars Align? Multidimensional Analysis of Android's Layered Architecture
  Victor Guana, Fabio Rocha, Abram Hindle, Eleni Stroulia
• Apples Vs. Oranges? An exploration of the challenges of comparing the source code of two software systems
  Daniel M. German and Julius Davies
• Cloning and Copying between GNOME Projects
  Jens Krinke, Nicolas Gold, Yue Jia, and David Binkley
• On the use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) meeting by developers of the GNOME GTK+ project
  Emad Shihab, Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan
• A newbie's guide to Eclipse APIs
  Reid Holmes and Robert J. Walker
• Mining Eclipse Developer Contributions via Author-Topic Models
  Erik Linstead, Paul Rigor, Sushil Bajracharya, Cristina Lopes, and Pierre Baldi
• A study of the contributors of PostgreSQL
  Daniel M. German

Hall of Fame—Honorable Mention

• (Challenge Winner) Sentiment Analysis of Commit Messages in GitHub: An Empirical Study
  Emitza Guzman, David Azócar and Yang Li
• Do developers discuss design?
  João Brunet, Gail C. Murphy, Ricardo Terra, Jorge Figueiredo and Dalton Serey
• A Study of External Community Contribution to Open-Source Projects on GitHub
  Rohan Padhye, Senthil Mani and Vibha Singhal Sinha

Hall of Fame—Best Data Showcase Awards

• A dataset for pull-based development research
  Georgios Gousios and Andy Zaidman
• The GHTorent Dataset and Tool Suite
  Georgios Gousios

Hall of Fame—Dot Awards

• Thomas Fritz
  MSR Seniors Category
• Joshua Campbell
  MSR Students Category