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Thomas Zimmermann

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

101

Venues

20

Active years

2004–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

101 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026MSRUnderstanding Dominant Themes in Reviewing Agentic AI-authored Code.Md. Asif Haider, Thomas Zimmermann
2025ESEMWhen Domains Collide: An Activity Theory Exploration of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration.Zixuan Feng, Thomas Zimmermann, Lorenzo Pisani, Christopher Gooley, Jeremiah Wander, Anita Sarma
2025ICSECode Today, Deadline Tomorrow: Procrastination Among Software Developers.Zeinabsadat Saghi, Thomas Zimmermann, Souti Chattopadhyay
2025MSRPrompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories.Mahan Tafreshipour, Aaron Imani, Eric Huang, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Thomas Zimmermann, Iftekhar Ahmed
2024ICSAEnsuring Green Production with less CO2 Emission with a Digital Twin based Scheduling System.Thomas Zimmermann, Zai Mller-Zhang, Pablo Oliveira Antonino
2024ICSEObjectives and Key Results in Software Teams: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact on Development.Jenna L. Butler, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
2023ICSERecommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models.Toufique Ahmed, Supriyo Ghosh, Chetan Bansal, Thomas Zimmermann, Xuchao Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan
2023ICSEMake Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools.Brittany Johnson, Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Thomas Zimmermann
2022ICSEAttracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard.Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma, Denae Ford
2022ICSEPractitioners' Expectations on Automated Code Comment Generation.Xing Hu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Zhiyuan Wan, Qiuyuan Chen, Thomas Zimmermann
2022ICSETowards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity.Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
2022ICSEWhat are Weak Links in the npm Supply Chain?Nusrat Zahan, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Brendan Murphy, Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Laurie A. Williams
2021ICSEAnomalicious: Automated Detection of Anomalous and Potentially Malicious Commits on GitHub.Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Patrice Godefroid, Max Schaefer
2021ICSELeaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good.Yu Huang, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
2021ICSE"How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19.Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
2021ICSESurvey Instruments for "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working from Home During COVID-19.Courtney Miller, Paige Rodeghero, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
2021ICSEPlease Turn Your Cameras on: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers During a Pandemic.Paige Rodeghero, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, Denae Ford
2021ICSENeural Knowledge Extraction From Cloud Service Incidents.Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sumit Kumar, Nikitha Rao, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
2020ESEMAn Empirical Study of Software Exceptions in the Field using Search Logs.Foyzul Hassan, Chetan Bansal, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah
2020MSRThe State of the ML-universe: 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Software Development on GitHub.Danielle Gonzalez, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2019ICSESoftware engineering for machine learning: a case study.Saleema Amershi, Andrew Begel, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Harald C. Gall, Ece Kamar, Nachiappan Nagappan, Besmira Nushi, Thomas Zimmermann
2018ICSEWhat makes a great manager of software engineers?Eirini Kalliamvakou, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Andrew Begel, Robert DeLine, Daniel M. Germn
2018ICSEData scientists in software teams: state of the art and challenges.Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
2017ESEMCharacterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity.Andr N. Meyer, Thomas Zimmermann, Thomas Fritz
2017REHow do Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research? An Ongoing Study.Xavier Franch, Daniel Mndez Fernndez, Marc Oriol, Andreas Vogelsang, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Jeffrey C. Carver, Oscar Dieste, Thomas Zimmermann
2016ESEMHow Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of ESEM Research.Jeffrey C. Carver, Oscar Dieste, Nicholas A. Kraft, David Lo, Thomas Zimmermann
2016ICSEBelief & evidence in empirical software engineering.Premkumar T. Devanbu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
2016ICSEThe emerging role of data scientists on software development teams.Miryung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Robert DeLine, Andrew Begel
2016ICSEBeliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company.Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2016ICSEWhat went right and what went wrong: an analysis of 155 postmortems from game development.Michael Washburn Jr., Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan, Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
2015ESEMRamp-Up Journey of New Hires: Tug of War of Aids and Impediments.Ayushi Rastogi, Suresh Thummalapenta, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Jacek Czerwonka
2015ICSE1st International Workshop on Big Data Software Engineering (BIGDSE 2015).Luciano Baresi, Tim Menzies, Andreas Metzger, Thomas Zimmermann
2015ICSEBuild It Yourself! Homegrown Tools in a Large Software Company.Edward K. Smith, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2015ICSESoftware Analytics for Digital Games.Thomas Zimmermann
2015ICSTUnderstanding the Test Automation Culture of App Developers.Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, David Lo
2015MSRThe Uniqueness of Changes: Characteristics and Applications.Baishakhi Ray, Meiyappan Nagappan, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
2014CHIPersuasive technology in the real world: a study of long-term use of activity sensing devices for fitness.Thomas Fritz, Elaine M. Huang, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Zimmermann
2014ESEMMining energy traces to aid in software development: an empirical case study.Ashish Gupta, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thirumalesh Bhat, Syed Emran
2014FDGOff with their assists: An empirical study of driving skill in Forza Motorsport 4.Thomas Debeauvais, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kevin Carter, Ryan Cooper, Dan Greenawalt, Tyson Solberg
2014ICSEAnalyze this! 145 questions for data scientists in software engineering.Andrew Begel, Thomas Zimmermann
2014ICSEExtrinsic influence factors in software reliability: a study of 200, 000 windows machines.Christian Bird, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller
2014ICSEAnalyzing software data: after the gold rush (a goldfish-bowl panel).Tim Menzies, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2014ICSECowboys, ankle sprains, and keepers of quality: how is video game development different from software development?Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2014ICSEUnderstanding and improving software build teams.Shaun Phillips, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
2014ICSEConfessions of an industrial researcher: a typical bollywood story (invited talk).Thomas Zimmermann
2013CHIMastering the art of war: how patterns of gameplay influence skill in Halo.Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce C. Phillips
2013ECSCWDwelling in Software: Aspects of the Felt-Life of Engineers in Large Software Projects.Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
2013ESEMHave Agile Techniques been the Silver Bullet for Software Development at Microsoft?Brendan Murphy, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Laurie A. Williams, Nachiappan Nagappan, Andrew Begel
2013ICSEForeword.Christian Bird, Tim Menzies, Thomas Zimmermann
2013ICSE1st international workshop on data analysis patterns in software engineering (DAPSE 2013).Christian Bird, Tim Menzies, Thomas Zimmermann
2013ICSEDistributed development considered harmful?Ekrem Kocaguneli, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Tim Menzies
2013ICSEThe design of bug fixes.Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan
2013ICSEImproving developer participation rates in surveys.Edward K. Smith, Robert T. Loftin, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2013ISSREPredicting risk of pre-release code changes with Checkinmentor.Alexander Tarvo, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
2012ESEMThe effect of branching strategies on software quality.Emad Shihab, Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann
2012ICSEInformation needs for software development analytics.Raymond P. L. Buse, Thomas Zimmermann
2012ICSEGoldfish bowl panel: Software development analytics.Tim Menzies, Thomas Zimmermann
2012ICSECharacterizing and predicting which bugs get reopened.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Philip J. Guo, Brendan Murphy
2011CSCWEmpirical software engineering at Microsoft Research.Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann
2011CSCW"Not my bug!" and other reasons for software bug report reassignments.Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy
2011DSNCrash graphs: An aggregated view of multiple crashes to improve crash triage.Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2011ICSEA theory of branches as goals and virtual teams.Christian Bird, Thomas Zimmermann, Alex Teterev
2011ICSTAn Empirical Study on the Relation between Dependency Neighborhoods and Failures.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig, Rahul Premraj, Laurie A. Williams
2010CSCWInformation needs in bug reports: improving cooperation between developers and users.Silvia Breu, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito, Thomas Zimmermann
2010ICSECodebook: discovering and exploiting relationships in software repositories.Andrew Begel, Yit Phang Khoo, Thomas Zimmermann
2010ICSECharacterizing and predicting which bugs get fixed: an empirical study of Microsoft Windows.Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy
2010ICSERSSE 2010: Second International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering.Reid Holmes, Martin P. Robillard, Robert J. Walker, Thomas Zimmermann
2010ICSTSearching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie A. Williams
2010ISSREChange Bursts as Defect Predictors.Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
2010ISSRESecurity Trend Analysis with CVE Topic Models.Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann
2009ESEMOptimized assignment of developers for fixing bugs an initial evaluation for eclipse projects.Md. Mainur Rahman, Gnther Ruhe, Thomas Zimmermann
2009ESEMPredicting defects with program dependencies.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2009ICSEPredicting defects in SAP Java code: An experience report.Tilman Holschuh, Markus Pauser, Kim Herzig, Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Andreas Zeller
2009ICSEImproving bug tracking systems.Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito, Silvia Breu
2009USENIXThe Beauty and the Beast: Vulnerabilities in Red Hat's Packages.Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann
2008ICSEPredicting defects using network analysis on dependency graphs.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2008ISSTADEFECTS 2008: international workshop on defects in large software systems.Premkumar T. Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, Valentin Dallmeier
2008MSRExtracting structural information from bug reports.Nicolas Bettenburg, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann, Sunghun Kim
2008MSRMining usage expertise from version archives.David Schuler, Thomas Zimmermann
2008PROFESPredicting Software Metrics at Design Time.Wolfgang Holz, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
2008SEKEExplaining Product Release Planning Results Using Concept Analysis.Gengshen Du, Thomas Zimmermann, Gnther Ruhe
2007CCSPredicting vulnerable software components.Stephan Neuhaus, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Holler, Andreas Zeller
2007ESEMBuilding Software Cost Estimation Models using Homogenous Data.Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann
2007ETFAA novel class of multi-agent algorithms for highly dynamic transport planning inspired by honey bee behavior.Horst F. Wedde, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Bernhard van Bonn, Zeynep Bay, Sven Becker, Sven Bttcher, Christian Brunner, Armin Bscher, Thomas Frst, Anca M. Lazarescu, Elisei Rotaru, Sebastian Senge, Bastian Steinbach, Funda Yilmaz, Thomas Zimmermann
2007ICSE4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2007).Harald C. Gall, Michele Lanza, Thomas Zimmermann
2007ICSEPredicting Faults from Cached History.Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, E. James Whitehead Jr., Andreas Zeller
2007ISSREPredicting Subsystem Failures using Dependency Graph Complexities.Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan
2007MSRHow Long Will It Take to Fix This Bug?Cathrin Wei, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
2007MSRMining Workspace Updates in CVS.Thomas Zimmermann
2006ICSETaking lessons from history.Thomas Zimmermann
2006MSRMining eclipse for cross-cutting concerns.Silvia Breu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Lindig
2006MSRTA-RE: an exchange language for mining software repositories.Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Miryung Kim, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Tudor Grba, Martin Pinzger, E. James Whitehead Jr., Andreas Zeller
2006MSRMining additions of method calls in ArgoUML.Thomas Zimmermann, Silvia Breu, Christian Lindig, V. Benjamin Livshits
2006MSRMining version archives for co-changed lines.Thomas Zimmermann, Sunghun Kim, Andreas Zeller, E. James Whitehead Jr.
2006OOPSLAAspect mining for large systems.Silvia Breu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Lindig
2006OOPSLAAspect mining for large systems.Silvia Breu, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Lindig
2005GILearning from Project History to Support Programmers.Thomas Zimmermann
2005MSRWhen do changes induce fixes?Jacek Sliwerski, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
2005OOPSLAeROSE: guiding programmers in eclipse.Thomas Zimmermann, Valentin Dallmeier, Konstantin Halachev, Andreas Zeller
2004ICSEMining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes.Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weigerber, Stephan Diehl, Andreas Zeller
2004MSRPreprocessing CVS Data for Fine-Grained Analysis.Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weigerber