Mining software repositories (MSR) became essential to support several software architectural design activities, such as architectural recovery, architectural knowledge capturing, mining architectural tactics, etc. Nevertheless, MSR to support software architecture (SA) is a challenging task, which requires expertise and focus. Moreover, MSR and SA are two separate communities with a small intersection. On the one hand, SA researchers are concerned with proposing approaches to support architectural activities. On the other hand, the MSR community exploits diferent software repositories, and applies systematically many data mining techniques. MSR4SA aims to create the starting point for a dedicated research community, which focuses on applying MSR techniques to resolve architectural problems.
1. Motivation and Objectives https://msr4sa.github.io/msr4sa2021/
The program committee members of MSR4SA 2021 The goal of MSR4SA is to gather researchers and practi- are: tioners from both the MSR and SA communities to create the starting point for a dedicated research community, which focuses on applying MSR techniques to resolve architectural problems. Moreover, we aim to create the ifrst future research agenda for the research area of MSR for SA.
This is the first edition of the MSR4SA workshop and it will be held jointly with SAEroCon 2021, the 8th Workshop on Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency. The MSR4SA 2021 program includes one keynote by Nenad Medvidovic (Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California) titled "Mining Architectural Information to Stem Technical Debt", 2 paper presentations, and a working session to discuss challenging of MSR for software architecture. MSR4SA 2021 received 2 submissions. Each submission went through a thorough reviewing process, with each paper receiving at least three reviews. After a discussion, we have accepted both submissions. We expect the workshop to pave the ground for having a dedicated research community focussing on the integration of MSR research with software architecture research (and practice). The list of accepted papers is published at the workshop website: • Ian Gorton, Northeastern University, USA • Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA • Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii , USA • Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany • David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand • Patrick Mäder, Technische Universität Ilmenau,
Germany • Joshua Garcia, University of California, Irvine,
USA • Mauricio Aniche, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands • Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy • Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
We are most grateful to all the authors for their submissions to MSR4SA 2021, and to the invited Program Committee members for their valuable time and efort in reviewing and discussing the submitted papers. We also want to extend our gratitude to the organizers of ECSA 2021 for their support in the organization of the workshop and the publication of the proceedings.
We look forward to seeing you at MSR4SA and ECSA 2021!
Mohamed Soliman (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Ivano Malavolta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Mehdi Mirakhorli (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) — MSR4SA 2021 workshop co-organizers