A Retrospective on Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes
Thomas Zimmermann, Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl, Andreas Zeller · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2025
Twenty years ago we published a paper titled “Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes” in the IEEETransactions of Software Engineering. The paper is considered to be one of the seminal papers of the mining software repositories (MSR) field. In this retrospective, we reflect on the original work, the field of mining software repositories and its community, and its impact on software engineering.