Mining the Mind, Minding the Mine: Grand Challenges in Comprehension and Mining

Abstract

The program comprehension and mining software repository communities are, in practice, two separate research endeavors. One is concerned with what's happening in a developer's mind, while the other is concerned with what's happening in a team. And yet, implicit in these fields is a common goal to make better software and the common approach of influencing developer decisions. In this keynote, I provide several examples of this overlap, suggesting several grand challenges in comprehension and mining.