Bird, Christian

Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review

Bacchelli, A., & Bird, C. (2013) · 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 650

The promises and perils of mining git

Bird, C., Rigby, P. C., Barr, E. T., Hamilton, D. J., German, D. M., & Devanbu, P. (2009) · 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Software Engineering ResearchOpen Source Software Innovations

Cited by 311

Taking Flight with Copilot: Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools

Bird, C., Ford, D., Zimmermann, T., Forsgren, N., Kalliamvakou, E., Lowdermilk, T., & Gazit, I. (2022) · Queue

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 158

Clones: what is that smell?

Rahman, F., Bird, C., & Devanbu, P. (2012) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 132

Today was a good day: The daily life of software developers

Meyer, A. N., Barr, E. T., Bird, C., & Zimmermann, T. (2021) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesPersonal Information Management and User Behavior

Cited by 123

Towards a Theory of Software Developer Job Satisfaction and Perceived Productivity

Storey, M.-A., Zimmermann, T., Bird, C., Czerwonka, J., Murphy, B., & Kalliamvakou, E. (2021) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Cited by 90

Program merge conflict resolution via neural transformers

Svyatkovskiy, A., Fakhoury, S., Ghorbani, N., Mytkowicz, T., Dinella, E., Bird, C., Jang, J., Sundaresan, N., & Lahiri, S. K. (2022) · Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 38

Characterizing Software Engineering Work with Personas Based on Knowledge Worker Actions

Ford, D., Zimmermann, T., Bird, C., & Nagappan, N. (2017) · 2017 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesPersona Design and Applications

Cited by 37

Make Your Tools Sparkle with Trust: The PICSE Framework for Trust in Software Tools

Johnson, B., Bird, C., Ford, D., Forsgren, N., & Zimmermann, T. (2023) · 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 27

Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?

Liang, J. T., Badea, C., Bird, C., DeLine, R., Ford, D., Forsgren, N., & Zimmermann, T. (2024) · Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 19

Beyond the Comfort Zone: Emerging Solutions to Overcome Challenges in Integrating LLMs into Software Products

Nahar, N., Kästner, C., Butler, J., Parnin, C., Zimmermann., T., & Bird, C. (2025) · 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP)

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 13

Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding

Pimenova, V., Fakhoury, S., Bird, C., Storey, M.-A., & Endres, M. (2025) · arXiv

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 6

AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work

Choudhuri, R., Badea, C., Bird, C., Butler, J. L., DeLine, R., & Houck, B. (2026) · Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 1