In May 2009, Software Analytics was first coined and proposed when Dr. Dongmei Zhang founded [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/sa/ the Software Analytics Group (SA) at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)]. The term has become well known in the [[software engineering]] research community after a series of tutorials and talks on software analytics were given by Dr. Dongmei Zhang and her colleagues, in collaboration with Professor [http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/ Tao Xie] from North Carolina State University, at software engineering conferences including a tutorial at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011),<ref name="ASE2011" /> a talk at the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering (MALETS 2011),<ref name="MALETS" /> a tutorial and a keynote talk given by Dr. Dongmei Zhang at the IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training ([http://conferences.computer.org/cseet/ CSEE&T 2012]),<ref name="CSEETKeynote" /><ref name="CSEETTutorial" /> a tutorial at the International Conference on Software Engineering ([http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/icse2012/ ICSE 2012]) - Software Engineering in Practice Track,<ref name="ICSETutorial" /> and a keynote talk given by Dr. Dongmei Zhang at the Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories ([http://2012.msrconf.org/ MSR 2012]).<ref name="MSRKeynote" />
In November 2010, Software Development Analytics (Software Analytics with focus on Software Development) was proposed by [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tzimmer/ Thomas Zimmermann] and his colleagues at [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ese/ the Empirical Software Engineering Group (ESE) at Microsoft Research Redmond] in their FoSER 2010 paper.<ref name="FoSER" /> A goldfish bowl panel on software development analytics was organized by [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tzimmer/ Thomas Zimmermann] and Professor [http://menzies.us/ [Tim Menzies]] from West Virginia University at the International Conference on Software Engineering ([http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/icse2012/ ICSE 2012]), Software Engineering in Practice track.<ref name="Goldfish" />
