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1) The paper referenced contains 4 pages, so it should be available via IEEXplore. Moreover, you can find a copy on http://www.win.tue.nl/~aserebre/MSR2012.pdf

2) Since the survey is only one of the techniques we intend to use, and it will be augmented by analysing the data publicly available in the SE dump, I believe the selection bias is appropriately addressed.