HASEL member, Associate Professor Kelly Blincoe, received the Most Influential Paper award at the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2024 Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal earlier this month. The award recognised a paper published at MSR 2014, titled “The Promises...

HASEL member, Associate Professor Ewan Tempero, received the Most Influential Paper award at Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) 2023, held in Seoul, South Korea. The award recognised a paper published at APSEC 2010, titled “The qualitas corpus: A...

HASEL member, Dhanushka Jayasuriya, won the Best Student Research Award at the Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS) 2024 held in Sydney, Australia last week. More than 20 students presented their work at the conference. Dhanushka is a third year PhD...

Associate Professor Kelly Blincoe's ENGclusion longitudinal study has started! The first questionnaire for the study is now up, and the ENGclusion team are collecting their first round of data. Their goal is to understand how to retain historically excluded groups in...

Modern Software applications depend on libraries for their development process as they benefit from reusable functionalities to accelerate the development process. These libraries, like all software applications, release new versions of their software with new...

In their recently published work [1], HASEL members James Tizard, Peter Devine, Hechen Wang, and Kelly Blincoe, studied how user engagement with online support forums is used by development teams to improve their software. User opinions in online feedback are a vital...

Dr Kelly Blincoe has been awarded a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for her research programme titled 'Towards more inclusive software engineering practices and tools to retain women in software engineering'. These prestigious grants support...

HASEL members, Haris Mumtaz and Kelly Blincoe, in collaboration with Paramvir Singh from the School of Computer Science (University of Auckland), recently studied the relationship between social and technical (design) aspects of software development. When technical...

Online feedback left by software users can help software teams improve their products. Feedback useful for product improvements exists online in app store reviews, tweets, and many other sources. Understanding the topics mentioned in this feedback is vitally important to maintaining a responsive, attractive software product so development teams know where to focus their product improvements. One way in which topics can automatically be detected is by performing text clustering, a common natural language processing technique that can group similar feedback together.

HASEL members, Haris Mumtaz and Kelly Blincoe, in collaboration with Carlos Paradis (University of Hawaii), Fabio Palomba (University of Salerno), Damian Tamburri (JADS), and Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii), recently studied the usage of a GitHub feature and its...