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...

HASEL members, Sanuri Dananja Gunawardena, Peter Devine, Isabelle Beaumont, Lola Garden, and Dr Kelly Blincoe, together with Dr Emerson Murphy-Hill at Google, recently studied software developers' perception of destructive feedback in software code review. Software...

HASEL members, Dr Zainab Masood and Dr Kelly Blincoe, together with Prof Daniela Damian at the University of Victoria, recently studied work settings of New Zealand software companies after the first COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted. Before the COVID-19...

In October, the government released a discussion document, 'Towards a Digital Strategy for Aotearoa'. The document outlines three key themes, Mahi Tika: Trust, Mahi Ake: Growth, and Mahi Tahi: Inclusion. The Veracity Lab hosted a series of discussions, one on each of...

Dr Zainab Masood successfully defended her PhD thesis titled the "Theory of Practicing and Making Self-Assignment Work”. Her research investigated how self-assignment works in Scrum teams. Self-assignment is a self-directed method of task allocation where teams and...

Dr Valerio Terragni has been awarded a Facebook Research grant of 100,000 USD. This grant will enable Valerio to investigate new methods to automatically test Web Enable Simulations of the FaceBook platform! He will be recruiting a PhD student to work with him and the...