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Destructive Criticism in Software Code Review Impacts Inclusion
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...
Post-lockdown Work Settings in New Zealand Software Companies
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...
Digital Inclusion and a Digital Strategy for Aotearoa
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...
Theory of Practicing and Making Self-Assignment Work
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 awarded FaceBook Research Grant
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...
Dr Kelly Blincoe joins SfTI Veracity Spearhead
This month the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge launched the Veracity Spearhead Research project. The $2M two-year project will investigate technology solutions on how to verify something is what it appears to be. We will investigate...
HASEL acquired Deep Learning Workstations
Our lab is now equipped with three state-of-the-art specialized Deep Learning (DL) workstations, each installed with multiple RTX3090 and RTX6000 GPUs. These workstations were purchased from Lambda Labs; a hardware company specialized in configuring and selling DL...
Looking back on 2020
While we have been extremely fortunate in New Zealand where the global pandemic has been largely contained, this year has still been very difficult for many of us. Some of us were separated from our families, and the closed borders brought uncertainty of when we could...
Dr Kelly Blincoe awarded Marsden Fast-Start grant
Dr Kelly Blincoe has been awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant. These grants support early career researchers in New Zealand. This grant will enable Kelly to investigate methods to enable automated updates of software dependencies. She will be recruiting a PhD student...
Organising a virtual ICSME
Kelly Blincoe served as a Program Co-Chair of ICSME 2020, together with Zhenchang Xing from Australian National University. In this post, she shares some insights on the conference organization. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the conference was fully virtual, so...