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Ewan Tempero, BSc(Hons) Otago , MS PhD Wash
Office: Building 303 (Science Centre) Room 493
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 x83765 (automatic, voice mail)
+64 9 373 7999 (operator)
Facsimile: +64 9 373 7453
Email: e.tempero@cs.auckland.ac.nz 
Position: Associate Professor
Department: Address and contact details

News

Applications for Summer Scholarships are now open. I have my own (continually updated) list of projects.

The Call For Papers for ASWEC 2010 is now out. This will be held April 6-9 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Great OO Principles Survey is closed. Some results are available on sefolklore.com.

Research

My main area of research is measuring software design quality. To support this kind of research I manage the Qualitas Corpus, a standard corpus of open-source Java software for use in empirical studies of software. Further information on my research (including publication list, possible projects I might supervise, and a list of current and past students) about my research interests and achievements is available. I am a researcher on the Software Process and Product Improvement Project, which includes some graduate funding.

Teaching

I mainly teach in the Software Engineering Programme at The University of Auckland.

Semester 1 (March-June)
SOFTENG251: Object Oriented Software Construction
SOFTENG701: Advanced Software Engineering Development Methods

Semester 2 (July-October)
SOFTENG254: Quality Assurance
SOFTENG325: Software Architecture

I have a full list of teaching I have done.

Employment History

September 1990 - December 1996
Lecturer in Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
January 1997 - January 2002
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
February 2002 - present
Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Misc.

Teaching in a Software Engineering programme, I have been asked on more than one occasion, "What's the difference between Software Engineernig and Computer Science?" Here is my answer.
Updated: 12-Aug-2009, Created by Ewan Tempero