Student Research Supervised by Ewan Tempero

This page lists the students who have worked on a research project under my supervision, in reverse order of completion. Note that this includes graduate and undergraduate students, and some projects were done "for hire" rather than for a degree.

PhD

Current. Haydon Melton, PhD Measuring the Effect of Refactoring and Design Patterns on Software Quality
Current Mehwish Riaz PhD Understanding the impact of database design on the design quality of software systems (with Emilia Mendes)
Current Yu-Cheng Tu PhD Transparency in Software Development (with Clark Thomborson)
2009. Hong Yul Yang, PhD Measuring Indirect Coupling
2007. Diana Kirk, PhD A Flexible Software Process Model

Software Engineering, The University of Auckland

2009-2010. Azriel Hoh Summer Research Scholarship. Eclipse Metrics Plug-in.
2009-2010. Haoyang Feng Summer Research Scholarship Flowgraphs for Java.
2007-2008. Ted Pei-Hsuan Han Summer Research Scholarship Improving a Software Corpus
2007. Jamie Penney and Aik Zhang Tan, BE(SE) Part IV project Eclipse Test Generator.
2007. Misun Kim and Taiga Umeda, BE(SE) Part IV project Mozilla Source Code Analysis.
2007. Kevin Clark and Andrew Meads, BE(SE) Part IV project Mobile Life.
2007. Richard Barker, ME(SE) An Empirical Study of Cohesion Metrics
2007. Homan Ma, ME(SE) Using Variable Identifiers to Index the Java 1.4.2 API (with Robert Amor)
2006-2007. Misun Kim Summer Research Scholarship. X3D Visualisation of Software Metrics Data
2006-2007. Huinan Zhang, Summer Research Scholarship. An Eclipse interface for JooJ
2006-2007. Judy Zhu, Summer Research Scholarship. An Eclipse Plugin for Fit Tests
2006. Andrew Cho and Paresh Deva, BE(SE) Part IV project Java Web Service
2006. Hio Tong (Kelvin) Choi, ME(SE) Dynamic Reuse Metrics
2006. Ming-Yang (Jerry) Lin, ME(SE). Supporting Software Component Reuse with Active-Retrieving Component Repository System (With Robert Amor)
2005. Min-Sheng (Peter) Hsieh, ME(SE). Supporting Software Reuse by the Individual Programmer
2005. Helen Torkington & Prabhashi LekamRalalage BE(SE) Part IV project Workflow Studio
2005. Jonathan Fantham & Dana Chapman BE(SE) Eclipse Backstep
2005. Sayeed Mohammed MEngSt Project X, ICT Academy. Evaluation of System Documentation Techniques (with Ian Warren)
2004. Chien-Yu (Kevin) Chen, MEngSt Project X. Automating XML Transformation: A Quick Solution for University HR Scenario (with Gill Dobbie)
2004. Sunil Lath & Krishneel Prasad, BE(SE) Part IV project. Supporting debugging through program analysis in Eclipse
2004. Anand Rajan & Saisai Zhang, BE(SE) Part IV project. Improving Test Management in Eclipse
2003-2004. Robert Ensor, Summer Research Scholarship. LeyUML: A low viscosity UML tool
2003. Kushil Ginige & Ruchira Liyanagama, BE(SE) Part IV project. A brower-based CASE tool using SVG
2003. Kugan Baladevan & Richard Lok Hang Kwan, BE(SE) Part IV project. A Unit Test Management Tool
2002-2003. Hamish Graham, Summer Research Scholarship. Java Data Objects: Transparent Java Data Persistence

Computer Science, The University of Auckland

2006. Enrico Leonhardt, BSc Postgraduate Project An empirical study of power-laws and cycles in C# applications
2006. Glenn McCord BSc Project, ICT Academy. ICT project - ITBC Systems and IT Phase 1 (with Clark Thomborson)
2005. Rachel Patel BSc(Hons) Postgraduate Project, ICT Academy. Evaluation of System Documentation Techniques - Case Study: eLab (with Ian Warren)

Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington

2001. Mike McGavin, BSc(Hons). Extracting software re-use information for visualisation tools (with Robert Biddle).
2000. Kirk Jackson, BSc(Hons) Understanding Frameworks through Visualisation (With Robert Biddle).
2000. David Sainty. MCompSc Modemd: A Modem resource management system
1999. Neil Clayton, BSc(Hons) Useability of Web based code repositories (With Robert Biddle)
1999. Glen Wallace, BSc(Hons) Machete: Improving Text Editor Support for Reuse (With Robert Biddle)
1999. Stuart Marshall, MSc Understanding code for reuse (With Robert Biddle)
1998. John Miller-Williams, MSc A Program Visualisation Tool for Emphasising the Dynamic Nature of Reusability (With Robert Biddle)
1998. Eddie Vaks, MSc A CASE Tool for Emphasising Reusability in Object-Oriented Program Development (With Robert Biddle)
1997. Simon Pohlen, MSc Maintainable Concurrent Software
1996. Simon McAuliffe, MSc Security in networked computer systems
1994. Patrick Shum, MCA Reusability and Class Libraries in C++ (With Robert Biddle)
1994. Martin Ehrenstein, MSc An Examination of Lock-free Synchronisation in Shared Memory via Simulation
1993. Neal Glew, BSc(Hons) Type Systems in Object-Oriented Programming Languages
1992. Tanya Bridson, BSc(Hons) Evaluating Object-Oriented Languages
1991. John Bebbington, BSc(Hons) Finding Mobile Objects in a Distributed System
1991. Martin Ehrenstein, BSc(Hons) Wait-free Concurrency
1991. Francis Gardner, BSc(Hons) Data Type Implementations for Non-Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Updated: 11-Aug-2011, Created by Ewan Tempero