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.

Current

Sanuri Gunawardena PhD Intelligent code review tool for non-technical people. (with Kelly Blincoe)
Zhihui Wang MSc Understanding Java Programs by Counting Objects

PhD

2018. Marshima Rosli PhD A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating the Quality of Data Sets in Empirical Software Engineering (with Andrew Luxton-Reilly).
2017. Paul Denny PhD On the efficacy for tool support for peer learning in Computer Science Education (with Dawn Garbett).
2017. David Maplesden PhD Improving performance analysis and optimisation approaches in enterprise software development (with John Hosking and John Grundy)
2014. Moon Ting Su PhD Understanding Architecture through Traceable Documentation (with John Hosking and John Grundy).
2014. Yu-Cheng Tu PhD Transparency in Software Development (with Clark Thomborson).
2012. Muhammad Sulayman PhD Success Factors of Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Web Companies (with Emilia Mendes and Gillian Dobbie).
2012. Mehwish Riaz PhD Understanding the impact of database design on the design quality of software systems (with Emilia Mendes).
2009. Hong Yul Yang, PhD Measuring Indirect Coupling
2007. Diana Kirk, PhD A Flexible Software Process Model

Software Engineering, The University of Auckland

2018. Sidharth Parthasarathy and Sejal Patel BE(SE) Part IV Project Fibot: A Financial chatbot
2018. Nathan Gavin and Andrew Lyall BE(SE) Part IV Project Using visualisation to learn refactoring
2017. Ammar Bagasrawala and Jun Xu BE(SE) Part IV Project Visualising software design by visualising dynamic behaviour
2016. Jingguo Chen and Bo (Matthew) Wang BE(SE) Part IV Project Crowdsourcing Design Quality Classification
2014. Shreya Shah and Georgina Wood BE(SE) Part IV Project User Programmable Kiosk.
2014. Gurpreet Singh ME(SE) Empirical study of software evolution (with Nasser Giacaman).
2013. Abdullah Siddiqui and Niko Uusitalo BE(SE) Part IV Project CrowdSource: A web application for crowdsourcing software engineering research
2012 Minh Cat Vo MEngSt(SE) Measuring Cohesion using Dependencies.
2012 Xiliang Chen and Alice Wang BE(SE) Part IV Project Fast Code Clone Detection in Java.
2012 In-Hwan Kim and Jae Kyun Kim BE(SE) Part IV Project Mobile Appointment Manager
2011 Michael Connolly and Azriel Hoh BE(SE) Part IV Project Geospacial project
2011 Xingzhuo Wang and Guanhua Zhao BE(SE) Part IV Project A Java component for use-def chains
2011 Byron Hui and Jason Lee BE(SE) Part IV Project Android Mobile phone Auckland Transport Application
2010 Gurpreet Singh Postgraduate Diploma Dissertation (SE). How Do J2EE Programs Use Inheritance? An Empirical Study of Inheritance in J2EE software.
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. 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. 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

Computer Science, The University of Auckland

2013. Marvin Hansen MSc(CS) Test-case and Oracle generation, execution and verification based on Design-By-Contract.
2011 Marvin Hansen Postgraduate Diploma Dissertation (Computer Science) Amida: An approach towards real-time modifications of running applications in the Java virtual machine.
2010-2011 Jonathan Chow Summer Research Scholarship. Software Stability.
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
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. 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)
2003-2004. Robert Ensor, Summer Research Scholarship. LeyUML: A low viscosity UML tool
2002-2003. Hamish Graham, Summer Research Scholarship. Java Data Objects: Transparent Java Data Persistence

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