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ELVIS: Software Design Research Group

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The ultimate goal of all computer science is the program. Designers, programmers and engineers must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a program, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts.

Welcome to the home page of Elvis, the software design research group in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand. Our work ranges from more technical research concerning the structure of software and tool support for development, to human-computer interaction and software development processes. We have experience and interests in a wide range of topics and applications in the OO paradigm, including programming languages, visualisation, design patterns, software reuse, frameworks, and agile methods, as well as in interface design and evaluation.

Latest News

Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU)

27 Jul 2010 - 12:03 in Event
2nd Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) in conjunction with SPLASH and Onward! 2010. Call For Papers (CFP), paper submission deadline 13 August 2010.

http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/

Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently... programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools.

EuroPLoP 2010

07 Jul 2010 - 15:06 in Event
JamesNoble attended EuroPLoP and presented the paper on "How Much is Just Enough: Some Documentation Patterns on Agile Projects" by Rashina, James, and Stuart.

TOOLS 2010

28 Jun 2010 - 21:53 in Event
NicholasCameron, StephenNelson, and JamesNoble attended TOOLS 2010. Nic presented his paper on "Encoding Ownership Types in Java". Stephen presented his paper on "Understanding the Impact of Collection Contracts on Design".

ECOOP 2010

21 Jun 2010 - 10:52 in Event
NicholasCameron, StephenNelson, and JamesNoble attended ECOOP 2010. Nic had a paper at FTfJP on "Towards a Semantic Model for Java Wildcards". Stephen had a paper at the doctoral symposium on "Identifying and Implementing Relationships".

XP 2010

08 Jun 2010 - 22:20 in Event
RashinaHoda presented her paper "Agile Undercover: When Customers Don't Collaborate" and poster "What Language Does Agile Speak?", and SivaDorairaj presented his paper "Understanding the Importance of Trust in Distributed Agile Projects: A Practical Perspective" at XP 2010 in Trondheim, Norway. AngelaMartin and JenniferFerreira, Elvis alumni also presented their papers too.

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  • persons People - The people who are actively researching in Elvis and list if alumni
  • starred Research - Outlines of current projects and links to project work-in-progress pages.
  • indexlist Publications - Links to recent papers, articles, theses, reports, plus older papers.
  • book Courses - Software Engineering courses faculty members teach
  • days Events - Information about current and past events
  • arrowdot ElvisMeetings - Information about our weekly meetings at on Fridays
  • group ReadingGroups - Information about our weekly reading group where we discuss different papers
  • note Resources - Useful links to resources or actual information that might be useful for people in Elvis
  • info Admin - Administrative procedures and links for people in Elvis

 
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