Bonjour à tous,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au huitième séminaire de la session d'automne 2021 du LATECE.

Lieu: Zoom : https://uqam.zoom.us/j/88240120878

Heure et date : Le 15 décembre 2021 à 12h30

Conférencière : Gail Murphy, professeure au Département d’informatique à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique

Titre : Creating Usable and Useful Software Tools

Résumé: Software that requires maintenance and evolution presumably has value that causes the producers of the software—individuals and organizations—to invest in these activities. Given that there is almost always more that any given software package or product can provide, software producers should be motivated in enabling maintenance and evolution activities and should be interested in the software engineering research efforts that are undertaken to address identified pain points. Yet, despite efforts by providers of research results (software engineering researchers) and interest by recipients (software producing individuals and organizations), a gap remains and too few research results make their way into use. In this talk, I will focus on research results that take the form of software tools for software producers and explore what this gap is and how the gap might be bridged.  This exploration will aim to provide some practical tips for how to orient research to create usable and useful software tools.

Bio: Gail C. Murphy is a Professor of Computer Science and Vice-President Research and Innovation at theUniversity of British Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), as well as co-founder of Tasktop TechnologiesIncorporated. After completing her B.Sc. at the University of Alberta in 1987, she worked for five years as a software engineer in the Lower Mainland. She later pursued graduate studies in computer science at the University of Washington, earning first a M.Sc. (1994) and then a Ph.D. (1996) before joining UBC. Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by providing the necessary tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that matters most for their work. She also maintains an active research group with post-doctoral and graduate students.