Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science

Email

kenw@cs.ualberta.ca

Associate Chair Undergrad, Faculty of Science - Computing Science

Email

kenw@cs.ualberta.ca

Education

• PhD, Computer Science, University of Victoria, 1999

Area

Software Engineering

Interests

Software Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Program Understanding, Software Visualization, Mining Software Repositories, Problem Determination, Root Cause Analysis.

Summary

Software must evolve over time or it becomes useless. Unfortunately, over time, software systems become more complex and increasingly difficult to understand and change to meet new requirements. An understanding gap has grown between what is known, useful, and available information about the system and what needs to be known to make changes.

Topics

• Developing reverse engineering environments
• Evaluating and adopting software tools
• Software models, source code analysis, clustering, and architecture recovery
• Software process and software evolution
• Diverse system understanding and evolution
• Web and mobile platforms
• Root cause analysis
• Learning analytics

Massive Open Online Courses

I am the instructor-of-record for several offerings, developed through the Faculty of Science and Onlea, and delivered by Coursera.

Software Product Management Specialization

• Introduction to Software Product Management
• Software Processes and Agile Practices
• Client Needs and Software Requirements
• Agile Planning for Software Products
• Reviews and Metrics for Software Improvements
• Software Product Management Capstone