Ken Wong, PhD
Contact
Associate Chair Undergrad, Faculty of Science - Computing Science
- kennyw@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Victoria, 1999
Research
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
Teaching
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
Courses
CMPUT 301 - Introduction to Software Engineering
Object-oriented design and analysis, with interactive applications as the primary example. Topics include: software process; revision control; Unified Modeling Language (UML); requirements; software architecture, design patterns, frameworks, design guidelines; unit testing; refactoring; software tools. Prerequisite: CMPUT 201 or 275. This course may not be taken for credit if credit has been obtained in MIS 419 or BTM 419.
CMPUT 495 - Honors Seminar
This weekly seminar brings students, researchers, and practitioners together to examine a variety of topics, both foundational and leading edge. Content varies over successive offerings of the course. Required of all Honors Computing Science students during each Fall/Winter semester of their degree program. Prerequisite: Restricted to Honors Computing Science students, or consent of the instructor.