Dr. Josee Tasse - Associate Professor - Computer Science

Credentials

BScCS (Universite de Montreal) - 1992
PhD (McGill University) - 1999
Employed at UNB Saint John since 1997

Research Interests

My main expertise is in software engineering. I have worked for a long time in the areas of software development processes, project management, and policy verification and evolution. More recently, my interests have shifted to the area of mining software repositories. More specifically, I am interested in mining software repositories (e.g., bug reports, mailing lists, CVS info and code versions, and etc.), extracting metrics out of them (e.g., type of code changes made such as "small local change" vs. "massive local change" vs. "lots of dispersed changes"), and then identifying patterns in such data. The patterns are used to understand the software development process, identify likely causes of problems, and make prediction models (e.g., what kind of changes to files - or combination of changes - tend to increase the chances of finding bugs later in that file?). I am especially interested in analyses of data in the form of time series (i.e., analyses that retain the temporal aspect of the data, and especially the identification of delayed effects). This area is actually the application and development of data analytics techniques to software engineering problems.

Students supervised

Supervised Amandeep (MCS): September 2000 to August 2002 - "Common Activities Identification Tool for View-Based Software Process Elicitation"
Supervised Jing Chen (MCS): September 2002 to December 2004 - "Measures and related methods to help manage the adoption of new software development policies"
Supervised Wanxiang Zhang (MCS): April 2005 to November 2006 - "Practical Approach for Monitoring Large Policy Set During Software Development"
Supervised James Stewart (Ph. D.): since September 2001 - "A Method for the Management and Evolution of Software Development Policies"

Publications

• Josee Turgeon, Nazim H. Madhavji, "A Systematic, View-based Approach to Eliciting Process Models", Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Software Process Technology, Nancy, France, Springer Verlag, LNCS #1149, October 1996, pp. 276-282.
• Josee Turgeon, "A View-Based System for Eliciting Software Process Models", Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, September 1999.
• Josee Turgeon, Nazim H. Madhavji, "View-Based vs Traditional Modeling Approaches: Which is Better?", Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology, Kaprun, Austria, Springer Verlag, LNCS #1780, February 2000, pp. 131-137.
• Josee Turgeon, Nazim H. Madhavji, "A Model of Process Congruence", International Workshop on Feedback and Evolution in Software and Business Processes, Imperial College, London, sponsored by EPSRC, July 2000.
• Josee Tasse, Nazim H. Madhavji, "View-Based Process Elicitation: a User's Perspective", Journal of Software Process Improvement and Practice, vol.6 no.3, September 2001, pp.125-139.
• Nazim H. Madhavji, Josee Tasse, "Policy-guided Software Evolution", Proc. of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IEEE CS Press, Sept. 2003, pp. 75-82.
• Nazim H. Madhavji, Josee Tasse, "A Case for Establishing Evolutionary Policies and their Support Mechanism, with Examples", Proc. of the Evolution of Large-scale Industrial Software Applications (ELISA) workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept. 2003, pp. 168-173.
• Nazim H. Madhavji, Josee Tasse, "Governing Software Evolution through Policy-oriented Feedback", chapter of the book "Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice" edited by Madhavji, Fernandez-Ramil and Perry, Wiley, May 2006.
• Josee Tasse, "Project Management through Policy Monitoring", Proc. of the 10^th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Dallas, Texas, ACTA Press, November 2006, pp. 586-591.
• James Stewart, Josee Tasse, "Evaluating Policies and their Effects on Software Process Performance", Proc. of the 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, sponsored by International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, July 2007.
• Josee Tasse, Nazim H. Madhavji, Amandeep, "Techniques for Merging Views of Software Process Models", in “Graph Transformations and Model‐Driven Engineering – Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday”, LNCS 5765 (Springer), 2010, pp. 441—472.
• Josee Tasse, "Using code change types in an analogy-based classifier for short-term defect prediction", 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE’13), Baltimore, Maryland, October 2013.
• Josee Tasse, “Using peak analysis for identifying lagged effects between software metrics”, accepted for publication in Proc. Of International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, July 2015 (SEKE’15).