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Activities

• Program committee member for VL/HCC 2012
• Guest editor for EMSE special issue on qualitative research
• Program committee member for VL/HCC 2011
• Program committee member for SUITE 2011
• Researcher in the SurfNet NSERC strategic network grant

Research

My research is concerned with the process of creating and managing source code changes. Here are several recent publications.

Follow that Sketch: Lifecycles of Diagrams and Sketches in Software Development
Jagoda Walny, Jonathan Haber, Marian Dork, Jonathan Sillito and Sheelagh Carpendale. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, 2011.
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Tool Support for Testing Complex Multi-Touch Gestures
Shahedul Huq Khandkar, S. M. Sohan, Jonathan Sillito and Frank Maurer. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 2010.
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Introducing Automated Environment Configuration Testing in an Industrial Setting
Caryna Pinheiro, Vahid Garousi, Frank Maurer and Jonathan Sillito. Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization at the Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2010.
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Improving Responsiveness, Bug Detection, and Delays in a Bureaucratic Setting: A Longitudinal Empirical IID Adoption Case Study
Caryna Pinheiro, Frank Maurer and Jonathan Sillito. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering, 2010.
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Investigating Information Needs to Improve Cooperation Between Developers and Bug Reporters
Silvia Breu, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito and Thomas Zimmermann. In Proceedings of CSCW 2010.
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Searching and Skimming: An Exploratory Study
Jamie Starke, Chris Luce, Jonathan Sillito. In Proceedings of ICSM 2009.
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Expert Recommendation with Usage Expertise
David Ma, David Schuler, Thomas Zimmermann, Jonathan Sillito. In Proceedings of ICSM (Short Paper) 2009.
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(All publications)

Teaching

Web-Based Systems (SENG 513)
Large-Scale Software Development (CPSC 301)
Software Engineering "Labs" (SENG 607.11)

Code

Stage: A Ruby implementation of the Actor model (inspired by Erlang's support for concurrency).

Ruby-csp: A Ruby library for modeling and solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs).

Personal

Church and Family