Welcome to ESEL

Introduction

Thank you for visiting the web home for the Empirical Software Engineering Laboratory (ESEL).

This website is designed to provide visitors and other researchers with an overview of the research endeavor of ESEL. This site provides:

• an overview of the types of research conducted at ESEL [Research],
• information about the personnel of ESEL [People],
• a selection of important publications and technical reports produced by the lab [Publications],
• reporting to our research sponsors [Funding], and
• calendars and notices of ESEL events and accomplishments [Current Events]

Mission

It is our vision at the University of Texas to become an internationally recognized center of excellence in the emerging field of software engineering through aggressive programs in research, education and outreach. ESEL is the home of many software engineering research projects. The goals of ESEL are:

• To provide the best possible context in which to do research in software engineering and to meet both the long and short term challenges in building and evolving effective software systems
• To produce significant advances in software engineering principles, paradigms, methods, techniques and technologies, as well as empirically evaluate new concepts to determine their applicability and effectiveness.
• To discover deep knowledge of, and profound processes and technology for, building, evaluating and evolving software systems. To do this effectively there are two critical requirements: the use of industrial projects, and sound empirical evaluation.

Laboratory Organization

ESEL is a software engineering research unit at the University of Texas at Austin. The laboratory is a member of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and contained within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

The laboratory is directed by Prof. Dewayne E. Perry. The laboratory currently supports five full-time research graduate students, and several independently funded part-time students, all supervised by Prof. Perry. Dr. Mike Evangelist joined the laboratory as adjunct faculty in 2005.

The laboratory is physically housed on the 5th floor of the Engineering Sciences Building (ENS) on the Main UT campus, located at the intersection of Dean Keaton and San Jacinto.