UCSD Software Evolution Group

Software is changed--maintained and evolved--more often than it is written, and changing software is extremely costly. Our lab works in two areas, Ubiquitous Computing (an area experiencing rapid change) and automated techniques to assist the maintenance, understanding and restructuring of very large software systems.

Visit our ActiveCampus Portal and WIISARD page to get a glimpse of our Ubiquitous Computing work. For our tools work, visit our projects page and papers page to find out what we're doing in tool-assisted program restructuring, visualization of program structure, software architecture, and whole-program analysis techniques for program understanding and restructuring.

Students past and present
Current projects
- WIISARD - Mobile wireless applications for medical response in disasters
- ActiveCampus - mobile computing applications for sustaining educational communities
- Aspect Browser - visualizing, organizing, and manipulating crosscutting concerns
- Daikon - invariant detection via run-time traces
- Icaria - scalable whole-program analysis
- StarTool - graphical tools for refactoring
Software tools available for download
Papers
Invited talks
General Software Engineering Information
Related Software Engineering Courses
- CSE 210 (Spring): Principles of Software Engineering
- CSE 218 (Fall): Tools and Techniques for Evolutionary Design
- CSE 131b Compiler Construction: static semantic checking and code generation
  This course has a team project and is taught with a software engineering emphasis.
- A family tree for software engineering (under construction)
Other Software Engineering at UCSD
- UCSD Programming Systems Group (includes us)
- Bill Howden's Page
The Computer Science and Engineering Department at UCSD

The research on this site is supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, and IBM.