Chris Exton

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University of Limerick

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Dr. Chris Exton is currently a lecturer in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems at University of Limerick. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne. He has worked extensively in the commercial software development field in a variety of different industries and countries included Software Engineering positions in Australia, Ireland and the UK, where he has worked in a number of diverse companies from electronic manufacturing to banking. In addition his academic positions includes a number of Schools and Departments including Monash University Australia, University College Dublin and Uppsala University, Sweden. He has worked on a number of research projects in the area of programmer psychology and software tools and more recently in the area of medical decision support systems. He has researched and published in these areas for over 15 years, as well as taking an active role as a reviewer for the International Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution and The Software Quality Journal.

Publications

2007

Exton C, Avram G, Buckley J, LeGear A. 2007. An Experiential Report on the Limitations of Experimentation as a means of Empirically Investigating Software Practitioners. PPIG 2007PPIG 2007.

Exton C, Avram G, Buckley J, LeGear A. 2007. An Experiential Report on the Limitations of Experimentation as a Means of Empirical Investigation. Proceedings of 19th Annual Psychology of Programming Workshop (PPIG 07).

Buckley J, Exton C, Quigley A, LeGear A. 2007. ESCAPE Meta Modeling in Software Engineering: When Premature Commitment is Useful in Representations. PPIG 2007PPIG 2007.

Cleary B, Exton C. 2007. Assisting Concept Location in Software Comprehension. Proceedings of 19th Annual Psychology of Programming Workshop (PPIG 07).

2006

Desmond M, Storey MAnne, Exton C. 2006. Fluid Source Code Views for Just In Time Comprehension. SPLAT 2006SPLAT 2006.

Cleary B, Exton C. 2006. Assisting Concept Assignment using Probabilistic Classification and Cognitive Mapping. 2nd International Workshop on Supporting Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development (KSCD 2006) collocated with the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2006).

2005

O’Brien M, Buckley J, Exton C. 2005. Empirically Studying Software Practitioners - Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. In proceedings of ICSM 2005In proceedings of ICSM 2005.

O’Shea P, Exton C. 2005. An Investigation of Java Abstraction Usage for Program Modifications. International Workshop on Program Comprehension.

Glynn G, Fitzgerald B, Exton C. 2005. Commercial adoption of open source software: an empirical study. Conference on Empirical Software EngineeringConference on Empirical Software Engineering.

O’Shea P, Exton C. 2005. The Role of Source Code within Program Summaries describing Maintenance Activities. Proc. PPIG 05.