SERU: Software Engineering Research Unit
Software Engineering and Business Analytics (SEBA) Research Cluster
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Mahidol University, Thailand
The mission of SERU is to improve the quality of software development process and the software products by studying the evolution of software, reverse engineering existing software projects, and trying to understand the developers and the related software artefacts. We are experimenting with several research methodologies and cutting-edge techniques such as repository mining, empirical studies, deep learning, code search, and software visualizations.
About Us
In our research group, we are interested in the topics involving software engineering. Specifically, our expertises lie in the area of software process improvement, predictive models for software engineering tasks, and static/dynamic software analysis.
The research topics include, but not limited to, the followings:
Software process quality and risk monitoring, e.g., ISO29110, agile, CMMI
Software engineering for data science (SE4DS), data science for software engineering (DS4SE)
Prediction of risks/delays/components in software projects
Software quality, code clone detection, code search, and code review
Mining software repositories
Latest News
We redesigned our SERU logo. Read more about it here.
We have 10 students doing international internships with our collaborators this summer of 2023! Read more here.
We have two papers accepted for publication at MSR'23 and ICPC'23: "Mining the Characteristics of Jupyter Notebooks in Data Science Projects" (MSR '23) and "Microusity: A testing tool for Backends for Frontends (BFF) Microservice Systems" (ICPC '23). Check out the papers in the Publications page.
Tasha Settewong, Natanon Ritta, Thanakrit Maneesawas, Komsan Kongwongsupak, and Natpichsinee Puttiwarodom are accepted for the NAIST internship 2022 and are now working with NAIST professors during the summer. Congratulations!
The first paper from the "Automated Software Engineering for Thailand Software Industry" project titled "Identifying Software Engineering Challenges in Software SMEs: A Case Study in Thailand" has been published in the Industry Track of SANER’22!
The FixMe bot paper "FixMe: A GitHub Bot for Detecting and Monitoring On-hold Self-Admitted Technical Debt" has been published at ASE 2022!
Tasha Settewong and Natanon Ritta are accepted for the NAIST internship 2021 and will work with NAIT professors on software engineering research during the summer. Congratulations!
The Teddy work has received the "Best Tool Demo Award" at ICSME '20!!!
Purit Phan-udom, Naruedon Wattanakul, and Tattiya Sakulniwat published their senior project work "Teddy: Automatic Recommendation of Pythonic Idiom Usage for Pull-Based Software Projects” published as a tool demo paper at ICSME '20.
Our undergrad students (Chaiyakarn Khanan, Worawit Luewichana, Krissakorn Pruktharathikoon) who did an internship at Monash University last summer got their work "JITBot: An Explainable Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Bot" published at the tool demo track of ASE '20!
research Collaborators
Academia
Software Engineering and Distributed Systems Research Group (GESAD), UECE, Brazil
Industry
Current and Previous Funding Agencies
Awards/Grants
In 2021, the SERU team has received several research grants including
Asst. Prof. Dr. Thanwadee Sunetnanta, Competency-based self-assessment model for software security engineers, SWITCHSEA Program, APNIC Foundation, 2021-2022.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Apirak Hoonlor, Applying Software Engineering for Improving the Development of Data Science Application, Mahidol Mini Research Cluster Funding, 2021-2022.
Dr. Morakot Choetkiertikul, Development of Deep Learning-based Models for Learning Vector Representation of Iterative Software Development, MHESI Early Research Career Funding, 2021-2023.
Dr. Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Code Similarity Applications for Improving Software Quality, MHESI Early Research Career Funding, 2021-2023.
For other research projects, see our PROJECTS page.