BSc(UoG), MSc, PhD(AUT), MIITP
- Position
- Lecturer
- Room
- 7.03, Otago Business School Bldg
- Phone
- +64 3 479 8319
- sherlock.licorish@otago.ac.nz
- Web page
- http://nz.linkedin.com/in/sherlocklicorish
- Supervising
- Saurabh Malgaonkar
- Co-supervising
- Priyanka Patel, Nuzla Ismail
- Papers
- 2018 S1: INFO310
2018 S2: INFO301, INFO302 - Research group
- Information Systems and Software Engineering
Dr Sherlock Licorish is a Lecturer whose current research focuses on:
- Modelling the software development process and evaluating the use of software methodologies, and particularly agile approaches (sample paper).
- Exploring and evaluating software teams’ behaviour and performance under various conditions, or in addressing various forms of software activities (e.g., resolving defects or building new features, gathering software requirements, or performing software maintenance tasks) (sample paper).
- The development and provision of software tools to aid software developers and enhance end-users’ involvement in the feedback processes (sample paper). Dr Licorish is also interested in topics considered under market-driven (and crowd-sourced) requirements engineering (sample paper).
- Empirical software engineering and analytics, covering global software development (sample paper), open source software (OSS) development and virtual communities (sample paper).
Dr Licorish’s analytics research involves the use of data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis and other quantitative methods (e.g., social network analysis, linguistic and sentiment analysis, natural language processing (NLP) and probabilistic modelling techniques).
He has also used qualitative methods in his research, including qualitative forms of content analysis and dilemma analysis. These techniques (both quantitative and qualitative) are often applied to large repositories and software artefacts.
Dr Licorish serves as a reviewer for several top conferences and journals.
Publications
Licorish, S. A., Owen, H. E., Daniel, B., & George, J. L. (2018). Students’ perception of Kahoot!’s influence on teaching and learning. Research & Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 13, 9. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s41039-018-0078-8
Holvitie, J., Licorish, S. A., Spínola, R. O., Hyrynsalmi, S., MacDonell, S. G., Mendes, T. S., … Leppänen, V. (2017). Technical debt and agile software development practices and processes: An industry practitioner survey. Information & Software Technology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.11.015
Meldrum, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Licorish, S., Tahir, A., Bosu, M., & Jayakaran, P. (2017). Is knee pain information on YouTube videos perceived to be helpful? An analysis of user comments and implications for dissemination on social media. Digital Health, 3. doi: 10.1177/2055207617698908
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2017). Exploring software developers’ work practices: Task differences, participation, engagement, and speed of task resolution. Information & Management, 54(3), 364-382. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2016.09.005
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2017). Exploring the links between software development task type, team attitudes and task completion performance: Insights from the Jazz repository. Information & Software Technology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.12.005
Journal - Research Article
Licorish, S. A., Owen, H. E., Daniel, B., & George, J. L. (2018). Students’ perception of Kahoot!’s influence on teaching and learning. Research & Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 13, 9. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s41039-018-0078-8
Holvitie, J., Licorish, S. A., Spínola, R. O., Hyrynsalmi, S., MacDonell, S. G., Mendes, T. S., … Leppänen, V. (2017). Technical debt and agile software development practices and processes: An industry practitioner survey. Information & Software Technology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.11.015
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2017). Exploring the links between software development task type, team attitudes and task completion performance: Insights from the Jazz repository. Information & Software Technology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.12.005
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2017). Exploring software developers’ work practices: Task differences, participation, engagement, and speed of task resolution. Information & Management, 54(3), 364-382. doi: 10.1016/j.im.2016.09.005
Meldrum, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Licorish, S., Tahir, A., Bosu, M., & Jayakaran, P. (2017). Is knee pain information on YouTube videos perceived to be helpful? An analysis of user comments and implications for dissemination on social media. Digital Health, 3. doi: 10.1177/2055207617698908
Licorish, S. A. (2016). Exploring the prevalence and evolution of android concerns: A community viewpoint. Journal of Software, 11(9), 848-869. doi: 10.17706/jsw.11.9.848-869
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2015). Communication and personality profiles of global software developers. Information & Software Technology, 64, 113-131. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2015.02.004
Licorish, S. A., & MacDonell, S. G. (2014). Understanding the attitudes, knowledge sharing behaviors and task performance of core developers: A longitudinal study. Information & Software Technology, 56(12), 1578-1596. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.02.004
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Keertipati, S. (2017). Attributes that predict which features to fix: Lessons for App Store mining. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 108-117). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084246
Diebold, P., Galster, M., Rainer, A., & Licorish, S. A. (2017). Interactive posters: An alternative to collect practitioners' experience. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 230-235). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084272
Licorish, S. A., George, J. L., Owen, H. E., & Daniel, B. (2017). “Go Kahoot!” enriching classroom engagement, motivation and learning experience with games. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE). (pp. 755-764). Retrieved from http://icce2017.canterbury.ac.nz
Su'a, T., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Langlotz, T. (2017). QuickReview: A novel data-driven mobile user interface for reporting problematic app features. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). (pp. 517-522). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3025171.3025178
Meldrum, S., Licorish, S. A., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2017). Crowdsourced knowledge on stack overflow: A systematic mapping study. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 180-185). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084267
Sharma, P., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Stanger, N., Licorish, S. A., & Rainer, A. (2017). Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). (pp. 286-291). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3084226.3084271
Keertipati, S., Licorish, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2016). Exploring decision-making processes in Python. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). 43. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2915970.2915993
Holvitie, J., Licorish, S. A., Martini, A., & Leppänen, V. (2016). Co-existence of the 'technical debt' and 'software legacy' concepts. In H. Lichter, K. Fögen, T. Sunetnanta, T. Anwar, A. Yamashita, L. Moonen, … A. Sureka (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ) and the 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analysis (TDA). (pp. 80-83). Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1771/
Savarimuthu, T., Dam, H. K., Licorish, S. A., Keertipati, S., Avery, D., & Ghose, A. K. (2016). Process compliance in open source software development: A study of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPS). Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 48. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2016_rp/48
Lee, C. W., Licorish, S. A., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & MacDonell, S. G. (2016). Augmenting text mining approaches with social network analysis to understand the complex relationships among users’ requests: A case study of the android operating system. In T. X. Bui & R. H. Sprague (Eds.), Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). (pp. 1144-1153). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.145
Holvitie, J., Licorish, S. A., & Leppänen, V. (2016). Modelling propagation of technical debt. Proceedings of the 42nd Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). (pp. 54-58). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/SEAA.2016.53
Keertipati, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Licorish, S. A. (2016). Approaches for prioritizing feature improvements extracted from app reviews. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE). 33. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2915970.2916003
Patel, P., Licorish, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & MacDonell, S. (2016). Studying expectation violations in socio-technical systems: A case study of the mobile app community. Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 14. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2016_rp/14
Licorish, S. A., Holvitie, J., Hyrynsalmi, S., Leppänen, V., Spínola, R. O., Mendes, T. S., MacDonell, S. G., & Buchan, J. (2016). Adoption and suitability of software development methods and practices. Proceedings of the 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). (pp. 369-372). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.062
Licorish, S. A., Lee, C. W., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Patel, P., & MacDonell, S. G. (2015). They’ll know it when they see it: Analyzing post-release feedback from the android community. Proceedings of the 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=amcis2015
Licorish, S. A., Tahir, A., Bosu, M. F., & MacDonell, S. G. (2015). On satisfying the Android OS community: User feedback still central to developers' portfolios. Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC). (pp. 78-87). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/aswec.2015.19
Licorish, S. A., MacDonell, S. G., & Clear, T. (2015). Analyzing confidentiality and privacy concerns: Insights from Android issue logs. Proceedings of the 19th Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) International Conference. 18. New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2745802.2745819
