Laura MacLeod

ORCID: 0000-0002-8543-294X
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Research Areas
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Accounting Education and Careers
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Expert finding and Q&A systems
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Art Therapy and Mental Health
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • European Politics and Security
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Topic Modeling
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Management and Marketing Education
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Canadian Identity and History

Worcestershire County Council
2021

University of Victoria
2012-2017

Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
2017

Weber State University
1999

Indiana State University
1994

Code review has been widely adopted by and adapted to open source industrial projects. practices have undergone extensive research, with most studies relying on trace data from tool reviews, sometimes augmented surveys interviews. Several recent research studies, along blog posts white papers, revealed additional insights code reviewing “from the trenches.” Unfortunately, lessons learned about are dispersed poorly summarized existing literature. In particular, practitioners wishing adopt or...

10.1109/ms.2017.265100500 article EN IEEE Software 2017-06-16

Creating documentation is a challenging task in software engineering and most techniques involve the laborious sometimes tedious job of writing text. This paper explores an alternative to traditional text-based documentation, screen-cast, which captures developer's screen while they narrate how program or tool works. We conducted study investigate developers produce share developer-focused casts using You Tube social platform. First, we identified analyzed set development determine have...

10.1109/icpc.2015.19 article EN 2015-05-01

Creating documentation is a challenging task in software engineering and most techniques involve the laborious sometimes tedious job of writing text. This paper explores an alternative to traditional text-based documentation, screen-cast, which captures developer's screen while they narrate how program or tool works. We conducted study investigate developers produce share developer-focused casts using You Tube social platform. First, we identified analyzed set development determine have...

10.5555/2820282.2820297 article EN International Conference on Program Comprehension 2015-05-16

Classes that require writing assignments commonly engage students in some form of peer review. Such reviews can profit from two computer applications: news groups and specialized communication client software. In a recent survey, majority the who conducted business class found activities useful worthy repeating future semesters. But they suggested faculty provide more guidelines topics to enhance substance review, train directly applications, allot time conduct at comfortable pace.

10.1177/108056999906200309 article EN Business Communication Quarterly 1999-09-01

Question and Answer sites like the Stack Exchange network allow users to contribute knowledge in a variety of topics. Of particular interest are habits expert users, or with high reputation scores. Expanding on previous work done by Bosu et al., we performed an exploratory analysis data determine if there is positive correlation between user scores diversity tags contributed to. For our analysis, used available from created visual tagging habits. We found that these two measures, suggesting...

10.1109/waina.2014.108 article EN 2014-05-01

Tools for high-level languages often assist developers in successfully comprehending complex systems without worrying about low-level details. However, new architectures and paradigms now pose challenges program comprehension that require reasoning issues - sometimes even at the level of processor instructions. This is particularly true generation learning to harness power SIMD operations, multi-core, multiprocessor systems. Though industrial-strength tools malware analysts are available,...

10.1109/pacrim.2013.6625501 article EN 2013-08-01

The author’s use of nondeliberative activities in social work groups stems from her career as a professional actress and dancer. author has taken passion for acting dance designed that utilize action, instinct, gut reactions. This is the story how introduced to New York City what happened when we stopped talking started doing.

10.1080/01609513.2015.1048418 article EN Social Work With Groups 2016-04-02

Reverse engineering large systems today requires multiple analysts trying to understand multi-threaded software running on multicore/multiprocessor hardware that covers instruction sets. Today's "multi-X" world new analysis tools revealing a wide range of perspectives -- static and dynamic, detailed abstract. Our goal is design support low-level program comprehension tasks ranging from malware mainframe code-base evolution. This paper presents the implementation prototype Integrated...

10.1109/3pgcic.2012.52 article EN 2012-11-01

Since many business students will conduct performance appraisals in future employment, instruction on is appropriate for the communication course. This article contains a discussion of unit perfor mance appraisals, including writing comments to support ratings, drawing conclusions concerning performance, and making recommendations improve performance. An exam ple an assignment that requires complete appraisal form provided. Last, suggested teaching tech niques are given unit.

10.1177/108056999405700309 article EN The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication 1994-09-01

<h3>Background</h3> During the pandemic, hospice social workers recognised that schools were supporting children affected by COVID-19. With intense media coverage about virus and daily reporting of death tolls, public talking more openly. The team 'children need adults to help them understand what's going on, talk what frightens reassure them' (The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network, 2020). <h3>Aims</h3> Supporting families before following bereavement is part work role. lockdown supported...

10.1136/spcare-2021-hospice.49 article EN other-oa Poster presentations 2021-10-27
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