The PLEIAD laboratory of the Computer Science Department (DCC) of the University of Chile (Faculty of Engineering) is a laboratory dedicated to research on new software development techniques.

More precisely, we work on many ways to better support software development at different levels, from programming languages to development environments, including tools to support program understanding (debuggers, profilers, visualizers). We also study the practice of programming, mostly through mining software repositories.

Where do we publish? Here is the PLEIAD Trail (major conferences only) since 2010:

• 2012: ECOOP, ICSE (2)
• 2011: AOSD, ECOOP (3), FSE, ICPC (2), ICSE (2), MODELS, MSR, OOPSLA
• 2010: AOSD (2), ASE, GPCE, ICSE, MSR (2), SAC, SC, SCAM, TOOLS

We also publish in the following journals: Automated Software Engineering, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures; Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience; Empirical Software Engineering; IEEE Software; IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering; Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; Science of Computer Programming; Software-Practice and Experience.

We are involved in teaching a variety of courses covering our topics of interest. We also develop(ed) a number of software artifacts to support our research.

• Paper Extensions during Software Evolution: Do Objects Meet Their Promise? accepted at ECOOP 2012

• Paper on Programming with Ghosts accepted for publication in IEEE Software. Check out the Ghosts website!

• The paper PHANtom: a Modern Aspect Language for Pharo Smalltalk by J.Fabry and D.Galdames has been accepted in the Wiley journal Software – Practice and Experience

• The paper AspectMaps: Extending Moose to Visualize AOP Software by J. Fabry, A. Kellens, S. Denier, and S. Ducasse is accepted in the Elsevier Journal Science of Computer Programming.

• The paper Expressing Aspectual Interactions in Requirements Engineering: Experiences, Problems and Solutions by A. Zambrano, J. Fabry, and S. Gordillo is accepted in the Elsevier Journal Science of Computer Programming.

• Alexandre Bergel is a featured ACM reviewer

• Article “Object Centric Debugging”, accepted as technical paper at ICSE'12

• Three papers of PLEIAD accepted at FOAL 2012! “A Practical Monadic Aspect Weaver” (Figueroa/Tanter/Tabareau), “A Self-Replicating Algorithm to Flexibly Match Execution Traces” (Leger/Tanter), “Taming Aspects with Membranes” (Tanter/Tabareau/Douence).

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