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Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies

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Dr Edmonds MF Lau

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology


Emailelau@swin.edu.au
Phone+61 3 9214 4367
Fax+61 3 9214 0823
OfficeEN509a


Administrative Responsibilities

  • Academic Advisor of Graduate Diploma Programs (2003)
  • Deputy Program Manager Grad. Dip. of IT (Internet Software Development) (2001, 2002)
  • Deputy Program Manager Grad. Dip. of IT (Electronic Commerce Systems) (2001, 2002)
  • Program Panel Member, Bachelor of Science (Information Technology)

Qualifications

  • PhD (Melb)
  • Postgrad. Cert. in Education (HKU)
  • BSc(Hons) (HKU)

Research Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • Software Testing
  • Software Engineering Education
  • E-Commerce
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Object-oriented Programming
  • IT in Education (Visual Basic or Java)

Recent Publications

  • M.F. Lau and Y.T. Yu, "An extended fault class hierarchy for Boolean specifications", ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 14(3):247-276, July 2005.
  • T. Y. Chen and M. F. Lau, ''On the divide-and-conquer approach towards test suite reduction'', Information Sciences, an International Journal, 152:89--119, June 2003.
  • T. Y. Chen and M. F. Lau, ''Test case selection strategies based on Boolean specifications'', Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 11(3):165--180, Sep. 2001.
  • T. Y. Chen and M. F. Lau, ''On the completeness of a test suite reduction strategy'', The Computer Journal, 42(5):430--440, May 1999.
  • T. Y. Chen and M. F. Lau, ''A new heuristic for test suite reduction'', Information and Software Technology, 40(5--6):347--354, July 1998.
  • T. Y. Chen and M. F. Lau, ''Dividing strategies for the optimization of a test suite'', Information Processing Letters, 60(3):135-141, Nov. 1996.
  • M. F. Lau and Y. T. Yu, ''On the relationships of faults for Boolean specification based testing'', In Proceedings of 2001 Australian Software Engineering Conference, pp. 21--28, Aug. 2001, IEEE CS Press.
  • My other publications

Awards and Honours

Teaching Areas

  • HIT6031 Software Engineering (since 2002)
  • HIT3058 Software Engineering Project (since 2002)
  • HIT3045/8045 Personal Software Process (since 2000)
  • HIT1031/5031 Introduction to Software Engineering (since 2000)
  • HIT2056 Software Project Management (2002)
  • HIT3056/7056 Software Engineering 1 (2001)
  • HIT3119/8119 Enterprise Java (since 2004)
  • HIT3657 Software Testing and Reliability (since 2004)
  • HIT3619 Enterprise Java (since 2004)

Research Groups

  • Centre for Information Technology Research

Academic Discipline

  • Computer Science and Software Engineering

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