On the Impact of Affect in Software Engineering
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ON THE IMPACT OF AFFECT IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PARASTOU TOURANI DÉPARTEMENT DE GÉNIE INFORMATIQUE ET GÉNIE LOGICIEL ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL THÈSE PRÉSENTÉE EN VUE DE L’OBTENTION DU DIPLÔME DE PHILOSOPHIÆ DOCTOR (GÉNIE INFORMATIQUE) DÉCEMBRE 2016 c Parastou Tourani, 2016. UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL Cette thèse intitulée: ON THE IMPACT OF AFFECT IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING présentée par: TOURANI Parastou en vue de l’obtention du diplôme de: Philosophiæ Doctor a été dûment acceptée par le jury d’examen constitué de: M. BELTRAME Giovanni, Ph. D., président M. ADAMS Bram, Doctorat, membre et directeur de recherche M. KHOMH Foutse, Ph. D., membre Mme SHARIF Bonita, Ph. D., membre externe iii DEDICATION This thesis is lovingly dedicated to my mother, Akhtar Ganji. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my advisor Dr. Bram Adams for the continuous support of my Ph.D study and for his patience, motivation, and immense knowledge. Besides my advisor, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee: Dr. Bonita Sharif, Dr. Foutse Khomh, and Dr. Giovanni Beltrame for accepting my invitation to be jury members, Dr. Sofiane Achiche to be representative of my defense. My sincere thanks also goes to Prof. Giuliano Antoniol, Prof. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Dr. Alexander Serebrenik, and Dr. Peter Rigby that gave me insightful advice in my academic life. Last but not least, I would like to thank every single one of my labmates who created such a good positive atmosphere in the lab: Zohreh, Yujuan, Mahdis, Rodrigo, Azadeh, Zephyrin, Armstrong, Le, Mbarka, Ons, Laleh, Venera, and Rubén.
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