{"id":4,"date":"2015-09-15T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:11:12","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/","title":{"rendered":"The SERENE Lab at Florida State University"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>The Software Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Evolution and Maintenance Lab<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"515\" height=\"515\" class=\"wp-image-333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Serene-IconTrans-green.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Serene-IconTrans-green.png 515w, https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Serene-IconTrans-green-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Serene-IconTrans-green-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; min-width: 44px; min-height: 44px;\">The <strong>S<\/strong>oftware <strong>E<\/strong>nginee<strong>R<\/strong>ing: <strong>E<\/strong>volutio<strong>N<\/strong> and maint<strong>E<\/strong>nance (SERENE) lab at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsu.edu\/\">Florida State University<\/a>, founded and led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/%7Eshaiduc\/\">Dr. Sonia Haiduc<\/a>, is dedicated to research in the field of Software Engineering and focusing on novel approaches and techniques to assist software developers in\u00a0undertaking tasks common to the creation, understanding, and maintenance of increasingly large software systems.<\/p>\r\n<p>The main research topics of the group are:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Software maintenance and evolution<\/li>\r\n<li>Program comprehension<\/li>\r\n<li>Mining of software repositories<\/li>\r\n<li>Source code analysis<\/li>\r\n<li>Empirical studies in Software Engineering<\/li>\r\n<li>Applications of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing in Software Engineering<\/li>\r\n<li>Developer performance<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Engineering Evolution and Maintenance Lab The Software EngineeRing: EvolutioN and maintEnance (SERENE) lab at\u00a0Florida State University, founded and led by Dr. Sonia Haiduc, is dedicated to research in the field of Software Engineering and focusing on novel approaches and techniques to assist software developers in\u00a0undertaking tasks common to the creation, understanding, and maintenance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.fsu.edu\/~serene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}