Software Engineering Research Seminar

 

 

This bi-weekly seminar is mainly centered on software testing, reliability and maintenance. The regular research meeting of the Software Verification and Validation Lab is held in the weeks between the seminar weeks following the same schedule. Anyone interested in the relevant topics is welcome to join the seminars.

 

 

Spring 2002

 

*         Time: Tuesdays, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

 

*         Place: Verizon Room, on the 1st floor of Hardymon Building

 

(Please also notice the announcement in e-mails in case of any time conflicts or change of the place.)

 

    

 

*     4/12

 (Friday, 2:15pm,

   Verizon Room)

Dr. Warren Harrison, the Portland State University

 

Topic: Using the Economic Value of the Firm as a Basis for Assessing the Value of Process Improvements.

 

*     3/26

Dr. Jeff Voas, Cigital Labs

 

Topic: Fault Injection and Testability

 

*     3/19

No Seminar

 

*     3/5

Research group meeting

 

Dr. Hayes’ Ph. D. students and RAs provide informal discussions of their current research projects.

 

*     2/19

Dr. Rammohan Ragade, the University of Louisville

 

Topic: Some Research Issues in the Problems of Packing and Unpacking in the context of Rapid Prototyping

 

*     2/12

Research group meeting

 

Dr. Hayes’ Ph. D. students and RAs, Sandip Patel, Jim Carigan and Tina Gao provide informal discussions of their current research projects.

 

*     2/5

Paul Piwowarski, the University of Kentucky

 

 

Topic: Testing in a Large Product Development Environment

 

Based on Paul's 28 years of experience with IBM, he will discuss:

*    The results of a survey of testing within IBM that he participated in

*    The uses and limitations of testing tools such as code coverage

*    Good and bad testing techniques

*    Suggestions on how academia can advance testing techniques

 

*    1/29

Research group meeting

 

Dr. Hayes’ Ph. D. students, Sandip Patel, Bill Kidwell, and Jim Carigan provide informal discussions of their current research projects.

 

*     1/24

Planning meeting