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Mary
Jean Harrold
NSF ADVANCE
Professor of Computing
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Testing
and Analysis of Next Generation Software |
POSTPONED
(February 7, 2003)
Refreshments
and Networking: 1:30 - 2:00
Presentation: 2:00 - 3:30
Faculty Host:
Debra J. Richardson, djr
@ ics.uci.edu
RSVP: Email RSVP required to Christopher Stringer
at cms @ ics.uci.edu by Monday,
February 3.
Location: McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
(building #311)
Cost: No cost to attend.
Directions and parking information are available.
Abstract: Software systems of the future will be dynamic and powerful,
characterized by frequently changing requirements and interactions
with external systems and components to a degree not found
in the systems of the past. Like the systems of the past, these
next generation systems will evolve due to corrections, enhancements,
or adaptations, but their evolution will also be dynamic to an extent
not previously experienced. Also, their evolution will be shaped by
the wide range of processes by which their components are developed.
Addressing the quality problems that such systems will exhibit will
be a complex and important effort, and testing and analysis
techniques will be needed to understand, evaluate, modify, and
validate new system releases and configurations. To succeed on next
generation systems, however, analysis and testing techniques must be
adaptive and responsive to evolution to an extent beyond that normally
seen today. In short, they must adopt an evolution-centric perspective.
In this talk, I will first define and motivate this evolution-centric
perspective, describe the dimensions of such a perspective applied to
analysis and testing, and discuss what can be gained from it.
Then, I will illustrate by describing an evolution-centric approach to
testing.
About the Speaker: Mary Jean Harrold is the NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing in the College
of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is a member
of the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)
and the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU-Center).
Her research interests include the development of efficient techniques
and tools that will automate, or partially automate, development,
testing, and maintenance tasks. Her research to date has involved
program-analysis based software engineering with an emphasis on
regression testing, analysis and testing of imperative and
object-oriented software, development of software tools, and empirical
evaluation.
Dr. Harrold is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's National
Young Investigator Award. She serves on the editorial boards of IEEE
Transactions on Software engineering and ACM Transactions on Programming
Languages and Systems. She is co-chair of the Computing Research
Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing (CRA-W).
Dr. Harrold the BS and MA degrees in mathematics
from Marshall University and the MS and PhD degrees in computer
science from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the ACM,
IEEE Computer Society, and Sigma Xi.