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Software Engineering

Quality Assurance and Testing in Software Engineering

Software quality assurance and testing remain skilled crafts relying on the savvy, expertise, and experience of practitioners.  This research stream builds on a knowledge base of analytic techniques, cognitive theories, and fundamental metrics to develop innovative approaches to improve the theory and practice of software inspections and testing.

Journal Publications

  1. B. Hungerford, A. Hevner, and R. Collins, “Reviewing Software Diagrams: A Cognitive Study,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 82-96. (Available at http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2004.1265814 )
  2. A. Hevner, "Phase Containment Metrics for Software Quality Improvement," Information and Software Technology, Vol. 39, No. 13, December 1997, pp. 867-877. (Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5849(97)00050-5 )
  3. T. Vagoun and A. Hevner, "Feasible Input Domain Partitioning in Software Testing: RCS Case Study," Annals of Software Engineering, Special Issue on Software Testing and Quality Assurance, Volume 4, 1997, pp. 159-170. (Available at http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=p68v02g6k031k661  )
  4. 4. D. Berndt and A. Hevner, "The COR Model for Analyzing Information Systems Change," Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. III - Information Systems: DSS/Knowledge-Based Systems Track, Hawaii, January 1997, pp. 198-207. (Available at http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.1997.661593 )

Refereed Conference Publications

  1. K. Chari and A. Hevner, “Integration Testing Planning of Object-Oriented Software,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Atlanta, October 2003.
  2. K. Chari, J. Fisher, and A. Hevner, “Software Integration Test Planning: An Optimization Model,” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS’00), Brisbane, Dec. 2000, pp. 19-24.
  3. B. Hungerford and A. Hevner, “Team Synergy in Software Inspections: A Group Behavior Analysis,” Proceedings of the Third America’s Conference on Information Systems, Indianapolis, August 1997, pp. 946-948.
  4. D. Berndt and A. Hevner, "The COR Model for Analyzing Information Systems Change," Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. III - Information Systems: DSS/Knowledge-Based Systems Track, Hawaii, January 1997, pp. 198-207. (Available at http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/1997/7734/03/7734030198.pdf )
  5. A. Hevner, F. Belanger, and C. Van Slyke, "Implementing Phase Containment Metrics for Software Quality Improvement," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS-95), Amsterdam, December 1995, pp. 249-257.
  6. T. Vagoun and A. Hevner, "State-Based Testing Strategies," Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, October 1994, pp. 427-443.
  7. A. Hevner, D. Lemmon, and T. Vagoun, "Quality Measurements in the Cleanroom Development Process," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Quality, North Carolina, October 1992, pp. 80-87.