Two UNL PhD students from the Software Engineering Lab, Zhihong Xu and Brady Garvin, presented papers at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering in Hiroshima, Japan. The symposium, held from November 29- December 2, focused on the threats posed by hackers and virus intrusions that come along with the advancement of new technology such as smart phones and cloud computing. The ISSRE focuses on innovative techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, and security of software products. The symposium itself is an unique representation in that it is evenly split between academia and industry.
Zhihong Xu presented her paper, "Impact Analysis of Configuration Changes for Test Case Selection", held in the fifth session of the conference, System Testing. The paper was supervised by UNL Professor Gregg Rothermel and Professor Moonzoo Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Brady Garvin presented his paper "Feature Interaction Faults Revisited: An Exploratory Study", held in the third session of the conference, Data Driven Software Reliability Studies. UNL professor Myra Cohen supervised the research and also chaired the fourth session titled Unit Testing. Topics discussed in this category included Javascript errors, adaptive regression testing strategy, and automatic generation of pairwise test configurations.
Zhihong Xu said of the experience, "It is a wonderful small "reunion" of E2 students. I felt so happy to see Xiao and Hynsook, who graduated from our university some time ago. We had a chance to talk about our recent work and life situations. I enjoyed it a lot."
Xiao Qu and Hyunsook Do also presented papers at the conference. Xiao Qu presented "Impact Analysis of Configuration Changes for Test Case Selection" and Hyunsook Do presented "Adaptive Regression Testing Strategy: An Empirical Study". Xiao Qu received her PhD in 2010 and is working on applied research at ABB in North Carolina. Hyunsook Do received her PhD in 2007 and is an assistant professor at North Dakota State University. Keynote speakers included Kishor Trivedi of Duke University, Kazuhira Okumoto of Alcatel-Lucent, and Masafumi Katahira of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.