AdVanced Empirical Software Testing & Analysis (AVESTA)
Research Projects
Several projects are active in the AVESTA group.
Cyber Security Modeling and Testing
Investigators: Dr. Namin, Dr. Hewett, and Dr. Zhang
The project aims at modeling security policies, attack detection, and security testing including secure programming, and modeling through software engineering practice.
Bayesian Techniques for Program Analysis
Investigators: Dr. Mohan Sridharan, Dr. Namin
This project is a joint work with Dr. Mohan Sridharan’s group. The main goal os this project is to develop and adapt Bayesian online
learning tecnhiques to several software testing problems. Several problems associated with program analysis have been discussed and planned.
A Tutorial for introducing Bayesian data analysis was offered by Dr. Sridhana and myself.
The Role of Code Coverage on Defect Coverage
Investigators: Dr. Namin, Sahitya Kakarla
This project is addressing the foundamental question concerning whether coverage plays any role in predicting the effectiveness of test
suites. The question is very challenging sue to misunderestnading of the effect of coverage on fault detection.
Testing Multi−Threaded and Multi−Core Applications
Investigators: Dr. Namin,Kunjal Rathod
The multicore software engineering is one of research interest of AVESTA group. We seek tools and techniques to model and test
multithreaded applications. This includes producing a tool to generate interleavings for threads scheduling, auto−tuning, etc.
Mutation Analysis and Tools
Investigators: Dr. Namin, Prachi Devalapurkar, Pratyusha Madirajua, Cheranaya Chidambaram
The mutation testing research includes designing techniques to reduce the cost of mutation testing, to model the relationship between
faults and mutants, and to ddevelop new tools to the research community.
Adaptive Random Testing
Investigators: Dr. Namin, Selina Momotaz
Several researchers have been working on adaptive random testing. We mainly focus on application of probabilistic reasoning to build new tools.
Testing Probabilistic Systems
Investigators: Dr. Barbara Millet, Dr. Mohan Sridharan, Dr. Namin, Pulkit Tomar
Probabilistic systems are very interesting but difficult systems to test. The purpose of this project is to conduct empirical studies to
investigate the possibility of developing new algorithms and techniques addressing non−deterministic nature of these systems.
Probabilistic model checking is the major tool we use to test human-computer interaction and simulate the human factors.