| Sunday, May 6 | |
| Time | Author's Reception - Sponsored by Cisco |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Registration
Desk Open Dinner at Boscos - Sponsored by Cisco We meet at FIT and then drive to Boscos. Directions to Boscos from The University of Memphis can be found here. |
Monday, May 7 | |
| Time | Presentation Title and Speaker |
| 7:30 | Registration Desk Open |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Opening
Session General Chair - Dr. Sajjan Shiva VP IT, Fedex - Dave Miller Chairman Fedex Institute of Technology - Dr. Doug Hurley |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited Talk - Dr.
Alan R. Hevner, Professor, University of South Florida Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology Information Systems and Decision Sciences College of Business Administration, University of South Florida Transforming Software Testing with Function Extraction |
| 10:00 - 10:05 | Program Chair - Dr. Vasile Rus |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
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Session 1 - Chair: Darko Marinov Tools and Frameworks for Software Testing | |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | A Tool for Risk-Based Testing - Linda Sherrell, Sarah Bowen, and Hima Puppala [PPT] |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | A General Framework for Information Processing with Application to Quantitative Software Testing - Vasile Rus and Sajjan Shiva [PPT] |
| 10:55 - 11:10 | Hercules: An Environment for Large-Scale Enterprise Infrastructure Testing - Lan Wang, Charles Ellis, Wei Yin, Dung Dinh Luong [PPT - NA] |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Fault Injection: A Method for Validating Fault-Tolerant System - Salahuddin Mohammad Masum, Bhanu Chander Reddy Vanteru, Mohammed Yeasin [PPT] |
| 11:25 - 11:40 | Automated Unit Testing with AgitarOne - Eamon McCormick [PPT] |
| 11:40 - 1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Panel 1 - Major Challenges in
Systems/Software Testing Panelists: Dr. Alan Hevner - Chair, Joel Tracy, Jon Liperi, Regan Poston, Santosh Iyer |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
| Session 2 - Chair: Linda
Sherrell Software Testing Management and Software Testing Tools | |
| 2:50 - 3:05 | A Framework for Aligning Testing and Development - Colin Onita and Jasbir Dhaliwal [PPT] |
| 3:05 - 3:20 | Generating Test Inputs for Fault-Tree Analyzers using Imperative Predicates - Sasa Misailovic, Aleksandar Milicevic, Sarfraz Khurshid and Darko Marinov [PPT] |
| 3:20 - 4:30 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
| Session 3 - Chair: Mark
Gillenson Knowledge Management in Software Testing | |
| 4:30 - 4:45 | The Division Of Knowledge: Knowledge Transfer Practices in Outsourcing - Thomas F. Stafford, Mark Gillenson, Sandra Richardson [PPT] |
| 4:45 - 5:00 | Applying Knowledge Management Approach for Software Testing - Ted Lee [PPT] |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Can Employees' Personality and Cultural Characteristics Be Used to Predict their Best Fit With Software Testing Job Tasks? - Judith C. Simon, Judith C. Brown, Charles J. Campbell, and Sandra Richardson [PPT] |
| 5:15 - 5:30 | Knowledge Partitioning and Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms in Software Testing: An Empirical Investigation - Radhika Jain and Sandra Richardson [PPT] |
| BANQUET at Fogelman Conference
Center (FEC) Starting @ 6:30PM Cash Bar Opens in FEC @ 5:30PM CAS Dean - Dr. Henry Kurtz Fogelman CBE Dean - Dr. John Pepin Keynote Speaker: VP IT, Fedex - Dave Miller |
Tuesday, May 8 | |
| Time | Presentation Title and Speaker |
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Certificate Ceremony Director, Systems Testing Excellence Program - Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal VP IT, Fedex - Dave Miller President of The Univ. of Memphis - Dr. Shirley Raines |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Invited Talk - Dr. Bill
Scherlis Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Director, Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University Prospects for Artifact-Based Software Assurance |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
| Session 4 - Chair: Ted Lee Management Techniques in Software Testing | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | The CollegeCareerCorps Model - Laurie Craig, Kevin Avent, Jeff Brittain [PPT] |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Managing Offshore Outsourcing of Software Testing - Robin S. Poston, Judith C. Simon, Radhika Jain [PPT] |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Importance of Test Automation in System Testing - Sudheer Mamadapur [PPT] |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Panel 2 - Global Software
Development and Testing Panelists: Dr. Bill Scherlis - Chair, Ken Brame, Jeff Brittain, Dr. Bart Dahmer, Dr. Sajjan Shiva |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
|
Session 5 - Chair: Judy Simon Software Testing Management Models and Software Tools | |
| 2:50 - 3:05 | Interpersonal Conflict between Developers and Testers in Software Development - Xihui Zhang, Jasbir Dhaliwal, and Mark Gillenson [PPT] |
| 3:05 - 3:20 | Generalization of MOPS for Software Testing using Finite State Machine - Mohammad S. Sorower, Mohammad F. Ahmed, Mohammed Yeasin [PPT] |
| 3:20 - 3:35 | Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Testing - Khais Khan, Satheesh Kumar, and Prabahakran Sundaram [PPT] |
| 3:35 - 4:00 | Coffee Break and Visit Vendor Booths |
|
Session 6 - Chair: Robin Poston Testing Oriented Software Processes | |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Testing in the Early Phases of the Software Development Life Cycle - Sarah B. Lee, Linda B. Sherrell, Hima Puppala, Sajjan Shiva [PPT - NA] |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Engaging Testers Early and Throughout the SDLC - Mark L. Gillenson, Xihui (Paul) Zhang, Sandra Richardson [PPT] |
| 4:30 - 4:45 | Development of Decision Models for Best Use of Software Testing Resources - Charles J. Campbell, Judith C. Simon, and Ronald B. Wilkes [PPT] |
| Closing Remarks - Dr. Sajjan Shiva, General Chair |