Mei-Hwa Chen Ph.D., Purdue University Associate Professor mhc@cs.albany.edu (Personal Page) Computer Science Department University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 (518) 442-4283 (518) 442-5638 (FAX)

Personal Statement of Research

My research interests are in developing techniques and tools to facilitate effective development and maintenance of heterogeneous software. Current research projects include (1) architecture-based software reliability modeling: develop a state model using formal descriptions of software architectural styles and a Markov-based software reliability model. (2) Software change impact analysis: develop a UML-based model supporting multi-phased hierarchical views of software change impact analysis. (3) Modeling and testing distributed and concurrent component-based systems: utilize component composability to develop a test model for automatic testing of distributed and concurrent component-based systems. (4) Object-oriented software analysis and testing: develop an efficient algorithm for object-flow analysis to facilitate object-flow based testing strategy.

Selected Publications

Ye Wu, Mei-Hwa Chen, and Jeff Offutt UML-Based Integration Testing for Component-Based Software, to appear in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 10 - 12, 2003.

Wen-Li Wang, Dai Pan , and Mei-Hwa Chen, Architecture-Based Software Reliability Modeling, The Journal of Systems and Software, accepted for publication.

Wen-Li Wang, Dai Pan, and Mei-Hwa Chen, Heterogeneous Software Reliability Modeling, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Thirteenth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Maryland, Nov. 12 - 15, 2002.

Mei-Huei Tang and Mei-Hwa Chen ,Measuring OO design metrics from UML , to appear in Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language - the Language and its applications, Dresden, Germany, Sep. 30 - Oct. 4, 2002

Mei-Hwa Chen, Eric Wong, and Michael Lyu, Effect of Code Coverage on Software Reliability Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 165-170, June, 2001.

Ye Wu, Dai Pan, and Mei-Hwa Chen, Techniques for Testing Component-Based Software, in Proceedings of The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, June 11-13, 2001, Skövde, Sweden.

Ye Wu, Dai Pan, and Mei-Hwa Chen, Techniques for Maintaining Evolving Component-Based Software , in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance 2000, San Jose, CA, October 11 - 14, 2000.