Penelope Brooks

Research:

My research focuses on automated testing of event-driven software, particularly software with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), based on a probabilistic model. By collecting information from real users and existing test cases, we can populate a probabilistic model and automatically generate test cases for the application under test. The model also allows reuse of test cases for regression testing by translating event sequences in the old application to event sequences in the new application. Finally, we can use the model to synthesize existing test suites, thereby reducing the number of test cases by combining frequently used sequences of events.

Publications:

Conferences

  • "Automated GUI Testing Guided by Usage Profiles" by Penelope Brooks and Atif M. Memon. In ASE '07: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), 2007.
  • "Extending the Notation of Rational Rose 98 for use with Formal Methods" by Penelope A. Noe and T. C. Hartrum. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 National Aerospace& Electronics Conference, Oct. 2000.

Workshops

  • Measuring the Utility of Gaze Detection for Task Modeling: A Preliminary Study." by Penelope Brooks, K.Y. Phang, R. Bradley, D. Oard, R. White and F. Guimbretière. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis 2006.

Useful Links


penelope at cs dot umd dot edu