Jaymie Strecker

Welcome to my website.

I'm a visiting instructor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the College of Wooster, a liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio. Wooster is famous for its Independent Study program. Also, its Math & CS department currently has the nice property that all acting CS faculty are female.

I'm also a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, working with Dr. Atif Memon and the GUITAR research group. My dissertation research deals with software testing and software bugs. (You might call it "software entomology".) It contends that researchers can't sufficiently understand software testing without also understanding software bugs. It shows how to account for bug characteristics in empirical studies of software testing.

In 2004 I won a National Physical Sciences Consortium Fellowship.

You might be interested in my publications. Here are some:

• » J. Strecker. "Accounting for defect characteristics in empirical studies of software testing". Dissertation, University of Maryland. July, 2009. (I will defend this dissertation on July 6, 2009 and then make final changes to it.)
• » J. Strecker and A. M. Memon. "Testing graphical user interfaces". Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd ed., 2008.
• » J. Strecker and A. M. Memon. "Faults' Context Matters". In Proceedings of SOQUA 2007, Sep. 2007.
• » J. Spacco, J. Strecker, D. Hovemeyer, and W. Pugh. "Software repository mining with Marmoset: an automated programming project snapshot and testing system". In Proceedings of MSR 2005, May 2005

Or you might be interested in some of my other creations:

• » A course on software quality
• » Software-testing benchmarks
• » A sample-size calculator for logistic regression
• » CS Grad Women website