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Journal publications

Sreedevi Sampath, Renee Bryce, Improving the effectiveness of Test Suite Reduction for User-Session-Based Testing of Web Applications, Elsevier Information and Software Technology Journal, 54(7):724-738, July 2012 (accepted in January 2012), available online.

Renee Bryce, Sreedevi Sampath, Jan B. Pedersen, Schuyler Manchester, Test Suite Prioritization by Cost-based Combinatorial Interaction Coverage International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management (Springer), 2(2):126-134, April 2011. PDF paper

Renee Bryce, Sreedevi Sampath, Atif Memon, Developing a Single Model and Test Prioritization Strategies for Event-Driven Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 1, pp 48-64, 2011. (Pre-print appeared online in January 2010). DOI Bookmark to paper. PDF paper

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock, and Amie Souter Greenwald "Applying Concept Analysis to User-session-based Testing of Web Applications", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 10, pgs 643 - 658, October 2007. Copyright 2007 IEEE. PDF paper.

Highly refereed Conference publications

Sreedevi Sampath, Renee Bryce, Sachin Jain, Schuyler Manchester, A Tool for Combinatorial-based Prioritization and Reduction of User-Session-Based Test Suites, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Tool Demonstration Track, September 2011. PDF paper.

Wenhua Wang, Jeff Lei, Sreedevi Sampath, Raghu Kacker, Rick Kuhn, James Lawrence, "A Combinatorial Approach to Building Navigation Graphs for Dynamic Web Applications", IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pgs 211-220, September 2009. Acceptance rate: 21%. PDF paper.

Wenhua Wang, Sreedevi Sampath, Yu Lei, Raghu Kacker "An Interaction-Based Test Sequence Generation Approach for Testing Web Applications", IEEE International Conference on High Assurance Systems Engineerng, December 2008. Acceptance rate: 32% (Full paper acceptance rate: 22%). PDF paper.

Yuepu Guo, Sreedevi Sampath, "Web Application Fault Classification--An Exploratory Study", Short paper at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), October 2008. Acceptance rate: 47%. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Renée Bryce, Gokulanand Viswanath, Vani Kandimalla, A. Günes Koru, "Prioritizing User-Session-Based Test Cases for Web Application Testing", International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), April 2008. Acceptance Rate: 23%. PDF paper. slides in PDF.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson and Lori Pollock, "Web Application Testing with Customized Test Requirements--An Experimental Comparison Study," International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), November 2006. Acceptance rate: 30%. PDF paper, slides in PDF.

Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath, Lori Pollock, "Automated Replay and Failure Detection for Web Applications", International Conference on Automated Software Engineering(ASE), November 2005. Acceptance rate: 9%. PDF paper.

Sara Sprenkle, Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Amie Souter, Lori Pollock, "An Empirical Comparison of Test Suite Reduction Techniques for User-session-based Testing of Web Applications," International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), September 2005. Acceptance rate: 30%. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Valentin Mihaylov, Amie Souter, Lori Pollock "A Scalable approach to User-session based Testing of Web Applications through Concept Analysis," Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE), September 2004. Acceptance rate: 14%. PDF paper, slides in PDF.

Sreedevi Sampath, Valentin Mihaylov, Amie Souter, Lori Pollock "Composing a Framework To Automate Testing of Operational Web-based Software," International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), September 2004. Acceptance rate: 32%. PDF paper, slides in PDF.

Workshop publications

Carolyn Seaman, A. Gunes Koru, Sreedevi Sampath, "Discovering Determinants of High Volatility Software", short paper at the International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2009. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson and Lori Pollock, "Integrating Customized Test Requirements with Traditional Requirements in Web Application Testing", Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications (TAV-WEB), co-located with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), July 2006. PDF paper, slides in PDF.

Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath and Lori Pollock, "A Case Study of Automatically Creating Test Suites from Web Application Field Data" , Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services and Applications (TAV-WEB), co-located with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) , July 2006. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock and Amie Souter "Analyzing Clusters of Web Application User Sessions," Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA), co-located with International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2005. Acceptance rate: 52%. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Amie Souter and Lori Pollock, "Towards Defining and Exploiting Similarities in Web Application Use Cases Through User Session Analysis," Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA), co-located with International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2004. Acceptance rate: 50%. PDF paper, slides in PDF.

Technical reports

Sreedevi Sampath,Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson and Lori Pollock, "Web Application Testing with Customized Test Requirements--An Experimental Comparison Study," Technical Report 2006-0330, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, May 2006. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson and Lori Pollock, "Applying Concept Analysis to User-session-based Testing of Web Applications," Technical Report 2006-0329, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, March 2006. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Sara Sprenkle and Lori Pollock, "Coverage Criteria for Testing Web Applications," Technical Report 2005-17, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, April 2005. PDF paper.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock and Amie Souter "Analyzing Clusters of Web Application User Sessions," Technical Report 2005-14, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, February 2005. PDF paper.

Sara Sprenkle, Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Amie Souter and Lori Pollock, "An Empirical Comparison of Test Suite Reduction Techniques for User-session-based Testing of Web Applications," Technical Report 2005-009, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, November 2004, Revised April 2005. PDF paper

Sreedevi Sampath, Valentin Mihaylov, Amie Souter and Lori Pollock "A Scalable approach to User-session based Testing of Web Applications through Concept Analysis," Technical Report 2004-08, March 2004. PDF paper.

Poster presentations

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock and Amie Souter, "Applying Concept Analysis to User-session-based Testing of Web Applications", Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), April 2006, Poster in PDF.

Sreedevi Sampath, "Cost-effective Techniques for User-session-based Testing of Web Applications" , Doctoral Symposium, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2005. Acceptance rate: 41%. Poster in PDF.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock and Amie Souter, "Relating User Session Clusters to Dynamic Program Behavior" , Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems (MASPLAS), April 2005, Poster in PDF.