Phyllis G. Frankl, Ph.D.
Professor

Research Interest

• Software analysis and testing

Profile

Phyllis G. Frankl received the B.A. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Brandeis University in 1979, the M.A. degree in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from New York University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Her research is primarily in the area of software testing and analysis, and has included theoretical work, experimentation, and tool development. She has developed techniques and tools for testing object-oriented programs, for symbolic evaluation of programs and for using data flow analysis to aid in software testing. She has also conducted experiments comparing the fault detecting ability of testing techniques, and has explored conditions under which one technique is provably more likely to detect a fault than another technique. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation for research on testing object-oriented programs and on comparing the fault-detecting ability of testing techniques, and from the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on a variety of subjects, including theory of computation, data structures and algorithms, programming languages, and selected topics courses on software testing and on software specification and validation.

Selected Publication

• "All-Uses versus Mutation Testing: An Experimental Comparison of Effectiveness'', Journal of Systems and Software, Sept. 1997, (with S.N Weiss and C. Hu).
• "Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered Reliability,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 24,8, Aug. 1998, (with R. Hamlet, B. Littlewood, and L. Strigini).
• "The ASTOOT Approach to Testing Object-oriented Programs,'' ACM Trans. on Software Engineering Methodology, April, 1994, (with R. Doong).

Ph.D Student

• Chays, David
• Cortina, Tom
• Dan, Saikat
• Doong, Roongko
• Ghriga, Mohammed
• Marx, Delia
• Vokolos, Filip
• Yuetang, Deng

Education

• Ph.D New York University, 1987