Phyllis G. Frankl

Computer and Information Science Department
Polytechnic University
Six Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
phone: 718 260-3870
fax: 718 260-3609 
e-mail: pfrankl at poly dot edu

I'm a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, NY. My main research interests are in the area of software testing, including development of software testing tools, and comparing the effectiveness of software testing techniques. My current work in that area focuses on developing techniques for testing database application programs. I'm also working on wireless information systems, and application security.

Education

B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, Brandeis University
M.A. in Mathematics, Columbia University
M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Professional Activities:

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Selected Publications:

Testing Database Applications:

· Yuetang Deng, Phyllis Frankl, David Chays, “Testing Database Transactions with AGENDA”, ICSE 2005. 70-87.

· David Chays, Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Saikat Dan, Filippos I. Vokolos, Elaine J. Weyuker, “ An AGENDA for testing relational database applications”. Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, 14(1): 17-44 (2004).

· Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Zhongqiang Chen: Testing Database Transaction Concurrency. ASE 2003: 184-195

· David Chays, Saikat Dan, Phyllis G. Frankl, Filippos I. Vokolos, Elaine J. Weyuker: A framework for testing database applications. ISSTA 2000: 147-157

Effectiveness of testing techniques:

• Phyllis G. Frankl, Yuetang Deng: Comparison of delivered reliability of branch, data flow and operational testing: A case study. ISSTA 2000: 124-134
• "Testing Software to Detect and Reduce Risk," Journal of Systems and Software, 53(3) Sept 15, 2000, pp 275-286, (with E. Weyuker).
• "Further Empirical Studies of Test Effectiveness," ACM SIGSOFT Sixth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Nov. 1998 (with O. Iakounenko).
• "Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered Reliability," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (ICSE '97), V. 24, 8, Aug. 1998, pp. 586 to 602, (with R.G. Hamlet, B. Littlewood, L. Strigini). Correction.
• "Choosing a Testing Method to Deliver Reliability," International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '97), May, 1997 (with R.G. Hamlet, B. Littlewood, L. Strigini).
• "All-Uses versus Mutation Testing: An Experimental Comparison of Effectiveness", Journal of Systems and Software, Sept. 1997, (with S.N Weiss and C. Hu).
• "An Experimental Comparison of the Effectiveness of Branch Testing and Data Flow Testing," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 19, 8, Aug., 1993, pp. 774-787, (with S.N. Weiss).
• "Provable Improvements on Branch Testing," IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, v. 19,10,Oct. 1993, pp. 962-975, (with E.J. Weyuker).
• "A Formal Analysis of the Fault Detecting Ability of Testing Methods," IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, v. 19,3, March, 1993, pp. 202-213, (with E.J. Weyker).

Data Flow Testing:

• "The Path-wise Approach to Data Flow Testing with Pointer Variables," International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Jan. 1996, (with Delia I.S. Marx).
• An applicable family of data flow testing criteria," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. SE-14,10, Oct. 1988, pp.1483-1498, (with E.J. Weyuker).
• "ASSET: a system to select and evaluate tests," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Tools, New York, NY, April 1985, (with S.N. Weiss and E.J. Weyuker).

Testing Object-oriented Programs:

• "The ASTOOT Approach to Testing Object-oriented Programs," ACM Trans. on Software Engineering Methodology, April, 1994, (with R. Doong).
• "Case studies on testing object-oriented programs," TAV4: Symposium on Software Testing, Analysis and Verification, Oct. 1991, (with R. Doong).
• "Tools for testing object-oriented programs," Pacific Northwest Software Quality Assurance Conference, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 1990, (with R. Doong).

Regression Testing:

• Phyllis G. Frankl, Gregg Rothermel, Kent Sayre, Filippos I. Vokolos: An Empirical Comparison of Two Safe Regression Test Selection Techniques. ISESE 2003: 195-205
• "Empirical Evaluation of the Textual Differencing Regression Testing Technique," International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM-98) ; Nov, 1998 (with F. Vokolos).
• "Pythia: A Regression Test Selection Tool Based on Textual Differencing", International Conference on Reliability, Quality and Saftey of Software Intensive Systems (ENCRESS '97); May, 1997 (with F. Vokolos).

Infostation (Wireless data dissemination system):

· John Buford, Emré Celebi, Phyllis G. Frankl: Property-Based Peer Trust in the Sleeper Service Discovery Protocol. COMPSAC (2) 2006: 209-214

Other:

• "Globally Consistent Event Ordering in One-Directional Distributed Environments", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 7, 6, June, 1996, pp. 665-670, (with P. Ammann and S. Jajodia).
• Vikram Anantapadmanabhan, Phyllis G. Frankl, Nasir D. Memon, Gleb Naumovich: Design of a Laboratory for Information Security Education. World Conference on Information Security Education 2003: 61-73
• "Adaptive Testing of Non-deterministic Communications Protocols," 6th International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems, Sept. 1993, (with M. Ghriga).

"A change in twist of actin provides the force for the extension of the acrosomal process in limulus sperm: the false-discharge reaction," Journal of Cell Biology Vol. 93, May 1982, 324 - 337, (with De Rosier, Tilney, and Bonder)