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	W. Eric Wong ECSS 3.903 Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083 Voice: (972) 883-6619 Fax: (972) 883-2399 Email: ewong@utdallas.edu

Biography

W. Eric Wong received his B.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He also received a certificate from Georgia Tech Mid-Management Certified Program in 2001. In addition, he was a member of the Telcordia PDP Class 2000, a two-year leadership development program offered to a limited number of selected employees of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore or Bell Communications Research). Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Before joining UTD in 2002, he was with Telcordia Technologies as a Senior Research Scientist in Applied Research and a project manager under the Horizon Research Program.

Award

	1997 Quality Assurance Special Achievement Award Johnson Space Center NASA
	Best Paper Award The 31st IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007)

Research

Funding

Publication

Activity

Teaching

About My Research

Research Focus

Reducing the cost of software production and improving software dependability, reliability, and quality at the same time.
Program-Based Diagnostics

Work in software testing, such as the impact of code coverage on fault detection effectiveness and methodology for selecting effective regression tests, has been incorporated into the Telcordia Software Visualization and Analysis Toolsuite - an integrated solution of software analysis, testing, debugging, and maintenance.

Currently developing a set of metrics for evaluating the overall quality of selected telecommunication systems and identifying their fault-prone software modules. Also in development are metrics for better system understanding. Such metrics provide quantitative measurements for the closeness between program features and program components, as well as the overlap between different features.

Studies in software reliability include the impact of testing coverage information and different testing techniques on reliability analysis.
Architectural Design-Based Diagnostics

With improved technology for automatic code generation from architectural specifications, it becomes even more important to have, from the beginning, a highly reliable and dependable system design. To ensure this, we have to predict quality early in the development process. We are developing a design metrics analyzer which can analyze the design documentation represented in a high level specification language such as SDL to determine the better design when alternative choices exist, and to identify possible stress points that may lead to difficulty during coding. Moreover, we are in the process of applying our technology in source code level to coverage testing, diagnosis, and understanding of software architectural designs. In this way, we will be able to monitor the quality of our system starting from its design and avoid, as much as possible, repairing software in later stages of development, which can be extremely expensive.

Research Funding

After 2002

Selected Journal/Conference Publications

After 2002 (posted at the University of Texas at Dallas)
Before 2002 (Posted at Applied Research, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore))

Recent Professional Activities

Special Committee

Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Reliability Society (2008-2010)
Member of IBM System z Curriculum Advisory Panel

Journal Editorial Board

Journal of Systems and Software [here]
Advances in Software Engineering [here]
Journal Guest Editor
- A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) for QSIC 2007 on Quality Software (in preparation)
- A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) on Software Dependability and Risk Assessment (in preparation)
- A special section of the Software Quality Journal (SQJ) on Emerging Technologies for Improving Software Quality, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2008
- A special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) on Model-Based Software Testing Volume 81, Issue 2, February 2008
- A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) for The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2007
- A special issue of the Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE) on Developing Trustworthy Software Systems, Volume 36, Issue 9, July 2006
- A special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) on Aspect-Oriented Software Design, Volume 16, Number 3, June 2006
- A special issue of the Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE) on Enhancing Network Applications, Volume 33, Issue 14, November 2003
- A special issue of the Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability (STVR) on Mutation Testing (Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2001)
Steering Committee
- IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
General Chair
- ICCCN 2003 - The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Dallas, Texas, October 20-22, 2003
PC Chair
- SSIRI 2008 - The first IEEE International Conference on Secure Systems Integration and Reliability Improvement, Yokohama, Japan, July 15-17, 2008
- AST 2008 - The Third IEEE International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, Leipzig, Germany, May 11 May 2008
- ACM SAC-SE 2008 - The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Fortaleza, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008
- ACM SAC-SE 2007 - The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Software Engineering Track (SE), Seoul, Korea, March 11 - 15, 2007
- QSIC 2007 - The Seventh International Conference on Quality Software, Portland, Oregon, October 11-12, 2007
- AST 2007 - The Second IEEE International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 26, 2007
- IWSC 2007 - The Fourth International Workshop on Software Cybernetics, Beijing, China, July 24, 2007
- IWSC 2006 - The Third International Workshop on Software Cybernetics, Chicago, Illinois, September 18-21, 2006
- SIRI 2006 - The First IEEE International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvements, Hanoi , Vietnam, December 6-8, 2006
- Mutation 2006 - The Second Mutation Analysis Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 6-10, 2006
- ISSRE 2005 - The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, November 8-11, 2005
- SEKE 2005 - The 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, July 14-16, 2005
- TQACBS 2005 - The 2nd International Workshop on Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Systems (in conjunction with COMPSAC 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26-28, 2005
- COMPSAC 2004 - The 28th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Hong Kong, September 28-30, 2004
- ICCCN 2002 - The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Miami, Florida, October 14-16, 2002
- Mutation 2000 - A Symposium on Mutation Testing in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries, San Jose, California, October 6-7, 2000
PC Member
- IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
- IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)
- IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
- International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP)
- International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE)
- ACM Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC - SE Track)
- International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC)
- IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)
- IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS)
- ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design
- Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
- IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS)
Selected Tutorials
- Testing and Maintaining Your Software in a More Cost-Effective Way
  The 8th Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering (ASSE'07)
  Mar del Plata, Argentina, August 29, 2007
- Tool Development for Cost Effective Software Testing and Maintenance
  Chinese Software Industry Association
  Beijing, China, July 7-8, 2006
- Effective Software Testing in Practice
  Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, Texas, May 13-14, 2002
- A Quantitative Risk Assessment Model For Software Quality, Testing and Safety
  Quality Week Europe, Brussels, Belgium, November 2000
Invited Talks
- Identify Fault-Prone Software Modules in Telecommunications Systems
  - Motorola 2006 System, Software and Simulation Symposium
    Chicago, Illinois, September 2006
- Coverage Testing and Debugging Your SDL Design Specifications in a Cost Effective Way
  - Software and System Engineering Research Laboratory, Motorola
    Chicago, Illinois, October 2006
- Reducing the Cost of Debugging via Effective Fault Localization
  - Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2007
  - Ewha Woman.s University, Seoul, Korea, July 2007
  - Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2007
  - Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2007
  - Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan, July 2007
  - Feng-Chia University, TaiChung, Taiwan, July 2007
  - National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, July 2007
- eXVanatge: An Integrated Solution for Dependable Software Development
  - Avaya Labs Research
    Basking Ridge, New Jersey, February 2006
- Testing and Maintaining Your Software in a More Cost-Effective Way
  - Peking University, Beijing, China, July 2006
  - Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, July 2006
  - Soochow University, Soochow, China, May 2006
  - Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, May 2006
  - Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi, China, May 2006
  - Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, November 2006
- Testing and Diagnosis of Software Design Specifications
  - Department of Computer Science
    North Dakota State University
    Fargo, North Dakota, September 2005
  - Institute of Software
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Beijing, China, June 2005
  - Department of Computer Science
    Nanjing University
    Nanjing, China, June 2005
  - Department of Computer Science
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Daejeon, Korea, December 2004
  - International Institute for Software Technology
    United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macau, October 2004
- Improving Software Quality by Effective Analysis of Defects
  - Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, March 2004
- A Solution for Diagnosis and Testing of Software Design Specifications
  - Telelogic Americas 2002 User Group Conference
    Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2002
- Architectural Design-Based Assessment and Diagnosis
  - Department of Computer Science
    University of Texas at Arlington, October 2002
- An Integrated Solution for Creating Dependable Software
  - Department of Automatic Control
    Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Beijing, China, June 2005
  - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Southeast University
    Nanjing, China, June 2005
  - Department of Computer Science
    National University of Defense Technology
    Changsha, China, June 2005
  - General Dynamics
    Groton, Connecticut, October 2001
  - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
    Seoul, Korea, June 2001
  - US-East Asia Workshop on Engineering Systems and Applications
    (funded by US National Science Foundation), Vietnam, April 2000
  - Telecommunication Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan, April 2000
  - Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsing-Chu, Taiwan, April 2000
- Efficient Software Testing
  - International Institute for Software Technology
    United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macau, October 2000
- Program-Based Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance
  - Computer Science & Engineering Department
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2000

Teaching

CS6354 Advanced Software Engineering
CS5354 Software Engineering
CS5333 Discrete Structures
SE4485 Software Engineering Project
SE4367 Software Testing, Verification, Validation and Quality Assurance
CS2305 Discrete Math for Computing I
CS3305 Discrete Math for Computing II