Research Interests
Software Engineering, Software Metrics, Empirical Software Engineering, No-Surprises Software Development, Assurance of Software for Critical Applications
Current Research Projects
Software engineering, no-surprises software development, assurance of software for critical applications, and empirical methods in software engineering, especially, software metrics, process, quality, and testing
Most Current Publications:
Edward B. Allen, Sampath Gottipati, and Rajiv Govindan. Measuring size, Complexity, and Coupling of Hypergraph Abstractions of Software: An Information-theory Approach, Software Quality Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp 179-212, June 2007.
Bindu Nanduri, Pratik Shah, Mahalingam Ramkumar, Edward B. Allen, Edwin Swiatlo, Shane C. Burgess, and Mark L. Lawrence, Quantitative Analysis of Streptococcus Pneumoniae TIGR4 Response to in vitro Iron Restriction by 2-D LC ESI MS/MS, Proteomics, 2008, In press.
Krystle Lemon, Edward B. Allen, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Gary L. Bradshaw, An Empirical Study of the Effects of Gestalt Principles on Diagram Understandability, Proceedings: The First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 2007, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 156-165.