Working under Dr. Myra Cohen as part of the ESQuAReD group at UNL, I am researching interaction faults in highly-configurable systems. My publications thus far are listed below.

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Journal Papers

  1. B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. Failure Avoidance in Configurable Systems through Feature Locality. Autonomous and Self-Adaptive Systems (ASAS [book]). February, 2012, pp. 266–296.
  2. B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. Evaluating Improvements to a Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), July 2010, pp. 1–42.

Conference Papers

  1. B. J. Garvin and M. B. Cohen. Feature Interaction Faults Revisited: An Exploratory Study. In the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE). November, 2011, pp. 90–99.
  2. B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. Using Feature Locality: Can We Leverage History to Avoid Failures during Reconfiguartion? In the Workshop on Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems (ASAS [workshop]). September, 2011, pp. 24–33.
  3. B. J. Garvin, D. Stolee, R. Tewari, and V. Variyam. ReachFewL = ReachUL. In the International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON). August, 2011.
  4. E. Sherman, B. J. Garvin, and M. B. Dwyer. A Slice-based Decision Procedure for Type-based Partial Orders. International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR), July 2010, pp. 156–170.
  5. B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. An Improved Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing. International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), May 2009, pp. 13–22.