Brady J. Garvin

Assistant Professor of Practice
Software Engineering Program
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska—Lincoln

Office: 261 Avery Hall
E-mail: bgarvin@cse.unl.edu

Teaching

I teach or co-teach the following courses at UNL:

  • Software Engineering 160: Software Engineering I.
  • Software Engineering 161: Software Engineering II.
  • Software Engineering 162: Software Engineering Fundamentals.
  • Software Engineering 260: Software Engineering III.
  • Software Engineering 261: Software Engineering IV.
  • Computer Science 493, 486, and 487: Senior Design.

I have also taught the following courses and their labs at Nebraska Wesleyan University:

  • Computer Science 1500: Program Design. Spring, 2016.
  • Computer Science 1000: Introduction to Computational Problem Solving. Fall, 2015.
  • Computer Science 1500: Program Design. Spring, 2015.
  • Computer Science 1000: Introduction to Computational Problem Solving. Fall, 2014.
  • Computer Science 200: Formal Languages and Automata. Fall, 2012.
  • Computer Science 30: Introduction to Computational Problem Solving. Fall, 2012.
  • Computer Science 260: Programming Languages. Fall, 2011.

Research

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Journal Papers

  • B. J. Garvin, D. Stolee, R. Tewari, and V. Variyam. ReachFewL = ReachUL. In Computational Complexity. March, 2014.
  • B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. Failure Avoidance in Configurable Systems through Feature Locality. In Autonomous and Self-Adaptive Systems (ASAS [book]). February, 2012, pp. 266–296.
  • 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

  • J. Swanson, M. B. Cohen, M. B. Dwyer, B. J. Garvin, and J. Firestone. Beyond the Rainbow: Self-Adaptive Failure Avoidance in Configurable Systems. In the International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). November, 2014.
  • S. Apel, S. Kolesnikov, N. Siegmund, C. Kästner, and B. J. Garvin. Exploring Feature Interactions in the Wild: The New Feature-Interaction Challenge. In the International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD). October, 2013.
  • B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. Failure Avoidance in Configurable Systems Through Feature Locality. In Autonomous and Self-Adaptive Systems (ASAS [book]). February, 2013.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • B. J. Garvin, D. Stolee, R. Tewari, and V. Variyam. ReachFewL = ReachUL. In the International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON). August, 2011.
  • E. Sherman, B. J. Garvin, and M. B. Dwyer. A Slice-based Decision Procedure for Type-based Partial Orders. In the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR), July 2010, pp. 156–170.
  • B. J. Garvin, M. B. Cohen, and M. B. Dwyer. An Improved Meta-Heuristic Search for Constrained Interaction Testing. In the International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), May 2009, pp. 13–22.

Resources

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