Kristen Rachelle Walcott Graduate Student Computer Science Department University of Virginia Office Information Small Hall Room 102-15 Contact Information Mailing Address: Kristen R. Walcott Department of Computer Science School of Engineering, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Email: walcott@virginia.edu Fax: (434) 982-2214

About me

I am now beginning my third year as a graduate student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia. My research interests lie in the area of software testing. My current work is with Dr. Mary Lou Soffa in the area of developing a testing framework for parallel programs.

In May 2007, I completed my masters of computer science degree with Sudhanva Gurumurthi. My masters project was with regard to dynamically predicting architectural vulnerability factors using a few easy to extract microarchitectural metrics. The work was presented at ISCA in San Diego, June 2007.

I received my bachelors degree at Allegheny College in 2005. At Allegheny, I double majored in Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, working under Dr. Gregory M. Kapfhammer in Computer Science and Dr. Tamara Lakins in mathematics. In computer science, I focused on time-aware regression test prioritization techniques. In mathematics, I concentrated on group theory, particularly Burnside's Lemma, a result in group theory which is useful in taking account of symmetry when counting mathematical objects.

Publications and Presentations

Conference Papers
Sara Alspaugh, Kristen R. Walcott, Michael Belanich, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Mary Lou Soffa. Efficient Time-Aware Prioritization with Knapsack Solvers. In the Proceedings of the ASE 2007 Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2007.

R. Peter Weistroffer, Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, and Jason Lawrence. Efficient Basis Decomposition for Scattered Reflectance Data. In the Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering. Grenoble, June 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, and Sudhanva Gurumurthi. Dynamic Prediction of Architectural Vulnerability from Microarchitectural State. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. San Diego, California, June 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Robert Roos, and Mary Lou Soffa. Time-Aware Test Suite Prioritization. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. Portland, Maine, June 2006.

Journal Publications
Daniel Fiedler, Kristen Walcott, Thomas Richardson, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Ahmed Amer, and Panos K. Chrysanthis. Towards the Measurement of Tuple Space Performance. In ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 33(3), Dec. 2005.

Presentations
Sara Alspaugh, Kristen R. Walcott, Michael Belanich, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Mary Lou Soffa. Efficient Time-Aware Prioritization with Knapsack Solvers. Presented at the ASE 2007 Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies. A tlanta, Georgia, November 5, 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott. Dynamic Prediction of Architectural Vulnerability from Microarchitectural State. Master's Presentation, May 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott, Gregory M. Mapfhammer, and Mary Lou Soffa. Time-Aware Test Suite Prioritization. Presented at the International Symposium for Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), Portland, Maine, July 2006.

Mary Lou Soffa, Kristen Walcott, and Gregory M. Kapfhammer. Exploring Time-Aware Test Suite Prioritization. Presented at Microsoft Research in China, June 2006.

Daniel Fiedler, Kristen Walcott, Thomas Richardson, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Ahmed Amer, and Panos K. Chrysanthis. SETTLE: A Tuple Space Benchmarking and Testing Framework. Presented at the Ninth Jini Community Meeting, Chicago , Illinois , October, 2005.

Technical Reports
Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, and Sudhanva Gurumurthi. Dynamic Prediction of Architectural Vulnerability from Microarchitectural State. CS-2007-05. Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia. November 2006.

Kristen R. Walcott. Prioritizing Regression Test Suites for Time-Constrained Execution Using a Genetic Algorithm.  CS05-11. Department of Computer Science, Allegheny College . May 2005.

Kristen R. Walcott.  Applications and Analysis of Burnside's Theorem. Department of Mathematics, Allegheny College. May 2005.

Invited Presentations
Diane Litman and Kristen R. Walcott. Finding Academic Year Funding. Presented at the CRA-W Graduate Student Cohort, San Francisco, CA, March 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott. Research Opportunities in Computer Science. Presented at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, February 2007.

Posters
Kristen R. Walcott.  Dynamic Prediction of Architectural Vulnerability. Presented at University of Virginia Computer Science Day Celebration, February 2007 and CRA-W Graduate Student Cohort, March 2007.

Kristen R. Walcott.  Time-Aware Test Suite Prioritization. Presented at University of Virginia Computer Science Day Celebration, February 2006.