Research


  • Reliability and Security analysis of Open Source software systems

Modeling and evaluation of security as a reliability engineering process.


Development of automated tool to mine linked information across repositories.


Analyze user participation in open source projects and predict defect correction based on user involvement in correcting defects.



Design and development of automated techniques and tools for Software testing and verification of Aspect-Oriented programs, and Aspect Oriented Refactoring


Publications


 1. Towards a Bayesian Approach in Modeling the Disclosure of Unique Security Faults in        Open Source Projects  (pdf)
      Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
      21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Enginering 2010 (ISSRE 2010)


 2. Towards a Unifying Approach in Understanding Security Problems from  a Reliability
      Perspective  (pdf)
      Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
      20th International Symposium on Software Reliability Enginering 2009 (ISSRE 2009)

3. Empirical Study of Security Problem Reports in Linux Distributions (pdf)
    (recommended - short paper)  
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering & Measurement 2009
    (ESEM 2009)

4. On Predicting the Time taken to Correct Bugs in Open Source Projects (short paper)  (pdf)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2009 (ICSM 2009)
 
5. "Days of the Week" Effect in Predicting the Time Taken to Fix Defects (short paper) (ps)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems 2009 (DEFECTS 2009)

6. On Mining Data across Software Repositories (short paper) (pdf)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    6th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories 2009 (MSR 2009)

7. Security Failure Estimation for Open Source Software: An Empirical Approach (ps)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    1st Workshop on Dependable Software Engineering 2008 (WDSE 2008)

8. On Reliability Analysis of Open Source Software Systems – FEDORA (student paper) (pdf)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Mladen Vouk
    19th IEEE International Conference on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008)

9. Automated Generation of Pointcut Mutants in Testing Pointcuts in AspectJ Programs. (pdf)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie
    19th IEEE International Conference on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008)

10. Automated Inference of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented Refactoring. (pdf)
    Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 07), May 2007

11. Efficient Mutant Generation for Mutation Testing of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented
       Programs (pdf)
       Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie.
       Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 06), November 2006.

12. Clamp: Automated Join point Clustering and Pointcut Mining in Aspect-Oriented
       Refactoring (pdf)
       Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie,
       ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 14), Poster
       Session.

13. Automated Testing of Pointcuts in AspectJ Programs (pdf)
       Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie,
       Semi-finalist at ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition, OOPSLA , Oct 2006.

14. Apte: Automated Pointcut Testing for AspectJ Programs  (pdf)
      Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie.
      Workshop on Testing Aspect-Oriented Programs (WTAOP 06), July 2006.