Brett Daniel

Me at ICSE '07 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
201 North Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801-2302 (map)
Office: 3217 Siebel Center
Email: bdaniel3 at this domain

Phone: 217-333-9051
Advisor: Darko Marinov
Personal Website: www.BrettDaniel.com

I see computer science as a toolmaking profession. I am especially interested in the tools that aid the toolmakers: those programs that make software development easier, faster, and more reliable. In particular, my work focuses on software testing and automated software development tools with strong emphasis on code generation, program transformation, and program analysis.

Publications

ReAssert: Suggesting Repairs for Broken Unit Tests (Homepage, BibTex)
Brett Daniel, Vilas Jagannath, Danny Dig, and Darko Marinov.
(To Appear) In ASE 2009: 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Auckland, New Zealand. November, 2009
Reducing the Costs of Bounded-Exhaustive Testing (Homepage, BibTex)
Vilas Jagannath, Yun Young Lee, Brett Daniel, and Darko Marinov.
In FASE 2009: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
York, UK. March 2009
Predicting Effectiveness of Automatic Testing Tools (Homepage, BibTex)
Brett Daniel and Marat Boshernitsan
In ASE 2008: 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
L'Aquila, Italy. September, 2008
Automated Testing of Refactoring Engines (Homepage, BibTex)
Brett Daniel, Danny Dig, Kely Garcia, and Darko Marinov
In ESEC/FSE 2007: Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Dubrovnik, Croatia. September, 2007

Teaching

CS 498DM: Software Testing (Spring 2008)
Guest Lecturer
Generating Programs with Grammars and ASTGen

Open Source

ReAssert: A tool that automatically suggests repairs for broken unit tests.
Eclipse JUnit Music Box: An Eclipse plugin that makes Eclipse's JUnit runner play music.
SimpleSpoonLoader: A small class that provides a façade for loading, mirroring (i.e. creating reflective instances of), modifying, and (re)compiling classes at runtime using Spoon.
TestOrrery: A Java framework used to iteratively create test data in unit tests. It drastically reduces the time needed to write input-intensive tests.