Computer Science Department

Jim Bieman

Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Joint appointment)

• Voice: (970) 491-7096, Fax: (970) 491-2466
  
• Email: bieman(at)cs.colostate.edu
• U.S. Mail:
  Computer Science Department
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, CO 80523-1873
• Office location: 229 University Services Center (2nd floor, NW corner), 601 S. Howes St., at Myrtle St. (see PostScript map)

Director, The Colorado State University Software Assurance Laboratory.

Editor-in-Chief, The Software Quality Journal.

Research Interests

Software Design Quality: Evaluation and Improvement

My research focuses on software design quality. I study the structure of software to find ways to quantify important quality attributes, for example cohesion, coupling, and reuse. I develop approaches for re-structuring or reengineering software to improve the maintainablity and reusability of software systems. I have also studied the connection between specifications and testing using executable specifications as testing oracles to monitor correctness at runtime. I used fault injection to test error recovery code, and study the relationship between structural test coverage and reliability. This work included the study of procedural software, and, especially now, the structure of object-oriented software systems.

Prof. Bieman's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, NATO, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and the Colorado Advanced Software Institute in collaboration with Storage Technology Corp, CTA, and Micro-motion. He is a member of the Computer Science Departments Software Engineering Research Group and Director of the the Software Assurance Laboratory, a Colordo State University Research Center.

For further information see the following:

• Selected Publications

Office Hours: By Appointment.

Spring 2008 Courses

Fall 2007 Courses

Spring 2007 Courses