Hira Agrawal

About My Work

My primary research interests are in creating programs that understand, test, debug, and maintain other programs. The goal of our research is to make it easier for software developers to produce high quality software at a low cost. Our view is that software developers today perform many tasks manually that software tools could perform automatically. Developing smart tools that automate many of those tedious, time consuming, and boring tasks, which they otherwise must perform manually, would not only expedite software production but also radically improve the quality of the software produced. Some examples of areas we have worked on include efficient coverage testing, smart debugging, incremental regression testing, and software understanding. We have developed an integrated suite of software analysis, testing, debugging, and maintenance tools called xSuds, that implements many of these research ideas. My other research interests include object-oriented programming, user interfaces, and programming languages.

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, 1991.
• M.Sc.(Tech.), Computer Science,  Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani,  India, 1985.