Sara Sprenkle

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Sara Sprenkle came to Washington and Lee in 2007.

Education

Ph.D., computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware (2007)
M.S., computer science from Duke University (2004)
B.S., computer science and mathematics from Gettysburg College (1999)

Research Interests

Research Interests include software testing, distributed systems, and empirical studies.

Current Research:
Professor Sprenkle's current research focuses on automatically testing Web applications, including cost-effective approaches to generating test cases and determining that the application is behaving appropriately.

Selected Publications

Sara Sprenkle, Lori Pollock, Holly Esquivel, Barbara Hazelwood, and Stacey Ecott. "Automated Oracle Comparators for Testing Web Applications." 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE, November 2007.

Sreedevi Sampath, Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock, and Amie Souter Greenwald. "Applying Concept Analysis to User-session-based Testing of Web Applications." Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 643--658. IEEE. October 2007.

Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath, and Lori Pollock. "Automated Replay and Failure Detection for Web Applications." International Conference of Automated Software Engineering, IEEE/ACM, pp. 253--262. November 2005

Other Interests

Professor Sprenkle enjoys playing ultimate, reading about pop culture, and watching NCAA basketball and baseball.