Communications of the ACM
Student Conducts Significant Computer Research
Cody Kinneer of Allegheny College works on ExpOse, a software tool he has been developing.
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Allegheny College computer science major Cody Kinneer has published a pair of papers about his research into methods of evaluating software performance. Kinneer has developed ExpOse, a tool that evaluates the performance limitations of database schema-testing software. Schema-testing software automatically runs different types of data entries by these schema to see if they allow inappropriate data entries, but gauging the performance requirements of such software has been difficult. Kinneer's ExpOse program is designed to make that process easier.
Allegheny professor Gregory Kapfhammer has been working with Kinneer on the project since the last academic year and says its results are significant. "The system that Cody has developed is something that I'm going to use when I teach the second-level computer science class at Allegheny," he says, adding it has applications from introductory computer science education to research to industry.
Kinneer has created a GitHub site for ExpOse and presented his findings this summer at SEKE 2015, the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, in Pittsburgh.
Kinneer's program is a variation of the work being done by University of Sheffield researchers Phil McMinn and Chris Wright on a project called Schema Analyst, which is still ongoing.
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