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Renee Bryce

Software Engineering (SE) Usability Testing Software Testing Education Automated Combinatorial Testing

About

Renee Bryce earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in May 2006. She earned her B.S. (1999) and M.S. (2000) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research areas interests include Software Engineering, with emphasis on software testing and usability testing and Computer Science Education, with emphasis on software testing education. She has served as Primary Investigator on funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Forest Service, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and more. Over the past decade, she has been PI on 19 grants and Co-I on 6 grants. Her total research funding has been $3.7 million on shared and individual projects with her share of expenditures as $2 million. Dr. Bryce is a member of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software (ACTS) group. Professor Bryce received the UNT Distinguished Teaching Professorship honor in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2018 Tech Titans Award for the University Level that came with a $25,000 prize to help further her outreach work. She is the recipient of the 2015 NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for the category of Junior Faculty (Assistant/Associate Professor) at a Research University. She is also a recipient of the 2006 Arizona State Commission on the Status of Women award for her "achievements and contributions towards advancing the status of women". One of her students received the “Best M.S. Thesis” in the Department of Computer Science at Utah State University and one received the “Best Honors Thesis” at Utah State University (one award for the entire university). She received two Best Paper awards (2020 and 2021) for research with her doctoral students.

Research Performance Summary

85
Total Papers
3787
Total Citations
27
H-Index
1975-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

A problem in the theory of normal Fitting classes

Year: 1975

Citations: 103

Venue: Mathematische Zeitschrift 141 (2)

Latest Recorded Paper

Adaptive Event Processing in API Gateways: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Optimizing Latency

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: ICT for Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of ICTIS 2025, Volume 2 2

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
1
2025
6
2024
4
2023
4
2022
3
2021
5
2020
2
2018
6
2017
3
2016
4
2015
4

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 40
Journal 11
Book 4

Top Coauthors

Bryce Colbourn Khan

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 7
Citations 8
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.1
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 18
Citations 115
Avg. Citations / Paper 6.4
H-Index 7

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 17
Citations 1074
Avg. Citations / Paper 63.2
H-Index 8

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 23
Citations 607
Avg. Citations / Paper 26.4
H-Index 12

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 14
Citations 1538
Avg. Citations / Paper 109.9
H-Index 13

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 3
Citations 219
Avg. Citations / Paper 73
H-Index 3

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 123
Avg. Citations / Paper 61.5
H-Index 2

1975-1979

Period Stats
Papers 1
Citations 103
Avg. Citations / Paper 103
H-Index 1

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

Renee.Bryce@unt.edu
9405654176

Detected Research Keywords

Test Suite Prioritization Test Suite Reduction Interaction Test Suites Density Algorithm Pairwise Algorithm Pairwise Interaction Constructing Interaction Test Pairwise Interaction Coverage User Session Test Combinatorial Testing Theory Testing Theory Practice