Dr. Carmen Trammell

Adjunct Associate Professor

M.S. 1991, Computer Science, University of Tennessee
Ph.D. 1981, Psychology, University of Tennessee

Research

Dr. Trammell consults on a wide range of software engineering process issues and is also president of Peaceful Kingdom, one of the leading animal welfare organizations in Tennessee. See the publications page, as well as the following additional publications.

• Trammell, C. J. ``An Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of a Group Process for Defining Local Software Quality.'' Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April 1991.
• Trammell, C. J. "Certification of Software Components." Proceedings of the 3rd Annual West Virginia Reuse Education Workshop, August 1994.
• Trammell, C. J. "The National Software Quality Problem: Software Craft." Presentation to the Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1995.
• Trammell, Carmen J., Leon H. Binder, and Catherine E. Snyder. "The Automated Production Control Documentation System: A Case Study in Cleanroom Software Engineering." Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1992.
• Trammell, C. J., P. A. Hausler and C. E. Galbraith. "Incremental Implementation of Cleanroom Practices." Proceedings of HICSS-25, IEEE, 1992.
• Trammell, C. J., M. G. Pleszkoch, R. C. Linger, and A. R. Hevner. "The Incremental Development Process in Cleanroom Software Engineering." Decision Support Systems, to appear.
• Trammell C. and J. Poore. "Experimental Control in Software Reliability Certification." Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Software Engineering Workshop, NASA/GSFC Software Engineering Laboratory, 1994.
• Trammell, C. J., and J. H. Poore. "Field Experiments with a Group Process for Defining Local Software Quality." Software: Practice and Experience, August 1992.
• Trammell C. and J. Poore. "Process Control in Statistical Reliability Certification." Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Software Technology Conference, 1995.

Contact

About

From 1998-1999, Dr. Trammell worked as Software Quality Assurance Manager for CTI-PET Systems, Inc., a medical device manufacturing company and the world leader in PET imaging. From 1996-1998, Dr. Trammell worked with Engineering Technology, Inc., where she directed the quality assurance program, worked as a coach on several industrial technology transfer programs, and consulted on software process improvement initiatives.

Dr. Trammell was formerly manager of SQRL, and has held software engineering and management positions in military and commercial software projects developed through Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, and Software Engineering Technology. During the 1991-92 academic year, she taught computer science and psychology for the University of Maryland at U.S. military bases in Germany and Italy. In the 70s and early 80s, she held management development and training positions with Union Carbide, Atari, and Hewlett-Packard. She received an M.S. in Computer Science in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1981 from the University of Tennessee.