Regular biography
Suzanne Embury is a Reader in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. Her research interests include information management, software testing, and agile software engineering. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aberdeen University and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Prior to joining Manchester, she was a lecturer at Cardiff University and a Research Fellow at Aberdeen. She is currently involved in several research projects, including the RoboTA Project and the Git Workflows Warehouse Project. She also co-founded Imago Software, a student-run software company.
Scholar-generated biography
Suzanne Embury is a Reader in Software Engineering at the University of Manchester, specializing in software testing, development practices, and database systems. Her research interests include BDD/TDD, code/test smells, Git workflows, and round-trip test engineering. She has published extensively on test selection, regression testing, and the integration of user feedback into information systems. Her work explores the challenges of maintaining behavior-driven development specifications and improving data quality through user-centric approaches. Embury's research also addresses the automation of schema mapping, data reconciliation, and the application of machine learning in database workload planning.