Keynote speaker: Jeff Offutt,
"A Mutation Carol: Past, Present and Future"
Jeff Offutt is a full professor of Software Engineering in the
Volgenau school of Information Technology at George Mason University.
He also holds a part-time visiting faculty position at University of
Skövde, Skövde Sweden, where he participates in the
Distributed Real-Time Systems Research Group (DRTS), contributing
expertise on software engineering and software testing.
His current research interests include software testing, analysis and
testing of web applications, object-oriented program analysis, module
and integration testing, formal methods, and software maintenance. He
has published over 100 refereed research papers and has received
funding from various government agencies and companies. His current
projects include
testing of web applications,
analysis and testing of object-oriented software, measuring software
maintenance of open-source software, and deriving tests from formal
specifications of safety critical software. He is on the technical
board of advisors for Certess, Inc.
Offutt is editor-in-chief of Wiley's journal of Software Testing,
Verification and Reliability, is chair of the steering committee for
the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and
Validation (ICST) and program co-chair for ICST 2009, has served on
numerous conference program committees, was program chair for ICECCS
2001, has been on the editorial boards for the Springer's Empirical
Software Engineering Journal (2006-), the Journal of Software and
Systems Modeling (2002-), the Software Quality Journal (2002-), and
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2001-2005), is a regular
reviewer for NSF and several major research journals, and has been
invited to speak throughout the US, Japan, China, and Sweden. He has
been involved in a number of software proof-of-concept research
systems, including muJava, Mothra, Godzilla, CBat, Mistix, Albert,
CoupTest, and SpecTest, several of which have been used by many other
software engineering researchers. Offutt previously worked on the
Software Test and Evaluation Project, for Georgia Tech's Software
Engineering Research Center, and helped design and implement the
Mothra mutation testing system with Rich DeMillo.
His doctoral research was a method for automatically generating test data
to satisfy mutation analysis and included algorithms and an implementation
of an automatic test data generator that was integrated with the Mothra
system. Largely by using the Mothra system, he invented, developed,
and experimentally validated algorithms and engineering techniques that
proved that mutation testing can be practical and effective. He has made
fundamental contributions to several software testing problems, including
mutation, automatic test data generation, object-oriented testing, input
space partitioning, specification-based testing, model-based testing,
and testing of web applications. He has also published papers on software
metrics, maintenance, and software engineering education.
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