A. Jefferson Offutt

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

A. Jefferson Offutt is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Jefferson Offutt has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Software, 37 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in A. Jefferson Offutt's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (53 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (46 papers) and Software Engineering Research (36 papers). A. Jefferson Offutt is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (53 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (46 papers) and Software Engineering Research (36 papers). A. Jefferson Offutt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. A. Jefferson Offutt's co-authors include Jie Pan, Gregg Rothermel, K. N. King, Roland H. Untch, Mary Jean Harrold, Jane Huffman Hayes, Zhenyi Jin, Stephen D. Lee, Richard A. DeMillo and Roger T. Alexander and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computers and Journal of Systems and Software.

In The Last Decade

A. Jefferson Offutt

59 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Constraint-based automatic test data generation 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Constraint-based automatic test data generation
    1991 575 citations A. Jefferson Offutt et al. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Jefferson Offutt United States 32 4.0k 2.5k 714 570 517 61 4.4k
Susan Horwitz United States 32 3.7k 0.9× 3.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.7× 1.1k 1.9× 940 1.8× 69 5.5k
David Binkley United States 40 4.2k 1.0× 4.6k 1.8× 1.0k 1.4× 975 1.7× 257 0.5× 172 5.7k
R.J. Lipton United States 19 1.3k 0.3× 878 0.3× 387 0.5× 562 1.0× 244 0.5× 50 2.5k
Earl T. Barr United Kingdom 23 2.0k 0.5× 2.5k 1.0× 647 0.9× 763 1.3× 188 0.4× 71 3.4k
Nikolai Tillmann United States 28 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 538 0.8× 403 0.7× 209 0.4× 110 2.7k
Julian Dolby United States 26 1.2k 0.3× 1.2k 0.5× 551 0.8× 970 1.7× 760 1.5× 83 2.5k
Danny Dig United States 35 1.7k 0.4× 2.7k 1.1× 502 0.7× 1.5k 2.6× 627 1.2× 100 3.6k
Jens Krinke United Kingdom 28 2.4k 0.6× 2.9k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 583 1.0× 97 0.2× 101 3.5k
Jeffrey S. Foster United States 33 1.8k 0.4× 2.2k 0.9× 1.4k 2.0× 1.3k 2.3× 903 1.7× 115 4.4k
Işıl Dillig United States 27 1.2k 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 717 1.0× 700 1.2× 312 0.6× 98 2.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (2007). Service Oriented Architecture Empirical Study.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 628–631. 1 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (2005). Combination Testing Strategies: A Survey | NIST. 15(2). 3 indexed citations
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Alexander, Roger T. & A. Jefferson Offutt. (2004). Coupling-based Testing of O-O Programs. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science. 10. 391–427. 7 indexed citations
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DeMillo, Richard A., et al.. (2003). An extended overview of the Mothra software testing environment. 142–151. 99 indexed citations
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Jin, Zhenyi & A. Jefferson Offutt. (2002). Integration testing based on software couplings. 13–23. 9 indexed citations
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Jin, Zhenyi & A. Jefferson Offutt. (2002). Coupling-based integration testing. 26. 10–17. 10 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson. (2002). An integrated system for automatically generating test data. 694–701. 14 indexed citations
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Hayes, Jane Huffman & A. Jefferson Offutt. (1999). Input validation testing: a system-level, early lifecycle technique. 4 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, Zhenyi Jin, & Jie Pan. (1999). The dynamic domain reduction procedure for test data generation. Software Practice and Experience. 29(2). 167–193. 54 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson & Jie Pan. (1997). Automatically detecting equivalent mutants and infeasible paths. Software Testing Verification and Reliability. 7(3). 165–192. 209 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean, et al.. (1997). An approach to fault modeling and fault seeding using the program dependence graph. Journal of Systems and Software. 36(3). 273–295. 30 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (1994). An empirical evaluation of weak mutation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 20(5). 337–344. 143 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson & Stephen D. Lee. (1994). An Empirical Evaluation. 109 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (1993). An experimental evaluation of selective mutation. International Conference on Software Engineering. 100–107. 173 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (1993). A software metric system for module coupling. Journal of Systems and Software. 20(3). 295–308. 95 indexed citations
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DeMillo, Richard A. & A. Jefferson Offutt. (1993). Experimental results from an automatic test case generator. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 2(2). 109–127. 95 indexed citations
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Untch, Roland H., A. Jefferson Offutt, & Mary Jean Harrold. (1993). Mutation analysis using mutant schemata. 139–148. 141 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson, et al.. (1992). Mutation Testing of Software Using MIMD Computer.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 257–266. 40 indexed citations
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Geist, Robert, A. Jefferson Offutt, & J. S. Harris. (1992). Estimation and enhancement of real-time software reliability through mutation analysis. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 41(5). 550–558. 41 indexed citations
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Offutt, A. Jefferson. (1989). The coupling effect: fact or fiction. 131–140. 73 indexed citations

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