Alessandro Orso

11.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
167 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Orso is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Orso has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Information Systems, 119 papers in Software and 48 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Orso's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (115 papers), Software Engineering Research (96 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (62 papers). Alessandro Orso is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (115 papers), Software Engineering Research (96 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (62 papers). Alessandro Orso collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and India. Alessandro Orso's co-authors include William G. J. Halfond, Mary Jean Harrold, Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James Clause, Chris Parnin, Wei Jin, Saurabh Sinha, Wanchun Li and Alessandra Gorla and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Plant Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Orso

161 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Are automated debugging techniques actually helping progr... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2011 2006 2007 2015 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers?
    2011 411 citations Chris Parnin, Alessandro Orso profile →
  2. A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures
    2006 403 citations William G. J. Halfond, Alessandro Orso et al. Oecologia profile →
  3. Dytan
    2007 367 citations James Clause, Alessandro Orso et al. profile →
  4. Automated Test Input Generation for Android: Are We There Yet? (E)
    2015 346 citations Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Alessandro Orso et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Orso United States 49 5.8k 4.9k 2.4k 2.2k 2.2k 167 7.8k
Zhendong Su United States 54 6.6k 1.1× 5.4k 1.1× 2.2k 0.9× 3.3k 1.5× 3.3k 1.5× 201 9.4k
Lu Zhang China 41 4.3k 0.7× 4.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 958 0.4× 159 5.7k
Sarfraz Khurshid United States 38 3.2k 0.6× 4.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 811 0.4× 186 5.7k
David Notkin United States 42 5.5k 1.0× 3.8k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 3.3k 1.5× 663 0.3× 149 7.5k
Darko Marinov United States 43 4.0k 0.7× 5.4k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 835 0.4× 149 6.6k
Andrea Arcuri Norway 43 4.6k 0.8× 5.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 695 0.3× 119 6.7k
Mary Jean Harrold United States 62 10.5k 1.8× 13.4k 2.7× 4.0k 1.6× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 194 15.1k
Elaine J. Weyuker United States 42 4.7k 0.8× 6.0k 1.2× 2.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 539 0.3× 139 7.3k
Andreas Zeller Germany 55 10.1k 1.8× 9.4k 1.9× 3.6k 1.5× 1.9k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 234 12.5k
Eric Bodden Germany 30 3.1k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 3.8k 1.8× 166 5.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Orso

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hellendoorn, Vincent J., et al.. (2024). Learning Defect Prediction from Unrealistic Data. 556–567. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Xiangyu & Alessandro Orso. (2020). More Accurate Dynamic Slicing for Better Supporting Software Debugging. 14 indexed citations
3.
Orso, Alessandro, et al.. (2018). Poster: Automated Test Migration for Mobile Apps. International Conference on Software Engineering. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Ji, Sangho Lee, Mattia Fazzini, et al.. (2018). Enabling refinable cross-host attack investigation with efficient data flow tagging and tracking. USENIX Security Symposium. 1705–1722. 16 indexed citations
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Fazzini, Mattia & Alessandro Orso. (2017). Automated cross-platform inconsistency detection for mobile apps. 308–318. 44 indexed citations
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Fazzini, Mattia, Prateek Saxena, & Alessandro Orso. (2015). AutoCSP: automatically retrofitting CSP to web applications. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1. 336–346. 13 indexed citations
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Kifetew, Fitsum Meshesha, Wei Jin, Roberto Tiella, Alessandro Orso, & Paolo Tonella. (2014). Reproducing Field Failures for Programs with Complex Grammar-Based Input. 19 indexed citations
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Choudhary, Shauvik Roy, Mukul R. Prasad, & Alessandro Orso. (2013). X-PERT: accurate identification of cross-browser issues in web applications. International Conference on Software Engineering. 702–711. 73 indexed citations
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Jin, Wei & Alessandro Orso. (2012). BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging. International Conference on Software Engineering. 474–484. 106 indexed citations
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Tsankov, Petar, Wei Jin, Alessandro Orso, & Saurabh Sinha. (2011). Execution Hijacking: Improving Dynamic Analysis by Flying off Course. 200–209. 10 indexed citations
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Parnin, Chris & Alessandro Orso. (2011). Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers?. 199–209. 411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clause, James, et al.. (2007). Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting. 284–292. 46 indexed citations
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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2006). A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures. Oecologia. 172(3). 701–11. 403 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sinha, Saurabh, Alessandro Orso, & Mary Jean Harrold. (2004). Automated Support for Development, Maintenance, and Testing in the Presence of Implicit Control Flow. International Conference on Software Engineering. 336–345. 32 indexed citations
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Orso, Alessandro, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, & John Stasko. (2004). GAMMATELLA: visualization of program-execution data for deployed software. International Conference on Software Engineering. 699–700. 13 indexed citations
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Orso, Alessandro, Saurabh Sinha, & Mary Jean Harrold. (2003). Understanding Data Dependences in the Presence of Pointers. Plant Molecular Biology. 13(1). 1–12. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Michael, Alessandro Orso, & Martin P. Robillard. (2003). Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange. 1 indexed citations
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Orso, Alessandro, et al.. (2003). A technique for dynamic updating of Java software. 649–658. 95 indexed citations
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Buy, Ugo, Alessandro Orso, & Mauro Pezzè. (2000). Automated Testing of Classes. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 39–48. 43 indexed citations
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Orso, Alessandro, Mary Jean Harrold, & David S. Rosenblum. (2000). Component Metadata for Software Engineering Tasks. 5 indexed citations

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