Gregg Rothermel

18.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
196 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

Gregg Rothermel is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregg Rothermel has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Software, 120 papers in Information Systems and 41 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Gregg Rothermel's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (149 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (125 papers) and Software Engineering Research (108 papers). Gregg Rothermel is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (149 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (125 papers) and Software Engineering Research (108 papers). Gregg Rothermel collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Gregg Rothermel's co-authors include Mary Jean Harrold, Sebastian Elbaum, Hyunsook Do, Alexey Malishevsky, Margaret Burnett, A. Jefferson Offutt, Marc Fisher, Myra B. Cohen, Curtis R. Cook and Alessandro Orso and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Expert Systems with Applications and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Gregg Rothermel

194 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Prioritizing test cases for regression testing
    2001 1000 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →
  2. Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact
    2005 873 citations Hyunsook Do, Sebastian Elbaum et al. Empirical Software Engineering profile →
  3. Test case prioritization: a family of empirical studies
    2002 719 citations Sebastian Elbaum, Alexey Malishevsky et al. profile →
  4. A safe, efficient regression test selection technique
    1997 545 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold profile →
  5. Analyzing regression test selection techniques
    1996 528 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold profile →
  6. The state of the art in end-user software engineering
    2011 355 citations Margaret Burnett, Gregg Rothermel et al. profile →
  7. Techniques for improving regression testing in continuous integration development environments
    2014 246 citations Sebastian Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gregg Rothermel 12.6k 8.8k 3.2k 932 813 196 13.5k
Sumit Gulwani 2.7k 0.2× 2.8k 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 3.0k 3.2× 512 0.6× 188 6.2k
Elaine J. Weyuker 6.0k 0.5× 4.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 539 0.7× 139 7.3k
Yue Jia 3.5k 0.3× 3.1k 0.4× 653 0.2× 731 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 75 4.9k
Mary Jean Harrold 13.4k 1.1× 10.5k 1.2× 4.0k 1.3× 1.7k 1.8× 1.4k 1.7× 194 15.1k
David Binkley 4.2k 0.3× 4.6k 0.5× 975 0.3× 1.1k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 172 5.7k
Westley Weimer 3.8k 0.3× 4.4k 0.5× 3.3k 1.1× 2.3k 2.5× 1.2k 1.5× 149 8.4k
Gordon Fraser 6.0k 0.5× 4.6k 0.5× 962 0.3× 866 0.9× 796 1.0× 230 7.3k
Mary Lou Soffa 3.7k 0.3× 3.4k 0.4× 3.1k 1.0× 1.5k 1.6× 692 0.9× 213 7.2k
Shriram Krishnamurthi 1.0k 0.1× 1.7k 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 2.1k 2.2× 264 0.3× 202 4.0k
Andreas Zeller 9.4k 0.7× 10.1k 1.2× 3.6k 1.1× 1.9k 2.0× 2.2k 2.8× 234 12.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Lingming, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Gregg Rothermel, & Hong Mei. (2013). Bridging the gap between the total and additional test-case prioritization strategies. International Conference on Software Engineering. 192–201. 90 indexed citations
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Kuttal, Sandeep Kaur, Anita Sarma, & Gregg Rothermel. (2013). Predator behavior in the wild web world of bugs: An information foraging theory perspective. Insecta mundi. 59–66. 19 indexed citations
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Hirzel, Martin, et al.. (2013). Testing properties of dataflow program operators. 103–113. 11 indexed citations
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Cohen, Myra B., et al.. (2013). Continuous test suite augmentation in software product lines. 52–61. 25 indexed citations
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Rothermel, Gregg, et al.. (2009). Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis. 1 indexed citations
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Ruthruff, Joseph R., John Penix, J. David Morgenthaler, Sebastian Elbaum, & Gregg Rothermel. (2008). Predicting accurate and actionable static analysis warnings. 341–350. 93 indexed citations
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Malishevsky, Alexey, et al.. (2006). Cost-cognizant Test Case Prioritization. 48 indexed citations
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Kim, Jungmin, Adam Porter, & Gregg Rothermel. (2005). An empirical study of regression test application frequency: Research Articles. Software Testing Verification and Reliability. 15(4). 257–279. 4 indexed citations
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Do, Hyunsook, Sebastian Elbaum, & Gregg Rothermel. (2005). Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact. Empirical Software Engineering. 10(4). 405–435. 873 indexed citations breakdown →
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Law, James & Gregg Rothermel. (2005). Incremental dynamic impact analysis for evolving software systems. 430–441. 40 indexed citations
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Rothermel, Gregg. (2004). ISSTA 2004 : proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 11-14, 2004. 4 indexed citations
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Do, Hyunsook, Sebastian Elbaum, & Gregg Rothermel. (2004). Infrastructure support for controlled experimentation with software testing and regression testing techniques. 60–70. 50 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, et al.. (2004). The impact of two orthogonal factors in interactive fault localization. Atherosclerosis. 269. 166–171. 1 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, et al.. (2003). End-user software engineering with assertions in the spreadsheet paradigm. International Conference on Software Engineering. 93–103. 91 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, et al.. (2003). End-user software engineering with assertions in the spreadsheet paradigm. 93–103. 49 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean, Gregg Rothermel, Rui Wu, & Yi Liu. (1998). An empirical investigation of program spectra. 83–90. 115 indexed citations
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Rosenblum, David S. & Gregg Rothermel. (1997). A Comparative Study of Regression Test Selection Techniques. 10 indexed citations
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Rothermel, Gregg & Mary Jean Harrold. (1994). A framework for evaluating regression test selection techniques. International Conference on Software Engineering. 201–210. 49 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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