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, Curtis R. Cook, Myra B. Cohen 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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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.

Prioritizing test cases for regression testing

2001 1000 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →
Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact

2005 873 citations Hyunsook Do, Sebastian Elbaum et al. profile →
Test case prioritization: a family of empirical studies

2002 719 citations Sebastian Elbaum, Alexey Malishevsky et al. profile →
A safe, efficient regression test selection technique

1997 545 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology profile →
Analyzing regression test selection techniques

1996 528 citations Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold profile →
The state of the art in end-user software engineering

2011 355 citations Margaret Burnett, Gregg Rothermel et al. profile →
Techniques for improving regression testing in continuous integration development environments

2014 246 citations Sebastian Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregg Rothermel United States	59	12.6k	8.8k	3.2k	932	813	196	13.5k
Sumit Gulwani United States	45	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 United States	42	6.0k 0.5×	4.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	539 0.7×	139	7.3k
Mary Jean Harrold United States	62	13.4k 1.1×	10.5k 1.2×	4.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.7×	194	15.1k
Yue Jia United Kingdom	34	3.5k 0.3×	3.1k 0.4×	653 0.2×	731 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	75	4.9k
David Binkley United States	40	4.2k 0.3×	4.6k 0.5×	975 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	172	5.7k
Westley Weimer United States	41	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 Germany	45	6.0k 0.5×	4.6k 0.5×	962 0.3×	866 0.9×	796 1.0×	230	7.3k
Mary Lou Soffa United States	45	3.7k 0.3×	3.4k 0.4×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	692 0.9×	213	7.2k
Shriram Krishnamurthi United States	33	1.0k 0.1×	1.7k 0.2×	1.1k 0.3×	2.1k 2.2×	264 0.3×	202	4.0k
Andreas Zeller Germany	55	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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Burg, Brian R., et al.. (2015). On the use of delta debugging to reduce recordings and facilitate debugging of web applications. 333–344. 19 indexed citations

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

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

Cohen, Myra B., et al.. (2013). Continuous test suite augmentation in software product lines. 52–61. 25 indexed citations

Rothermel, Gregg, et al.. (2012). On the Relative Strengths of Model-Based and Dynamic Event Extraction-Based GUI Testing Techniques: An Empirical Study. 181–190. 10 indexed citations

Rothermel, Gregg, et al.. (2009). Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis. 1 indexed citations

Malishevsky, Alexey, et al.. (2006). Cost-cognizant Test Case Prioritization. 48 indexed citations

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

Law, James & Gregg Rothermel. (2005). Incremental dynamic impact analysis for evolving software systems. 430–441. 40 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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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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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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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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Cook, C., et al.. (2002). Incorporating incremental validation and impact analysis into spreadsheet maintenance: an empirical study. 72–81. 16 indexed citations

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Rothermel, Gregg, et al.. (2001). A methodology for testing spreadsheets. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 10(1). 110–147. 104 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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Harrold, Mary Jean, Brian A. Malloy, & Gregg Rothermel. (1993). Efficient construction of program dependence graphs. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 18(3). 160–170. 17 indexed citations

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