John Penix

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

John Penix is a scholar working on Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, John Penix has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Software, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 15 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in John Penix's work include Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (15 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (15 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (13 papers). John Penix is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (15 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (15 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (13 papers). John Penix collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. John Penix's co-authors include J. David Morgenthaler, William Pugh, Nathaniel Ayewah, Sebastian Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel, David Hovemeyer, Klaus Havelund, Perry Alexander, Willem Visser and Joseph R. Ruthruff and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software and Formal Methods in System Design.

In The Last Decade

John Penix

45 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs

2008 344 citations Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh 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
John Penix United States	15	926	888	385	292	242	46	1.4k
Vu Le United States	16	922 1.0×	760 0.9×	426 1.1×	259 0.9×	167 0.7×	43	1.4k
Christoph Csallner United States	17	1.0k 1.1×	853 1.0×	240 0.6×	244 0.8×	121 0.5×	47	1.3k
Zijiang Yang United States	20	507 0.5×	590 0.7×	273 0.7×	254 0.9×	185 0.8×	65	1.0k
Mark Utting New Zealand	12	1.1k 1.2×	500 0.6×	395 1.0×	337 1.2×	285 1.2×	46	1.4k
Paul Strooper Australia	19	772 0.8×	505 0.6×	232 0.6×	191 0.7×	160 0.7×	108	998
Manuel Oriol Switzerland	18	613 0.7×	627 0.7×	312 0.8×	372 1.3×	55 0.2×	67	1.1k
Marcelo d’Amorim Brazil	20	728 0.8×	619 0.7×	315 0.8×	271 0.9×	112 0.5×	67	1.1k
Jifeng Xuan China	19	940 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	238 0.6×	276 0.9×	65 0.3×	68	1.3k
Michael W. Whalen United States	19	973 1.1×	534 0.6×	338 0.9×	193 0.7×	408 1.7×	91	1.4k
Éric Tanter Chile	22	401 0.4×	844 1.0×	1.1k 2.9×	423 1.4×	253 1.0×	133	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by John Penix

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Penix

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Penix, John. (2012). Large-scale test automation in the cloud (invited industrial talk). International Conference on Software Engineering. 1122–1122. 3 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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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2007). Using FindBugs on production software. 805–806. 47 indexed citations

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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2007). Evaluating static analysis defect warnings on production software. 1–8. 160 indexed citations

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Mehlitz, Peter & John Penix. (2006). Design for Verification with Dynamic Assertions. 285–292. 7 indexed citations

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Mehlitz, Peter, et al.. (2005). Radiation-Hardened Software for Space Flight Science Applications. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Whittle, Jon, J. Schümann, Peter Robinson, et al.. (2005). Amphion/NAV: deductive synthesis of state estimation software. 18. 395–399. 9 indexed citations

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Koga, Dennis, et al.. (2003). Hosted Services for Advanced V and V Technologies: An Approach to Achieving Adoption without the Woes of Usage. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1 indexed citations

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Mehlitz, Peter, John Penix, & Dennis Koga. (2003). Design for Verification: Using Design Patterns to Build Reliable Systems. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 20 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (2002). System Software Safety: Today's Practical Approach versus Tomorrow's Promise. ESASP. 486. 191. 1 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (2002). Automating component integration for web-based data analysis. 4. 465–473.

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Penix, John, Perry Alexander, & Klaus Havelund. (2002). Declarative specification of software architectures. 201–208. 9 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (2002). Classification and retrieval of reusable components using semantic features. 131–138. 13 indexed citations

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Penix, John & Perry Alexander. (2002). Using formal specifications for component retrieval and reuse. 3. 356–365. 1 indexed citations

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Havelund, Klaus, et al.. (2000). Formal Analysis of the Remote Agent Before and After Flight. Formal Methods. 44 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (2000). Verification of time partitioning in the DEOS scheduler kernel. 488–497. 46 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (2000). Using predicate abstraction to reduce object-oriented programs for model checking. 3–182. 34 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (1999). Using Model Checking to Validate AI Planner Domain Models. 19 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (1998). Experiences in verifying parallel simulation algorithms. 16–23. 5 indexed citations

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Penix, John, et al.. (1997). Toward Automated Component Adaptation. 21 indexed citations

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