Mary Jean Harrold

20.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
194 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Mary Jean Harrold is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Jean Harrold has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Software, 151 papers in Information Systems and 45 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Mary Jean Harrold's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (165 papers), Software Engineering Research (149 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (120 papers). Mary Jean Harrold is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (165 papers), Software Engineering Research (149 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (120 papers). Mary Jean Harrold collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Mary Jean Harrold's co-authors include Gregg Rothermel, James A. Jones, Alessandro Orso, Mary Lou Soffa, John Stasko, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Saurabh Sinha, Rajiv Gupta, Donglin Liang and Raúl Santelices and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Plant Molecular Biology and Briefings in Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Mary Jean Harrold

186 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

Prioritizing test cases for regression testing 1993 2026 2004 2015 2001 2005 2002 1997 1996 250 500 750 1000
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. Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique
    2005 887 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold profile →
  3. Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
    2002 648 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold 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. A methodology for controlling the size of a test suite
    1993 508 citations Mary Jean Harrold, Mary Lou Soffa et al. profile →
  7. Test-data generation using genetic algorithms
    1999 435 citations Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →
  8. An orchestrated survey of methodologies for automated software test case generation
    2013 413 citations Mary Jean Harrold et al. Journal of Systems and Software profile →
  9. Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
    2002 379 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →
  10. Automated concolic testing of smartphone apps
    2012 295 citations Mary Jean Harrold 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
Mary Jean Harrold United States 62 13.4k 10.5k 4.0k 1.7k 1.4k 194 15.1k
Gregg Rothermel United States 59 12.6k 0.9× 8.8k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 932 0.5× 813 0.6× 196 13.5k
Andreas Zeller Germany 55 9.4k 0.7× 10.1k 1.0× 3.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 2.2k 1.6× 234 12.5k
Elaine J. Weyuker United States 42 6.0k 0.4× 4.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 539 0.4× 139 7.3k
Zhendong Su United States 54 5.4k 0.4× 6.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 3.3k 1.9× 3.3k 2.3× 201 9.4k
Darko Marinov United States 43 5.4k 0.4× 4.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 835 0.6× 149 6.6k
Mary Lou Soffa United States 45 3.7k 0.3× 3.4k 0.3× 3.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 692 0.5× 213 7.2k
Alessandro Orso United States 49 4.9k 0.4× 5.8k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.3× 2.2k 1.5× 167 7.8k
Andrea Arcuri Norway 43 5.6k 0.4× 4.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 695 0.5× 119 6.7k
Gordon Fraser Germany 45 6.0k 0.4× 4.6k 0.4× 962 0.2× 866 0.5× 796 0.6× 230 7.3k
Jeff Offutt United States 38 4.8k 0.4× 3.4k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 712 0.4× 860 0.6× 168 5.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shah, Hina, Nancy J. Nersessian, Mary Jean Harrold, & Wendy Newstetter. (2012). Studying the influence of culture in global software engineering. 77–86. 22 indexed citations
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Park, Sangmin, Richard Vuduc, & Mary Jean Harrold. (2012). A Unified Approach for Localizing Non-deadlock Concurrency Bugs. 51–60. 20 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean & Gail C. Murphy. (2008). Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering. 37 indexed citations
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Eagan, James, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, & John Stasko. (2005). Technical note: visually encoding program test information to find faults in software. 33–36. 7 indexed citations
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Bowring, James F., Mary Jean Harrold, & James M. Rehg. (2005). Improving the Classification of Software Behaviors using Ensembles of Control-Flow and Data-Flow Classifiers. 4 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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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, 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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Bowring, James F., James M. Rehg, & Mary Jean Harrold. (2003). Software Behavior: Automatic Classification and its Applications. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 18(1). 12–8. 2 indexed citations
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Orso, Alessandro, Donglin Liang, Mary Jean Harrold, & Richard B. Lipton. (2002). Gamma system. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 1 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean & Mary Lou Soffa. (2002). Computation of interprocedural definition and use dependencies. 297–306. 11 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean, et al.. (2002). Slicing object-oriented software. 495–505. 117 indexed citations
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Sinha, Saurabh & Mary Jean Harrold. (2002). Analysis of programs with exception-handling constructs. 348–357. 34 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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Harrold, Mary Jean. (1998). Architecture-Based Regression Testing of Evolving Systems. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(2). 1206–1214. 18 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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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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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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Harrold, Mary Jean & Mary Lou Soffa. (1989). Interprocedual data flow testing. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 14(8). 158–167. 10 indexed citations
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Harrold, Mary Jean & Mary Lou Soffa. (1988). An approach to incremental testing. 8 indexed citations

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