Robert W. Bowdidge

813 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 582 citations indexed

About

Robert W. Bowdidge is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Bowdidge has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 582 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Information Systems, 8 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Bowdidge's work include Software Engineering Research (10 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (8 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (7 papers). Robert W. Bowdidge is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (10 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (8 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (7 papers). Robert W. Bowdidge collaborates with scholars based in United States and Hong Kong. Robert W. Bowdidge's co-authors include Brittany Johnson, Yoonki Song, Emerson Murphy-Hill, William G. Griswold, Edward Aftandilian, Sebastian Elbaum, Caitlin Sadowski and J. David Morgenthaler and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Bowdidge

10 papers receiving 552 citations

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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.

Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?

2013 345 citations Brittany Johnson, Yoonki Song et al. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Bowdidge United States	7	485	323	153	144	130	10	582
Markus Pizka Germany	12	495 1.0×	273 0.8×	139 0.9×	216 1.5×	92 0.7×	37	575
Ahmed Tamrawi United States	10	546 1.1×	251 0.8×	191 1.2×	178 1.2×	126 1.0×	21	632
Katsuhisa Maruyama Japan	11	390 0.8×	192 0.6×	112 0.7×	162 1.1×	121 0.9×	52	446
Aditya Kanade India	7	336 0.7×	275 0.9×	97 0.6×	128 0.9×	124 1.0×	12	454
Francisco Servant United States	15	391 0.8×	269 0.8×	115 0.8×	105 0.7×	91 0.7×	30	469
Suvda Myagmar United States	6	645 1.3×	484 1.5×	182 1.2×	131 0.9×	305 2.3×	7	754
Yoonki Song United States	4	332 0.7×	234 0.7×	78 0.5×	68 0.5×	113 0.9×	4	397
James A. Whittaker United States	12	285 0.6×	304 0.9×	132 0.9×	84 0.6×	75 0.6×	28	465
Valerio Terragni New Zealand	14	280 0.6×	273 0.8×	139 0.9×	84 0.6×	75 0.6×	49	500
István Siket Hungary	8	821 1.7×	650 2.0×	216 1.4×	141 1.0×	51 0.4×	23	866

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Sadowski, Caitlin, et al.. (2014). Programmers' build errors: a case study (at google). Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 724–734. 117 indexed citations

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Johnson, Brittany, Yoonki Song, Emerson Murphy-Hill, & Robert W. Bowdidge. (2013). Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 672–681. 345 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bowdidge, Robert W.. (2009). Performance Trade-offs Implementing Refactoring Support for Objective-C. 4 indexed citations

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Griswold, William G., et al.. (1998). Tool support for planning the restructuring of data abstractions in large systems. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 24(7). 534–558. 12 indexed citations

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Bowdidge, Robert W. & William G. Griswold. (1998). Supporting the restructuring of data abstractions through manipulation of a program visualization. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 7(2). 109–157. 31 indexed citations

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Bowdidge, Robert W. & William G. Griswold. (1997). How Software Engineering Tools Organize Programmer Behavior During the Task of Data Encapsulation. Empirical Software Engineering. 2(3). 221–267. 13 indexed citations

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Griswold, William G., et al.. (1996). Tool support for planning the restructuring of data abstractions in large systems. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 21(6). 33–45. 4 indexed citations

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Griswold, William G., et al.. (1996). Tool support for planning the restructuring of data abstractions in large systems. 33–45. 34 indexed citations

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Bowdidge, Robert W. & William G. Griswold. (1994). Automated support for encapsulating abstract data types. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 19(5). 97–110. 2 indexed citations

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Bowdidge, Robert W. & William G. Griswold. (1994). Automated support for encapsulating abstract data types. 97–110. 20 indexed citations

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