William E. Howden

2.8k total citations
55 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

William E. Howden is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Howden has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Software, 22 papers in Information Systems and 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in William E. Howden's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (40 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (38 papers) and Software Engineering Research (22 papers). William E. Howden is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (40 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (38 papers) and Software Engineering Research (22 papers). William E. Howden collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. William E. Howden's co-authors include E. F. Miller, Yudong Huang, Guangming Shi, Linda Werner, James C. King, Leon G. Stucki, Paul Cohen, William E. Riddle, Leonard L. Tripp and Thomas H. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

William E. Howden

48 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Howden United States 18 1.6k 941 239 227 220 55 1.9k
Hiralal Agrawal India 16 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.5× 236 1.0× 526 2.3× 371 1.7× 31 2.3k
John Penix United States 15 926 0.6× 888 0.9× 385 1.6× 292 1.3× 194 0.9× 46 1.4k
G.C. Patton United States 5 1.2k 0.8× 566 0.6× 210 0.9× 282 1.2× 69 0.3× 5 1.4k
Michael Y. Levin United States 12 1.5k 0.9× 819 0.9× 552 2.3× 297 1.3× 807 3.7× 18 1.9k
Tohru Kikuno Japan 19 754 0.5× 799 0.8× 214 0.9× 579 2.6× 73 0.3× 166 1.5k
Yu Lei United States 24 2.2k 1.4× 1.0k 1.1× 359 1.5× 465 2.0× 265 1.2× 114 2.6k
ThanhVu Nguyen United States 13 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 429 1.8× 322 1.4× 251 1.1× 48 1.8k
J.R. Horgan United States 23 2.5k 1.6× 1.9k 2.0× 395 1.7× 768 3.4× 324 1.5× 42 2.9k
Vu Le United States 16 922 0.6× 760 0.8× 426 1.8× 259 1.1× 256 1.2× 43 1.4k
Changhai Nie China 16 1.1k 0.7× 597 0.6× 198 0.8× 266 1.2× 113 0.5× 72 1.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Howden, William E.. (2008). ELUSIVE BUGS, BOUNDED EXHAUSTIVE TESTING AND INCOMPLETE ORACLES. 115–121. 1 indexed citations
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Howden, William E., et al.. (2007). TEST FRAMEWORKS FOR ELUSIVE BUG TESTING. 250–257. 1 indexed citations
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Howden, William E. & Guangming Shi. (2003). CDA: a system for understanding the dynamic properties of data processing programs. 310–319.
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Howden, William E.. (2002). Systems testing and statistical test data coverage. 500–504. 9 indexed citations
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Howden, William E. & Yudong Huang. (2002). Software trustability. 143–151. 4 indexed citations
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Howden, William E., et al.. (2002). The derivation of functional specifications from source code. 166–174. 4 indexed citations
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Howden, William E., et al.. (1993). An informal verification method based on comments analysis and its application to ada programs.
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Howden, William E.. (1991). Program testing versus proofs of correctness. Software Testing Verification and Reliability. 1(1). 5–15. 3 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1989). A Comparison of Software and Hardware Testing.. IFIP Congress. 344. 1 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1986). Functional program testing and analysis. McGraw-Hill, Inc. eBooks. 144 indexed citations
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Howden, William E., et al.. (1986). Two-dimensional program design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-12(3). 377–384. 13 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1985). The Theory and Practice of Foundation Testing. IEEE Software. 2(5). 6–17. 19 indexed citations
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Howden, William E., et al.. (1984). Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software engineering. 78 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1981). Completeness criteria for testing elementary program functions. International Conference on Software Engineering. 235–243. 13 indexed citations
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Miller, E. F. & William E. Howden. (1981). Tutorial : software testing & validation techniques. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 30 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1979). Empirical studies of software validation. Microelectronics Reliability. 19(1-2). 39–47. 6 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1979). Functional testing and design abstractions. Journal of Systems and Software. 1. 307–313. 21 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1978). Theoretical and empirical studies of program testing. International Conference on Software Engineering. 305–311. 14 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1978). An evaluation of the effectiveness of symbolic testing. Software Practice and Experience. 8(4). 381–397. 44 indexed citations
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Howden, William E.. (1977). Symbolic Testing and the DISSECT Symbolic Evaluation System. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-3(4). 266–278. 175 indexed citations

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