William G. J. Halfond

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

William G. J. Halfond is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, William G. J. Halfond has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Information Systems, 34 papers in Software and 27 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in William G. J. Halfond's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (34 papers), Green IT and Sustainability (26 papers) and Web Application Security Vulnerabilities (25 papers). William G. J. Halfond is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (34 papers), Green IT and Sustainability (26 papers) and Web Application Security Vulnerabilities (25 papers). William G. J. Halfond collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. William G. J. Halfond's co-authors include Alessandro Orso, Ding Li, Ramesh Govindan, Shuai Hao, Sonal Mahajan, Panagiotis Manolios, Ding Li, Jiaping Gui, Suman Nath and Shuai Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

In The Last Decade

William G. J. Halfond

79 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

2006 403 citations William G. J. Halfond, Alessandro Orso et al. Oecologia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William G. J. Halfond United States	32	2.2k	1.3k	1.1k	1.1k	1.1k	81	3.6k
Sam Malek United States	35	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	361 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	124	3.5k
Abram Hindle Canada	32	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	873 0.8×	686 0.6×	857 0.8×	152	3.9k
Sebastiano Panichella Switzerland	33	2.9k 1.3×	650 0.5×	88 0.1×	497 0.4×	772 0.7×	108	3.5k
Ivano Malavolta Netherlands	26	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	248 0.2×	178 0.2×	927 0.8×	133	2.3k
Corrado Aaron Visaggio Italy	32	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	65 0.1×	1.6k 1.4×	849 0.8×	118	3.3k
Rui Abreu Portugal	30	3.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	286 0.2×	387 0.3×	699 0.6×	159	4.9k
Dario Di Nucci Italy	24	1.2k 0.5×	408 0.3×	205 0.2×	400 0.4×	256 0.2×	70	1.5k
Zhiyun Qian United States	27	979 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	118	3.0k
Guozhu Meng China	21	844 0.4×	556 0.4×	135 0.1×	833 0.7×	439 0.4×	48	1.6k
Atif M. Memon United States	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	190 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	414 0.4×	108	4.0k

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Yu, Tingting, et al.. (2024). Mobile Bug Report Reproduction via Global Search on the App UI Model. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 1(FSE). 2656–2676. 3 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2024). Automatically Detecting Reflow Accessibility Issues in Responsive Web Pages. 1–13. 5 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2023). Automatically Defining Game Action Spaces for Exploration Using Program Analysis. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 19(1). 145–154.

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Winn, Robert A., et al.. (2023). Automatically Reproducing Android Bug Reports using Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning. 411–422. 8 indexed citations

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Lyu, Yingjun, et al.. (2021). SAND: a static analysis approach for detecting SQL antipatterns. 270–282. 8 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2019). Efficiently Repairing Internationalization Presentation Failures by Solving Layout Constraints. 172–182. 16 indexed citations

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Lyu, Yingjun, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the Performance Impact of SQL Antipatterns on Mobile Applications. 53–64. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianwei, Sandeep K. Gupta, & William G. J. Halfond. (2019). A New Method for Software Test Data Generation Inspired by D-algorithm. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yu, Tingting Yu, Ting Su, et al.. (2019). ReCDroid: Automatically Reproducing Android Application Crashes from Bug Reports. 128–139. 63 indexed citations

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Mahajan, Sonal, et al.. (2018). Automated Repair of Internationalization Presentation Failures in Web Pages Using Style Similarity Clustering and Search-Based Techniques. 215–226. 26 indexed citations

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McMinn, Phil, et al.. (2018). Automated repair of mobile friendly problems in web pages. 140–150. 23 indexed citations

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Mahajan, Sonal, et al.. (2016). Detecting and Localizing Internationalization Presentation Failures in Web Applications. 202–212. 26 indexed citations

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Mahajan, Sonal, et al.. (2016). Using Visual Symptoms for Debugging Presentation Failures in Web Applications. 191–201. 31 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2016). An Empirical Study of Internationalization Failures in the Web. 88–98. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Ding, et al.. (2014). Making web applications more energy efficient for OLED smartphones. 527–538. 79 indexed citations

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Hao, Shuai, Bin Liu, Suman Nath, William G. J. Halfond, & Ramesh Govindan. (2014). PUMA. 204–217. 252 indexed citations

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Hao, Shuai, Ding Li, William G. J. Halfond, & Ramesh Govindan. (2013). Estimating mobile application energy consumption using program analysis. International Conference on Software Engineering. 92–101. 176 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., Shauvik Roy Choudhary, & Alessandro Orso. (2009). Penetration Testing with Improved Input Vector Identification. 346–355. 40 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., Saswat Anand, & Alessandro Orso. (2009). Precise interface identification to improve testing and analysis of web applications. 285–296. 54 indexed citations

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Halfond, William G. J., et al.. (2006). A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures. Oecologia. 172(3). 701–11. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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