Gregg Rothermel

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Gregg Evan Rothermel
Born1959
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A., Philosophy
M.S., Computer Science
Ph.D., Computer Science
Alma mater Reed College
State University of New York at Albany
Clemson University
Occupation(s) Computer scientist, software engineer and academic
AwardsCAREER Award, National Science Foundation
ACM Distinguished Scientist, Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Scientific career
Institutions North Carolina State University

Gregg Evan Rothermel is an American computer scientist, software engineer and academic. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. [1]

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Rothermel’s research has focused on software engineering and program analysis, with a particular emphasis on the applications of program analysis techniques to problems in the context of software maintenance and testing, end-user software engineering, and empirical studies. He co-founded the ESQuaReD Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the Software-Artifact Infrastructure Repository (SIR). [2] He also co-founded the EUSES Consortium, a group of researchers who, with National Science Foundation's support, have led end-user software engineering research. [3]

Rothermel is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. [4]

Education

Rothermel earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College in 1983, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986. He then enrolled at Clemson University and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, under the supervision of Mary Jean Harrold, in 1996. [5]

Career

Rothermel began his academic career as a Teaching Assistant of Computer Science at State University of New York at Albany in 1985. In 1991, he joined Clemson University as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Science, and became a Research Assistant the following year. He then held a brief appointment at the Ohio State University as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer and Information Science through 1996, before joining Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. In 2001, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Oregon State. From 2004 through 2018, he served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln as Professor and Jensen Chair of Software Engineering. Since 2018, he has been serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. [1]

Research

Rothermel has published over 230 articles, has been cited over 24,000 times, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 75. He holds two U.S. Patents [6] [7]

Rothermel has received recognition for his pioneering contributions in developing and empirically evaluating regression testing techniques. He was among the first researchers to propose and empirically study test case prioritization techniques. [8] [9] He also published a paper highlighting the issues regarding regression test selection techniques, and used these issues as the basis for a framework within which to evaluate the techniques. [10]

Rothermel has also worked on "end-user software engineering". [11] His research is concerned with enabling non-professional programmers to create more dependable systems while developing programs such as spreadsheets, web macros, and web mashups. In 2001, he introduced and explored a methodology to adapt data flow adequacy criteria and coverage monitoring to the task of testing spreadsheets. [12]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

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References

  1. 1 2 "Rothermel named new head of Department of Computer Science".
  2. ↑ "Software-artifact Infrastructure Repository".
  3. ↑ "History".
  4. ↑ "Gregg E Rothermel".
  5. ↑ "Gregg Rothermel".
  6. ↑ "Methodology for testing spreadsheets".
  7. ↑ "Methodology for testing spreadsheet grids".
  8. ↑ Rothermel, Gregg; Harrold, Mary Jean (1997). "A safe, efficient regression test selection technique". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 6 (2): 173–210. doi:10.1145/248233.248262. S2CID   16354041.
  9. ↑ "Prioritizing Test Cases for Regression Testing".
  10. ↑ Rothermel, G.; Harrold, M.J. (1996). "Analyzing Regression Test Selection Techniques". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 22 (8): 529–551. doi:10.1109/32.536955.
  11. ↑ Ko, Amy J.; Abraham, Robin; Beckwith, Laura; Blackwell, Alan; Burnett, Margaret; Erwig, Martin; Scaffidi, Chris; Lawrance, Joseph; Lieberman, Henry; Myers, Brad; Rosson, Mary Beth; Rothermel, Gregg; Shaw, Mary; Wiedenbeck, Susan (2011). "The state of the art in end-user software engineering". ACM Computing Surveys. 43 (3): 1–44. doi:10.1145/1922649.1922658. S2CID   9435548.
  12. ↑ Rothermel, Gregg; Burnett, Margaret; Li, Lixin; Dupuis, Christopher; Sheretov, Andrei (2001). "A methodology for testing spreadsheets". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 10: 110–147. doi:10.1145/366378.366385. S2CID   16699101.
  13. ↑ "2013 EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS".
  14. ↑ "List of ACM Awards".
  15. ↑ "ISSTA 2020".
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