Mary Lou Soffa

 

 

Publications (last five years)

Predicting the impact of optimizations for embedded systems"
Min Zhao, Bruce R. Childers, and Mary Lou Soffa
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, San Diego, California, June 2003

A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications,”

G. Kapfhammer and Mary Lou Soffa,

ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Conference, Sept. 2003, selected as a Distinguished Paper

Regression Testing of GUIs,”

 A. Memon and M. L. Soffa

ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Conference, Sept. 2003.

 

The limits of speculative trace reuse on deeply pipelined processors"
M. L. Pilla, P. O. A. Navaux, A. T. da Costa, F. M. G. Franca, B. R. Childers and M. L. Soffa
The 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil, November 2003

 

"SoftTest: A framework for software testing of Java programs"
B. R. Childers, M. L. Soffa, J. Beaver, L. Ber, K. Cammarata, T. Kane, J. Litman, and J. Misurda
Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop, during the ACM SIGPLAN Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 27, 2003.
An earlier version is available as Computer Science Department,
University of Pittsburgh, Technical Report TR-03-103, August 2003.

 

“Gender and Race in Predicting Achievement in Computer Science,”

S. Katz, D. Allbritton, J. Aronis, C.Wilson, and M.L. Soffa,

IEEE Technology and Society, Special Issue on Women and Minorities in Information Technology, Volume 22, 3, 20-27, 2003

 

"Continuous compilation: A new approach to aggressive and adaptive code transformation"

Bruce Childers, Jack Davidson, and Mary Lou Soffa

NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, during the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 2003

 

Retargetable and Reconfigurable Software Dynamic Translation"
K. Scott, N. Kumar, S. Velusamy, B. Childers, J. Davidson, and M. L. Soffa,
Int'l. Conf. on Code Generation and Optimization, San Francisco, California, March 2003

“An Experiment to Identify Predictors of Achievement in an Introductory Computer Science Course”

S. Katz, J. Aronis, D. Allbritton, C. Wilson and M.L. Soffa,

 ACM Conference on Computer Personnel Research,  2003.

 

“Shortchanging the Future of Information Technology:  The Untapped Resource,”

Balcita, D. Carver, M.L. Soffa, 

ACM SIGCSE Inroads, Special Issue on Women and Computing, June 2002.

 

''Verifying Optimizers Through Comparison Checking''
C. Jaramillo, R. Gupta and M.L. Soffa,  International Workshop: Compiler  Optimization Meets Compiler Verification, Grenoble, Frace, April, 2002.

``Coverage Criteria for GUI Testing,''
A. Memon, M.L. Soffa, M. Pollack,

European Software Engineering Conference/SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Conference, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2001.

A. Memon, M. Pollack, and M. L. Soffa, "Hierarchical GUI Test-Case Generation Using Automated Planning," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 2, pages 144-155, February 2001

``Using Component Metadata to Support Regression Testing of Component-based Software,''
 M.J. Harrold, A. Orso, D. Rosenblum, G. Rothemel, M.L. Soffa, H. Do,
International Conference on Software Maitenance, November, 2001.

``Width Sensitive Scheduling for Resource Contained VLIW processors,''
T. Nakra, B. Childers, and M.L.Soffa,
ACM Workshop on Feedback Directed and Dynamic Optimizations, Monterey, Ca.,  Colocated with Micro33 Dec; 2001

``Automated Test Oracles for GUIs,''
A. Memon, M. Pollack, and M.L. Soffa,
Eighth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2000) , San Diego, CA, Nov. 6-10, 2000.

``Generating Test Data for Branch Coverage,''
Neelam Gupta, Aditya Mathur and Mary Lou Soffa,
15th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'2000) , Grenoble, France, September, 2000

FULLDOC: A Full Reporting Debugger for Optimized Code,''
C. Jaramillo, R. Gupta, and M.L. Soffa,
International Static Analysis Symposium , LNCS, Springer Verlag, Santa Barbara, CA, July, 2000.

``Plan Generation for GUI Testing,''
A. Memon, M. Pollack, and M.L. Soffa
Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling, Brackenridge, Co, April 14-19, 2000

`UNA Based Iterative Test Data Generation and its Evaluation,''
N. Gupta, A. Mathur, and M.L. Soffa,
Proceedings of the IEEE Automated Software Engineering Conference, Oct. 12-15, 1999

``Comparison Checking: An Approach to Avoid Debugging of Optimized Code,''
Clara Jaramillo, Rajiv Gupta and Mary Lou Soffa,
accepted by The Joint 7th European Software Engineenering Conference (ESEC) and th ACM SIGSOFT
International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE),
Toulouse, France, Sept., 1999.

``Load-Reuse Analysis: Design and Evaluation,''
R. Bodik, R. Gupta, and M.L. Soffa,
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,
Atlanta, Georgia, May 1999.

''Using a Goal-driven Approach to Generate Test Cases for GUIs ''
Atif Memon, Martha Pollack, and Mary Lou Soffa,
International Conference on Software Engineering
Los Angeles, May 19-21, 1999

``Global Context-based Value Prediction,''
T. Nakra, R. Gupta, and M.L. Soffa,
Fifth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture,
Orlando, Florida, January 1999.


soffa at cs.pitt.ed

Last update: 10 January 2004