Jeff Offutt

PhD, Computer Science
Professor & Chair, Computer Science
College of Nanotechnology, Science, & Engineering
University @ Albany
CS: Where logic sparks imagination
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Jan 2019
CS 4 all
Computer Science for All K-5 educational research project
Nov 2018
Interview with ABC News 7
Amazon coming to Fairfax
Oct 2018
Talks for CS 700: Research Methodology
Research in software testing
Ethics and quality in publishing
Sep 2018
Innovative Teaching & Learning
Test Early, Test Often, Test Small, Test Twice
Aug 2018
Chalmers University
How to Get Your Paper Rejected
April 2018
Talks at ICST 2018
SAST Industry day:It Is Great That We Automate Our Tests, But Why Are They So Bad?
Mutation workshop: A Systematic Review of Cost Reduction Techniques for Mutation Testing: Preliminary Results
PhD Symposium: How to Get Your Paper Rejected
A-Most keynote talk: From Spec-based Testing to Test Automation and Beyond
Jan 2018
Retraction Watch Interview
Interview about plagiarism
Feb 2017
CS 101 presentation
What is Software Engineering?
Feb 2017
Talk at Pyramid Systems
Automate Your Tests to Find Faults: Faster, Cheaper, and Better
Oct 2016
Beyond Test Automation
Keynote talk at 28th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS)    (slides)
June 2016
Is Mutation Analysis Ready for Prime Time?
6th Halmstad Summer School on Testing, HSST 2016
Nov 2015
How to Get Your Paper Rejected
Software Engineering Seminar
ISSRE PhD Symposium
June 2015
The SPARC Educational Model
Mason News article about our education grant
RESPECT conference panel statement
April 2015
Why Are My Tests Dumb
Panel talk at AMost 2015
Sep 2015
Software Engineering 2015
I was on an ACM/IEEE committee to establish Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering
Feb 2015
CS 101 presentation
What is Software Engineering?
Nov 2014
TOCSYSC Industrial Day presentation
Generating Automated Tests from Behavioral Models
Nov 2014
Mason’s Responsible Conduct of Research PhD Seminar
How to get your paper rejected: Plagiarism and other strategies
Jan 2014
Software engineering is the best job in America, so says US News & World Report
Apr 2014
Notable article for 2013. My opinion piece "Putting the Engineering into Software Engineering Education" was selected by ACM and ThinkLoud as a notable article for 2013:
Jan 2013
Winner of the 2013 George Mason Teaching Excellence Award. (Portfolio in PDF)
Mar 2014
Invited speaker at the ICST PhD Symposium
How to get your paper rejected
Oct 2013
Keynote Speaker at SBES: Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), Brazilia Brazil (slides)
Jul 2013
Instructor at ISSTC. Intl Summer School on Trends in Computing, Tarragona Spain
Slides: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Jun 2013
Instructor at INFORTE Summer School, Oulu Finland
Sep 2013
Panelist. Panelist: Mason's Future of Higher Education Forum
Sep 2013
Speaker at ITL: Mason's Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference
May 2012
Piazza blog: Writeup of my online class, SWE 763, Software Engineering Experimentation
May 2012
Keynote talk at the Software Engineering Education Workshop   Slides
Aug 2011
NoVa TAIG Speaker: Northern Virginia Test Automation Interest Group   Slides
Aug 2010
An interview in LogiGear's magazine
May 2011
ASEE&T. Teaching software testing @ ASEE&T   Slides
Oct 2010
GTAC keynote talk at Google's Test Automation Conference (GTAC): "Automatically Generating Test Data for Web Applications," Hyderabad India. Slides YouTube
Sep 2009
ACS / SWE: A new GMU undergraduate Software Engineering Program.
Jul 2010
Softtec Keynote. Keynote speaker at Softec: "The Model-Driven Test Design Process" and "Automatically Generating Test Data for Web Applications," Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
Jun 2010
Speaker at TAROT. Invited lecturer at TAROT summer school: "The Model-Driven Test Design Process" and "Testing Dynamic Aspects of Web Applications," Graz Austria. Slides Slides
Sep 2009
Keynote speaker at Conquest: "Model-Driven Test Design Process," September 2009, Nuremberg Germany.
Jul 2009
Keynote speaker at SSIRI: "Automatic Test Data Generation : Who, When and Where?", Shanghai China.
Jun 2009
Speaker at IDGA Mililtary Test & Evaluation Summit: "Model-Driven Test Design Process," Tysons Corner Virginia.
Apr 2009
ICST 2009. International Conference on Software Testing (ICST 2009) in Denver, USA ICST Logo
Last update June 2014