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64
Citations
15339
World Ranking
2616
National Ranking
1299

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to software testing and debugging
  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2012 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Alessandro Orso is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the domain of Computer Science, with a distinct focus on several subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's publication record includes a notable range of works spanning topics such as Software System Performance and Reliability, Software Engineering Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Alessandro Orso include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Alessandro Orso are:

  • "Automatic detection of performance bugs in database systems using equivalent queries" (2022), Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • "Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Use of test doubles in Android testing" (2022), Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • "Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-time Understanding of Reproduction Steps" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "LlamaRestTest: Effective REST API Testing with Small Language Models" (2025), Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.

Alessandro Orso has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Myeongsoo Kim
  • Saurabh Sinha
  • Mattia Fazzini
  • Tyler Stennett
  • Myeong-Soo Kim

Awards received by Alessandro Orso reflect recognition within the computer science community, including:

  • IEEE Fellow in 2021 for contributions to software testing and debugging
  • ACM Distinguished Member in 2020
  • ACM Senior Member in 2012

Best Publications

  • A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

    William G.J. Halfond;Jeremy Viegas;Alessandro Orso

  • AMNESIA: analysis and monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-injection attacks

    William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

  • Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers

    Chris Parnin;Alessandro Orso

  • Dytan: a generic dynamic taint analysis framework

    James Clause;Wanchun Li;Alessandro Orso

  • Automated Test Input Generation for Android: Are We There Yet? (E)

    Shauvik Roy Choudhary;Alessandra Gorla;Alessandro Orso

  • Regression test selection for Java software

    Mary Jean Harrold;James A. Jones;Tongyu Li;Donglin Liang

  • Leveraging field data for impact analysis and regression testing

    Alessandro Orso;Taweesup Apiwattanapong;Mary Jean Harrold

  • Scaling regression testing to large software systems

    Alessandro Orso;Nanjuan Shi;Mary Jean Harrold

  • Using positive tainting and syntax-aware evaluation to counter SQL injection attacks

    William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso;Panagiotis Manolios

  • Software testing: a research travelogue (2000–2014)

    Alessandro Orso;Gregg Rothermel

  • Component metadata for software engineering tasks

    Alessandro Orso;Mary Jean Harrold;David Rosenblum

  • WASP: Protecting Web Applications Using Positive Tainting and Syntax-Aware Evaluation

    W.G.J. Halfond;A. Orso;P. Manolios

  • Architectures for an Event Notification Service Scalable to Wide-area Networks

    Antonio Carzaniga;Luciano Baresi;Gino Biondini;Fabiano Cattaneo

  • BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging

    Wei Jin;Alessandro Orso

  • Efficient and precise dynamic impact analysis using execute-after sequences

    Taweesup Apiwattanapong;Alessandro Orso;Mary Jean Harrold

  • A technique for dynamic updating of Java software

    A. Orso;A. Rao;M.J. Harrold

  • A differencing algorithm for object-oriented programs

    T. Apiwattanapong;A. Orso;M.J. Harrold

  • Test-Suite Augmentation for Evolving Software

    R. Santelices;P.K. Chittimalli;T. Apiwattanapong;A. Orso

  • Combining static analysis and runtime monitoring to counter SQL-injection attacks

    William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

  • Using component metacontent to support the regression testing of component-based software

    A. Orso;M.J. Harrold;D. Rosenblum;G. Rothermel

  • Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering

    Sebastian Uchitel;Alessandro Orso;Martin Robillard

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Jean Harrold
Mary Jean Harrold Georgia Institute of Technology
William G. J. Halfond
William G. J. Halfond University of Southern California
Martin P. Robillard
Martin P. Robillard McGill University
Wenke Lee
Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology
Tao Xie
Tao Xie Peking University
David S. Rosenblum
David S. Rosenblum George Mason University
Gregg Rothermel
Gregg Rothermel North Carolina State University
Adam Porter
Adam Porter University of Maryland, College Park
Mauro Pezzè
Mauro Pezzè Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Andreas Zeller
Andreas Zeller Saarland University

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