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Overview

Ali Mesbah is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research mainly focuses on the field of Computer Science with an emphasis on Software and Information Systems. Their work addresses various specialized areas including Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Software Engineering Research, and Software Reliability and Analysis Research.

Mesbah has contributed to the following key topics in their research:

  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Web Applications and Data Management

The scientist has authored papers published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Software Testing Verification and Reliability, and Empirical Software Engineering.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Noor Nashid, Parsa Alian, Davood Mazinanian, and Mohammad Bajammal.

Selected recent publications by Ali Mesbah include:

  • "BUGSJS: a benchmark and taxonomy of JavaScript bugs" (2020), Software Testing Verification and Reliability
  • "A Survey on the Use of Computer Vision to Improve Software Engineering Tasks" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Fragment-Based Test Generation for Web Apps" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "A controlled experiment of different code representations for learning-based program repair" (2022), Empirical Software Engineering
  • "<scp>Katana</scp>: Dual Slicing Based Context for Learning Bug Fixes" (2023), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Best Publications

  • Real Challenges in Mobile App Development

    Mona Erfani Joorabchi;Ali Mesbah;Philippe Kruchten

  • Crawling Ajax-Based Web Applications through Dynamic Analysis of User Interface State Changes

    Ali Mesbah;Arie van Deursen;Stefan Lenselink

  • Crawling AJAX by Inferring User Interface State Changes

    A. Mesbah;E. Bozdag;A. van Deursen

  • Invariant-based automatic testing of AJAX user interfaces

    Ali Mesbah;Arie van Deursen

  • Invariant-Based Automatic Testing of Modern Web Applications

    A. Mesbah;A. van Deursen;D. Roest

  • Automated cross-browser compatibility testing

    Ali Mesbah;Mukul R. Prasad

  • Migrating Multi-page Web Applications to Single-page AJAX Interfaces

    A. Mesbah;A. van Deursen

  • JSNOSE: Detecting JavaScript Code Smells

    Amin Milani Fard;Ali Mesbah

  • Mining questions asked by web developers

    Kartik Bajaj;Karthik Pattabiraman;Ali Mesbah

  • A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for AJAX

    E. Bozdag;A. Mesbah;A. van Deursen

  • Retrieval-Based Prompt Selection for Code-Related Few-Shot Learning

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  • A component- and push-based architectural style for ajax applications

    Ali Mesbah;Arie van Deursen

  • An Architectural Style for Ajax

    A. Mesbah;A. van Deursen

  • A systematic mapping study of web application testing

    Vahid Garousi;Vahid Garousi;Ali Mesbah;Aysu Betin-Can;Shabnam Mirshokraie

  • Determining differences in an event-driven application accessed in different client-tier environments

    Mukul R. Prasad;Ali Mesbah

  • An empirical study of bugs in test code

    Arash Vahabzadeh;Amin Milani Fard;Ali Mesbah

  • An Empirical Study of Client-Side JavaScript Bugs

    Frolin Ocariza;Kartik Bajaj;Karthik Pattabiraman;Ali Mesbah

  • DeepDelta: learning to repair compilation errors

    Ali Mesbah;Andrew Rice;Emily Johnston;Nick Glorioso

  • Assertions are strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness

    Yucheng Zhang;Ali Mesbah

  • Leveraging existing tests in automated test generation for web applications

    Amin Milani Fard;Mehdi Mirzaaghaei;Ali Mesbah

  • Discovering bug patterns in JavaScript

    Quinn Hanam;Fernando S. de M. Brito;Ali Mesbah

Frequent Co-Authors

Karthik Pattabiraman
Karthik Pattabiraman University of British Columbia
Arie van Deursen
Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology
Filippo Ricca
Filippo Ricca University of Genoa
Paolo Tonella
Paolo Tonella Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Martin Pinzger
Martin Pinzger University of Klagenfurt
Andy Zaidman
Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology
Bram Adams
Bram Adams Queen's University
Danny Dig
Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder
Gabriele Bavota
Gabriele Bavota Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal

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