2026 Darko Marinov: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	57	3841	3733	1821	1755	185	13075

Overview

Darko Marinov is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their primary area of research is within computer science, with a significant focus on software-related disciplines.

The main fields of study for Marinov include:

Computer Science

Within these, their subfields of study are:

Software
Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems and Management

Marinov's research covers various main topics, notably:

Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Software Engineering Research
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Software System Performance and Reliability
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Key recent publications by Marinov include:

"A large-scale longitudinal study of flaky tests," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
"Learning from reproducing computational results: introducing three principles and the Reproduction Package," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
"Preempting flaky tests via non-idempotent-outcome tests," 2022, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
"Finding Polluter Tests Using Java PathFinder," 2021, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
"Suboptimal Comments in Java Projects: From Independent Comment Changes to Commenting Practices," 2022, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

The frequent publication venues where Marinov's work appears are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Marinov has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Anjiang Wei
Wing Lam
Tao Xie
Pu Yi
Tianyin Xu

Best Publications

CUTE: a concolic unit testing engine for C

Koushik Sen;Darko Marinov;Gul Agha

2476
Citations
Korat: automated testing based on Java predicates

Chandrasekhar Boyapati;Sarfraz Khurshid;Darko Marinov

926
Citations
An empirical analysis of flaky tests

Qingzhou Luo;Farah Hariri;Lamyaa Eloussi;Darko Marinov

465
Citations
Usage, costs, and benefits of continuous integration in open-source projects

Michael Hilton;Timothy Tunnell;Kai Huang;Darko Marinov

386
Citations
Symstra: a framework for generating object-oriented unit tests using symbolic execution

Tao Xie;Darko Marinov;Wolfram Schulte;David Notkin

382
Citations
TestEra: a novel framework for automated testing of Java programs

D. Marinov;S. Khurshid

351
Citations
Automated Detection of Refactorings in Evolving Components

Danny Dig;Can Comertoglu;Darko Marinov;Ralph Johnson

350
Citations
Automated testing of refactoring engines

Brett Daniel;Danny Dig;Kely Garcia;Darko Marinov

305
Citations
Practical regression test selection with dynamic file dependencies

Milos Gligoric;Lamyaa Eloussi;Darko Marinov

253
Citations
TestEra: Specification-Based Testing of Java Programs Using SAT

Sarfraz Khurshid;Darko Marinov

239
Citations
Trade-offs in continuous integration: assurance, security, and flexibility

Michael Hilton;Nicholas Nelson;Timothy Tunnell;Darko Marinov

232
Citations
Message from the program chairs of icse 2020

Jane Cleland-Huang;Darko Marinov

221
Citations
@tComment: Testing Javadoc Comments to Detect Comment-Code Inconsistencies

Shin Hwei Tan;Darko Marinov;Lin Tan;Gary T. Leavens

212
Citations
Test generation through programming in UDITA

Milos Gligoric;Tihomir Gvero;Vilas Jagannath;Sarfraz Khurshid

207
Citations
Rostra: a framework for detecting redundant object-oriented unit tests

Tao Xie;D. Notkin;D. Marinov

206
Citations
Toddler: detecting performance problems via similar memory-access patterns

Adrian Nistor;Linhai Song;Darko Marinov;Shan Lu

185
Citations
DeFlaker: automatically detecting flaky tests

Jonathan Bell;Owolabi Legunsen;Michael Hilton;Lamyaa Eloussi

169
Citations
iDFlakies: A Framework for Detecting and Partially Classifying Flaky Tests

Wing Lam;Reed Oei;August Shi;Darko Marinov

163
Citations
Comparing non-adequate test suites using coverage criteria

Milos Gligoric;Alex Groce;Chaoqiang Zhang;Rohan Sharma

161
Citations
ReAssert: Suggesting Repairs for Broken Unit Tests

Brett Daniel;Vilas Jagannath;Danny Dig;Darko Marinov

152
Citations
An extensive study of static regression test selection in modern software evolution

Owolabi Legunsen;Farah Hariri;August Shi;Yafeng Lu

152
Citations
State extensions for java pathfinder

Tihomir Gvero;Milos Gligoric;Steven Lauterburg;Marcelo d'Amorim

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarfraz Khurshid The University of Texas at Austin

Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder

Tao Xie Peking University

Lingming Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Grigore Rosu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Martin Rinard MIT

Jennifer C. Hou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Notkin University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Darko Marinov Google Scholar page

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