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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) leading researcher working at the boundary of Programming Languages and Software Engineering, focusing on tools for improving software quality and programmer productivity
  • Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) leading researcher working at the boundary of Programming Languages and Software Engineering, focusing on tools for improving software quality and programmer productivity
  • Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) leading researcher working at the boundary of Programming Languages and Software Engineering, focusing on tools for improving software quality and programmer productivity

Overview

Frank Tip is a researcher affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States focusing on areas within Computer Science. Their work encompasses several subfields including Information Systems, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Signal Processing.

Their research contributions primarily address topics such as Software Engineering Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, and Software Reliability and Analysis Research.

Among the notable recent publications by Frank Tip are:

  • "An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation" (2023) published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation" (2023) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Automatic migration from synchronous to asynchronous JavaScript APIs" (2021) published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "Nessie" (2022) published in Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • "Stubbifier: debloating dynamic server-side JavaScript applications" (2022) published in Empirical Software Engineering

Frank Tip's collaborative research network includes frequent co-authors such as Ellen Arteca, Max Schäfer, Alexi Turcotte, and Sarah Nadi.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with repeated contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, and Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.

Throughout their career, Frank Tip has been recognized with awards including the ACM Distinguished Member honor in 2008 and being named a Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) for significant research at the intersection of Programming Languages and Software Engineering, particularly in developing tools to improve software quality and programmer productivity.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Program Slicing Techniques.

    Frank Tip

  • A survey of program slicing techniques.

    Frank Tip

  • Chianti: a tool for change impact analysis of java programs

    Xiaoxia Ren;Fenil Shah;Frank Tip;Barbara G. Ryder

  • Scalable propagation-based call graph construction algorithms

    Frank Tip;Jens Palsberg

  • Change impact analysis for object-oriented programs

    Barbara G. Ryder;Frank Tip

  • Associating synchronization constraints with data in an object-oriented language

    Mandana Vaziri;Frank Tip;Julian Dolby

  • Reengineering class hierarchies using concept analysis

    Gregor Snelting;Frank Tip

  • A framework for automated testing of javascript web applications

    Shay Artzi;Julian Dolby;Simon Holm Jensen;Anders Moller

  • An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation

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  • Finding Bugs in Web Applications Using Dynamic Test Generation and Explicit-State Model Checking

    S Artzi;A Kiezun;J Dolby;F Tip

  • Finding bugs in dynamic web applications

    Shay Artzi;Adam Kiezun;Julian Dolby;Frank Tip

  • Refactoring for generalization using type constraints

    Frank Tip;Adam Kiezun;Dirk Bäumer

  • Refactoring support for class library migration

    Ittai Balaban;Frank Tip;Robert Fuhrer

  • Directed test generation for effective fault localization

    Shay Artzi;Julian Dolby;Frank Tip;Marco Pistoia

  • Parametric program slicing

    John Field;G. Ramalingam;Frank Tip

  • Aggregate structure identification and its application to program analysis

    G. Ramalingam;John Field;Frank Tip

  • Correlation tracking for points-to analysis of javascript

    Manu Sridharan;Julian Dolby;Satish Chandra;Max Schäfer

  • Understanding class hierarchies using concept analysis

    Gregor Snelting;Frank Tip

  • Origin Tracking.

    A. van Deursen;P. Klint;F. Tip

  • Practical experience with an application extractor for Java

    Frank Tip;Chris Laffra;Peter F. Sweeney;David Streeter

  • Automated repair of HTML generation errors in PHP applications using string constraint solving

    Hesam Samimi;Max Schafer;Shay Artzi;Todd Millstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Dolby
Julian Dolby IBM (United States)
Barbara G. Ryder
Barbara G. Ryder Virginia Tech
Manu Sridharan
Manu Sridharan University of California, Riverside
Marco Pistoia
Marco Pistoia JPMorgan Chase & Co (United States)
Satish Chandra
Satish Chandra Association for Computing Machinery
Jan Vitek
Jan Vitek Northeastern University
Michael D. Ernst
Michael D. Ernst University of Washington
Bjorn De Sutter
Bjorn De Sutter Ghent University
Danny Dig
Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder
Todd Millstein
Todd Millstein University of California, Los Angeles

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