Month: July 2011

  • ISSTA 2011

    Earlier this week I gave one of the keynote talks at ISSTA, the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. A year ago Matt Dwyer, the general chair, sent me the following invitation: I would like to invite you to give a keynote talk to the meeting about the challenges in testing, dynamic and static…

  • Split Vote

    In my group’s recent compiler testing paper we wrote: We have never seen an “interesting” split vote where randomized differential testing of a collection of C compilers fails to produce a clear consensus answer Randomized differential testing is just a fancy way of describing this process: Randomly generate a test input Run it through several…

  • Review Correlation Again

    Not long ago I was surprised to find that there was a (slightly) negative correlation between my review scores and the average of the other reviewers’ scores for a collection of papers submitted to a conference. A few days ago I attended the program committee meeting for SenSys 2011, where I again reviewed around 20…

  • Red Baldy Again

    With some travel coming up and hot weather rapidly eroding our epic snowpack, I decided to sneak in a quick snow climb on July 1. Since I couldn’t convince anyone else to go along, I made a conservative choice and climbed Red Baldy, whose northwest slopes present one of the easier and safer routes found…