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Innovating in technical areas such as software engineering and software testing, I teach courses, conduct research, write papers and a blog, give presentations, create software, and serve organizations. Working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Allegheny College, I am an associate editor for the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, an academic editor for the PeerJ Computer Science journal, a program committee member for conferences like the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation and the International Conference on Software Engineering, and a reviewer for journals like Transactions on Software Engineering and the Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. Along with media appearances on podcasts like Stack Overflow and Talk Python, I interview the world’s leading experts on software engineering as a co-host of Software Engineering Radio. You can learn more about me and my work by reading my biography, downloading my curriculum vitae, and subscribing to my mailing list.
Database Testing: Automatically test relational database schemas
Flaky Tests: Find and fix unpredictable and harmful test cases
Mutation Testing: Using automatically seeded defects to evaluate tests
Regression Testing: Efficiently and effectively rerunning test suites
Web Testing: Detecting and repairing responsive web page layout
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| Venue | Role(s) | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| International Flaky Tests Workshop | Program Committee Member | 2025 - 2024 |
| International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis | Tool Demonstrations Program Committee | 2025 - 2024 |
| PeerJ Computer Science Journal | Academic Editor | 2025 - 2019 |
| Journal of Software: Evolution and Process | Associate Editor, Reviewer | 2025 - 2012 |
| International Workshop on Mutation Analysis | Program Committee Member | 2025 - 2010 |
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Algorithm Analysis: Implement and evaluate correct and efficient algorithms
Data Abstraction: Build and manipulate correct and efficient data structures
Discrete Structures: Clearly connect mathematics to Python programming
Operating Systems: Build and understand operating system components
Software Engineering: Team-based introduction to building software systems
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Cellveyor: Easily convey reports from Google Sheets to GitHub
Chasten: Configurable linting tool that uses XPath expressions
GatorGrade: Python front-end for the GatorGrader assessment tool
GatorGrader: Automated assessment for source code and writing
SchemaAnalyst: Data generation and mutation analysis for database schemas
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@pamelafox seems like most of these models need at least 32 GB RAM to really be usable locally.
@nzakas from a colleague: "on a M4 max with 64G ram, I got ~40t/s for gpt-oss:20b, not bad!"
(but also his whole machine froze on his first try...)
Announcing "SHWIM": Shell With Me, easy to use, end-to-end encrypted terminal sharing via tty-share and #magicWormhole
https://meejah.ca/blog/initial-shwim-release
https://github.com/meejah/shwim
https://pypi.org/project/shwim/
Great weekend at PyOhio! Listened to many talks that informed, inspired, and showed me how great the Python community is! Some people I really enjoyed listening to include: @jessicagarson @gkapfham @chrisjrn @calvinhp as well as Eddie Mitchell, Denise Williams, Vignesh Iyer, William Horton and many more!! Very thankful to the @pyohio organizers for putting this event together! Not going to lie, I was a bit nervous as this was my first event I've attended. It was a great experience!