Biography

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🚀 Hi! I'm a researcher, teacher, and software developer!

Overview

Guided by my professional principles, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Allegheny College. I earned a PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, writing a PhD dissertation on database application testing that was supervised by Mary Lou Soffa and published as (Kapfhammer 2007) . I also earned a BSc in Computer Science from Allegheny College and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Previously I was a short-term visitor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, the Institute of Applied Information Processing at the University of Ulm, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. In a prior position, I was a research associate at Cigital, a software company acquired by Synopsys. My work is partially funded by Facebook Research and the Mozilla Foundation.

Teaching

As an educator, I teach courses in the alphabetically ordered areas of algorithm analysis, discrete structures, data management, distributed systems, software engineering, software testing, operating systems, and web development. I am also a research adviser for undergraduate and graduate theses and PhD dissertations. My expertise in teaching was recognized when Allegheny College presented him with the Thoburn Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a leader of software engineering teams, I create useful educational software that supports automated tasks such as project assessment and team formation.

Research

Funded by Facebook Research and the Mozilla Foundation, I conduct research in areas such as software engineering and software testing. Collaborating with a diverse and skilled group of students and colleagues, I complete research that results in award-winning and frequently cited research papers, oft-complimented presentations, useful free and open-source software, and valued service to a variety of organizations. 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 a reviewer for journals such as Transactions on Software Engineering. Along with serving as a review panelist at the U.S. National Science Foundation, I work as a program chair and general chair for workshops and conferences. As a member of software engineering teams, I create useful research software for the purposes of experimentation, replication, and technology transfer.

I collaboratively publish papers like (Walsh, Kapfhammer, and McMinn 2017) , (Alsharif, Kapfhammer, and McMinn 2018) , and (McMinn et al. 2019) at venues like the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, and Transactions on Software Engineering. The paper (Kapfhammer and Soffa 2003) received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2003). The paper (Conrad, Roos, and Kapfhammer 2010) was also recognized as the best paper in the Search-Based Software Engineering Track of the ACM SIGEVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010). My presentation for the paper (Kapfhammer, McMinn, and Wright 2016) won the best presentation award at the 9th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST 2016). The paper (Althomali, Kapfhammer, and McMinn 2019) at the 12th International International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2019), won the distinguished paper award from the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering.

Expertise

I recently leveraged my research expertise to serve the following venues:

Venue	Year(s)	Role(s)	Count
PeerJ Computer Science Journal	2023 - 2019	Academic Editor	3
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process	2023 - 2012	Associate Editor, Reviewer	7
Information and Software Technology	2023 - 2009	Reviewer	13
International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering	2023 - 2009	Doctoral Symposium Chair, Program Committee Member, Publicity Chair	13
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis	2023	Program Committee Member	1

My technical expertise also led to these recent media engagements:

Date	Role	Event	Venue
Sep 14, 2023	Host	"Zach Lloyd on Terminal Emulators"	Software Engineering Radio
Sep 11, 2023	Guest	"Taming Flaky Tests"	Talk Python Podcast
Jul 13, 2023	Guest	"Greg Kapfhammer on Flaky Tests"	Software Engineering Radio
Jan 15, 2023	Guest	"Flake it Till You Make It: How to Detect and Deal with Flaky Tests"	Stack Overflow Podcast
Jan 5, 2023	Guest	"Dr. Gregory Kapfhammer Wants to Stop Flaky Tests"	Hanselminutes Podcast

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Enthusiastic Invitation

Do you work in one of my areas of expertise? Are you interested in collaborating with me on a project? If so, then please contact me with your ideas.

References

Alsharif, Abdullah, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Phil McMinn. 2018. “DOMINO: Fast and Effective Test Data Generation for Relational Database Schemas.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.

Althomali, Ibrahim, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Phil McMinn. 2019. “Automatic Visual Verification of Layout Failures in Responsively Designed Web Pages.” In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation.

Conrad, Alexander P., Robert S. Roos, and Gregory M. Kapfhammer. 2010. “Empirically Studying the Role of Selection Operators During Search-Based Test Suite Prioritization.” In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Kapfhammer, Gregory M. 2007. “A Comprehensive Framework for Testing Database-Centric Applications.” PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Kapfhammer, Gregory M., Phil McMinn, and Chris J. Wright. 2016. “Hitchhikers Need Free Vehicles! Shared Repositories for Statistical Analysis in SBST.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing.

Kapfhammer, Gregory M., and Mary Lou Soffa. 2003. “A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications.” In Proceedings of the 9th European Software Engineering Conference and the 11th Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

McMinn, Phil, Chris J. Wright, Colton McCurdy, and Gregory M. Kapfhammer. 2019. “Automatic Detection and Removal of Ineffective Mutants for the Mutation Analysis of Relational Database Schemas.”Transactions on Software Engineering 45 (5).

Walsh, Thomas A., Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Phil McMinn. 2017. “Automated Layout Failure Detection for Responsive Web Pages Without an Explicit Oracle.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.