Jim Jones Ph.D. Student, Graduate Research Assistant College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 801 Atlantic Dr. Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Office: 251C Centennial Research Building Voice: (404) 385-6446 Fax: (404) 894-9442 jjones cc gatech edu

Research

My primary interest is in the creation of program-analysis-aided software development techniques and tools. With the Aristotle Research Group, under the advisement of Professor Mary Jean Harrold, I have created and augmented several program-analysis tools and systems for use in our research. My recent work focuses on the problem of finding faults, or bugs, in a faulty program -- fault localization. Our prototype tool, Tarantula, implements much of this work. Through our recent work with Boeing, I have also been involved in the creation of algorithms and tools for test suite minimization and prioritization of safety-critical software systems.

Publications

• Test-Suite Reduction and Prioritization for Modified Condition/Decision Coverage. James A. Jones and Mary Jean Harrold. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Volume 29, Number 3, March 2003, pp. 195-209.
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• Visualization of Program-Execution Data for Deployed Software. Alessandro Orso, James Jones, Mary Jean Harrold. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, San Diego, California, USA, June 2003, pp.67-76, Distinguished Paper Award.
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• Visualization of Test Information to Assist Fault Localization. James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, John Stasko. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2002, pp. 467-477.
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• Test-Suite Reduction and Prioritization for Modified Condition/Decision Coverage. James A. Jones and Mary Jean Harrold. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, Florence, Italy, November 2001
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• Technical Note: Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software. James Eagan, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, and John Stasko. Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2001, San Diego, CA, USA, October 2001, pp. 33-36
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• Regression Test Selection for Java Software. M.J. Harrold, J. Jones, T. Li, D. Liang, A. Orso, M. Pennings, S. Sinha, S. Spoon, and A. Gujarathi, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2001), Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, October 2001
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• Visualization for Fault Localization. James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, and John Stasko. Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Visualization, 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2001
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• Empirical Studies of Program Dependence Graph Size for C Programs. Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, and Gregg Rothermel. Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Vol 3., March 1998, pp. 203-211
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See my personal web page at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jjones