Professor Phil McMinn

PhD

School of Computer Science

Professor of Software Engineering

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Head of the Testing research group

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p.mcminn@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1826

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Professor Phil McMinn
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Phil McMinn is a Professor of Software Engineering who specialises in software testing. He primarily works on developing automated techniques to assist software engineers in developing test suites that are effective at finding bugs and are efficient to maintain.

While he is well-known in the software testing field for his work in search-based automatic test data generation, his research has tackled a variety of problems including test flakiness, test oracles, and ensuring test quality through mutation analysis.

His work has been funded by Meta (Facebook), the EPSRC, and HEFCE.

Research interests
  • Software testing
  • Search-based software engineering,
  • Test oracles
  • Test flakiness
  • Mutation analysis
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Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the Testing research group
  • SBST 2014 Chair
  • ICSE 2014 Review Committee member
  • ICSE 2013 Program Committee member
  • ISSTA 2012 Program Committee member
  • SSBSE 2011 General Chair
  • Best paper winner at SSBSE 2010