Rahul Gopinath
rahul@gopinath.org
Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. ശ്രീദേവി's Dad. I work in the junction between Software Engineering and Cybersecurity. Interested in Program Analysis, Automatic Repair, Mutation Analysis, Specification Mining, Grammar Based Generators and Parsing. My website is at https://rahul.gopinath.org

Honors! Today at #ICSE2025, I received the #ACM #SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award “for significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education” (such as fuzzingbook.org). Thanks to all!

I am reviewing a student transcript from Xi'an International University. Has any one taken this particular course before?

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Reading John Ousterhout's conversation with "Uncle Bob", regarding long methods, I do see value in shorter methods for a reason that does not seem to be mentioned here.  Given a long method, typical languages do not allow me to reason about what part of the method state (all variables that have been declared so far in that method) has an impact on a given section of the code. The larger the code section, the larger the cognitive burden. When I break up a large function into smaller functions even if those functions are not used elsewhere, I provide a contract that none of these variables that are not in the function have an impact on the function, and none of the variables that are declared within the function have an impact outside this function. This allows me to reduce my cognitive load.

Should I trust Adobe Acrobat or Latex?
For 12pt Latex article

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times}

This is what Adobe shows (11.96pt).

I will be giving a lecture at the Fuzzing Summerschool at NUS, Singapore

https://bsky.app/profile/mrigger.bsky.social/post/3lgb6rp22zs2l #Fuzzing #SoftEng 

My student @MaxCamillo (of GDBFuzz fame) passed his PhD exam today and will henceforth be known as Dr. Eisele. Congratulations!

My student Björn Mathis passed his PhD exam today! In his work, he developed new methods for fuzzing and analyzing parsers, mining input grammars, and more: scholar.google.com/citations?u

My talk "How to Compare Fuzzers" at SAPLING'24 yesterday is available on line here #SoftwareEnginnering #MutationTesting #Fuzzing

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I will be giving a talk at SAPLING'24 at ANU Canberra on comparing fuzzers. If you are at Canberra, please do drop in, and say Hi.

How is the participation in Activitpub vs Bluesky these days? Has Bluesky [actually won]? Any one has an insight into what is the status now?