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Rahul Gopinath posted Oct 21, 2025
I am at São Paulo attending ISSRE'25If you are around, please come, say "Hi" :)
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 https://fuzzingbook.org). Thanks to all!
Rahul Gopinath posted Mar 11, 2025
I am reviewing a student transcript from Xi'an International University. Has any one taken this particular course before?
Rahul Gopinath posted Feb 26, 2025
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.
Rahul Gopinath posted Jan 22, 2025
Should I trust Adobe Acrobat or Latex?
For 12pt Latex article
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times}This is what Adobe shows (11.96pt).
Rahul Gopinath posted Jan 21, 2025
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: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ePl_ZAoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Rahul Gopinath posted Nov 23, 2024
My talk "How to Compare Fuzzers" at SAPLING'24 yesterday is available on line here #SoftwareEnginnering #MutationTesting #Fuzzing
Rahul Gopinath posted Nov 20, 2024
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.