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Rahul Gopinath
rahul@gopinath.org
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 https://fuzzingbook.org). Thanks to all!
Rahul Gopinath postedMar 11, 2025
I am reviewing a student transcript from Xi'an International University. Has any one taken this particular course before?
Rahul Gopinath postedFeb 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 postedJan 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 postedJan 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 postedNov 23, 2024
My talk "How to Compare Fuzzers" at SAPLING'24 yesterday is available on line here #SoftwareEnginnering #MutationTesting #Fuzzing
Rahul Gopinath postedNov 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.
Rahul Gopinath postedNov 20, 2024
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?