Adam Porter

Professor
5212 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2702
Academic Web Page
Education: 
Ph.D. University of California at Irvine (Computer Science)
Special Awards/Honors: 
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
Biography: 

Adam Porter is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research examines the dynamics of large-scale software development, aiming to identify the key mechanisms behind the costs and benefits of various tools and methods. Porter’s approach uses empirical studies, from controlled experiments to real-life industrial projects.

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Publications

2011


Yoon I, Sussman A, Memon AM, Porter A.  2011.  Towards incremental component compatibility testing. Proceedings of the 14th international ACM Sigsoft symposium on Component based software engineering, CBSE. 11:119-128.

2010


Memon AM, Porter A, Sussman A.  2010.  Community-based, collaborative testing and analysis. Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research. :239-244.

Reisner E, Song C, Ma KK, Foster JS, Porter A.  2010.  Using symbolic evaluation to understand behavior in configurable software systems. Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on. 1:445-454.

2009


Fouché S, Cohen MB, Porter A.  2009.  Incremental covering array failure characterization in large configuration spaces. Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis. :177-188.

Yoon I-C, Sussman A, Memon AM, Porter A.  2009.  Prioritizing component compatibility tests via user preferences. Software Maintenance, 2009. ICSM 2009. IEEE International Conference on. :29-38.

2008


Yoon I-C, Sussman A, Memon AM, Porter A.  2008.  Effective and scalable software compatibility testing. Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis. :63-74.

Last M, Luta G, Orso A, Porter A, Young S.  2008.  Pooled ANOVA. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 52(12):5215-5228.

Hill JH, Schmidt DC, Porter A, Slaby JM.  2008.  CiCUTS: Combining System Execution Modeling Tools with Continuous Integration Environments. Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, IEEE International Conference on the. :66-75.

2007


Shahri HH, Hendler JA, Porter A.  2007.  Software configuration management using ontologies. 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2007), Innsubruk, Austria.

Yoon I-C, Sussman A, Memon AM, Porter A.  2007.  Direct-dependency-based software compatibility testing. Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering. :409-412.

Haran M, Karr A, Last M, Orso A, Porter A, Sanil A, Fouch? S.  2007.  Techniques for Classifying Executions of Deployed Software to Support Software Engineering Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 33(5):287-304.

Porter A, Yilmaz C, Memon AM, Schmidt DC, Natarajan B.  2007.  Skoll: A Process and Infrastructure for Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 33(8):510-525.

Yilmaz C, Porter A, Krishna AS, Memon AM, Schmidt DC, Gokhale AS, Natarajan B.  2007.  Reliable Effects Screening: A Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process for Monitoring Performance Degradation in Evolving Software Systems. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 33(2):124-141.

2006


Yilmaz C, Cohen MB, Porter A.  2006.  Covering arrays for efficient fault characterization in complex configuration spaces. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. :20-34.

Gross KC, Urmanov A, Votta LG, McMaster S, Porter A.  2006.  Towards Dependability in Everyday Software Using Software Telemetry. Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, IEEE International Workshop on. :9-18.

Porter A, Yilmaz C, Memon AM, Krishna AS, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A.  2006.  Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software. Software Process: Improvement and Practice. 11(2):163-176.

2005


Kim JM, Porter A, Rothermel G.  2005.  An empirical study of regression test application frequency. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. 15(4):257-279.

Yilmaz C, Krishna AS, Memon AM, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2005.  Main effects screening. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '05. :293-293.

Yilmaz C, Krishna AS, Memon AM, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2005.  Main effects screening: a distributed continuous quality assurance process for monitoring performance degradation in evolving software systems. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. :293-302.

Yoon I-C, Sussman A, Porter A.  2005.  And away we go: understanding the complexity of launching complex HPC applications. Proceedings of the second international workshop on Software engineering for high performance computing system applications. :45-49.

Karr AF, Porter A.  2005.  Distributed performance testing using statistical modeling. Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Advances in model-based testing. :1-7.

2004


Krishna AS, Yilmaz C, Memon AM, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2004.  Applying Model-based Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Processes to Enhance Persistent Software Attributes. IEEE Software. 21(6):32-40.

Faulk S, Gustafson J, Johnson P, Porter A, Tichy W, Votta L.  2004.  Measuring HPC productivity. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 18(4):459-473.

Krishna AS, Schmidt DC, Memon AM, Porter A, Sevilla D.  2004.  Model-Based Approaches-Validating Quality of Service for Reusable Software Via Model-Integrated Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3107:286-295.

Yilmaz C, Krishna AS, Memon AM, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2004.  A Model-based Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process to Enhance the Quality of Service of Evolving Performance-intensive Software Systems. Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Krishna A, Yilmaz C, Memon AM, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2004.  A distributed continuous quality assurance process to manage variability in performance-intensive software. 19th ACM OOPSLA Workshop on Component and Middleware Performance.

Memon AM, Porter A, Yilmaz C, Nagarajan A, Schmidt D, Natarajan B.  2004.  Skoll: distributed continuous quality assurance. Software Engineering, 2004. ICSE 2004. Proceedings. 26th International Conference on. :459-468.

Gross KC, Votta LG, Porter A.  2004.  Detecting and correcting a failure sequence in a computer system before a failure occurs.

Krishna AS, Schmidt DC, Porter A, Memon AM, Sevilla-Ruiz D.  2004.  Improving the Quality of Performance-intensive Software via Model-integrated Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Reuse.

Krishna A, Schmidt D, Memon AM, Porter A, Sevilla D.  2004.  Validating quality of service for reusable software via model-integrated distributed continuous quality assurance. Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools. :286-295.

Yilmaz C, Memon AM, Porter A, Krishna AS, Schmidt DC, Gokhale A, Natarajan B.  2004.  Preserving distributed systems critical properties: a model-driven approach. Software, IEEE. 21(6):32-40.

Yilmaz C, Cohen MB, Porter A.  2004.  Covering arrays for efficient fault characterization in complex configuration spaces. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 29:45-54.

2003


Orso A, Porter A.  2003.  ICSE workshop on remote analysis and measurement of software systems (RAMSS). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering NotesSIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 28(6):10-10.

Yilmaz C, Porter A, Schmidt DC.  2003.  Distributed continuous quality assurance: The Skoll project. Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS).

2002


Kim J-M, Porter A.  2002.  A history-based test prioritization technique for regression testing in resource constrained environments. Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '02. :119-119.

2001


Graves TL, Harrold M J, Kim J-M, Porter A, Rothermel G.  2001.  An empirical study of regression test selection techniques. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.. 10(2):184-208.

Schmidt DC, Porter A.  2001.  Leveraging open-source communities to improve the quality & performance of open-source software. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering.

2000


Perry DE, Porter A, Votta LG.  2000.  Empirical studies of software engineering: a roadmap. Proceedings of the conference on The future of Software engineering. :345-355.

Kim J-M, Porter A, Rothermel G.  2000.  An empirical study of regression test application frequency. Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '00. :126-135.

1998


Jategaonkar Jagadeesan L, Porter A, Puchol C, Ramming JC, Votta LG.  1998.  Specification-based Testing of Reactive Software: A Case Study in Technology Transfer. Journal of Systems and Software. 40(3):249-262.

Porter A, Votta L.  1998.  Comparing detection methods for software requirements inspections: A replication using professional subjects. Empirical Software Engineering. 3(4):355-379.

1997


Perpich JM, Perry DE, Porter A, Votta LG, Wade MW.  1997.  Anywhere, Anytime Code Inspections: Using the Web to Remove Inspection Bottlenecks in Large-Scale Software Development. Software Engineering, International Conference on. :14-14.

Porter A, Siy HP, Toman CA, Votta LG.  1997.  An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 23(6):329-346.

Jagadeesan L J, Porter A, Puchol C, Ramming CJ, Votta LG.  1997.  Specification-based Testing of Reactive Software: Tools and Experiments. Software Engineering, International Conference on. :525-525.

Porter A.  1997.  Fundamental laws and assumptions of software maintenance. Empirical Software Engineering. 2(2):119-131.

Porter A, Johnson PM.  1997.  Assessing software review meetings: results of a comparative analysis of two experimental studies. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 23(3):129-145.

Ball T, Kim JM, Porter A, Siy HP.  1997.  If your version control system could talk. ICSE Workshop on Process Modelling and Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.

1996


Karr A, Porter A, Votta L.  1996.  An empirical exploration of code evolution. International Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance.

Perry D, Porter A, Votta L, Wade M.  1996.  Evaluating workflow and process automation in wide-area software development. Software Process Technology. :188-193.

1995


Votta LG, Porter A, Perry D.  1995.  Experimental software engineering: A report on the state of the art. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. 17:277-277.

Porter A, Votta LG, Basili VR.  1995.  Comparing detection methods for software requirements inspections: a replicated experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 21(6):563-575.

1994


Chen C, Porter A, Purtilo J.  1994.  Tool support for tailored software prototyping. Assessment of Quality Software Development Tools, 1994, Proceedings., Third Symposium on. :171-181.

Porter A, Votta LG.  1994.  An experiment to assess different defect detection methods for software requirements inspections. Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering. :103-112.

1993


Porter A.  1993.  Using measurement-driven modeling to provide empirical feedback to software developers. Journal of Systems and Software. 20(3):237-243.

1992


Tian J, Porter A, Zelkowitz MV.  1992.  An improved classification tree analysis of high cost modules based upon an axiomatic definition of complexity. Software Reliability Engineering, 1992. Proceedings., Third International Symposium on. :164-172.

1991


Selby RW, Porter A, Schmidt DC, Berney J.  1991.  Metric-driven analysis and feedback systems for enabling empirically guided software development. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Software engineering. :288-298.

1990


Porter A, Selby RW.  1990.  Evaluating techniques for generating metric-based classification trees. Journal of Systems and Software. 12(3):209-218.

Porter A, Selby RW.  1990.  Empirically guided software development using metric-based classification trees. IEEE Software. 7(2):46-54.

1989


Selby RW, Porter A.  1989.  Software metric classification trees help guide the maintenance of large-scale systems. , Conference on Software Maintenance, 1989., Proceedings. :116-123.

1988


Selby RW, Porter A.  1988.  Learning from examples: generation and evaluation of decision trees for software resource analysis. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 14(12):1743-1757.