Professor Phil McMinn
PhD
School of Computer Science
Professor of Software Engineering
School PGR Lead
Head of the Testing research group


p.mcminn@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Professor Phil McMinn
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Profile
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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
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- Software testing
- Search-based software engineering,
- Test oracles
- Test flakiness
- Mutation analysis
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Grants
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Current grants
- Test FLARE: , EPSRC, 10/2023 - 02/2027, £544,227, as PI
- RoarQ, RCUK, 05/2023 - 03/2026, £6,000, as PI
Previous grants
- Flake-It: Search-Based Inducement and Repair of Latent Test Flakiness, Industrial, 01/2020 - 09/2023, £40,000, as PI
- RE-PRESENT: , EPSRC, 04/2020 - 03/2023, £34,717, as PI
- Insitute of Coding, HEFCE, 11/2017 - 03/2020, £957,000, as PI
- , EPSRC, 03/2016 - 10/2018, £516,859, as Co-PI
- , EPSRC, 04/2009 - 09/2012, £315,209, as Co-PI
- Automated Discovery of Emergent Misbehaviour, EPSRC, 08/2009 - 07/2012, £241,737, as PI
- RE-COST: Reducing the Cost of Oracles for Software Testing, EPSRC, 01/2011 - 01/2014, £302,580, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the 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