Publications

@inproceedings{icra24,
  shorthand = {ICRA'24},
  title = {{Is it a Bug? Understanding Physical Unit Mismatches in Robot Software}},
  author = {Canelas, Paulo and Tabor, Trenton and Ore, John-Paul and Fonseca, Alcides and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, Christopher S.},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Robotics and Automation}},
  series = {ICRA '24},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-accepted}
}

@inproceedings{rosinfer,
  shorthand = {ICSE'24},
  title = {{ROSInfer: Statically Inferring Behavioral Component Models for ROS-based Robotics Systems}},
  author = {D{\"u}rschmid, Tobias and Timperley, Christopher S. and Garlan, David and {Le Goues}, Claire},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Engineering}},
  series = {{ICSE '24}},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published,industrial,selected}
}

@inproceedings{rsa23,
  shorthand = {RSA'23},
  title = {Architectural Model Inference from Code for ROS-based Robotics Systems},
  author = {D{\"u}rschmid, Tobias and Timperley, Christopher S and Garlan, David and {Le Goues}, Claire},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {{Workshop on Robot Software Architectures}},
  series = {RSA '23},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-accepted}
}

@inproceedings{NIER23,
  shorthand = {ICSE-NEIR'23},
  title = {{Continuously Accelerating Research}},
  author = {Barr, Earl and Bell, Jonathan and Hilton, Michael and Mechtaev, Sergey and Timperley, Christopher S},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results}},
  series = {ICSE NEIR '23},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published}
}

@inproceedings{icse23liquidjava,
  shorthand = {ICSE'23},
  title = {{User-driven Design and Evaluation of Liquid Types in Java}},
  author = {Gamboa, Catarina and Santos, {Paulo Alexandre} and Timperley, {Christopher S} and Fonseca, Alcides},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Engineering}},
  series = {ICSE '23},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published}
}

@article{dbi,
  shorthand = {arXiv:2201.12464},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  title = {{Using Dynamic Binary Instrumentation to Detect Failures in Robotics Software}},
  author = {Katz, {Deborah S} and Timperley, {Christopher S} and {Le Goues}, Claire},
  eprint = {2201.12464},
  keywords = {mine,other,other-true,industrial},
  year = {2022},
  primaryclass = {cs-se},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2201.12464}
}

@inproceedings{ardurepair,
  shorthand = {ISSRE'22},
  title = {{START: A Framework for Trusted and Resilient Autonomous Vehicles (Practical Experience Report)}},
  author = {Leach\textsuperscript{*}, Kevin and Timperley\textsuperscript{*}, {Christopher S} and Angstadt, Kevin and Nguyen-Tuong, Anh and Hiser, Jason and Paulos, Aaron and Pal, Partha and Hurley, Patrick and Thomas, Carl and Davidson, {Jack W.} and Forrest, Stephanie and {Le Goues}, Claire and Weimer, Westley},
  year = {2022},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published},
  booktitle = {{International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering}},
  series = {ISSRE '22},
  pages = {73--84},
  doi = {10.1109/ISSRE55969.2022.00018}
}

@article{Mithra,
  shorthand = {Mithra},
  title = {{Mithra: Blackbox Oracle Learning for Cyberphysical Systems}},
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, {Christopher S}},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {{Transactions on Software Engineering}},
  keywords = {mine,journal,journal-published,industrial,selected},
  volume = {48},
  number = {11},
  pages = {4535-4552},
  doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3120680}
}

@inproceedings{rosdiscover,
  shorthand = {ICSA'22},
  title = {{ROSDiscover: Statically Detecting Architecture Misconfigurations in Robotics Systems}},
  author = {Timperley, Christopher S and D{\"u}rschmid, Tobias and Schmerl, Bradley and Garlan, David and {Le Goues}, Claire},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Architecture}},
  series = {{ICSA '22}},
  pages = {112--123},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSA53651.2022.00019},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published,industrial,selected}
}

@inproceedings{rosnewcomers,
  shorthand = {RoSE'22},
  title = {{The Developer Experience of Newcomers in Learning the Robot Operating System}},
  author = {Canelas, Paulo and Tavares, Miguel and Cordeiro, Ricardo and Fonseca, Alcides and Timperley, {Christopher S.}},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {{International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering}},
  series = {RoSE '22},
  note = {Accepted},
  keywords = {mine,industrial,conference,conference-published}
}

@inproceedings{fse22-artifacts,
  shorthand = {FSE'22},
  title = {{A Retrospective Study of one Decade of Artifact Evaluations}},
  author = {Winter, Stefan and Timperley, Christopher S and Hermann, Ben and Cito, Jürgen and Bell, Jonathan and Hilton, Michael and Beyer, Dirk},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {{Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering}},
  series = {ESEC/FSE '22},
  pages = {145--156},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published},
  doi = {10.1145/3540250.3549172}
}

@inproceedings{icseseip22refactoring,
  shorthand = {SEIP'22},
  title = {{Industry’s Cry for Tools that Support Large-Scale Refactoring}},
  author = {Ivers, James and Nord, {Robert L} and Ozkaya, Ipek and Seifried, Chris and Timperley, {Christopher S} and Kessentini, Marouane},
  year = {2022},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Engineering -- Software Engineering in Practice: Poster Track}},
  series = {ICSE SEIP '22},
  pages = {163--164},
  doi = {10.1145/3510457.3513074}
}

@inproceedings{fse22refactoring,
  shorthand = {FSE-Industry'22},
  title = {{Industry Experiences with Large-Scale Refactoring}},
  author = {Ivers, James and Nord, Robert L and Ozkaya, Ipek and Seifried, Chris and Timperley, Christopher S and Kessentini, Marouane},
  booktitle = {{Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: Industry Track}},
  series = {ESEC/FSE '22},
  pages = {1544--1554},
  year = {2022},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-accepted},
  doi = {10.1145/3540250.3558954}
}

@article{gzscenic,
  shorthand = {GzScenic},
  title = {GzScenic: Automatic scene generation for gazebo simulator},
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, Christopher S},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2104.08625},
  year = {2021},
  primaryclass = {cs-ro},
  keywords = {mine,other,other-true},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2104.08625}
}

@inproceedings{sbst2021,
  shorthand = {SBST'21},
  title = {{Augmenting Search-based Techniques with Static Synthesis-based Input Generation}},
  author = {Santos, Paulo and Campos, Jos\'e and Timperley, Christopher S and Fonseca, Alcides},
  booktitle = {{International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing}},
  series = {{SBST '21}},
  year = {2021},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published},
  note = {Accepted},
  doi = {10.1109/SBST52555.2021.00009}
}

@inproceedings{icst21devperspectives,
  shorthand = {ICST'21},
  title = {Simulation for Robotics Test Automation: Developer Perspectives},
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and Katz, {Deborah S} and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, {Christopher S}},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Testing}},
  series = {ICST '21},
  pages = {263--274},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published,industrial,selected},
  doi = {10.1109/ICST49551.2021.00036}
}

@article{emse21artifacts,
  shorthand = {EMSE'21},
  title = {Understanding and Improving Artifact Sharing in Software Engineering Research},
  author = {Timperley, {Christopher S} and Herckis, Lauren and {Le Goues}, Claire and Hilton, Michael},
  year = {2021},
  keywords = {mine,journal,journal-published},
  journal = {{Empirical Software Engineering}},
  pages = {1--41},
  volume = {26},
  issue = {4},
  doi = {10.1007/s10664-021-09973-5}
}

@inproceedings{arxivliquidjava,
  shorthand = {arXiv:2110.05444},
  title = {{User-driven Design and Evaluation of Liquid Types in Java}},
  author = {Gamboa, Catarina and Santos, {Paulo Alexandre} and Timperley, {Christopher S} and Fonseca, Alcides},
  year = {2021},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2110.05444},
  primaryclass = {cs-ro},
  keywords = {mine,other,other-true},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2110.05444}
}

@inproceedings{icsme20village,
  shorthand = {ICSME'20},
  title = {It Takes a Village To Build a Robot: An Empirical Study of the ROS Ecosystem},
  author = {Kolak, Sophia and Afzal, Afsoon and Hilton, Michael and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, {Christopher Steven}},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution}},
  series = {ICSME '20},
  pages = {430--440},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published,selected},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSME46990.2020.00048}
}

@inproceedings{arxivsimchallenges,
  shorthand = {arXiv:2004.07368},
  title = {A Study on the Challenges of Using Robotics Simulators for Testing},
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and Katz, Deborah S and {Le Goues}, Claire and Timperley, {Christopher Steven}},
  year = {2020},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2004.07368},
  primaryclass = {cs-ro},
  keywords = {mine,other,other-true},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2004.07368}
}

@inproceedings{icst20robottesting,
  shorthand = {ICST'20},
  title = {A Study on Challenges of Testing Robotic Systems},
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and {Le Goues}, Claire and Hilton, Michael and Timperley, {Christopher Steven}},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {{International Conference on Software Testing}},
  series = {ICST '20},
  pages = {96--107},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published,selected},
  doi = {10.1109/ICST46399.2020.00020}
}

@inproceedings{gi19invariants,
  author = {Ding, {Zhen~Yu} and Lyu, Yiwei and Timperley, Christopher S and {Le~Goues}, Claire},
  title = {Leveraging Program Invariants to Promote Population Diversity in Search-Based Automatic Program Repair},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Genetic Improvement},
  pages = {2--9},
  series = {GI '19},
  year = {2019},
  month = may,
  doi = {10.1109/GI.2019.00011},
  project = {repair},
  month_numeric = {5}
}

@article{ieeeswbrass,
  author = {{Aldrich}, J. and {Garlan}, D. and {Kaestner}, C. and {Le~Goues}, C. and {Mohseni-Kabir}, A. and {Ruchkin}, I. and {Samuel}, S. and {Schmerl}, B. and {Timperley}, C. S. and {Veloso}, M. and {Voysey}, I. and {Biswas}, J. and {Guha}, A. and {Holtz}, J. and {Camara}, J. and {Jamshidi}, P.},
  journal = {IEEE Software},
  title = {Model-Based Adaptation for Robotics Software},
  year = {2019},
  volume = {36},
  number = {2},
  pages = {83-90},
  doi = {10.1109/MS.2018.2885058},
  month = mar,
  month_numeric = {3}
}

@article{stateandfutureofgi,
  title = {The State and Future of Genetic Improvement},
  author = {Langdon, William B and Weimer, Westley and Timperley, Christopher and Krauss, Oliver and Ding, Zhen Yu and Lyu, Yiwei and Chausseau, Nicolas and Schulte, Eric and Tan, Shin Hwei and Leach, Kevin and others},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03773},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.1907.03773},
  keywords = {mine,other,other-true}
}

@inproceedings{icse18bugzoo,
  title = {Poster: BugZoo: A Platform for Studying Software Bugs},
  author = {Timperley, Christopher Steven and Stepney, Susan and {Le~Goues}, Claire},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion
                    Proceedings},
  series = {ICSE Poster '18},
  pages = {446--447},
  doi = {10.1145/3183440.3195050},
  publisher = {ACM},
  month = may,
  year = {2018},
  location = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
  month_numeric = {5}
}

@inproceedings{icst18crashing,
  title = {Crashing Simulated Planes is Cheap: {C}an Simulation Detect
                    Robotics Bugs Early?},
  author = {Timperley, Christopher Steven and Afzal, Afsoon and Katz, Deborah and Hernandez, Jam Marcos and {Le~Goues}, Claire},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and
                    Verification},
  series = {ICST '18},
  pages = {331--342},
  location = {V{\"{a}}ster{\aa}s, Sweden},
  doi = {10.1109/ICST.2018.00040},
  year = {2018},
  month = apr,
  project = {robots},
  keywords = {selected},
  month_numeric = {4}
}

@inproceedings{gi18turing,
  author = {Afzal, Afsoon and Lacomis, Jeremy and {Le~Goues}, Claire and Timperley, Christopher S},
  title = {A Turing Test for Genetic Improvement},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Genetic Improvement},
  year = {2018},
  series = {GI '18},
  pages = {17--18},
  doi = {10.1145/3194810.3194817}
}

@inproceedings{gi18devops,
  author = {{Benoit Baudry and Nicholas Harrand and Eric Schulte and Chris Timperley and Shin Hwei Tan and Marija Selkavoic and Emamurho Ugherughe}},
  title = {{A spoonful of DevOps helps the GI go down}},
  booktitle = {{International Workshop on Genetic Improvement}},
  series = {{GI '18}},
  year = {2018},
  pages = {35--36},
  doi = {10.1145/3194810.3194818},
  keywords = {mine,conference,conference-published}
}

@inproceedings{ssbse17mutation,
  author = {Timperley, Christopher Steven and Stepney, Susan and {Le~Goues}, Claire},
  title = {An Investigation into the Use of Mutation Analysis for
                    Automated Program Repair},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering},
  pages = {99--114},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-66299-2_7},
  month = sep,
  year = {2017},
  location = {Paderborn, Germany},
  series = {SSBSE '17},
  volume = {10452},
  publisher = {Springer},
  project = {repair},
  month_numeric = {9}
}

@phdthesis{phd,
  title = {Advanced Techniques for Search-Based Program Repair},
  school = {University of York},
  author = {Timperley, C S},
  year = {2017},
  month = jul,
  doi = {https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18466},
  month_numeric = {7}
}

@article{alife,
  author = {Taylor, Tim and Bedau, Mark and Channon, Alastair and Ackley, David and Banzhaf, Wolfgang and Beslon, Guillaume and Dolson, Emily and Froese, Tom and Hickinbotham, Simon and Ikegami, Takashi and McMullin, Barry and Packard, Norman and Rasmussen, Steen and Virgo, Nathaniel and Agmon, Eran and Clark, Edward and McGregor, Simon and Ofria, Charles and Ropella, Glen and Spector, Lee and Stanley, Kenneth O. and Stanton, Adam and Timperley, Christopher and Vostinar, Anya and Wiser, Michael},
  title = {Open-ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York},
  journal = {Artificial Life},
  issue_date = {Summer 2016},
  volume = {22},
  number = {3},
  month = aug,
  year = {2016},
  issn = {1064-5462},
  pages = {408--423},
  numpages = {16},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00210},
  doi = {10.1162/ARTL_a_00210},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  month_numeric = {8}
}

@inproceedings{ecal15wallace,
  author = {Timperley, Christopher Steven and Stepney, Susan},
  title = {Wallace: An efficient generic evolutionary framework},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Life},
  series = {ECAL '15},
  pages = {365--372},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {MIT Press},
  doi = {10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch066}
}

@phdthesis{TimperleyPhDQD,
  title = {Reflective Open-Ended Evolution},
  school = {University of York},
  author = {Timperley, C S},
  year = {2014},
  month = aug,
  type = {PhD Qualifying Dissertation},
  month_numeric = {8}
}

@inproceedings{alife14reflection,
  title = {Reflective Grammatical Evolution},
  author = {Timperley, Christopher and Stepney, Susan},
  booktitle = {Artificial Life},
  series = {ALIFE '14},
  pages = {71--78},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {MIT Press},
  doi = {10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch013}
}

@mastersthesis{TimperleyMEng,
  title = {Reflective Method Matching for Object-Oriented Programs},
  school = {University of York},
  author = {Timperley, C S},
  year = {2013},
  month = jul,
  month_numeric = {7}
}