Nan Li

Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
George Mason University
Engineering Building 4404 Software Engineering Lab
nli1@gmu.edu

Brief Biography

Nan Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science of the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey in 2008. Before that, he received a B.E. in Software Engineering from Beihang University in 2006. His current research interests include mutation testing, model-based testing, and test automation. His advisor is Dr.Jeff Offutt.

Publications

• Lin Deng, Jeff Offutt, and Nan Li. Empirical Evaluation of the Statement Deletion Mutation Operator. IEEE 6th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. March 2013.


• Nan Li, Fei Li, and Jeff Offutt. Better Algorithms to Minimize the Cost of Test Paths. IEEE 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 2012.


• William Shelton, Nan Li, Paul Ammann, and Jeff Offutt. Adding Criteria-based Tests to TDD. The Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2012). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 2012. (Best Student Paper Award).


• Nan Li. A Smart Structured Test Automation Language (SSTAL). The Ph.D. Symposium of IEEE 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 2012.


• Jeff Offutt, Nan Li, Paul Ammann and Wuzhi Xu. Using Abstraction and Web Applications to Teach Criteria-Based Test Design. 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training. Hawaii, USA. May 2011.


• Jingyu Hu, Nan Li, and Jeff Offutt. An Analysis of OO Mutation Operators. Mutation 2011: 6th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis. Berlin, Germany. March 2011.


• Nan Li, Upsorn Praphamontripong, and Jeff Offutt. An Experimental Comparison of Four Unit Test Criteria: Mutation, Edge-Pair, All-uses and Prime Path Coverage. Mutation 2009: 4th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis. Denver, Colorado. April 2009.

Tools

• Graph Coverage Web Application (have been developing since 2009)
• Data Flow Coverage Web Application (have been developing since 2009)
• Logic Coverage Web Application (have been developing since 2009)
• A Java mutation tool (have been developing since 2011)