Jeff Offutt

{{Short description|American academic computer scientist}}

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| caption = Offutt in 2002

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|04|30}}

| birth_place = Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.

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| fields = Software engineering, computer science

| workplaces = George Mason University, Clemson University

| alma_mater = Georgia Institute of Technology{{cite web|title=People: Jeff Offutt |url=http://volgenau.gmu.edu/faculty_biography/offutt_jeff_2005.php |publisher=Volgenau School of Engineering |accessdate=8 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605220606/http://volgenau.gmu.edu/faculty_biography/offutt_jeff_2005.php |archivedate= 5 June 2010 }}

| thesis_title = Automatic Test Data Generation

| thesis_url = https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/rsrch/atdg.html

| thesis_year = 1988

| doctoral_advisor = Richard DeMillo

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Jeff Offutt is a professor of Software Engineering at the University at Albany, SUNY.{{Cite web |title=Jeff Offutt {{!}} University at Albany |url=https://www.albany.edu/computer-science/faculty/jeff-offutt |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=www.albany.edu}} His primary interests are software testing and analysis, web software engineering, and software evolution and change-impact analysis.{{cite web | url=http://cs.gmu.edu/faculty/ | title=Computer Science Department Faculty | publisher=George Mason University | accessdate=March 7, 2012}}

He is the author of Introduction to Software Testing with Paul Ammann published by Cambridge University Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability with Robert M. Hierons. He also helped create the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability and was the first chair of its steering committee.

In 2019, Offutt received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities. The award recognizes accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service.{{cite web | url=https://www.schev.edu/index/institutional/outstanding-faculty-awards | title=2019 Outstanding Faculty Awards | publisher=State Council of Higher Education for Virginia | accessdate=May 29, 2019 | archive-date=May 19, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190519233905/http://www.schev.edu/index/institutional/outstanding-faculty-awards | url-status=dead }} He won the Teaching Excellence Award, Teaching with Technology, from George Mason University in 2013.{{cite web | url=http://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2013/04/2013-teaching-excellence-awards/ | title=2013 Teaching Excellence Awards | publisher=George Mason University, Mason News | accessdate=May 1, 2013}}

Offutt is known for many fundamental contributions to the field of software testing, in particular mutation testing,{{cite journal|last=DeMillo|first=Rich|author2=Jeff Offutt|title=Constraint-Based Automatic Test Data Generation|journal=IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering|date=September 1991|issue=9|pages=900–910|doi=10.1109/32.92910|volume=17|citeseerx=10.1.1.118.8072}}{{cite journal|last=Offutt|first=Jeff|title=A Mutation Carol: Past, Present and Future|journal=Information & Software Technology|year=2011|issue=10|pages=1098–1107|doi=10.1016/j.infsof.2011.03.007|volume=53|citeseerx=10.1.1.360.8045}} model-based testing,{{cite journal|last=Offutt|first=Jeff|author2=Aynur Abdurazik|title=Generating Tests from UML Specifications|journal=Second International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML99)|date=October 1999|pages=416–429 }}

bypass testing of web applications,{{cite conference |last=Offutt|first=Jeff|author2=Ye Wu|author3=Xiaochen Du|author4=Hong Huang |title=Bypass Testing of Web Applications |conference=IEEE Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) |date=November 2004 |pages=187–197 |doi=10.1109/ISSRE.2004.13 }} and automatic test data generation.{{cite journal|last=Offutt|first=Jeff |author2=Zhenyi Jin |author3=Jie Pan|title=The Dynamic Domain Reduction Approach to Test Data Generation|journal=Software: Practice and Experience|date=January 1999|issue=2|pages=167–193|doi=10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199902)29:2<167::aid-spe225>3.3.co;2-m|volume=29}}{{cite thesis|type=Ph.D.|last=Offutt|first=Jeff|title=Automatic Test Data Generation|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=August 1988}}

Dr. Offutt received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and data processing in 1982 (double major) from Morehead State University, and master's (1985) and PhD (1988) in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of Clemson University before joining George Mason in 1992.

He is the son of Andrew J. Offutt and brother of Chris Offutt. He is married to Jian and has three children, Stephanie, Joyce, and Andrew.