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Hello! I'm Arpita

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Arpita Dutta

Research Fellow

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Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore (NUS)


Email:

arpitad10j@gmail.com

arpita@comp.nus.edu.sg
 

Lab:

PL&SE Research Lab B41 (COM3)

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EDUCATION
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
December 2020-Present

PostDoc

School of Computing, National University of Singapore,
Computing 1, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417

Research Fellow

Supervisor:  Prof. Joxan Jaffar

Research Area: Automated Program Analysis and Verification​

 July 2017-December 2020

Ph.D.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,

West Bengal, 721302
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Supervisors:   Prof. Rajib Mall and Prof. Pabitra Mitra 

Research Area:  Software Engineering and Machine Learning​

July 2015-June2017

Master's Degree

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela,

Odhisha, 769008

M.Tech., Computer Science.

Supervisor:    Prof. Durga Prasad Mohapatra​

Research Area: Software Testing (MC/DC and Concolic Testing)​

CGPA: 9.78 [Institute Silver Medal][1st in Department of CSE]

July 2010-June2014

Bachelor's Degree

Government Engineering College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, 495009

B.E., Computer Science and Engineering​

CGPA: 9.1

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

[Complete List: Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP]

CLIENTS

Conferences ​​

  1. A. Dutta, R. Maghareh, J. Jaffar, S. Godboley, XL. Yu, "TracerX: Pruning Dynamic Symbolic Execution with Deletion and Weakest Precondition Interpolation" (Competition Contribution). In Int. Conf. on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, (FASE'24), Luxembourg, 2024. [Link to Paper][Artifact Available, Evaluated & Reusable][Zenodo]

  2. A. Dutta, "Enhancing Fault Localization by incorporating Statement Frequency and Test Case Contribution". In 23rd Int. Conf. on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, (QRS'23), Thailand, pp. 128-137, 2023. [Link to Paper]

  3. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, R. K. Pisipati, D. P. Mohapatra, "SSG-AFL: Vulnerability detection for Reactive Systems using Static Seed Generator based AFL". 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, (COMPSAC'22),  CA, USA,  pp. 1728-1733, 2022. [Link to Paper] [Experimental Data]

  4. A. Dutta, "A Complete Unit Test Framework for Agile Software Development". In 6th International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, (LASD'22), Virtual, 2022. [Link to Paper] [Slides]

  5. A. Dutta, "EBFL-An Ensemble Classifier based Fault Localization". In 15th IIEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST'22), Poster-Track, Virtual, 2022. (Core-A) [Link to Paper] [Poster]

  6. A. Dutta, R. Mall, "An Ensemble Classifier based Method for Effective Fault Localization". In 17th International Conference on Software Technologies, (ICSOFT'22), Lisbon. 2022. [Link to Paper]

  7. S. Godboley, M.R. Golla, A. Dutta, "KLEEMA: A DSE based Mutation Analyser". In POSTER track at 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, (ISSTA'21), 2021. (Core-A) [Poster] [Code]

  8. S. Godboley, J. Jaffar, R. Maghareh, A. Dutta, "Toward Optimal MC/DC Test Case Generation". ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'21), 2021. (Core-A) [Link to Paper] [Artifact Available, Evaluated & Reusable][Zenodo]

  9. A. Dutta, and S. Godboley, "MSFL: A Model for Fault Localization Using Mutation-Spectra Technique", In  5th International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, 2021. [Link to Paper] [Slides] [Best Paper Award] [Selected for Journal Extension in COLA]

  10. A. Dutta, and R. Mall, "A Function Dependency based Approach for Fault Localization with D*". In 15th International Conference on Software Technologies, (ICSOFT'20) Held virtually, 2020. [Link to Paper] [Slides]

  11. A. Dutta, N. Pant, P. Mitra, R. Mall, "Effective Fault Localization using an Ensemble Classifier". International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE'19), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, 2019. [Link to Paper] [Best Paper Award]

  12. A. Dutta, R. Jain, S. Gupta, R. Mall, "Fault Localization Using a Weighted Function Dependency Graph", International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE'19), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, 2019. [Link to Paper] 

  13. A. Dutta, R. Sahay, P. Mitra, R. Mall, "Predicate Proximity in Failure: An MLP based Fault-Localization approach". TENCON'19, Kerala, India, 2019. [Link to Paper] 

  14. A. Dutta, S. Kumar, S. Godboley, "Enhancing Test Cases generated by Concolic Testing", 12th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC'19), COEP Pune, 2019. [Link to Paper] [Slides]

  15. A. Dutta, S. Godboley, D.P. Mohapatra, "An efficient code coverage technique for UML StateChart Diagram". 14th International IEEE India Conference (INDICON'17), IIT Roorkee, India, December, 2017. [Link to Paper] [Slides]

  16.  A. Dutta, S. Godboley, D.P. Mohapatra, "COLT: Extending CONCOLIC Testing to measure LCSAJ Coverage". 30th IEEE TENCON-16, Singapore, pp.373-378, 2016. [Link to Paper] 

  17. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, B. Besra and D.P. Mohapatra, "Green-JEXJ: A new tool to measure energy consumption of improved concolic testing". 2015 International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT'15), Noida, pp. 36-41. 2015.  [Link to Paper] [Best Paper Award]


Journals:

  1. S. K. Barisal, A. Dutta, S. Godboley, B. Sahoo, D. P. Mohapatra. "SMUP: A technique to improve MC/DC using specified patterns." Computers and Electrical Engineering 120 (2024): 109706. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  2. S. S. Srivastava, A. Dutta, R. Mall, "Effective fault localization using probabilistic and grouping approach". Int. Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management (IJSAEM), pp: 1-20, 2024. (SCOPUS) [Link to Paper]

  3. A. Dutta, S. S. Srivastava, S. Godboley, D. P. Mohapatra, "Combi-FL: Neural network and SBFL based fault localization using mutation analysis". Journal of Computer Languages (COLA), pp: , 66(8), 2021. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  4. A. Dutta, A. Jha, R. Mall, "MuSim: Mutation based Fault Localization using Test Case Proximity". International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 2020. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  5. A. Dutta, R. Manral, P. Mitra, R. Mall, "Hierarchically Localizing Software Faults using DNN". IEEE Transaction on Reliability(TRel). 2019 (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  6. A. Dutta, A. Patel, R. Mall, "An Investigation into the Effectiveness of White-Box T-way Testing". IET Software, 2019. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  7. A. Dutta, K. Kunal, S. S. Srivastava, S. Shankar, R. Mall, FTFL: A Fishers test-based approach for fault localization, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (ISSE), pp: 1-25, 2021. (Scopus) [Link to Paper]

  8. A. Maru, A. Dutta, V. Kumar, D. P. Mohapatra, Software fault localization using BP neural network based on function and branch coverage, Evolutionary Intelligence, 1-18, 2019. (Scopus) [Link to Paper]

  9. S. K. Barisal, A. Dutta, S. Godboley, B. Sahoo, D. P. Mohapatra, MC/DC guided Test Sequence Prioritization using Firefly Algorithm, Evolutionary Intelligence, 1-14, 2019. (Scopus) [Link to Paper]

  10. A. Dutta, S. Godboley, D. P. Mohapatra, HiRSA: Computing Hit Ratio for SOA applications through Tcases, International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSYSE), Inderscience. 2017. [Link to Paper]

  11. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, D. P. Mohapatra, R. Mall, Scaling Modified Condition / Decision Coverage using Distributed Concolic Testing for Java programs, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier 2018. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  12. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, D. P. Mohapatra, R. Mall, GECOJAP: A novel source-code preprocessing technique to improve code coverage. Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSI), Elsevier 2017. (Accepted) (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  13. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, D. P. Mohapatra, R. Mall, J3-Model: A novel framework for Improved Modied Condition/Decision Coverage Analysis. Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSI), Elsevier, Volume 50, pages 1-17, 2016. (SCI) [Link to Paper]

  14. S. Godboley, A. Dutta, A. Das, D. P. Mohapatra, R. Mall, Making a concolic tester achieve increased MC/DC, Innovations Systems and Software Engineering (ISSE), 12(4), 319-332, 2016. (Scopus) [Link to Paper]

  15. S. Das, A. Dutta, S. Sharma, S. Godboley, "A Comparative Analysis of a Novel Anomaly Detection Algorithm with Neural Networks". International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA), IGI Global, 2016. [Link to Paper]

ACHIEVEMENTS
SKILLS

  1. BEST PAPER AWARD at QR2MSE-2019, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China. 

  2. Received Institute Travel Grant to attend IIT Kharagpur listed Best Conference QR2MSE-2019.

  3. Received ISEC 2019 and ISEC 2018 Student Travel Grant Scholarship. 

  4. SANDEEP MOHAPATRA MEMORIAL MEDAL at 58th Technical Annual Session (2017) by The Institute of Engineers (India).

  5. BEST PAPER AWARD from IEEE ICGCIoT-15 at Galgotia University, Noida, U.P in 2015.

  6. Ranked 2nd in Master of Technology (M.Tech) [Silver Medal    ] at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, batch 2015-2017 (1st in Department of CSE).

  7. Got Tution fee waivership for Bachelor of Engineering (2010-2014) by Chhattisgarh State Government based on HSS merit.

  8. I received INR 50,000 cash prize from Madhyamik Siksha Mandal C.G. India (2010).

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RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities

Selected Professional Activities

  1. Program Committee Member of Artifact Evaluation@ICSE’25.

  2. Editorial Board Member of Information and Software Technology [IST] journal. (May 2024 - Present)

  3. Program Co-Chair of Artifact Evaluation Committee [APLAS 2022], December 2022, Auckland.

  4. Student Volunteer at RAPAST-2019 (Co-located with Tencon 2019), October 2019, India.

  5. Reviewer of Journals [Elsevier Review History Report] 

    • Information and Software Technology [IST]​                           

    • Journal of Systems and Software [JSS]                                

    • IEEE Transactions on Reliability [TRel]

    • Journal of Computer Languages [COLA]

    • IET Software

    • ​Journal of Software: Evolution and Process [JSME]

  6. Technical Program Committee member:

Extra Activity/Recognization

  1. Vice-Chair of IEEE CS SBC, IIT KGP, 2019-2020

  2. Section Ambassador of IEEE Programming League Kharagpur, 2020

  3. Mentor at Grace Hopper Celebration India (GHCI) Codeathon, 2020

  4. Participated in Open Source Software World Challenge 2016, Korea, 2016. 

Professional Society Membership

  1. IEEE Professional Membership (22nd Sep 2023 to 31st Dec 2024)

  2. IEEE Young Professional (22nd Sep 2023 to 31st Dec 2024)

  3. ACM Membership (11th July 2021 to 31st Dec 2022)

  4. IEEE Women in Engineering Membership (1st Jan 2020 to 31st Dec 2020)

  5. IEEE Computer Society Membership (1st Jan 2020 to 31st Dec 2020)

  6. IEEE Graduate Student Member (1st Aug 2019 to 31st Dec 2020)

  7. IEEE Student Member (1st Sep 2016 to 31st Dec 2016)

TALKS

  1. TracerX-Pruning Dynamic Symbolic Execution with Weakest Precondition Interpolation, 4th International KLEE Workshop on Symbolic Execution, Lisbon, 2024,  [Co-located with ICSE'24] [Slides] [Poster] [Video]

  2. Toward Optimal MC/DC Test Case Generation, 3rd International KLEE Workshop on Symbolic Execution, 2022, London, UK.  [Video]

  3. Hierarchically Localizing Software Faults Using DNN, Software Engineering Research in India (SERI'21), 2021, Online Event. [Slides]

  4. Advanced techniques for Software Fault Localization, National Level Webinar, Shri Kumarswami Mahavidylaya, AUSA, India. September 2021. [Slides]

  5. ​Hierarchically Localizing Software Faults Using DNN, IEEE NTC Student Chapter IIT Indore, India. August 2021. [Slides]

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