The Spider Lab at University of California, Irvine consists of researchers committed to enabling the automation of many software engineering tasks in a way to reduce their costs, while improving the software’s quality.
Specifically, the Spider Lab is dedicated to improving the quality of software and the efficiency with which it is developed and maintained. The research areas of software analysis, testing, and visualization are utilized to enable software developers to fathom the complex interior workings of their software, specifically for finding and fixing software errors.
National Science Foundation 
Google Inc. 
University of California, Irvine 
James A. Jones.
Theodore Suzukawa.
Fang Deng.
Test-Suite Maintenance.
Program Analysis.
Collaboration for Software Development and Maintenance.
Weighted System Dependence Graph. Fang Deng, James A. Jones. Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2012.
Software Behavior and Failure Clustering: An Empirical Study of Fault Causality. Nicholas DiGiuseppe, James A. Jones. Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2012.
Localizing SQL Faults in Database Applications. Sarah Clark, Jake Cobb, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2011.
Jim was awarded the “Best Presentation Award” at the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation for his presentation of the work described in the “Weighted System Dependence Graph” paper, which was published in the proceedings of the conference.
Nicholas was awarded the very selective honor as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Congratulations, Nicholas!
Jim has been invited to give a keynote talk at Regression 2012 in Montreal about the past, present, and future of the Tarantula work. Regression 2012 is co-located with the International Conference on Software Testing, where Nicholas and Jim have … Continue reading
We’re excited to present our new research group website. There has been a lot of stuff happening here, and it’s about time that we had a good platform for sharing these exciting events. This version of the website is still … Continue reading