Professor Rob Hierons
BA, PhD
School of Computer Science
Chair in Testing
Member of the Testing research group
Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Rob Hierons received a BA in Mathematics (Trinity College, Cambridge), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Brunel University). He then joined the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before returning to Brunel University in 2000.
He was promoted to full Professor in 2003 and joined The University of Sheffield in 2018.
- Research interests
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Professor Hierons’ research largely concerns software testing. The main aim of this research is to devise automated techniques (and tools) that generate efficient, systematic test suites on the basis of program code, models or specifications.
Progress in this area can help industry to produce higher quality software and potentially to do so more quickly. He has recently become interested in the testing of autonomous systems, with a particular focus on robotics.
- Publications
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- Grants
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- Security of Digital Twins in Manufacturing, EPSRC, 10/2021 - 05/2025, £774,954, as Co-PI
- CITCoM: Casual Inference for Testing of Computational Models, EPSRC, 01/2021 - 12/2025, £670,838, as Co-PI
- UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Verifiability, UKRI, 11/2020 - 10/2024, £2,923,653, as Co-PI
- Verifiably Correct Transactional Memory, EPSRC, 09/2018 - 09/2021, £397,680, as co-PI
- RoboTest: Systematic Model-Based Testing and Simulation of Mobile Autonomous Robots, EPSRC, 04/2018 - 08/2024, £610,060, as PI
- InfoTestSS: Information theory and Test Suite Selection, EPSRC, 01/2017 - 06/2021, £440,393, as PI
- AQUATIC: Assessing the quality of test suides in industrial code, EPSRC, 09/2015 - 12/2018, £332,691, as Co-PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Member of the Testing research group