Dr Kirill Bogdanov

PhD

Department of Computer Science

Lecturer

Programme Lead (BEng/MEng Software Engineering)

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Dr Kirill Bogdanov
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Dr Kirill Bogdanov finished his PhD in Computer Science, in the area of specification-based software testing, in April 2000. The work focused on bringing the achievements of the X-machine testing method, for testing software against its specification in Statecharts.

Before becoming a lecturer, Dr Bogdanov worked as a research associate from Oct '99 until Aug 2000 in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, on the EPSRC-funded MOTIVE project, testing object-oriented systems using an X-machine method.

Research interests

In traditional software development, specification and testing do not play an important role. In particular, changes to software code do not normally get reflected in a specification. At the same time, specification-based testing methods are very important for maintaing software quality, for identification of missing or incorrectly-implemented behaviour.

K.Bogdanov`s research aims to develop a method and a tool to take an incomplete state-based specification, hints for developers as to how it relates to code and both: 

  1. extract an up-to-date specification
  2. generate tests from it.

A number of existing specification based testing methods rely on a program under test being built with testing in mind, and lose a lot in power if this is not true. In his work, observation of program behaviour under test is used to make up for the missing information about a system, making it more amenable to testing using these methods.

More recent work focuses on passive inference of software models from logs, where it is not possible to attempt experiments on a system being reverse-engineered.

The experimental framework is being maintained as a free Statechum project.

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

  • Soucha M & Bogdanov K (2018) SPYH-method: an Improvement in Testing of Finite-State Machines. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW). (pp 194-203), 13 April 2018 - 13 April 2018. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Arts T, Bogdanov K, Gerdes A & Hughes J (2015) Graphical editing support for QuickCheck models. 2015 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), 13 April 2015 - 17 April 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lamela Seijas P, Thompson S, Taylor R, Bogdanov K & Derrick J (2014) Synapse: Automatic behaviour inference and implementation comparison for Erlang. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang (pp 73-74), 5 September 2014 - 5 September 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Taylor R, Bogdanov K & Derrick J (2013) Automatic inference of erlang module behaviour. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7940 LNCS (pp 253-267) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Taylor R, Hall M, Bogdanov K & Derrick J (2012) Using behaviour inference to optimise regression test sets. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7641 LNCS (pp 184-199) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Stannett MP, Bogdanov KE & Holcombe WML (2012) Plug and play safely: Rules for behavioural compatibility. Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002 (pp 263-268) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N, Bogdanov K, Derrick J & Paris J (2010) Increasing Functional Coverage by Inductive Testing: A Case Study.. ICTSS, Vol. 6435 (pp 126-141) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bogdanov K & Walkinshaw N (2009) Computing the Structural Difference between State-Based Models.. WCRE (pp 177-186) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N, Bogdanov K, Ali S & Holcombe M (2008) Automated discovery of state transitions and their functions in source code. SOFTWARE TESTING VERIFICATION & RELIABILITY, Vol. 18(2) (pp 99-121) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N & Bogdanov K (2008) Inferring Finite-State Models with Temporal Constraints.. ASE (pp 248-257) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bogdanov K (2008) Testing from X-Machine Specifications.. Formal Methods and Testing, Vol. 4949 (pp 184-208) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N, Bogdanov K & Johnson K (2008) Evaluation and Comparison of Inferred Regular Grammars. GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 5278 (pp 252-265) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N, Bogdanov K, Holcombe M & Salahuddin S (2007) Reverse engineering state machines by interactive grammar inference. 14TH WORKING CONFERENCE ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS (pp 209-218) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Walkinshaw N, Bogdanov K & Holcombe M (2006) Identifying state transitions and their functions in source code. TAIC PART - Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques, Proceedings (pp 49-58) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bogdanov K & Holcombe M (2004) Refinement in statechart testing. SOFTWARE TESTING VERIFICATION & RELIABILITY, Vol. 14(3) (pp 189-211) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bowen JP, Bogdanov K, Clark JA, Harman M, Hierons RM & Krause P (2002) FORTEST: Formal methods and testing. 26TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS (pp 91-101) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bogdanov K, Holcombe M & Singh H (1999) Automated test set generation for statecharts. APPLIED FORMAL METHODS - FM-TRENDS 98, Vol. 1641 (pp 107-121) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stannett MP, Simons A, Bogdanov K & Holcombe W () Method of Object Testing, Integration and Verification. FORTEST Workshop on testing. York, 13 September 2002. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bogdanov KE () Test generation for X-machines with non-terminal states and priorities of operations. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation. Berlin, 22 March 2011 - 24 March 2011. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Foundations of Computation research group

Testing research group

Grants
  • Automated abstraction of code into a state-based specification and test generation, EPSRC, 10/2005 to 12/2008, £206,347, as PI
  • Reverse Engineering State Machine Hierarchies by Grammar Inference (REGI), EPSRC, 04/2009 to 09/2012, £315,209, as PI
  • StaMInA: A Novel Competition to Drive the Comparative Evaluation of State Machine Inference Approaches, EPSRC, 07/2009 to 06/2012, £19,772, as PI
Professional activities and memberships

IEEE Member