Description: Jim Jones's Professional Site
Professor Jones is perhaps best known for the creation of the influential Tarantula technique that spawned a new field of “spectra-based” fault localization. For this work, he was awarded the prestigious ACM SIGSOFT Award in 2015. Also, he is a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award , which recognizes outstanding research and excellent education. Jones’s research contributions span the duration of his undergrad, professional, graduate, and pr
The overall goal of my research is to provide practical, automatic techniques and tools that can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of software development and maintenance. In particular, my research to date has employed research areas of program-analysis-based software engineering, testing, machine learning, and information visualization to aid in the processes of testing and debugging.
My research addresses the problems of software debugging and maintenance . Software developers commonly face difficulties in understanding, diagnosing, and fixing bugs in software. Whereas many software-engineering researchers typically attempt to create techniques to provide fully automatic identification and location of bugs, my approach to such research takes a different tack: My research addresses the large class of bugs that are caused by logical inconsistencies — an incongruence between the developers