I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). I am also a member of the Computational Imaging & Visualization Analysis (CIVA) Lab at MU. I received my Ph.D. at the Computer Engineering Department of the Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH). My research interests include software security, software testing, and program analysis.

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• Our QRS’21 paper on The Relation between Bug Fix Change Patterns and Change Impact Analysis, is in the top 8 paper, and has been recommended to journal of IEEE Transactions on Reliability!
• I currently have research projects for both undergraduate and graduate-level on the topics given below, if you are interested in working with me related to the topics below feel free to contact me for details!
  • Code Vulnerability Detection
  • Mutation Testing
  • Change Impact Analysis
  • Model-based Testing
  • Search-based Software Engineering

Publications

Patents

1. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., A Program Slicing and Bayesian Network Based Approach to Predict Future Changed Methods in a Software’s Next Version, Turkish Patent Institute, Document ID: TR 2018 08006 B [Patent - Analysis Report]

2. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., An Approach to Measure a Software’s Robustness, Turkish Patent Institute, Document ID: TR 2015 17610 B [Patent], [Analysis Report]

Journal Papers

1. Esquivel A., Ufuktepe E., Poduvu S., Gafurov D., Palaniappan K., Calyam P., Arculus: Zero Trust for Situational Awareness Tasks in Tactical Edge Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2024 (Under Review)

2. Farmer M., Watson A., Carvalho H. M., Okun V., Maasaoui Z., Ufuktepe E., Palaniappan K., VulGNN: Generalizability of Graph Neural Networks for Software Vulnerability Detection, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024 (Under Review)

3. Belli F., Tuglular T., Ufuktepe E., Unifying Behavioral and Feature Modeling for Testing of Software Product Lines, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2023, [pdf] [source code]

4. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., Application of the law of minimum and dissimilarity analysis to Regression Test Case Prioritization, IEEE Access, 2023, [pdf] [source code]

5. Belli F., Tuglular T., Ufuktepe E., A new approach to event- and model-based feature-driven software testing and comparison with similar approaches, International Advanced Researches and Engineering Journal, 2022, [pdf] [source code] [models]

6. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., Palaniappan K., “Tracking Code Bug Fix Ripple Effects based on Change Patterns Using Markov Chain Models”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2022 [pdf][source code]

7. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “Estimating Software Robustness in Relation to Input Validation Vulnerabilities using Bayesian networks”, Software Quality Journal, 2017 [pdf], [source code]

International Conference and Workshop Papers

1. Saketh Poduvu, Sayed M Saghaian, Ekincan Ufuktepe, Alicia Esquivel Morel, Prasad Calyam, Risk-based Zero Trust Scale for Tactical Edge Network Environments, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, 2023

2. Esquivel A., Ufuktepe E., Grant C., Elfrink S., Qu C., Calyam P. Palaniappan K., “Trust Quantification in a Collaborative Drone System with Intelligence-driven Edge Routing”, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2023, [pdf][source code]

3. Watson A., Ufuktepe E., Palaniappan K., “Detecting Software Code Vulnerabilities Using 2D Convolutional Neural Networks with Program Slicing Feature Maps”, IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2022, [pdf]

4. Belli F., Tuglular T., Ufuktepe E., “Heterogeneous Modeling and Testing of Software Product Lines”, IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), 2021, [pdf][source code]

5. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., Palaniappan K., “The Relation between Bug Fix Change Patterns and Change Impact Analysis”, IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2021, (Recommended for IEEE TR submission), (acceptance rate: 25.10%) [pdf][source code]

6. Kavzak Ufuktepe D., Ufuktepe E., Ayav T., “A Metric for Measuring Test Input Generation Effectiveness of Test Generation Methods for Boolean Expressions”, 15. Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium, UYMS 2021 [pdf]

7. Shutt K., Nawawi W. F. W., Schulte G., Martinez-Sainz J., Ufuktepe E., Palaniappan K., “Auto-SDist: An Automatic COVID-19 Social Distancing and Room Management System Architecture for Indoors”, IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2021, [pdf]

8. Kavzak Ufuktepe D., Collins J., Ufuktepe E., Fraser J., Palaniappan K., “Learning-Based Shadow Detection in Aerial Imagery Using Automatic Training Supervision From 3D Point Clouds”, Workshop on Analysis of Aerial Motion Imagery (WAAMI - ICCV Workshops), 2021, [pdf], [source code - solar-position],[source code - depthShadowMask]

9. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “Code Change Sniffer: Predicting Future Code Changes with Markov Chain”, Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2021, [pdf], [source code]

10. Ufuktepe E., Kavzak Ufuktepe D., Karabulut K., “MuKEA-TCP: A Mutant Kill-based Local Search Augmented Evolutionary Algorithm Approach for Test Case Prioritization”, Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2021, [pdf], [source code]

11. Al-Shakarji N., Ufuktepe E., Bunyak F., Seetharaman G., Palaniappan K., “Semi-automatic System for Rapid Annotation of Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos using Deep Detection and Multi-object Tracking Techniques”, IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 2020, [pdf]

12. Ufuktepe E., Ramtekkar V., Gao K., Al-Shakarji N., Fraser J., AliAkbarpour H., Seetharaman G., Palaniappan K., “pyTAG: Python-based Interactive Training Data Generation for Visual Tracking Algorithms”, SPIE, Defense + Commercial Sensing, Geospatial Informatics X, 2020 [pdf],[source code]

13. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “A Program Slicing-based Bayesian Network Model for Change Impact Analysis”, IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2018, (acceptance rate: 19.30%) [pdf]

14. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “Automation Architecture for Bayesian Network Based Test Case Prioritization and Execution”, Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC, STA), 2016 [pdf]

15. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “Measurement of JavaScript Applications’ Readiness against Untrusted Data Using Bayesian Networks” (In Turkish), 7th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ISC 2014 [pdf]

National Conference Papers

1. Ufuktepe E., Tuglular T., “Input Validation Analysis for JavaScript Libraries” (In Turkish), 9. Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium, UYMS 2015 (Best Paper) [pdf]

2. Toksoy M., Sofuoglu, S. C., Ekren O., Ufuktepe, E., Varlik N., “Determining Ventilation in Classrooms” (In Turkish), 12. Ulusal Tesisat Muhendisligi Kongresi, Izmir, 2015 [pdf]

Theses

Ufuktepe, E., “Test Case Prioritization for Regression Testing Using Change Impact Analysis”, Ph.D. Thesis, Izmir Institute of Technology

Ufuktepe, E., “Measurement of JavaScript Applications’ Readiness to Untrusted Data Using Bayesian Networks”, M.Sc. Thesis, Izmir Institute of Technology