T.H. Tse
T.H. Tse (Chinese: 謝俊謙) is a Hong Kong academic who is a professor and researcher in program testing and debugging. He is ranked in the top two of most prolific authors in test oracles and in metamorphic testing.[1][2][3][4] The application areas of his research include object-oriented software, services computing, pervasive computing, concurrent systems, imaging software, and numerical programs. In addition, he creates graphic designs for non-government organizations.[5]
T.H. Tse MBE | |
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Occupation | Honorary Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | London School of Economics |
Doctoral advisor | Frank Land; Ian Angell |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Software Engineering |
Institutions | The University of Hong Kong |
Website | hku |
Tse received the PhD from the London School of Economics in 1988 under the supervision of Frank Land and Ian Angell.[6] He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford in 1990 and 1992. He is currently an honorary professor in computer science at The University of Hong Kong after retiring from his full professorship in 2014. He was decorated with an MBE by The Queen of the United Kingdom.[7][8]
In 2019, Tse and team applied metamorphic testing to verify the robustness of citation indexing services, including Scopus and Web of Science. The innovative method, known as "metamorphic robustness testing", revealed that the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of scholarly papers adversely affects citation counts and journal impact factors, regardless of the quality of the publications.[9][10] This "bizarre new finding",[11] as well as the refutation by Web of Science and the clarification by Tse, was reported in ScienceAlert,[12] Nature Index,[13] Communications of the ACM,[14] Psychology Today,[15] and The Australian.[16]
Book
- T.H. Tse, A Unifying Framework for Structured Analysis and Design Models: An Approach using Initial Algebra Semantics and Category Theory, Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 11, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Ebook edition (2010). Paperback edition (2009). Hardcover edition (1991).
Selected publications
- T.Y. Chen, F.-C. Kuo, R.G. Merkel, and T.H. Tse, Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity, Journal of Systems and Software 83 (1): 60-66 (2010).
- H.Y. Chen and T.H. Tse, "Equality to equals and unequals: A revisit of the equivalence and nonequivalence criteria in class-level testing of object-oriented software", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 39 (11): 1549-1563 (2013).
- T.Y. Chen, F.-C. Kuo, H. Liu, P.-L. Poon, D. Towey, T.H. Tse, and Z.Q. Zhou, "Metamorphic testing: A review of challenges and opportunities", ACM Computing Surveys 51 (1): 4:1-4:27 (2018).
- Z.Q. Zhou, T.H. Tse, and M. Witheridge, "Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2915065.
References
- S. Segura, G. Fraser, A.B. Sanchez, and A. Ruiz-Cortés, "A survey on metamorphic testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 42 (9): 805-824 (2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2016.2532875.
- R.A.P. Oliveira, U. Kanewala, and P.A. Nardi, "Chapter three: Automated test oracles: State of the art, taxonomies, and trends", Advances in Computers 95: 113-119 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800160-8.00003-6.
- "Test oracles" (PDF). AMiner. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- "Metamorphic testing" (PDF). AMiner. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- "Graphic designs by Prof. T.H. Tse". The University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- T.H. Tse (1988). Towards a unifying framework for structured systems development models (PhD). London School of Economics.
- "Professor T.H. Tse". The University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- "T.H. Tse". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- Z.Q. Zhou; T.H. Tse; M. Witheridge (2019). "Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2915065.
- Z.Q. Zhou; T.H. Tse; M. Witheridge (2020). "An extended abstract of 'Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors' ". IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20).
- Dockrill, Peter (9 June 2019). "Study claims one punctuation mark has been skewing our scientific ranking system". ScienceAlert. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- Ibid.
- Crew, Bec (7 August 2019). "Studies suggest 5 ways to increase citation counts". Nature Index. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- "A single punctuation mark has been skewing our entire system of scientific ranking". Communications of the ACM. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- Bergland, Christopher (3 June 2019). "One small hyphen in a title could diminish academic success". Psychology Today. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- "Hyphens mess with research citations: Study". The Australian. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2020.