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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Software testing
area
5,354 papers · 9,082 experts
Sub-topics
101 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
test generation 735fuzzing 643regression testing 247mutation testing 246test input generation 239test oracle 157GUI testing 153software reliability 148model-based testing 133metamorphic testing 117automated testing 113test coverage 107compiler testing 103differential testing 101mobile application testing 88fault detection 86combinatorial testing 85unit testing 83search-based software testing 82random testing 72concurrency testing 66test adequacy 66non-functional testing 64specification-based testing 63web application testing 56deep learning testing 49structural testing 43black-box testing 40flaky test 38test suite evaluation 36system testing 33test-driven development 33performance testing 31statistical testing 30system software testing 30test execution 30machine learning testing 26simulation-based testing 26integration testing 23object-oriented testing 23configuration testing 22test repair 22database testing 20protocol testing 19test maintenance 18fault-based testing 17game testing 15systematic testing 15test suite 15software product line testing 14software validation 14robustness analysis 12software fault tolerance 12test planning 12UI testing 12partition testing 11quantum program testing 11API testing 10dynamic testing 10software testing tools 10test infrastructure 9test quality 8fault analysis 7test optimization 7software testing evaluation 6test process 6test evaluation 5model learning 3testing of AI-based systems 3
Show 32 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
adaptive testing 9test reuse 9component-based software testing 8test smell detection 8testability 8smart contract testing 7testability transformation 7spreadsheet testing 6failure detection 5model testing 5result verification 5risk-based testing 5testing theory 5coincidental correctness 4coincidental correctness detection 4configuration space exploration 4SMT solver testing 4test-based verification 4automated grading 3behavioral testing 3dependability case 3embedded systems testing 3exception handler testing 3execution-based verification 3input domain reduction 3performance issue detection 3safety-critical software testing 3software release decision 3test artifact generation 3test case clustering 3test dependency detection 3trace comparison 3
Experts on Software testing
9,082 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics