The perpetual elusiveness of correct-by-design software fosters the need of techniques to "find and fix" software deficiencies whether they arise from design, operational or deliberate instances. With the intent of post-design software fixes, the talk ruminates on the fun, value and science of experimental techniques to "kick n' fix" software.

Suri holds the TUD Chair Professorship on “Dependable Systems & Software” at TU Darmstadt, Germany and is also with the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Following his PhD at UMass-Amherst, he has held both industry and academic positions at Allied-Signal/Honeywell Research, Boston Univ., Saab Endowed Chair Professor, and also receiving trans-national funding from the EC, German DFG/BMBF/DAAD/Loewe, SSF/VINNOVA, NSF/DARPA/ONR/AFOSR, NASA, Microsoft, IBM, Hitachi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler, GM and others. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, Microsoft and IBM Faculty Awards. Suri's professional services span assoc-EIC for IEEE TDSC, editorial boards for IEEE TSE, TPDS, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Security & Privacy and others. He has PC-chaired multiple dependability conferences: DSN, ICDCS, SRDS, HASE, ISAS, DATE, WORDS, RAF among others. He serves on advisory boards for Microsoft and multiple other US/EU/Asia industry and university boards. Suri chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Dependability and Fault Tolerance, and it's Steering Committee. Additional professional details appear at: http://www.deeds.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/suri