Publications

Selected papers, textbooks and translations. The complete list is on Google Scholar and DBLP.

Papers and textbooks

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Textbooks & translations4

伯克利软件工程教程（原书第2版）

Armando Fox, David Patterson 著，陈翔，崔展齐译

Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing, Second Edition · 机械工业出版社（计算机科学丛书） · 2026

购买链接： [京东] [当当]
构建绿色软件-低碳智能时代的软件开发与运维之道

Anne Currie, Sara Bergman 著，王赞，陈翔，王维靖译

Building Green Software: A Sustainable Approach to Software Development and Operations · 人民邮电出版社 · 2026

购买链接： [京东] [当当]
软件测试（慕课版）（第三版）

郑炜，李宁，吴潇雪，陈翔

人民邮电出版社 · 2026

购买链接：[人民邮电出版社] [京东] [当当]
软件测试（慕课版）（第二版）

郑炜，李宁，陈翔，吴潇雪

人民邮电出版社 · 2022

普通高等教育软件工程十三五规划教材、工业和信息化部十四五规划教材、陕西省2022年职业教育和高等教育优秀教材（研究生教育类）欢迎国内同行选用作为软件测试课程的教材，购买链接： [京东] [当当]

International journals120

Towards High-Quality Neural Program Repair: Learning from Positive Code Changes

Zongwen Shen, Xvxing Ding, Wenkang Zhong, Xiang Chen, Jidong Ge, Chuanyi Li, Xuewei Zhang, Liguo Huang, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2026 · CCF A
Understanding LLM-Centric Challenges for Deep Learning Frameworks: An Empirical Analysis

Yanzhou Mu, Rong Wang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Jiacong Wu, An Guo, Jiawei Shen, Bingzhuo Li, Zhenyu Chen

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2026 · CCF A
FURINA: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Patch Correctness Assessment

Yuning Li, Yuanjie Ji, Xiang Chen, Zongwen Shen, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2026 · CCF A
JIT-MTL: Just-in-Time Defect Localization and Prediction with Multi-Task Learning

Zongwen Shen, Wentao Zou, Xiang Chen, Jidong Ge, Chuanyi Li, Shuai Cao, Xuewei Zhang, Liguo Huang, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2026 · CCF A
Abstract Syntax Tree for Programming Language Understanding and Representation

Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yun Miao, Mengzhe Yuan, Zhenpeng Chen, Yuchen Chen, Quanjun Zhang, An Guo,Xiang Chen, Zhenyu Chen

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2026 · CCF A
Semantic Consensus Decoding: Backdoor Defense for Verilog Code Generation

Guang Yang, Xing Hu, Xiang Chen, Xin Xia

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2026 · CCF A
Deep Learning Framework Testing via Model Mutation: How Far Are We?

Yanzhou Mu, Rong Wang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Peiran Yang, Zhixiang Cao, Ruixiang Qian, Shaoyu Yang, Zhenyu Chen

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2026 · CCF A
Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation: Literature Review and the Road Ahead

Guang Yang, Wei Zheng, Dong Liang, ... , Xiang Chen, Xing Hu, Terry Yue Zhuo, David Lo.

CSUR ACM Computing Surveys · 2026 · CCF A
Less is More: Towards Green Code Large Language Models via Unified Structural Pruning

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiangyu Zhang, Wei Cheng, Ke Liu, Xiang Chen, Terry Yue Zhuo, Taolue Chen

IPM Information Processing and Management · 2026 · CCF B，中科院1区
Detecting API Compatibility Issues of Android Applications based on Screen Transition Graphs

Gaoyi Lin, Zhanqi Cui, Xiang Chen, Jingjing Chen, Yadong Zhang

EMSE Empirical Software Engineering · 2026 · CCF B
Improving Code Completion Interpretability with Concept-Level Intervention

Kongyi Fan, Zongwen Shen, Yuning Li, Xiang Chen, Yulin Zhuang, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo

IST Information and Software Technology · 2026 · CCF B
Improving vulnerability type prediction and line-level detection via adversarial training-based data augmentation and multi-task learning

Siyu Chen, Jiongyi Yang, Xiang Chen*, Menglin Zheng, Minnan Wei, Xiaolin Ju

IST Information and Software Technology · 2026 · CCF B
Evaluating and Improving LLM-based Competitive Program Generation

Minnan Wei, Ziming Li, Xiang Chen*, Menglin Zheng, Ziyan Qu, Cheng Yu, Siyu Chen, Xiaolin Ju

IST Information and Software Technology · 2026 · CCF B
CSVD-AES: Cross-project software vulnerability detection based on active learning with metric fusion

Zhidan Yuan, Xiang Chen, Juan Zhang, Weiming Zeng

IST Information and Software Technology · 2026 · CCF B
What Developers Ask About OpenAI APIs: An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow

Xiang Chen, Jibin Wang, Chaoyang Gao, Xiaolin Ju, Zhanqi Cui

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2026 · CCF B
Exploring the Potential and Limitations of Large Language Models for Novice Program Fault Localization

Hexiang Xu, Hengyuan Liu, Yonghao Wu, Xiaolan Kang, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2026 · CCF B
GraMuS: Boosting Statement-level Fault Localization via Graph Representation and Multimodal Information

Ruishi Huang, Binbin Yang, Shumei Wu, Zheng Li, Paul Doyle, Xiaoyi Zhang, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2026 · CCF B
ReVul-CoT: Towards Effective Software Vulnerability Assessment with Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Zhijie Chen, Xiang Chen*, Ziming Li, Jiacheng Xue, Chaoyang Gao

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2026 · CCF B
Deeply fusing transformer model and information retrieval with cross attention for source code summarization

Rongcun Wang, Chenkun Chang, Xiang Chen, Yuan Tian, Rubing Huang

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2026 · CCF B
Quality over Quantity: Diversity-Aware Data Selection for Efficient Verilog Code Generation

Yiheng Shen, Wei Zheng, Xiao Wei, Hao Shen, Xiang Chen, Guang Yang

INS Information Sciences · 2026 · CCF B
Improving Security Vulnerability Assessment with Attention-Guided Hierarchical Code Simplification

Xiang Chen, Shidie Liang, Zongwen Shen, Ziming Li, Siyu Chen

SQJ Software Quality Journal · 2026 · CCF C
FedDualFix: Hierarchical Federated Learning for Adaptive Multi-Agent Program Repair via Dual-Modality Modeling

Xiaolin Ju, Qingyun Liu, Chang Li, Haochen Wang, Heling Cao, Xiang Chen

ASOC Applied Soft Computing · 2026 · CCF C
MTRCL: A Spatio-temporal Multi-source Data Fusion Method for Enhancing Short-Term Wind Speed Forecast Capability of Numerical Weather Prediction

Xiaolin Ju, Yiming Yue, Meng Xu, Xiang Chen, Gongzheng Lu

Energy · 2026 · 中科院1区
Less is More: DocString Compression in Code Generation

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Wei Cheng, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Terry Yue Zhuo, Ke Liu, Xin Zhou, David Lo, Taolue Chen

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2025 · CCF A
Defending Code Language Models against Backdoor Attacks with Deceptive Cross-Entropy Loss

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Terry Yue Zhuo, David Lo, Taolue Chen

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2025 · CCF A
Experimental Evaluation of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Software Engineering Tasks

Wentao Zou, Zongwen Shen, Qi Li, Jidong Ge, Chuanyi Li, Xiang Chen, Xiaoyu Shen, LiGuo Huang, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2025 · CCF A
An Empirical Study of Code Simplification Methods in Code Intelligence Tasks

Zongwen Shen, Yuning Li, Jidong Ge, Xiang Chen, Chuanyi Li, Liguo Huang, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2025 · CCF A
An Empirical Study on Challenges for LLM Application Developers

Xiang Chen, Chaoyang Gao, Chunyang Chen, Guanbei Zhang, Yong Liu

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2025 · CCF A
An Ensemble-based Transfer Testing Method for Large Language Models

Yuanxin Qiao, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen, Zhanqi Cui

EAAI Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2025 · CCF C，中科院1区
Resource-Efficient Automatic Software Vulnerability Assessment via Knowledge Distillation and Particle Swarm Optimization

Chaoyang Gao, Xiang Chen*, Jiyu Wang, Jibin Wang, Guang Yang

EAAI Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2025 · CCF C，中科院1区
SCOPE: Hybrid Optimization Strategy for Higher-order Mutation-based Fault Localization

Hengyuan Liu, Zheng Li, Xiaolan Kang, Shumei Wu, Paul Doyle, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
SVA-ICL: Improving LLM-based Software Vulnerability Assessment via In-Context Learning and Information Fusion

Chaoyang Gao, Xiang Chen*, Guangbei Zhang

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
JIT-CF: Integrating Contrastive Learning with Feature Fusion for Enhanced Just-in-Time Defect Prediction

Xiaolin Ju*, Yi Cao, Xiang Chen*, Lina Gong, Vaskar Chakma, Xin Zhou

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
Assessing and Improving Syntactic Adversarial Robustness of Pre-trained Models for Code Translation

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Tingting Han, Taolue Chen

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
Boosting Mutation-based Fault Localization by Effectively Generating Higher-Order Mutants

Shumei Wu, Binbin Yang, Zexing Chang, Zheng Li, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
An Input-Denoising-Based Defense against Stealthy Backdoor Attacks in Large Language Models for Code

Yubin Qu, Song Huang, Xiang Chen, Tongtong Bai and Yongming Yao

IST Information and Software Technology · 2025 · CCF B
Defect Prediction Guided Greybox Fuzz Testing

Haochen Jin, Zhanqi Cui, Ruichen Zhang, Xiang Chen, Rongcun Wang, Xiulei Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2025 · CCF B
Learning Never Stops: Improving Software Vulnerability Type Identification via Incremental Learning

Jiacheng Xue, Xiang Chen*, Zhanqi Cui, Yong Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2025 · CCF B
FedMVA: Enhancing Software Vulnerability Assessment via Federated Multimodal Learning

Qingyun Liu, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen*, Lina Gong

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2025 · CCF B
Enhancing Concurrency Vulnerability Detection Through AST-Based Static Fuzz Mutation

Wei Zheng, Chang Liu, Peiran Deng, Xiang Chen, Xiaoxue Wu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2025 · CCF B
Improving Distributed Learning-based Vulnerability Detection via Multi-Modal Prompt Tuning

Zilong Ren, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen*, Yubin Qu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2025 · CCF B
HGAN4VD: Leveraging Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks for Enhanced Vulnerability Detection

Yucheng Zhang, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen*, Misbahul Amin, Zilong Ren

COSE Computers & Security · 2025 · CCF B
MCL-VD: Multi-modal Contrastive Learning with LoRA-Enhanced GraphCodeBERT for Effective Vulnerability Detection

Yi Cao, Xiaolin Ju, Xiang Chen, Lina Gong

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
Improving Prompt Tuning-based Software Vulnerability Assessment by Fusing Source Code and Vulnerability Description

Jiyu Wang, Xiang Chen*, Wenlong Pei and Shaoyu Yang

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
An Empirical Study on the Code Naturalness Modeling Capability for LLMs in Automated Patch Correctness Assessment

Yuning Li, Wenkang Zhong, Zongwen Shen, Chuanyi Li, Xiang Chen, Jidong Ge, Bin Luo

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
SIFT: Enhance the performance of vulnerability detection by incorporating structural knowledge and multi-task learning

Liping Wang, Guilong Lu, Xiang Chen*, Xiaofeng Dai and Jianlin Qiu

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
Adversarial Generation Method for Smart Contract Fuzz Testing Seeds Guided by Chain-Based LLM

Jiaze Sun, Zhiqiang Yin, Hengshan Zhang, Xiang Chen, Wei Zheng

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
Semi-Supervised Software Vulnerability Assessment via Code Lexical and Structural Information Fusion

Wenlong Pei, Yiling Huang, Xiang Chen*, Guilong Lu, Yong Liu, and Chao Ni

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
BadCodePrompt: Backdoor Attacks against Prompt Engineering of Large Language Models for Code Generation

Yubin Qu, Song Huang, Yanzhou Li, Tongtong Bai, Xiang Chen, Xingya Wang, Long Li, Yongming Yao

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2025 · CCF B
SCATCom: Code Comment Generation by Fusing Multi-Information

Rongcun Wang, Jie Zhou, Xiang Chen, Zhanqi Cui, and Shujuan Jiang

IJSEKE International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2025 · CCF C
Chain-of-Thought in Neural Code Generation: From and For Lightweight Language Models

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Terry Yue Zhuo, Taolue Chen

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF A
An Empirical Study on Correlations between Deep Neural Network Fairness and Neuron Coverage Criteria

Wei Zheng, Lidan Lin, Xiaoxue Wu, Xiang Chen

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF A
IATT: Interpretation Analysis based Transferable Test Generation for Convolutional Neural Networks

Ruilin Xie, Xiang Chen, Qifan He, Bixin Li, Zhanqi Cui

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2024 · CCF A
Improving Source Code Pre-training via Type-Specific Masking

Wentao Zou, Qi Li, Chuanyi Li, Jidong Ge, Xiang Chen, Liguo Huang, Bin Luo

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2024 · CCF A
Automatic Title Completion for Stack Overflow Posts and GitHub Issues

Xiang Chen, Wenlong Pei , Shaoyu Yang, Yanlin Zhou, Zichen Zhang, Jiahua Pei

EMSE Empirical Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF B
Automatic Bi-modal Question Title Generation for Stack Overflow with Prompt Learning

Shaoyu Yang, Xiang Chen*, Ke Liu, Guang Yang, Chi Yu.

EMSE Empirical Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF B
SeDPGK: Semi-Supervised Software Defect Prediction with Graph Representation Learning and Knowledge Distillation

Wangshu Liu, Ye Yue, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Pengzhan Zhao, Xuejun Liu, Jianjun Zhao

IST Information and Software Technology · 2024 · CCF B
Making Vulnerability Prediction More Practical: Prediction, Categorization, and Localization

Chongyang Liu, Xiang Chen*, Xiangwei Li, Yinxing Xue*

IST Information and Software Technology · 2024 · CCF B
Automatic Smart Contract Comment Generation via Large Language Models and In-Context Learning

Junjie Zhao, Xiang Chen*, Guang Yang, Yiheng Shen

IST Information and Software Technology · 2024 · CCF B
ProRLearn: Boosting Prompt Tuning-based Vulnerability Detection by Reinforcement Learning

Zilong Ren, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen*, Hao Shen

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF B
Bash Comment Generation via Data Augmentation and Semantic-Aware CodeBERT

Yiheng Shen, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen*, Guang Yang

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2024 · CCF B
NG_MDERANK: A software vulnerability feature knowledge extraction method based on N-gram similarity

Xiaoxue Wu, Shiyu Weng, Bin Zheng, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen, Xiaobin Sun

JSEP Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2024 · CCF B
Multi-Objective Optimization-Based & Fault-Localization Oriented Test Case Generation for Novice Programs

Yong Liu, Zezhong Yang, Luxi Fan, Yonghao Wu, Xiang Chen, Xiaotang Zhou

JSEP Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2024 · CCF B
Delta4Ms: Improving Mutation-based Fault Localization by Eliminating Mutant Bias

Hengyuan Liu, Zheng Li, Baolong Han, Yangtao Liu, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

STVR Software Testing, Verification and Reliability · 2024 · CCF B
DPFuzz: a Fuzz Testing Tool Based on the Guidance of Defect Prediction

Zhanqi Cui, Haochen Jin, Xiang Chen, Rongcun Wang and Xiulei Liu

SCP Science of Computer Programming · 2024 · CCF B
CrossFuzz: Cross-contract Fuzzing for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection

Huiwen Yang, Xiguo Gu, Xiang Chen, Liwei Zheng, Zhanqi Cui

SCP Science of Computer Programming · 2024 · CCF B
ISTA+: Test Case Generation and Optimization for Intelligent Systems Based on Coverage Analysis

Xiaoxue Wu, Yizeng Gu, Lidan Lin, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen

SCP Science of Computer Programming · 2024 · CCF B
Integrating Neural Mutation into Mutation-Based Fault Localization: A Hybrid Approach

Hengyuan Liu, Zheng Li, Baolong Han, Xiang Chen, Paul Doyle, Yong Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2024 · CCF B
GBSR: Graph-Based Suspiciousness Refinement for Improving Fault Localization

Zheng Li, Mingyu Li, Shumei Wu, Shunqing Xu, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2024 · CCF B
CSVD-TF: Cross-project Software Vulnerability Detection with TrAdaBoost by Fusing Expert Metrics and Semantic Metrics

Zhilong Cai, Yongwei Cai, Xiang Chen*, Guilong Lu, Wenlong Pei, Junjie Zhao

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2024 · CCF B
GRACE: Empowering LLM-based Software Vulnerability Detection with Graph Structure and In-context Learning

Guilong Lu, Xiaolin Ju*, Xiang Chen, Wenlong Pei, Zhilong Cai

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2024 · CCF B
Towards Prompt Tuning-based Software Vulnerability Assessment with Continual Learning

Jiacheng Xue, Xiang Chen*, Jiyu Wang, Zhanqi Cui

COSE Computers & Security · 2024 · CCF B
How Important are Good Method Names in Neural Code Generation? A Model Robustness Perspective

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Wenhua Yang, Tao Yue, Xiang Chen, Taolue Chen

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2023 · CCF A
Boosting Multi-objective Just-in-time Software Defect Prediction by Fusing Expert Metrics and Semantic Metrics

Xiang Chen, Hongling Xia, Wenlong Pei, Chao Ni, Ke Liu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2023 · CCF B
VsusFL: Variable-suspiciousness-based Fault Localization for Novice Programs

Zheng Li, Shumei Wu, Yong Liu, Jitao Shen, Yonghao Wu, Zhanwen Zhang, Xiang Chen

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2023 · CCF B
Detection of backdoor attacks using targeted universal adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks

Yubin Qu, Song Huang, Xiang Chen, Xingya Wang, Yongming Yao

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2023 · CCF B
A Syntax-Guided Multi-Task Learning Approach for Turducken-Style Code Generation

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Yiran Xu, Tingting Han, Taolue Chen

EMSE Empirical Software Engineering · 2023 · CCF B
Automated Question Title Reformulation by Mining Modification Logs From Stack Overflow

Ke Liu, Xiang Chen*, Chunyang Chen, Xiaofei Xie, Zhanqi Cui

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2023 · CCF A
Exploring Better Black-Box Test Case Prioritization via Log Analysis

Zhichao Chen, Junjie Chen, Weijing Wang, Jianyi Zhou, Meng Wang, Xiang Chen, Shan Zhou, Jianmin Wang

TOSEM ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2023 · CCF A
Achieving High MAP-Coverage through Pattern Constraint Reduction

Yingquan Zhao, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Junjie Chen, Xiang Chen

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2023 · CCF A
CIDFuzz: Fuzz Testing for Continuous Integration

Jiaming Zhang, Zhanqi Cui, Xiang Chen, Huiwen Yang, Liwei Zheng, Jianbin Liu

IETS IET Software · 2023 · CCF B
GNet4FL: Effective Fault Localization via Graph Convolutional Neural Network

Jie Qian, Xiaolin Ju, Xiang Chen

ASEJ Automated Software Engineering · 2023 · CCF B
CRMF: A Fault Localization Approach based on Class Reduction and Method Call Frequency

Hengyuan Liu, Zheng Li, Haifeng Wang, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen

SPE Software: Practice and Experience · 2023 · CCF B
A Token-based Compilation Error Categorization and Its Applications

Haifeng Wang, Hengyuan Liu, Zheng Li, Yong Liu, Fuxiang Sun, Xiang Chen

JSEP Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2023 · CCF B
ExploitGen: Template-Augmented Exploit Code Generation Based on CodeBERT

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou*, Xiang Chen*, Xiangyu Zhang, Tingting Han, Taolue Chen

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2023 · CCF B
TitleGen-FL: Quality Prediction-based Filter for Automated Issue Title Generation

Hao Lin, Xiang Chen*, Xuejiao Chen, Zhanqi Cui, Yun Miao, Shan Zhou, Jianmin Wang, Zhan Su

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2023 · CCF B
SeTransformer: A Transformer-based Code Semantic Parser for Code Comment Generation

Zheng Li, Yonghao Wu, Bin Peng, Xiang Chen, Zeyu Sun, Yong Liu, Paul Doyle

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2023 · CCF C，中科院二区
Revisiting Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Effort-Aware Cross-Project Defect Prediction

Chao Ni, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2022 · CCF A

Invited to ICSE 2021 as part of the Journal First Paper Track [Link]
Can Test Input Selection Methods for Deep Neural Network Guarantee Test Diversity? A Large-scale Empirical Study

Chunyu Zhao, Yanzhou Mu, Xiang Chen*, Jingke Zhao, Xiaolin Ju*, Gan Wang

IST Information and Software Technology · 2022 · CCF B
DeltaFuzz: Historical Version Information-Guided Fuzz Testing

Jiaming Zhang, Zhanqi Cui, Xiang Chen, Huanhuan Wu, Liwei Zheng, Jianbin Liu

JCST Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2022 · CCF B
Interpretability Application of the Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction Model

Wei Zheng, Tianren Shen, Xiang Chen, Peiran Deng

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2022 · CCF B
Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Study on the Impact of Coincidental Correct Test Cases in Multiple Fault Localization

Yonghao Wu, Yong Liu, Weibo Wang, Zheng Li, Xiang Chen, Paul Doyle

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2022 · CCF C，中科院二区
Can Higher-Order-Mutants Improve the Performance of Mutation-based Fault Localization?

Haifeng Wang, Zheng Li, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen, Paul Doyle, Yuxiaoyang Cai, Luxi Fan

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2022 · CCF C，中科院二区
CCGIR: Information Retrieval-based Code Comment Generation Method for Smart Contracts

Guang Yang, Ke Liu, Xiang Chen*, Yanlin Zhou, Chi Yu, Hao Lin

KBS Knowledge-Based Systems · 2022 · CCF C，中科院1区
An Empirical Study on Higher-Order Mutation-Based Fault Localization

Haifeng Wang, Zheng Li, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen

IJSEKE International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge · 2022 · CCF C
Do We Need To Pay Technical Debt in Blockchain Software Systems?

Yubin Qu, Tie Bao, Xiang Chen, Long Li, Xianzhen Dou, Meng Yuan, Hongmei Wang

CS Connection Science · 2022 · CCF C
SEthesaurus: WordNet in Software Engineering

Xiang Chen, Chunyang Chen, Dun Zhang, Zhenchang Xing

TSE IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2021 · CCF A

[Link][Live Web site] [Package][Firefox Plugin] [Mathematical-specifc thesaurus and English-specifc thesaurus]
SeCNN: A Semantic CNN Parser for Code Comment Generation

Zheng Li, Yonghao Wu, Bin Peng, Xiang Chen, Zeyu Sun, Yong Liu, Deli Yu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2021 · CCF B

Invited to SANER 2023 as part of the Journal First Paper Track [Link]
Improving High-impact Bug Report Prediction with Combination of Interactive Machine Learning and Active Learning

Xiaoxue Wu, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen, Yu Zhao, Tingting Yu, Dejun Mu

IST Information and Software Technology · 2021 · CCF B

[Link]
Empirical Studies on the Impact of Filter based Ranking Feature Selection on Security Vulnerability Prediction

Xiang Chen, Zhidan Yuan, Zhanqi Cui, Dun Zhang, Xiaolin Ju

IETS IET Software · 2021 · CCF B

[Link]
Revisiting Heterogeneous Defect Prediction Methods: How Far Are We?

Xiang Chen, Yanzhou Mu, Ke Liu, Zhanqi Cui, Chao Ni

IST Information and Software Technology · 2021 · CCF B

[Link]
LaProb: A Label Propagation Based Software Bug Localization Method

Zhengliang Li, Zhiwei Jiang, Xiang Chen*, Kaibo Cao, Qing Gu*

IST Information and Software Technology · 2021 · CCF B

[Link]
A Comparative Study of Class Rebalancing Methods for Security Bug Report Classification

Wei Zheng, Yuxing Xun, Xiaoxue Wu, Zhi Deng, Xiang Chen, Yulei Sui

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2021 · CCF C，中科院二区
FATOC: Bug Isolation-based Multi-fault Localization by Using Optics Clustering

Yonghao Wu, Zheng Li, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen

JCST Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2020 · CCF B

[Link]
The Impact Factors on the Performance of Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection: A Comparative Study

Wei Zheng, Jialiang Gao, Xiaoxue Wu, Fengyu Liu, Yuxing Xun, Guoliang Liu, Xiang Chen

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2020 · CCF B

[Link]
CVE-Assisted Large-Scale Security Bug Report Dataset Construction Method

Xiaoxue Wu, Wei Zheng, Xiang Chen, Fang Wang, Dejun Mu

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2020 · CCF B

[Link]
Do Different Cross-project Defect Prediction Methods Identify the Same Defective Modules?

Xiang Chen, Yanzhou Mu, Yubin Qu, Chao Ni, Meng Liu, Tong He, Shangqing Liu

JSEP Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2020 · CCF B

[Link]
Large-scale Empirical Studies on Effort-aware Security Vulnerability Prediction Methods

Xiang Chen, Yingquan Zhao, Zhanqi Cui, Guozhu Meng, Yang Liu, Zan Wang

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2020 · CCF C，中科院二区

[Link]
Multitask Defect Prediction

Chao Ni, Xiang Chen, Xin Xia, Qing Gu, Yingquan Zhao

JSEP Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2019 · CCF B

Invited to ICSME 2019 as part of the Journal First Paper Track [Link]
Improving Defect Prediction with Deep Forest

Tianchi Zhou, Xiaobing Sun, Xin Xia, Bin Li, Xiang Chen

IST Information and Software Technology · 2019 · CCF B

[Link]
An Empirical Study on Pareto Based Multi-objective Feature Selection for Software Defect Prediction

Chao Ni, Xiang Chen*, Fangfang Wu, Yuxiang Shen, Qing Gu*

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2019 · CCF B

[Link]
DP-Share: Privacy-preserving Software Defect Prediction Model Sharing through Differential Privacy

Xiang Chen, Dun Zhang, Zhanqi Cui, Qing Gu, Xiaolin Ju

JCST Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2019 · CCF B

[Link]
Software Defect Number Prediction: Unsupervised vs Supervised Methods

Xiang Chen, Dun Zhang, Yingquan Zhao, Zhanqi Cui, Chao Ni

IST Information and Software Technology · 2019 · CCF B

[Link]
Personalized Project Recommendation on GitHub

Xiaobing Sun, Wenyuan Xu, Xin Xia, Xiang Chen, Bin Li

SCIS Science China: Information Sciences · 2018 · CCF B

[Link]
Localizing Multiple Software Faults based on Evolution Algorithm

Yan Zheng, Zan Wang, Xiangyu Fan, Xiang Chen, Zijiang Yang

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2018 · CCF B

[Link]
MULTI: Multi-Objective Effort-Aware Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction

Xiang Chen, Yingquan Zhao, Qiuping Wang, Zhidan Yuan

IST Information and Software Technology · 2018 · CCF B

Invited to SANER 2019 as part of the Journal First Paper Track [Link]
A Systematic Survey on Automated Concurrency Bug Detection, Exposing, Avoidance and Fixing Techniques

Haojie Fu, Zan Wang, Xiang Chen, Xiangyu Fan

SQJ Software Quality Journal · 2018 · CCF C

[Link]
A Cluster Based Feature Selection Method for Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction

Chao Ni, Wangshu Liu, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Daoxu Chen, Qiguo Huang

JCST Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2017 · CCF B

[Link]
Empirical Studies of a Two-stage Data Preprocessing Approach for Software Fault Prediction

Wangshu Liu, Shulong Liu, Qing Gu, Jiaqiang Chen, Xiang Chen, Daoxu Chen

TRel IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 2016 · CCF C，中科院二区

[Link]
HSFal: Effective Fault Localization using Hybrid Spectrum of Full Slices and Execution Slices

Xiaolin Ju, Shujuan Jiang, Xiang Chen, Xingya Wang, Yanmei Zhang, Heling Cao

JSS Journal of Systems and Software · 2014 · CCF B

[Link]

International conferences63

CIPIHunter: Detecting Configuration-Induced Prediction Instability in Deep Learning Frameworks

Yanzhou Mu, Shuo Meng, Mijung Kim, Xiang Chen, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Juan Zhai

ASE-2026 In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2026) · 2026 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 115/1236 (Accepted without Major Revision)
Insecure Coding Preferences in Long-Term Memory: Security Risks for LLM-based Code Generation

Yuchen Chen, Wei Cheng, Yuan Xiao, Zhou Yang, Weifeng Sun, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Baowen Xu, David Lo, Zhenyu Chen

ISSTA-2026 In: Proceedings of the 35th SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026) · 2026 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 210/888 (Accepted)
Learning to Verify: Efficient Verilog Code Reranking via Collaborative Knowledge Distillation

Yiheng Shen, Guang Yang, Wei Zheng, Yifan Sun, Fengji Zhang, Xiang Chen, Fengping Xu, Hongxing Xia

IJCNN-2026 In Proceedings of 2026 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2026) · 2026 · CCF C

(Accepted)
Evaluating and Improving Framework-based Parallel Code Completion with Large Language Models

Ke Liu, Qinglin Wang, Xiang Chen, Guang Yang, Yigui Feng, Gencheng Liu, Jie Liu

ASE-2025 In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) · 2025 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: （113+132）/1136 (Accepted)
ACTaint: Agent-Based Taint Analysis for Access Control Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

Huarui Lin, Zhipeng Gao, Jiachi Chen, Xiang Chen, Xiaohu Yang, Lingfeng Bao

ASE-2025 In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) · 2025 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: （113+132）/1136 (Accepted)
Code-DiTing: Automatic Evaluation of Code Generation without References or Test Cases

Guang Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Wei Zheng, Xing Hu, Xin Zhou, David Lo, and Taolue Chen

ASE-2025 In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025) · 2025 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 113/1136 (Accepted)
Improving Deep Learning Framework Testing with Model-Level Metamorphic Testing

Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhixiang Cao, Peiran Yang, Kexin Zhao, An Guo, Zhenyu Chen

ISSTA-2025 In Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2025) · 2025 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 107/550
DevMuT: Testing Deep Learning Framework via Developer Expertise-Based Mutation

Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhixiang Cao, Peiran Yang, Yinglong Zou, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen

ASE-2024 In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024) · 2024 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 155/568
Neural-MBFL: Improving Mutation-Based Fault Localization by Neural Mutation

Bin Du, Baolong Han, Hengyuan Liu, Zexing Chang, Yong Liu and Xiang Chen

COMPSAC-2024 In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2024) · 2024 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 24%
Unifying Defect Prediction, Categorization, and Repair by Multi-task Deep Learning

Chao Ni, Kaiwen Yang, Yan Zhu, Xiang Chen, Xiaohu Yang

ASE-Inch-2023 In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering,Industry Challenge (Competition) track (ASE-Inch 2023) · 2023 · CCF A
GMBFL: Optimizing Mutation-Based Fault Localization via Graph Representation

Shumei Wu, Zheng Li, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen and Mingyu Li

ICSME-2023 In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023) · 2023 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 27/119
APICom: Automatic API Completion via Prompt Learning and Adversarial Training-based Data Augmentation

Yafeng Gu, Yiheng Shen, Xiang Chen*, Shaoyu Yang, Yiling Huang, Zhixiang Cao

Internetware-2023 Iproceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2023) · 2023 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 30/75
An Empirical Study of Adversarial Training in Code Comment Generation

Yiheng Shen, Xiaolin Ju, Xiang Chen, and Guang Yang

SEKE-2023 In Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2023) · 2023 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 39%
EDP-BGCNN: Effective Defect Prediction via BERT-based Graph Convolutional Neural Network

Hao Shen, Xiaolin Ju, Xiang Chen and Guang Yang

COMPSAC-2023 In Proceedings of 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2023) · 2023 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 27%
Identifying CC Test Cases with Multiple Features Extraction for Better Fault Localization

Yonghao Wu, Shuaihua Tian, Zezhong Yang, Zheng Li, Yong Liu and Xiang Chen

COMPSAC-2023 In Proceedings of 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2023) · 2023 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 27%
TBCUP: A Transformer-based Code Comments Updating Approach

Shifan Liu, Zhanqi Cui, Xiang Chen, Jun Yang, Li Li and Liwei Zheng

COMPSAC-2023 In Proceedings of 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2023) · 2023 · CCF C
SGS: Mutant Reduction for Higher-order Mutation-based Fault Localization

Luxi Fan, Zheng Li, Hengyuan Liu, Paul Doyle, Haifeng Wang, Xiang Chen, and Yong Liu

COMPSAC-2023 In Proceedings of 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2023) · 2023 · CCF C
Assessing the Effectiveness of Vulnerability Detection via Prompt Tuning: An Empirical Study

Guilong Lu, Xiaolin Ju, Xiang Chen, Shaoyu Yang, Liang Chen and Hao Shen

APSEC-2023 In Proceedings of The 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2023) · 2023 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 43/128
Improving Fault Localization by Complex-Fault Oriented Higher-Order Mutant Generation

Zexing Chang, Yong Liu, Shumei Wu, Paul Doyle, Haifeng Wang and Xiang Chen

STA-2023 In Proceedings of The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Software Test Automation (STA 2023) · 2023
FVA: Assessing Function-Level Vulnerability by Integrating Flow-Sensitive Structure and Code Statement Semantic

Chao Ni, Liyu Shen, Wei Wang, Xiang Chen, Xin Yin , Lexiao Zhang

ICPC-2023 In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2023) · 2023 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 22/67
QTC4SO: Automatic Question Title Completion for Stack Overflow

Yanlin Zhou, Shaoyu Yang, Xiang Chen*, Zichen Zhang , Jiahua Pei.

ICPC-2023 In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2023) · 2023 · CCF B

[Preprint] Acceptance Rate: 22/67 🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (2/22) [Link]
ISTA: Automatic test case generation and optimization for intelligent systems based on coverage analysis

Wei Zheng, Lidan Lin, Xiang Chen, Guoliang Liu, Hao Huang, Jinjin Shen, Qingqing Xu and Yizeng Gu

SANER-2023 In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, Tool track (SANER-Tool 2023) · 2023 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 8/16
BASHEXPLAINER: Retrieval-Augmented Bash Code Comment Generation based on Fine-tuned CodeBERT

Chi Yu, Guang Yang, Xiang Chen*, Ke Liu and Yanlin Zhou

ICSME-2022 In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022) · 2022 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 32/136
Improving the Performance of Mutation-based Fault Localization via Mutant Bias

Bin Du, Yuxiaoyang Cai, Haifeng Wang, Yong Liu and Xiang Chen

ISSRE-2022 In Proceedings of The 33rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022) · 2022 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 37/162
SOTitle: A Transformer-based Post Title Generation Approach for Stack Overflow

Ke Liu, Guang Yang, Xiang Chen* and Chi Yu

SANER-2022 In Proceedings of The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022) · 2022 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 48/199
DualSC: Automatic Generation and Summarization of Shellcode via Transformer and Dual Learning

Guang Yang, Xiang Chen*, Yanlin Zhou and Chi Yu

SANER-2022 In Proceedings of The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022) · 2022 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 48/199
An Empirical Study on Numerical Bugs in Deep Learning Programs

Gan Wang, Zan Wang, Junjie Chen, Xiang Chen and Ming Yan

ASE-NIER-2022 In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, the New Ideas and Emerging Results （NIER） track (ASE-NIER 2022) · 2022 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 18/50
EL-CodeBert: Better Exploiting CodeBert to Support Source Code-Related Classification Tasks

Ke Liu, Guang Yang, Xiang Chen* and Yanlin Zhou

Internetware-2022 In Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2022) · 2022 · CCF C
CIL-BSP: Bug Report Severity Prediction based on Class Imbalanced Learning

Yu Su, Xinping Hu*, Xiang Chen* , Yubin Qu, Qianshuang Meng.

QRS-2022 In Proceedings of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security - Companion (QRS-C 2022) · 2022 · CCF C
Automated Query Reformulation for Efficient Search Based on Query Logs from Stack Overflow

Kaibo Cao, Chuyang Chen*, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Xiang Chen*

ICSE-2021 In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021) · 2021 · CCF A

[Link][Pre-print] [Tool] Acceptance Rate: 138/615 🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (13/138) [Link]
A Comprehensive Study of Deep Learning Compiler Bugs

Qingchao Shen, Haoyang Ma, Junjie Chen*, Yongqiang Tian, Shing-Chi Cheung, Xiang Chen

ESEC/FSE-2021 In Proceedings of The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021) · 2021 · CCF A

Acceptance Rate: 97/396
Automatically Identifying Bug Reports with Tactical Vulnerabilities by Deep Feature Learning

Wei Zheng, Manqing Zhang, Hui Tang, Yuanfang Cai, Xiang Chen, Xiaoxue Wu and Abubakar Omari Abdallah Semasaba

ISSRE-2021 In Proceedings of The 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2021) · 2021 · CCF B

Acceptance Rate: 52/189
Evaluating Code Summarization with Improved Correlation with Human Assessment

Juanjuan Shen, Yu Zhou, Yongchao Wang, Xiang Chen, Tingting Han and Taolue Chen

QRS-2021 In Proceedings of The 21st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2021) · 2021 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 61/243
HARS: Heuristic-Enhanced Adaptive Randomized Scheduling for Concurrency Testing

Yanzhou Mu, Zan Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Junjie Chen and Xiang Chen

QRS-2021 In Proceedings of The 21st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2021) · 2021 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 61/243
Fine-grained Pseudo-code Generation Method via Code Feature Extraction and Transformer

Guang Yang, Yanlin Zhou, Xiang Chen* and Chi Yu

APSEC-2021 In Proceedings of The 28th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2021) · 2021 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 49/147
S2LMMD: Cross-Project Software Defect Prediction via Statement Semantic Learning and Maximum Mean Discrepancy

Wangshu Liu, Yongteng Zhu, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Xingya Wang and Shenkai Gu

APSEC-2021 In Proceedings of The 28th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2021) · 2021 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 49/147
CLACER: A Deep Learning-based Compilation Error Classification Method for Novice Students' Programs

Zheng Li, Fuxiang Sun, Haifeng Wang, Yifan Ding, Yong Liu, Xiang Chen

COMPSAC-2021 In Proceedings of 45th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2021) · 2021 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 27%
DeepSCC: Source Code Classification Based on Fine-Tuned RoBERTa

Guang Yang, Yanlin Zhou, Chi Yu, Xiang Chen*

SEKE-2021 In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2021) · 2021 · CCF C
ComFormer: Code Comment Generation via Transformer and Fusion Method-based Hybrid Code Representation

Guang Yang, Xiang Chen*, Jinxin Cao, Shuyuan Xu, Zhanqi Cui, Chi Yu and Ke Liu

DSA-2021 In: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA 2021) · 2021

Acceptance Rate: 20/76
EKD-BSP: Bug Report Severity Prediction by Extracting Keywords from Description

YanXin Jia, Xiang Chen*, ShuYuan Xu, Guang Yang, JinXin Cao

DSA-2021 In: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA 2021) · 2021

Acceptance Rate: 20/76
HMBFL: Higher-Order Mutation-Based Fault Localization

Zheng Li, Butian Shi, Haifeng Wang, Yong Liu and Xiang Chen

DSA-2021 In: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA 2021) · 2021

Acceptance Rate: 20/76
Fault Localization-Guided Test Data Generation Approach for Novice Programs

Zheng Li, Xiaotang Zhou, Deli Yu, Yonghao Wu, Yong Liu and Xiang Chen

DSA-2021 In: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA 2021) · 2021

Acceptance Rate: 20/76
Improving Machine Learning-based Code Smell Detection via Hyper-parameter Optimization

Lei Shen, Wangshu Liu, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Xuejun Liu

APSEC-2020 In Proceedings of the 27th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2020) · 2020 · CCF C

[Link] Acceptance Rate: 45/122
Revisiting Dependence Cluster Metrics based Defect Prediction

Qiguo Huang, Xiang Chen, Zhenliang Li, Chao Ni, Qing Gu

SEKE-2020 In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2020) · 2020 · CCF C
CIFEF: Combining Implicit and Explicit Features for Friendship Inference in Location-Based Social Networks

Cheng He, Chao Peng, Na Li, Xiang Chen, Zhengfeng Yang and Zhenhao Hu

KSEM-2020 In Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2020) · 2020 · CCF C

Acceptance rate: 58/291
MAP-Coverage: a Novel Coverage Criterion for Testing Thread-Safe Classes

Zan Wang, Yingquan Zhao, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Xiang Chen, Huarui Lin

ASE-2019 In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019) · 2019 · CCF A

[Link][Project] Acceptance Rate: 93/445
Cross-project Defect Prediction via ASTToken2Vec and BLSTM based Neural Network

Hao Li, Xiaohong Li, Xiang Chen*, Xiaofei Xie, Yanzhou Mu, Zhiyong Feng

IJCNN-2019 In Proceedings of the 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019) · 2019 · CCF C
Multi-project Regression based Approach for Software Defect Number Prediction

Qiguo Huang, Chao Ni, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Kaibo Cao

SEKE-2019 In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2019) · 2019 · CCF C
Software Defect Prediction Model Sharing under Differential Privacy

Dun Zhang, Xiang Chen*, Zhanqi Cui, Xiaolin Ju

ATC-2018 In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018) · 2018
Exploiting Spatiotemporal Features to Infer Friendship in Location-based Social Networks

Cheng He, Chao Peng, Na Li, Xiang Chen and Lanying Guo

PRICAI-2018 In Proceedings of The 15th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2018) · 2018 · CCF C
Scalable Relevant Project Recommendation on GitHub

Wenyuan Xu, Xiaobing Sun, Xin Xia, Xiang Chen

Internetware-2017 In Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2017) · 2017 · CCF C
FeSCH: A Feature Selection Method using Clusters of Hybrid-data for Cross-Project Defect Prediction

Chao Ni, Wangshu Liu, Qing Gu, Xiang Chen, Daoxu Chen

COMPSAC-2017 In Proceedings of The 41st Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2017) · 2017 · CCF C
Applying Feature Selection to Software Defect Prediction using Multi-objective Optimization

Xiang Chen, Yuxiang Shen, Zhanqi Cui, Xiaolin Ju

STA-2017 In Proceedings of The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Test Automation (STA 2017) · 2017
FECS: A Cluster based Feature Selection Method for Software Fault Prediction with Noises

Wangshu Liu, Shulong Liu, Qing Gu, Xiang Chen, Daoxu Chen

COMPSAC-2015 In Proceedings of The 39th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015) · 2015 · CCF C
FECAR: A Feature Selection Framework for Software Defect Prediction

Shulong Liu, Xiang Chen, Wangshu Liu, Jiaqiang Chen, Qing Gu, Daoxu Chen

COMPSAC-2014 In Proceedings of The 38th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2014) · 2014 · CCF C

[Link] Acceptance Rate: 45/209
A Two-stage Data Preprocessing Approach for Software Fault Prediction

Jiaqiang Chen, Shulong Liu, Wangshu Liu, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Daoxu Chen

SERE-2014 In Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2014) · 2014 · CCF C

[Link] Acceptance Rate: 26/86
CATESR: Change-aware Test Suite Reduction Based on Partial Coverage of Test Requirements

Lijiu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Haigang Zhao, Xiaoyan Shi, Daoxu Chen

SEKE-2012 In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2012) · 2012 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 59/219
A Test Suite Reduction Approach Based on Pairwise Interaction of Requirements

Xiang Chen, Lijiu Zhang, Qing Gu, Haigang Zhao, Ziyuan Wang, Xiaobing Sun, Daoxu Chen

SAC-2011 In Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) · 2011

Acceptance Rate: 15/51
Using Lattice of Class and Method Dependence for Change Impact Analysis of Object Oriented Programs

Xiaobing Sun, Bixin Li, Sai Zhang, Chuanqi Tao, Xiang Chen, Wanzhi Wen

SAC-2011 In Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) · 2011

Acceptance Rate: 15/51
Applying Particle Swarm Optimization to Pairwise Testing

Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Jingxian Qi, Daoxu Chen

COMPSAC-2010 In Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference (COMPSAC 2010) · 2010 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 39/193
A Study of Relative Redundancy in Test-Suite Reduction While Retaining or Even Improving Fault-Localization Effectiveness

Xin Zhang, Qing Gu, Xiang Chen, Jingxian Qi, Daoxu Chen

SAC-2010 In Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010) · 2010
Variable Strength Interaction Testing with an Ant Colony System Approach

Xiang Chen, Qing Gu, Ang Li, Daoxu Chen

APSEC-2009 In Proceedings of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2009) · 2009 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 63/209
Fault Localization Based on Multi-Level Similarity of Execution Traces

Xinping Wang, Qing Gu, Xin Zhang, Xiang Chen, Daoxu Chen

APSEC-2009 In Proceedings of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2009) · 2009 · CCF C

Acceptance Rate: 63/209

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