Publications

Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Jiarui Zhang, Puzhuo Liu, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
August, 2024 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
T-Rec: Fine-Grained Language-Agnostic Program Reduction Guided by Lexical Syntax
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Puzhuo Liu, Yaowen Zheng, Chengnian Sun, Chuan Qin, Dongliang Fang, Mingdong Liu, Limin Sun
April, 2024 29th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
FITS: Inferring Intermediate Taint Sources for Effective Vulnerability Analysis of IoT Device Firmware
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Jie Liang, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
April, 2024 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Mozi: Discovering DBMS Bugs via Configuration-Based Equivalent Transformation
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Yiwei Hou, Lihua Guo, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Shanshan Li, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
April, 2024 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
An Empirical Study of Data Disruption by Ransomware Attacks
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Mengxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu, Yiwen Dong, Shin Hwei Tan, Chengnian Sun
January, 2024 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
LPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction
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Puzhuo Liu, Yaowen Zheng, Chengnian Sun, Hong Li, Zhi Li, Limin Sun
January, 2024 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Battling against Protocol Fuzzing: Protecting Networked Embedded Devices from Dynamic Fuzzers
Aniruddhan Murali, Mahmoud Alfadel, Meiyappan Nagappan, Meng Xu, Chengnian Sun
January, 2024 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
AddressWatcher: Sanitizer-Based Localization of Memory Leak Fixes
Yongqiang Tian, Xueyan Zhang, Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Mengxiao Zhang, Yu Jiang, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun
December, 2023 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
On the Caching Schemes to Speed Up Program Reduction
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Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
December, 2023 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
PPR: Pairwise Program Reduction
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Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Gaosen Zhao, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun
November, 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
Pushing the Limit of 1-Minimality of Language-Agnostic Program Reduction
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Quan Zhang, Chijin Zhou, Yiwen Xu, Zijing Yin, Mingzhe Wang, Zhuo Su, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
November, 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
Building Dynamic System Call Sandbox with Partial Order Analysis
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Yongqiang Tian, Zhenyang Xu, Yiwen Dong, Chengnian Sun, Shing-Chi Cheung
August, 2023 The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Revisiting the Evaluation of Deep Learning-Based Compiler Testing
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Quan Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Yifeng Ding, Shanshan Li, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
June, 2023 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
CoopHance: Cooperative Enhancement for Robustness of Deep Learning System
Jia Le Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian, Yiwen Dong, Chengnian Sun
May, 2023 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE Tool)
Ad Hoc Syntax-Guided Program Reduction
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Yongqiang Tian, Wuqi Zhang, Ming Wen, Shing-Chi Cheung, Chengnian Sun, Shiqing Ma, Yu Jiang
May, 2023 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Finding Deviated Behaviors of Compressed DNN Models for Image Classifications
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Theodore Luo Wang, Yongqiang Tian, Yiwen Dong, Zhenyang Xu, Chengnian Sun
March, 2023 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
Compilation Consistency Modulo Debug Information
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Xingjun Li, Yizhi Zhang, Justin Leung, Chengnian Sun, Jian Zhao
June, 2022 ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS)
EDAssistant: Supporting Exploratory Data Analysis in Computational Notebooks with In-Situ Code Search and Recommendation
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Yiwen Dong, Zheyang Li (Co-First Author), Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun, Michael Godfrey, Meiyappan Nagappan
June, 2022 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Bash in the Wild: Language Usage, Code Smells, and Bugs
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Zhiqiang Zuo, Xintao Niu, Siyi Zhang, Lu Fang, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Shan Lu, Chengnian Sun, Guoqing Harry Xu
May, 2022 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Toward More Efficient Statistical Debugging with Abstraction Refinement
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Yiwen Dong, Tianxiao Gu, Yongqiang Tian, Chengnian Sun
May, 2022 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
SnR: Constraint-Based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets
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Yan Lei, Huan Xie, Tao Zhang, Meng Yan, Zhou Xu, Chengnian Sun
January, 2022 IEEE Transaction on Software Reliability
Feature-FL: Feature-based Fault Localization
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Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang, Rui Wang, Chengnian Sun, Jiaguang Sun
May, 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC)
RIFF: Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing
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Meng Ren, Zijing Yin, Fuchen Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Yu Jiang, Chengnian Sun, Huizhong Li, Yan Cai
March, 2021 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Empirical Evaluation of Smart Contract Testing: What is the Best Choice?
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Chijin Zhou, Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Zhe Liu, Chengnian Sun, Yu Jiang
November, 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE Tool)
VisFuzz: Understanding and Intervening Fuzzing with Interactive Visualization
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Jie Liang, Yuanliang Chen, Mingzhe Wang, Yu Jiang, Zijiang Yang, Chengnian Sun, Xun Jiao, Jiaguang Sun
October, 2019 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Engineering a Better Fuzzer with Synergically Integrated Optimizations
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Tianxiao Gu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoxing Ma, Chun Cao, Chang Xu, Yuan Yao, Qirun Zhang, Jian Lu, Zhendong Su
May, 2019 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Practical GUI Testing of Android Applications via Model Abstraction and Refinement
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Chengnian Sun, Yuanbo Li, Qirun Zhang, Tianxiao Gu, Zhendong Su
May, 2018 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Perses: Syntax-Guided Program Reduction
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Yan Lei, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoguang Mao, Zhendong Su
January, 2018 IET SOftware
How Test Suites Impact Fault Localization Starting from the Size
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Tianxiao Gu, Chun Cao, Tianchi Liu, Chengnian Sun, Jing Deng, Xiaoxing Ma, Jian Lu
September, 2017 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
AimDroid: Activity-Insulated Multi-level Automated Testing for Android Applications
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Qirun Zhang, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
June, 2017 38th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
Skeletal program enumeration for rigorous compiler testing
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Han Liu, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su, Yu Jiang, Ming Gu, Jiaguang Sun
May, 2017 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Stochastic Optimization of Program Obfuscation
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Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su
October, 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
Finding Compiler Bugs via Live Code Mutation
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Tianxiao Gu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoxing Ma, Jian Lu, Zhendong Su
August, 2016 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Automatic Runtime Recovery via Error Handler Synthesis
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Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Qirun Zhang, Zhendong Su
July, 2016 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Toward Understanding Compiler Bugs in GCC and LLVM
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Yuting Chen, Ting Su, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su, Jianjun Zhao
June, 2016 37th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
Coverage-Directed Differential Testing of JVM Implementations
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Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su
May, 2016 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Finding and Analyzing Compiler Warning Defects
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Vu Le, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
October, 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
Finding Deep Compiler Bugs via Guided Stochastic Program Mutation
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Vu Le, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su
July, 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Randomized Stress-Testing of Link-Time Optimizers
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Yu Jiang, Huhua Zhang, Huafeng Zhang, Xinyan Zhao, Han Liu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoyu Song, Ming Gu, Jiaguang Sun
November, 2014 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE Tool)
Tsmart-GalsBlock: A Toolkit for Modeling, Validation, and Synthesis of Multi-clocked Embedded Systems
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Chengnian Sun, Haidong Zhang, Jian-Guang Lou, Hongyu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Siau-Cheng Khoo
November, 2014 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
Querying Sequential Software Engineering Data
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Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, Chengnian Sun
August, 2014 Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
Automated Prediction of Bug Report Priority Using Multi-Factor Analysis
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Zhiqiang Zuo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chengnian Sun
July, 2014 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Efficient Predicated Bug Signature Mining via Hierarchical Instrumentation
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Hao Xiao, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Shang-Wei Lin, Chengnian Sun
November, 2013 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
TzuYu: Learning Stateful Typestates
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Shao Jie Zhang, Jun Sun, Chengnian Sun, Yang Liu, Junwei Ma, Jin Song Dong
November, 2013 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Constraint-Based Automatic Symmetry Detection
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Yuan Tian, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
September, 2013 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
DRONE: Predicting Priority of Reported Bugs by Multi-Factor Analysis
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Chengnian Sun, Siau-Cheng Khoo
August, 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)
Mining Succinct Predicated Bug Signatures
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Chengnian Sun, Jing Du, Ning Chen, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Ye Yang
May, 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process
Mining Explicit Rules for Software Process Evaluation
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Yuan Tian, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
December, 2012 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
Information Retrieval Based Nearest Neighbor Classification for Fine-Grained Bug Severity Prediction
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Anh Tuan Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen, David Lo, Chengnian Sun
September, 2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Duplicate Bug Report Detection with a Combination of Information Retrieval and Topic Modeling
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Yuan Tian, Chengnian Sun, David Lo
March, 2012 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Improved Duplicate Bug Report Identification
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Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jing Jiang
November, 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Towards More Accurate Retrieval of Duplicate Bug Reports
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Chengnian Sun, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Shao Jie Zhang
November, 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
Graph-based Detection of Library API Imitations
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Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Jing Jiang, Xiaoyin Wang, Siau-Cheng Khoo
May, 2010 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
A Discriminative Model Approach for Accurate Duplicate Bug Report Retrieval
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David Lo, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chengnian Sun
June, 2009 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
Classification of Software Behaviors for Failure Detection: A Discriminative Pattern Mining Approach
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