Publications | Chengnian Sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Chengnian Sun, Yuanbo Li, Qirun Zhang, Tianxiao Gu, Zhendong Su

May, 2018 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Perses: Syntax-Guided Program Reduction

Yan Lei, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoguang Mao, Zhendong Su

January, 2018 IET SOftware

How Test Suites Impact Fault Localization Starting from the Size

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su

May, 2016 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Finding and Analyzing Compiler Warning Defects

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

Vu Le, Chengnian Sun, Zhendong Su

July, 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)

Randomized Stress-Testing of Link-Time Optimizers

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

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

Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, Chengnian Sun

August, 2014 Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

Automated Prediction of Bug Report Priority Using Multi-Factor Analysis

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

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

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

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

Chengnian Sun, Siau-Cheng Khoo

August, 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)

Mining Succinct Predicated Bug Signatures

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

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

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

Yuan Tian, Chengnian Sun, David Lo

March, 2012 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering

Improved Duplicate Bug Report Identification

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

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

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

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