Recent publications


Zhilei Ren, He Jiang, Jifeng Xuan and Zijiang Yang. Automated Localization for Unreproducible Builds. The 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 27-June 3, 2018. Gothenburg, Sweden.




Yan Zheng, Zan Wang, Xiangyu Fan, Xiang Chen, Zijiang Yang. Localizing Multiple Software Faults based on Evolution Algorithm, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). To Appear.




Qiuping Yi, Zijiang Yang, Shengjian Guo, Chao Wang, Jian Liu and Chen Zhao. Eliminating Path Redundancy via Postconditioned Symbolic Execution. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 44(1): 25-43 (2018).

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Lin Cheng, Zijiang Yang, Chao Wang. Systematic Reduction of GUI Test Sequences. The 32nd EEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), October 30-November 3, 2017. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

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Xiao Yu, Jin Liu, Zijiang Yang,Qing Li, Xiangyang Jia. Learning from Imbalanced Data for Predicting the Number of Software Defects. The 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), October 23-26, 2017. Toulouse, France.

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Hao Li, Jialiang Chang, Zijiang Yang, Steve Carr. Memory Distance Measurement for Concurrent Programs. The 30th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. October 11-13, 2017. College Station, TX, USA.

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Yu Guo, Yan Cai and Zijiang Yang. AtexRace: Across Thread and Execution Sampling for In-house Race Detection. ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). September 4-8, 2017. Paderborn, Germany.

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Xiao Yu, Jin Liu, Zijiang Yang and Xiao Liu. The Bayesian Network based program dependence graph and its application to fault localization. Journal of Systems and Software 134: 44-53 (2017)

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Zhenzhou Tian, Ting Liu, Qinghua Zheng, Eryue Zhuang, Ming Fan and Zijiang Yang. Reviving Sequential Program Birthmarking for Multithreaded Software Plagiarism Detection. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Volumn PP, Issue 99, 2017.

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Qiuping Yi, Zijiang Yang, Shengjian Guo, Chao Wang, Jian Liu and Chen Zhao. Eliminating Path Redundancy via Postconditioned Symbolic Execution. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2017. To Appear.

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He Jiang, Xiaochen Li, Zijiang Yang and Jifeng Xuan. What Causes My Test Alarm? Automatic Cause Analysis for Test Alarms in System and Integration Testing. The 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 20-28, 2017. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Xiaodong Zhang, Zijiang Yang, Qinghua Zheng, Pei Liu, Jialiang Chang, Yu Hao and Ting Liu. Automated Testing of Definition-Use Data Flow for Multithreaded Programs. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), March 13-18, 2017. Tokyo, Japan

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Haijun Wang, Ting Liu, Xiaohong Guan, Chao Shen, and Zijiang Yang. Dependence Guided Symbolic Execution. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 43(3): 252-271, 2017.

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Pingyi Zhou, Jin Liu, Zijiang Yang and Guangyou Zhou. Scalable Tag Recommendation for Software Information Sites. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), February 20-24, 2017. Klagenfurt, Austria

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Publications since 2015


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Zhou Xu, Jin Liu, Gege An and Zijiang Yang. The Impact of Feature Selection on Defect Prediction Performance: An Empirical Comparison. The 27th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), October 23-27, 2016. Ottawa, Canada.


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Yan Cai and Zijiang Yang. Radius Aware Probabilistic Testing of Deadlocks with Guarantees. The 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), September 3-7, 2016. Singapore.


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Lin Cheng, Jialiang Chang, Zijiang Yang and Chao Wang. GUICat: GUI Testing as a Service. The 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), September 3-7, 2016. Singapore. Tool Paper.


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Zhenzhou Tian, Ting Liu, Qinghua Zheng, Eryue Zhuang, Ming Fan, Zijiang Yang. Exploiting Thread-Related System Calls for Plagiarism Detection of Multithreaded Programs. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 119: 136-148, 2016.


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Zhenzhou Tian, Ting Liu, Qinghua Zheng, Feifei Tong, Ming Fan, Zijiang Yang. A New Thread-Aware Birthmark for Plagiarism Detection of Multithreaded Programs. The 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 14-22, 2016. Austin, USA. Poster.


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Hengshan Zhang, Qinghua Zheng, Ting Liu, Zijiang Yang, Minnan Luo, Yu Qu. Improving Linguistic Pairwise Comparison Consistency via Linguistic Discrete Regions. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS). 24(3): 600-614, 2016.


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Jin Liu, Yiqiuzi Tian, Xiao Yu, Zijiang Yang, Xiangyang Jia, Chuanxiang Ma, Zheng Xu. A Multi-Source Approach for Bug Triage. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 26(9-10): 1593-1604 (2016)


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Shengjian Guo, Markus Kusano, Chao Wang, Zijiang Yang, and Aarti Gupta. Assertion guided symbolic execution of multithreaded programs. ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Bergamo, Italy. August 31-September 4, 2015.


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Qiuping Yi, Zijiang Yang, Jian Liu, Zhao Chen, and Chao Wang. A synergistic analysis method for explaining failed regression tests. The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 16-24, 2015. Firenze, Italy.


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Zhenzhou Tian, Qinghua Zheng, Ting Liu, Ming Fan, Eryue Zhuang and Zijiang Yang. Software Plagiarism Detection with Birthmarks based on Dynamic Key Instruction Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Vol PP, Num 99, 2015.


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Qiuping Yi, Zijiang Yang, Shengjian Guo, Chao Wang, Jian Liu and Chen Zhao. Postconditioned Symbolic Execution. The 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), April 13-17, 2015. Graz, Austria.


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Yu Qu, Xiaohong Guan, Qinghua Zheng, Ting Liu, Lidan Wang, Yuqiao Hou, Zijiang Yang. Exploring Community Structure of Software Call Graph and its Applications in Class Cohesion Measurement. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2015.


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Qiuping Yi, Zijiang Yang, Jian Liu, Chen Zhao, and Chao Wang. Explaining software failures by cascade fault localization. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2015.


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Ping Yang, Mikhail I. Gofman, Scott Stoller, and Zijiang Yang. Policy Analysis for Administrative Role Based Access Control without Separate Administration. Journal of Computer Security (JCS), 23(1) , 2015.