Publications

* for corresponding authors; ^(s) for students under my supervision;
Papers on JCR-Q1 journals (15)
Papers on CORE A/A*/JCQ-Q1 (31): CORE A*(6), CORE A(10), JCR-Q1(15)
40 REF*-able Papers, 19 (likely to be) REF4* Papers

Papers on top venues /CCF-A(19): ESEC/FSE (1), OOPSLA (1), ISSTA (1), ASE (4), WWW (1), IEEE TSE (10), ACM TOSEM (1)
Papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions on X (12): TSE (10), TReli (1), TOSEM (1)
Papers on well-known venues (15): SANER (3), ISSRE (2), ICPC(2), IST (2), JSS (2), EASE (1), SCP (1), JCST (1), JSEP(1)
Selected publications are highlighted.
The CORE conference ranking can be found at here, journal ranking can be found at here

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DBLP:https://dblp.org/pid/120/1174.html

ORCID:0000-0001-5677-4564

Web of Science ResearcherIDL-8327-2019

Scopus Author

Pre-prints

An LLM-based Readability Measurement for Unit Tests' Context-aware Inputs Zhichao Zhou^(s), Yutian Tang, Yun Lin, Jingzhu He arXiv
An Empirical Study on Low Code Programming using Traditional vs Large Language Model Support Yongkun Liu, Jiachi Chen, Tingting Bi, John Grundy, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Yutian Tang, Zibin Zheng arXiv

2025

LLM-CompDroid: Repairing Configuration Compatibility Bugs in Android Apps with Pre-trained Large Language Models TOSEM Zhijie Liu^(s), Yutian Tang*, Meiyun Li, Xin Jin, Yunfei Long, Liang Feng Zhang, Xiapu Luo ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) [IF=6.6][CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

A Systematic Study on Real-world Android App Bundles TSE Yutian Tang*, Xiapu Luo, Yuming Zhou IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [JCR-Q1][IF=9.32] [CCF-A][JCR-Q1]

@article{tang2025systematic,
  title={A Systematic Study on Real-world Android App Bundles},
  author={Tang, Yutian and Luo, Xiapu and Zhou, Yuming},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  year={2025}
}

KEENHash: Hashing Programs into Function-aware Embeddings for Large-scale Binary Code Similarity AnalysisISSTA Zhijie Liu^(s),Qiyi Tang, Sen Nie, Shi Wu, Liang Feng Zhang, Yutian Tang* The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)[CCF-A][CORE-A]
Characterising Bugs in Jupyter PlatformEASE Yutian Tang*, Hongchen Cao^(s), Yuxi Chen^(s), David Lo International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering [CCF-B][CORE-A]

Human-in-the-loop online just-in-time software defect prediction: What have we achieved and what do we still miss?SCP Xutong Liu, Yufei Zhou, Yutian Tang, Junyan Qian, Yuming Zhou Science of Computer Programming [CCF-B]

@article{liu2025human,
  title={Human-in-the-loop online just-in-time software defect prediction: What have we achieved and what do we still miss?},
  author={Liu, Xutong and Zhou, Yufei and Tang, Yutian and Qian, Junyan and Zhou, Yuming},
  journal={Science of Computer Programming},
  volume={244},
  pages={103296},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

SmartOracle: Generating Smart Contract Oracle via Fine-Grained Invariant Detection TSE Jianzhong Su, Jiachi Chen, Zhiyuan Fang, Xingwei Lin, Yutian Tang, Zibin Zheng IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)[IF=9.32][CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@article{su2025smartoracle,
  title={SmartOracle: Generating Smart Contract Oracle via Fine-Grained Invariant Detection},
  author={Su, Jianzhong and Chen, Jiachi and Fang, Zhiyuan and Lin, Xingwei and Tang, Yutian and Zheng, Zibin},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  year={2025},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Artemis: Toward Accurate Detection of Server-Side Request Forgeries through LLM-Assisted Inter-Procedural Path-Sensitive Taint Analysis OOPSLA Yuchen Ji, Ting Dai, Zhichao Zhou^(s),Yutian Tang, Jingzhu He The Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)[CCF-A][CORE-A*]

@article{Artemis,
author = {Ji, Yuchen and Dai, Ting and Zhou, Zhichao and Tang, Yutian and He, Jingzhu},
title = {Artemis: Toward Accurate Detection of Server-Side Request Forgeries through LLM-Assisted Inter-procedural Path-Sensitive Taint Analysis},
year = {2025},
issue_date = {April 2025},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {9},
number = {OOPSLA1},
journal = {Proc. ACM Program. Lang.},
month = apr,
articleno = {128},
numpages = {29},
}

2024

Whether We Are Good Enough to Detect Server-Side Request Forgeries in PHP-native Applications?CCS Yuchen Ji, Ting Dai, Yutian Tang, Jingzhu He ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Poster Track

@inproceedings{ji2024poster,
  title={Poster: Whether We Are Good Enough to Detect Server-Side Request Forgeries in PHP-native Applications?},
  author={Ji, Yuchen and Dai, Ting and Tang, Yutian and He, Jingzhu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
  pages={4928--4930},
  year={2024}
}

Unearthing Gas-Wasting Code Smells in Smart Contracts with Large Language Models TSE Jinan Jiang, Zihao Li, Haoran Qin, Muhui Jiang, Xiapu Luo, Xiaoming Wu, Haoyu Wang, Yutian Tang, Chenxiong Qian, Ting Chen IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{10757316,
author={Jiang, Jinan and Li, Zihao and Qin, Haoran and Jiang, Muhui and Luo, Xiapu and Wu, Xiaoming and Wang, Haoyu and Tang, Yutian and Qian, Chenxiong and Chen, Ting},
journal={ IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering },
title={{ Unearthing Gas-Wasting Code Smells in Smart Contracts With Large Language Models }},
year={2025},
volume={51},
number={04},
ISSN={1939-3520},
pages={879-903},
doi={10.1109/TSE.2024.3491578},
month=apr}

Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation TSE Zhichao Zhou^(s), Yuming Zhou, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Xiapu Luo, Jingzhu He, Yutian Tang* IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{10438901,
author={Zhou, Zhichao and Zhou, Yuming and Fang, Chunrong and Chen, Zhenyu and Luo, Xiapu and He, Jingzhu and Tang, Yutian},
journal={ IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering },
title={{ Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation }},
year={2024},
volume={50},
number={04},
ISSN={1939-3520},
pages={854-883},
month=apr}

ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation TSE Yutian Tang*, Zhijie Liu^(s), Zhichao Zhou, Xiapu Luo IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)[IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{10485640,
author={Tang, Yutian and Liu, Zhijie and Zhou, Zhichao and Luo, Xiapu},
journal={ IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering },
title={{ ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation }},
year={2024},
volume={50},
number={06},
ISSN={1939-3520},
pages={1340-1359},
doi={10.1109/TSE.2024.3382365},
month=jun}

No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT TSE Zhijie Liu^(s), Yutian Tang*, Xiapu Luo, Yuming Zhou, and Liang Feng Zhang IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{10507163,
  author={Liu, Zhijie and Tang, Yutian and Luo, Xiapu and Zhou, Yuming and Zhang, Liang Feng},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
  title={No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={50},
  number={6},
  pages={1548-1584},
  doi={10.1109/TSE.2024.3392499}}

2023

Uncovering Bugs in Code Coverage Profilers via Control Flow Constraint SolvingTSE Yang Wang, Peng Zhang, Zeyu Lu, Yibiao Yang, Yutian Tang, Yuming Zhou IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{10272026,
  author={Wang, Yang and Zhang, Peng and Sun, Maolin and Lu, Zeyu and Yang, Yibiao and Tang, Yutian and Qian, Junyan and Li, Zhi and Zhou, Yuming},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
  title={Uncovering Bugs in Code Coverage Profilers via Control Flow Constraint Solving}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={49},
  number={11},
  pages={4964-4987},
  doi={10.1109/TSE.2023.3321381}}

Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-granularity Malicious Components ASE Zhijie Liu^(s), Liangfeng Zhang, Yutian Tang* 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) [CCF-A][CORE-A*]

@inproceedings{10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00074,
author = {Liu, Zhijie and Zhang, Liang Feng and Tang, Yutian},
title = {Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-Granularity Malicious Components},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
pages = {1212–1224},
series = {ASE '23}
}

Deriving thresholds of object-oriented metrics to predict defect-proness of classes: A large-scale meta-analysis IJSEKE Yuanqing Mei, Yi Rong, Shiran Liu, Zhaoqiang Guo, Yibiao Yang, Hongmin Lu, Yutian Tang, Yuming Zhou International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ,[CCF-C][CORE-B]

@article{mei2023deriving,
  title={Deriving Thresholds of Object-Oriented Metrics to Predict Defect-Proneness of Classes: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis},
  author={Mei, Yuanqing and Rong, Yi and Liu, Shiran and Guo, Zhaoqiang and Yang, Yibiao and Lu, Hongmin and Tang, Yutian and Zhou, Yuming},
  journal={International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering},
  volume={33},
  number={05},
  pages={651--695},
  year={2023},
  publisher={World Scientific}}

Cheating Your Apps: Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Apps JSEP Hongchen Cao^(s), Shuai Li, Yuming Zhou, Ming Fan, Xuejiao Zhao, Yutian Tang* Journal of Software: Evolution and Process [CCF-B][CORE-B]

@article{caocheating,
  title={Cheating your apps: Black-box adversarial attacks on deep learning apps},
  author={Cao, Hongchen and Li, Shuai and Zhou, Yuming and Fan, Ming and Zhao, Xuejiao and Tang, Yutian},
  journal={Journal of Software: Evolution and Process},
  pages={e2528},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}}

2022

Selectively Combining Multiple Coverage Goals in Search-Based Unit Test Generation ASE Zhichao Zhou^(s), Yuming Zhou, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Yutian Tang* 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) [CCF-A][CORE-A*]

@inproceedings{10.1145/3551349.3556902,
author = {Zhou, Zhichao and Zhou, Yuming and Fang, Chunrong and Chen, Zhenyu and Tang, Yutian},
title = {Selectively Combining Multiple Coverage Goals in Search-Based Unit Test Generation},
year = {2023},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3556902},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
articleno = {91},
numpages = {12},
series = {ASE '22}
}

Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps with User Reviews TSE Le Yu, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Tao Zhang, Kang Liu, Jiachi Chen, Hao Zhou, Yutian Tang, Xusheng Xiao IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [CCF-A][JCR-Q1] [IF=9.32]

@ARTICLE{tse22,
  author={Yu, Le and Wang, Haoyu and Luo, Xiapu and Zhang, Tao and Liu, Kang and Chen, Jiachi and Zhou, Hao and Tang, Yutian and Xiao, Xusheng},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
  title={Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps With User Reviews}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={49},
  number={4},
  pages={1464-1486}}

XDebloat: Towards Automated Feature-Oriented App Debloating TSE Yutian Tang, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo*, Ting Chen, Haoyu Wang, Zhou Xu, and Yan Cai, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [CCF-A][JCR-Q1][IF=9.32]

@ARTICLE{tang:xdebloat,
  author={Tang, Yutian and Zhou, Hao and Luo, Xiapu and Chen, Ting and Wang, Haoyu and Xu, Zhou and Cai, Yan},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
  title={XDebloat: Towards Automated Feature-Oriented App Debloating}, 
  year={2022},
  volume={48},
  number={11},
  pages={4501-4520}}

Lie to Me: Abusing the Mobile Content Sharing Service for Fun and Profit WWW Guosheng Xu, Siyi Li, Hao Zhou, Shucen Liu, Yutian Tang, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, Xusheng Xiao, Guoai Xu and Haoyu Wang The Web Conference [CCF-A][Core-A*]

        @inproceedings{xu2022lie,
          title={Lie to me: Abusing the mobile content sharing service for fun and profit},
          author={Xu, Guosheng and Li, Siyi and Zhou, Hao and Liu, Shucen and Tang, Yutian and Li, Li and Luo, Xiapu and Xiao, Xusheng and Xu, Guoai and Wang, Haoyu},
          booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022},
          pages={3327--3335},
          year={2022}
        }

2021

BRNN-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Bi-directional Recurrent Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series Imputation ICPADS Zejun Wu, Chao Ma, Xiaochuan Shi, Libing Wu, Dian Zhang, Yutian Tang The 27th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems [CCF-C]

@INPROCEEDINGS{9763790,
  author={Wu, Zejun and Ma, Chao and Shi, Xiaochuan and Wu, Libing and Zhang, Dian and Tang, Yutian and Stojmenovic, Milos},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE 27th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)}, 
  title={BRNN-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Bi-directional Recurrent Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series Imputation}, 
  year={2021},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={217-224}}

Object-Level Remote Sensing Image Augmentation Using U-Net-Based Generative Adversarial Networks WCMC Jian Huang, Shanhui Liu, Yutian Tang*, Xiushan Zhang Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing [CCF-C][IF=2.146]

@article{huang2021object,
  title={Object-Level Remote Sensing Image Augmentation Using U-Net-Based Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author={Huang, Jian and Liu, Shanhui and Tang, Yutian and Zhang, Xiushan},
  journal={Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing},
  volume={2021},
  number={1},
  pages={1230279},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

AComNN: Attention Enhanced Compound Neural Network For Financial Time-Series Forecasting With Cross-Regional Features Applied Soft Zhen Yang, Jacky Keung, Md Alamgir Kabir, Xiao Yu, Yutian Tang, Miao Zhang, Shuo Feng Applied Soft Computing [JCR-Q1]

@article{YANG2021107649,
title = {AComNN: Attention enhanced Compound Neural Network for financial time-series forecasting with cross-regional features},
journal = {Applied Soft Computing},
volume = {111},
pages = {107649},
year = {2021},
issn = {1568-4946},
author = {Zhen Yang and Jacky Keung and Md Alamgir Kabir and Xiao Yu and Yutian Tang and Miao Zhang and Shuo Feng},
}

Simplified Deep Forest Model based Just-In-Time Defect Prediction for Android Mobile Apps TReli Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Tao Zhang, Yutian Tang, Meng Yan IEEE Transactions on Reliability [IF=3.177][CCF-C][JCR-Q1]

@ARTICLE{9380555,
  author={Zhao, Kunsong and Xu, Zhou and Zhang, Tao and Tang, Yutian and Yan, Meng},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Reliability}, 
  title={Simplified Deep Forest Model Based Just-in-Time Defect Prediction for Android Mobile Apps}, 
  year={2021},
  volume={70},
  number={2},
  pages={848-859},
  keywords={Forestry;Mobile applications;Predictive models;Feature extraction;Task analysis;Open source software;Vegetation;Deep forest;feature representation learning;just-in-time (JIT) defect prediction;mobile apps;quality assurance},
  doi={10.1109/TR.2021.3060937}}

Just-in-Time Defect Prediction for Android Apps via Imbalanced Deep Learning Model SAC Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Meng Yan, Yutian Tang, Ming Fan, Gemma Catolino SAC 2021

@inproceedings{10.1145/3412841.3442019,
          author = {Zhao, Kunsong and Xu, Zhou and Yan, Meng and Tang, Yutian and Fan, Ming and Catolino, Gemma},
          title = {Just-in-Time Defect Prediction for Android Apps via Imbalanced Deep Learning Model},
          year = {2021},
          booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing},
          pages = {1447–1454},
          series = {SAC '21}
          }

A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps TSE Yutian Tang, Haoyu Wang, Xian Zhan, Xiapu Luo*, Yajin Zhou, Hao Zhou, Qiben Yan, Yulei Sui, Jacky Keung, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [CCF-A][JCR-Q1] [IF=9.32]

@ARTICLE{tangtse:21a,
          author={Tang, Yutian and Wang, Haoyu and Zhan, Xian and Luo, Xiapu and Zhou, Yajin and Zhou, Hao and Yan, Qiben and Sui, Yulei and Keung, Jacky Wai},
          journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
          title={A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps}, 
          year={2021},
          volume={},
          number={},
          pages={1-20},
          doi={10.1109/TSE.2021.3077654}}

2020

Demystifying Diehard Android Apps ASE Hao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yutian Tang, Lei Xue, Ting Wang. ASE'20 [CCF-A] [Core-A*]

@INPROCEEDINGS{zhou:ase20,
            author={H. {Zhou} and H. {Wang} and Y. {Zhou} and X. {Luo} and Y. {Tang} and L. {Xue} and T. {Wang}},
            booktitle={2020 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, 
            title={Demystifying Diehard Android Apps}, 
            year={2020},
            volume={},
            number={187-198},}

Simplified Deep Forest Model based Just-In-Time Defect Prediction for Android Mobile Apps QRS Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Tao Zhang, Yutian Tang QRS'20 [CCF-C]

@inproceedings{zhao:qrs20,
        author = {Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Tao Zhang, and Yutian Tang},
        title = {Simplified Deep Forest Model based Just-In-Time Defect Prediction for Android Mobile Apps},
        year = {2020},
        booktitle = {20th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS)},
        }

All Your App Links are Belong to Us: Understanding the Threats of Instant Apps based Attacks ESEC/FSE Yutian Tang, Yulei Sui, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Hao Zhou, Zhou Xu. ESEC/FSE'20 [CCF-A][Core-A*]
[Highlight]: The vulnerability reported is confirmed by Google Security Team. [Referece]
The phase "are belong to" is used deliberately. See the wiki

@inproceedings{tang:fse20,
        author = {Tang, Yutian and Sui, Yulei and Wang, Haoyu and Luo, Xiapu and Zhou, Hao and Xu, Zhou},
        title = {All Your App Links Are Belong to Us: Understanding the Threats of Instant Apps Based Attacks},
        year = {2020},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
        pages = {914–926},
        series = {ESEC/FSE 2020}
        }

Resource Race Attacks on Android SANER Yan Cai, Yutian Tang, Haicheng Li, Le Yu, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Liang He, Purui Su SANER'20 [CCF-B][Core-A]
[Highlight]: The vulnerability reported is confirmed by Google Security Team.

@INPROCEEDINGS{cai:saner20,
              author={Y. {Cai} and Y. {Tang} and H. {Li} and L. {Yu} and H. {Zhou} and X. {Luo} and L. {He} and P. {Su}},
              booktitle={2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)}, 
              title={Resource Race Attacks on Android}, 
              year={2020},
              pages={47-58},}

Feature Selection and Embedding Based Cross Project Framework for Identifying Crashing Fault Residence IST Zhou Xu, Tao Zhang, Jacky Keung, Meng Yan, Xiapu Luo, Xiaohong Zhang, Ling Xu, Yutian Tang IST 2020[CCF-B][IF=3.862] .

@article{xu:ist20,
            title = "Feature selection and embedding based cross project framework for identifying crashing fault residence",
            journal = "Information and Software Technology",
            volume = "131",
            pages = "106452",
            year = "2021",
            author = "Zhou Xu and Tao Zhang and Jacky Keung and Meng Yan and Xiapu Luo and Xiaohong Zhang and Ling Xu and Yutian Tang",
            }

2019

Demystifying Application Performance Management Libraries for Android ASE Yutian Tang, Xian Zhan, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Zhou Xu, Yajin Zhou, Qiben Yan ASE 2019[CCF-A][Core-A*].

@INPROCEEDINGS{tang:ase19,
                author={Y. {Tang} and X. {Zhan} and H. {Zhou} and X. {Luo} and Z. {Xu} and Y. {Zhou} and Q. {Yan}},
                booktitle={2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, 
                title={Demystifying Application Performance Management Libraries for Android}, 
                year={2019},
                volume={},
                number={},
                pages={682-685},
                doi={10.1109/ASE.2019.00069}}

Identifying Crashing Fault Residence Based on Cross Project Model ISSRE Zhou Xu, Shuai Pang, Yifeng Zhang, Yutian Tang, Jin Liu, Xiapu Luo, Jacky Keung, Xiaohui Cui, ISSRE 2019[CCF-B][Core-A].

@INPROCEEDINGS{xu:issre19,
          author={Z. {Xu} and T. {Zhang} and Y. {Zhang} and Y. {Tang} and J. {Liu} and X. {Luo} and J. {Keung} and X. {Cui}},
          booktitle={2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)}, 
          title={Identifying Crashing Fault Residence Based on Cross Project Model}, 
          year={2019},
          volume={},
          number={},
          pages={183-194},
          doi={10.1109/ISSRE.2019.00027}}

MVSE: Effort-Aware Heterogeneous Defect Prediction via Multiple-View Spectral Embedding QRS Zhou Xu, Sizhe Ye, Tao Zhang, Zhen Xia, Shuai Pang, Yong Wang, Yutian Tang QRS 2019 [CCF-C].

@INPROCEEDINGS{xu:qrs19,
                author={Z. {Xu} and S. {Ye} and T. {Zhang} and Z. {Xia} and S. {Pang} and Y. {Wang} and Y. {Tang}},
                booktitle={2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)}, 
                title={MVSE: Effort-Aware Heterogeneous Defect Prediction via Multiple-View Spectral Embedding}, 
                year={2019},
                volume={},
                number={},
                pages={10-17}}

A Comparative Study of Android Repackaged Apps Detection Techniques SANER Xian Zhan, Tao Zhang, Yutian Tang SANER 2019 [CCF-B][Core-A].

@INPROCEEDINGS{xian:saner19,
                author={X. {Zhan} and T. {Zhang} and Y. {Tang}},
                booktitle={2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)}, 
                title={A Comparative Study of Android Repackaged Apps Detection Techniques}, 
                year={2019},
                pages={321-331},}

LDFR: Learning deep feature representation for software defect prediction JSS Zhou Xu, Shuai Li, Jun Xu, Jin Liu, Xiapu Luo, Yifeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jacky Keung, Yutian Tang Journal of System and Software (JSS) 2019 [CCF-B][IF=3.514][JCR-Q1].

@article{XU2019110402,
title = {LDFR: Learning deep feature representation for software defect prediction},
journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
volume = {158},
pages = {110402},
year = {2019},
issn = {0164-1212},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.110402}
}

Cross Project Defect Prediction via Balanced Distribution Adaptation based Transfer Learning JCST Zhou Xu, Shuai Pang, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Jin Liu, Yutian Tang, Xiao Yu, Lei Xue, JCST Journal 2019 [CCF-B][IF=1.87].

@article{xu:jcst19,
              title = "Cross Project Defect Prediction via Balanced Distribution Adaptation based Transfer Learning",
              journal = "Journal of Computer Science and Technology",
              volume = "24",
              number="5",
              pages = "1039--1062",
              year = "2019",
              author = "Zhou Xu, Shuai Pang, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Jin Liu, Yutian Tang, Xiao Yu, Lei Xue,",
            }

TSTSS: A Two-Stage Training Subset Selection Framework for Cross Version Defect Prediction JSS Zhou Xu, Shuai Li, Xiapu Luo, Jin Liu, Tao Zhang, Yutian Tang, Jun Xu, Peipei Yuan, Jacky Keung, JSS 2019 [CCF-B][IF=3.514][JCR-Q1].

@article{xu:jss19,
                title = "TSTSS: A two-stage training subset selection framework for cross version defect prediction",
                journal = "Journal of Systems and Software",
                volume = "154",
                pages = "59 - 78",
                year = "2019",
                author = "Zhou Xu and Shuai Li and Xiapu Luo and Jin Liu and Tao Zhang and Yutian Tang and Jun Xu and Peipei Yuan and Jacky Keung",
              }

On or before 2018

Software Defect Prediction Based on Kernel PCA and Weighted Extreme Learning Machine IST Zhou Xu, Jin Liu, Xiapu Luo, Zijiang Yang, Yifeng Zhang, Peipei Yuan,Yutian Tang, Tao Zhang, IST Journal [CCF-B][JCR-Q1][IF=3.862].

@article{xu:ist18,
            title = "Software defect prediction based on kernel PCA and weighted extreme learning machine",
            journal = "Information and Software Technology",
            volume = "106",
            pages = "182 - 200",
            year = "2019",
            author = "Zhou Xu and Jin Liu and Xiapu Luo and Zijiang Yang and Yifeng Zhang and Peipei Yuan and Yutian Tang and Tao Zhang",}

A Smart Context-aware Program Assistant based on Dynamic Programming Event Modeling ISSRE Xuejiao Zhao, Hongwei Li, Yutian Tang, Dongjing Gao, Lingfeng Bao, Chinghung Lee ISSRE 2018 [CCF-B][Core-A].
🏅[Highlight]: Best Industry Paper Award.

@INPROCEEDINGS{zhao:issre18,
            author={X. {Zhao} and H. {Li} and Y. {Tang} and D. {Gao} and L. {Bao} and C. {Lee}},
            booktitle={2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)}, 
            title={A Smart Context-Aware Program Assistant Based on Dynamic Programming Event Modeling}, 
            year={2018},
            pages={24-29},
            }

Cross Version Defect Prediction with Representative Data via Sparse Subset Selection ICPC Zhou Xu, Shuai Li,Yutian Tang, Xiapu Luo, Tao Zhang, Jin Liu, and Jun Xu, ICPC 2018 [CCF-B][Core-A].

@inproceedings{xu:icpc18,
                author = {Xu, Zhou and Li, Shuai and Tang, Yutian and Luo, Xiapu and Zhang, Tao and Liu, Jin and Xu, Jun},
                title = {Cross Version Defect Prediction with Representative Data via Sparse Subset Selection},
                year = {2018},
                booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension},
                pages = {132–143}}

Constructing Feature Model by Identifying Variability-aware Modules ICPC Yutian Tang, and Hareton Leung. ICPC 2017 [CCF-B][Core-A].

@INPROCEEDINGS{tang:icpc17,
                author={Y. {Tang} and H. {Leung}},
                booktitle={2017 IEEE/ACM 25th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)}, 
                title={Constructing Feature Model by Identifying Variability-Aware Modules}, 
                year={2017},
                pages={263-274},
                doi={10.1109/ICPC.2017.21}}

StiCProb: A Novel Feature Mining Approach using Conditional Probability SANER Yutian Tang, and Hareton Leung. SANER 2017 [CCF-B][Core-A].

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/wcre/TangL17,
  author       = {Yutian Tang and
                  Hareton Leung},
  title        = {StiCProb: {A} novel feature mining approach using conditional probability},
  booktitle    = {{IEEE} 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution
                  and Reengineering, {SANER} 2017, Klagenfurt, Austria, February 20-24,
                  2017},
  pages        = {45--55},
  year         = {2017}
}

Feature Mining for Product Line Construction SOFTENG Yutian Tang, and Hareton Leung. SOFTENG 2015.

@inproceedings{tang:softeng15,
          title        = {Feature Mining for Product Line Construction},
          author       = {Yutian Tang and Hareton Leung},
          booktitle    = {The First International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering (SOFTENG)},
          year         = 2015,
          address      = {Spain},
        }

A Top-down Feature Mining Framework for Software Product Line ICEIS Yutian Tang, Hareton Leung. 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 2015

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iceis/TangL15,
  author       = {Yutian Tang and
                  Hareton Leung},
  title        = {Top-down Feature Mining Framework for Software Product Line},
  booktitle    = {{ICEIS} 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
                  Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 2, Barcelona, Spain, 27-30
                  April, 2015},
  pages        = {71--81},
  publisher    = {SciTePress},
  year         = {2015},
  doi          = {10.5220/0005370300710081}
}