Publications

* for corresponding authors; ^(s) for students under my supervision;
Papers on JCR-Q1 journals (11)
Papers on CORE A/A* (25): CORE A*(13), CORE A(12)
33 REF*-able Papers, 13 (likely to be) REF4* Papers

Papers on top venues /CCF-A(13): ESEC/FSE (1), ASE (4), WWW (1), TSE (7)
Papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions on X (8): TSE (7), TReli (1)
Papers on well-known venues (13): SANER (3), ISSRE (2), ICPC(2), IST (2), JSS (2), JCST (1), JSEP(1)
The CORE conference ranking can be found at here, journal ranking can be found at here
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2024

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) [JCR-Q1][IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*]
ChatGPT vs SBST: A Comparative Assessment of Unit Test Suite Generation TSE Yutian Tang*, Zhijie Liu, Zhichao Zhou, Xiapu Luo IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) [JCR-Q1][IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*]
No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT TSE Zhijie Liu, Yutian Tang*, Xiapu Luo, Yuming Zhou, and Liang Feng Zhang IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) (in Minor revision) [JCR-Q1][IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*]

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) [JCR-Q1][IF=9.32] [CCF-A][CORE-A*]

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{zhijie:ase23,
            author={Z. {Liu} and L. {Zhang} and Y. {Tang}},
            booktitle={2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, 
            title={Enhancing Malware Detection for Android Apps: Detecting Fine-granularity Malicious Components}, 
            year={2023},
            volume={},
            number={1-12},}

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{zhou:ase20,
            author={Z. {Zhou} and Y. {Zhou} and C. {Fang} and Z. {Chen} and Y. {Tang}},
            booktitle={2022 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, 
            title={Selectively Combining Multiple Coverage Goals in Search-Based Unit Test Generation}, 
            year={2022},
            volume={},
            number={1-12},}

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{TSE2020,
          author={Le Yu, Haoyu Wang, Xiapu Luo, Tao Zhang, Kang Liu, Jiachi Chen, Hao Zhou, Yutian Tang, and Xusheng Xiao},
          journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
          title={Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps with User Reviews}, 
          year={2022},
          volume={},
          number={},
          pages={}}

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={2021},
          volume={},
          number={},
          pages={1-19},
          doi={10.1109/TSE.2021.3120213}}

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]

@ARTICLE{yang:icpads,
          author={Zejun Wu, Chao Ma, Xiaochuan Shi, Libing Wu, Dian Zhang, Yutian Tang},
          journal={IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, 
          title={BRNN-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Bi-directional Recurrent Neural Networks for Multivariate Time Series Imputation, 
          year={2021},
          pages={1-8}}

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{yang:wcmc,
          author={Jian Huang, Shanhui Liu, Yutian Tang, Xiushan Zhang },
          journal={Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing }, 
          title={Object-Level Remote Sensing Image Augmentation Using U-Net-Based Generative Adversarial Networks, 
          year={2021},
          pages={1-12}}

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

@ARTICLE{yang:asc,
  author={Zhen Yang, Jacky Keung, Md Alamgir Kabir, Xiao Yu, Yutian Tang, Miao Zhang, Shuo Feng},
  journal={Applied Soft Computing}, 
  title={AComNN: Attention Enhanced Compound Neural Network For Financial Time-Series Forecasting With Cross-Regional Features}, 
  year={2021},
  pages={1-33}}

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 [JCR-Q1][IF=3.177][CCF-C]

@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},
  pages={1-12}}

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][JCR-Q1][IF=3.514].

@article{xu:jss19a,
                title = "LDFR: Learning deep feature representation for software defect prediction",
                journal = "Journal of Systems and Software",
                volume = "158",
                year = "2019",
                author = "Zhou Xu, Shuai Li, Jun Xu, Jin Liu, Xiapu Luo, Yifeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jacky Keung, and Yutian Tang",
              }

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][JCR-Q1][IF=3.514].

@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{tang:saner17,  
             author={Y. {Tang} and H. {Leung}}, 
             booktitle={2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)},   
             title={StiCProb: A novel feature mining approach using conditional probability},   
             year={2017},
             pages={45-55},
             doi={10.1109/SANER.2017.7884608}}

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

@article{tang:iceis15,
      title        = {A Top-down Feature Mining Framework for Software Product Line},
      author       = {Yutian Tang and Harton Leung},
      journal      = {17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS)},
      year         = 2015,
      }