Tao Xie - Selected Publications


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Selected Publications in Recent Major Conferences (2005-Present)

10 ICSE papers, 7 FSE papers, 4 ISSTA papers, 1 OOPSLA paper, 2 ECOOP papers, 9 ASE papers

1 SIGMETRICS paper, 2 WWW papers, 2 USENIX Security 1 DSN paper

Selected Publications of Current/Past Students from NCSU ASE


ICSE (10)

[ICSE 2012] Inferring Method Specifications from Natural Language API Descriptions
[ICSE 2012] Performance Debugging in the Large via Mining Millions of Stack Traces
[ICSE 2011] Precise Identification of Problems for Structural Test Generation
[ICSE 2010] Mining API Mapping for Language Migration
[ICSE 2010] Is Operator-Based Mutant Selection Superior to Random Mutant Selection?
[ICSE 2009] Mining Exception-Handling Rules as Conditional Association Rules
[ICSE 2009] Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings for Software Internationalization
[ICSE 2008] An Approach to Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports using Natural Language and Execution Information
[ICSE 2007]
Automated Inference of Pointcuts in Aspect-Oriented Refactoring
[ICSE 2005] Helping Users Avoid Bugs in GUI Applications 

FSE (7)

[FSE 2012] Automated Extraction of Security Policies from Natural-Language Software Documents
[FSE 2012] How Do Software Engineers Understand Code Changes? An Exploratory Study in Industry
[FSE 2012] Automating Presentation Changes in Dynamic Web Applications via Collaborative Hybrid Analysis
[ESEC/FSE 2011] Testing Software In Age Of Data Privacy: A Balancing Act
[FSE 2010]           Locating Need-to-Translate Constant Strings in Web Applications 
[ESEC/FSE 2009] MSeqGen: Object-Oriented Unit-Test Generation via Mining Source Code
[ESEC/FSE 2007] Mining API Patterns as Partial Orders from Source Code: From Usage Scenarios to Specifications 

ISSTA (4)

[ISSTA 2013] Context-Sensitive Delta Inference for Identifying Workload-Dependent Performance Bottlenecks
[ISSTA 2011] eXpress: Guided Path Exploration for Efficient Regression Test Generation
[ISSTA 2010] OCAT: Object Capture-based Automated Testing
[ISSTA 2009] Time-Aware Test-Case Prioritization using Integer Linear Programming

OOPSLA (1)

[OOPSLA 2011] Synthesizing Method Sequences for High-Coverage Testing 

ECOOP (2)

[ECOOP 2009] MAPO: Mining and Recommending API Usage Patterns
[ECOOP 2006] Augmenting Automatically Generated Unit-Test Suites with Regression Oracle Checking

ASE (9)

[ASE 2011] Generating Program Inputs for Database Application Testing
[ASE 2011] Iterative Mining of Resource-Releasing Specifications
[ASE 2010] Automatic Construction of an Effective Training Set for Prioritizing Static Analysis Warnings
[ASE 2009] Inferring Resource Specifications from Natural Language API Documentation Best Paper Award and ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
[ASE 2009] Alattin: Mining Alternative Patterns for Detecting Neglected Conditions
[ASE 2008] SpotWeb: Detecting Framework Hotspots and Coldspots via Mining Open Source Code on the Web
[ASE 2008] Improving Structural Testing of Object-Oriented Programs via Integrating Evolutionary Testing and Symbolic Execution
[ASE 2007] PARSEWeb: A Programmer Assistant for Reusing Open Source Code on the Web
[ASE 2006] An Empirical Comparison of Automated Generation and Classification Techniques for Object-Oriented Unit Testing

SIGMETRICS (1)

[SIGMETRICS 2008] XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine

WWW (2)

[WWW 2013] Inferring Dependency Constraints on Parameters for Web Services
[WWW 2007] A Fault Model and Mutation Testing of Access Control Policies

USENIX Security (2)

[USENIX Security 2013] WHYPER: Towards Automating Risk Assessment of Mobile Applications
[USENIX Security 2013] MetaSymploit: Day-One Defense Against Script-based Attacks with Security-Enhanced Symbolic Analysis

DSN (1)

[DSN 2009] Fitness-Guided Path Exploration in Dynamic Symbolic Execution


Selected Publications of Current/Past Students from NCSU ASE

Past Students