Awards

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, "Do not neglect what’s on your hands: localizing software faults with exception trigger stream", Xihao Zhang, Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Qi Xin, Chenliang Xing, 2024 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  (ACM SIGSOFT杰出论文奖)

  2024

• CCF开源创新大赛一等奖

  2024

• 我心目中的好导师, Wuhan University

  2023

• Top-12 speaker on "2023 AI Software Development Digital Summit"
  (2023 AI+软件研发数字峰会 (AiDD) Top 12 演讲嘉宾)

  2023

• Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists from NSFC
  (2022年基金委外国优秀青年学者研究基金获得者 (全国49人))

  2022

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, "Boosting the Revealing of Detected Violations in Deep Learning Testing: A Diversity-Guided Method", Xiaoyuan Xie, Pengbo Yin, and Songqiang Chen, 2022 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  (ACM SIGSOFT杰出论文奖)

  2022

• CCF NASAC Software Innovation Award for Young Researchers
  (2021年中国计算机学会NASAC青年软件创新奖 (该奖项针对在软件领域的科学研究、技术发明、系统开发及应用等方面有突出成就和重大贡献、年龄不超过40岁的软件领域研究人员，每年1-3人))

  2021

• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, "Testing Your Question Answering Software via Asking Recursively", Songqiang Chen, Shuo Jin, and Xiaoyuan Xie, 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  (ACM SIGSOFT杰出论文奖)

  2021

• ACM SIGEVO HUMIES 2017 Silver Medal, Human Competitiveness of Genetic Programming in Spectrum Based Fault Localisation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
  (ACM SigEvo HUMIES 2017银奖)

  2017

• Luojia Young Scholar, Wuhan University
  (武汉大学珞珈青年学者)

  2016

• Best Paper Award, "Application of Metamorphic Testing to Supervised Classifiers", Xiaoyuan Xie, Joshua Ho, Christian Murphy, Gail Kaiser, Baowen Xu and Tsong Yueh Chen, 9th International Conference on Quality Software
  (最佳论文奖)

  2009

• SUPRA, Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Awards
  (斯威本大学研究生研究奖)

  2008-2011

• Best Master Thesis of Jiangsu Province Award, "A Study on Some Applications of Evolutionary Testing", Xiaoyuan Xie, Master Thesis.
  (江苏省优秀硕士学位论文)

• Graduate Student Scholarship, First-class scholarship of excellent graduate students of Southeast University
  (东南大学优秀研究生一等奖学金)

  2005 and 2006

• Best Bachelor Thesis of Jiangsu Province Award, "A Study on Some Questions of Evolutionary Testing", Xiaoyuan Xie, Bachelor Thesis.
  (江苏省优秀本科毕业论文)

  2005

• Excellent Graduate Award, received my Bachelor Degree with being awarded the "Excellent graduate of Southeast University of 2005".
  (东南大学2005年度优秀毕业生)

  2005

Selected Publications

Refereed Journals

• [ASE25]

  RFMC-CS: a representation fusion based multi-view momentum contrastive learning framework for code search
  G. Chen, W. Liu, X. Xie
  Automated Software Engineering
  Vol.32, No.1, pp.1-16 (corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [TSE25]

  Metamorphic Testing of Image Captioning Systems via Image-Level Reduction
  X. Xie, X. Li, S. Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  (co-corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [TOSEM25]

  SURE: A Visualized Failure Indexing Approach using Program Memory Spectrum
  Y. Song, X. Zhang, X. Xie, S. Chen, Q. Liu, R. Gao
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  Vol.33, No.8, pp.1-43 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [TOSEM25]

  Word Closure-Based Metamorphic Testing for Machine Translation
  X. Xie, S. Jin, S. Chen, S.C. Cheung
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  Vol.33, No.8, pp.1-46 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [SCIS24]

  When Debugging Encounters Artificial Intelligence: State of the Art and Open Challenges
  Y. Song, X. Xie, B. Xu
  SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
  Vol.67, No.4, pp.141101 (co-first and corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ASE23]

  QAASKER+: a novel testing method for question answering software via asking recursive questions
  X. Xie, S. Jin, S. Chen
  Automated Software Engineering
  Vol.30, No.1, pp.14 (co-corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [JSS22]

  A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging
  Y. Song, X. Xie, Q. Liu, X. Zhang, X. Wu
  Journal of Systems and Software
  Vol.193, pp.111452 (corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [IST22]

  Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues
  J. Wang, X. Zhang, L. Chen, X. Xie
  Information and Software Technology
  Vol.145, pp.106845

  CCF-B
• [TR21]

  MULA: A Just-In-Time Multi-labeling System for Issue Reports
  X. Xie, Y. Su, S. Chen, L. Chen, J. Xuan, B. Xu
  IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  Vol.71, No.1, pp.250-263 (corresponding author)

  CCF-C
• [TR20]

  METTLE: a METamorphic testing approach to assessing and validating unsupervised machine LEarning systems
  X. Xie, Z. Zhang, T.Y. Chen, Y. Liu, P-L. Poon, B. Xu
  IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  Vol.69, No.4, pp.1293-1322 (corresponding author)

  CCF-C
• [ESE19]

  How does code style inconsistency affect pull request integration? an exploratory study on 117 github project
  W. Zou, J. Xuan, X. Xie, Z. Chen, B. Xu
  Empirical Software Engineering
  Vol.24, No.6, pp.3871-3903

  CCF-B
• [TSE19]

  Metric+: A metamorphic relation identification technique based on input plus output domains
  C-A. Sun, A. Fu, P-L. Poon, X. Xie, H. Liu, T. Y. Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

  CCF-A
• [JSS19]

  Does the fault reside in a stack trace? assisting crash localization by predicting crashing fault residence
  Y. Gu, J. Xuan, H. Zhang, L. Zhang, Q. Fan, X. Xie, T. Qian
  Journal of Systems and Software
  Vol.148, pp.88-104

  CCF-B
• [JSS19]

  On the analysis of spectrum based fault localization using hitting sets
  J. Tu , X. Xie , T. Y. Chen , B. Xu
  Journal of Systems and Software
  Vol.147, pp.106-123

  CCF-B
• [IST17]

  Software effort estimation based on open source projects: Case study of Github, Information and Software Technology
  F. Qi, X. Y. Jing, X. Zhu, X. Xie, B. Xu, S. Ying
  Information and Software Technology
  Vol.92, pp.145-157

  CCF-B
• [CI17]

  Multi-level random walk for software test suite reduction
  Z. Chi, J. Xuan, Z. Ren, X. Xie, H. Guo
  IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
  Vol.12, No.2, pp.24-33

  CCF-C
• [TOSEM17]

  Localisation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  S. Yoo, X. Xie, F-C. Kuo, T. Y. Chen, M. Harman
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  Vol.26(1), pp.4:1-4:30 (co-corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [TSC17]

  Localizing runtime anomalies in service-oriented systems
  Q. He, X. Xie, Y. Wang, D. Ye, F. Chen, H. Jin, Y. Yang
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  Vol.10, No.1, pp.94-106

  CCF-A
• [JSS16]

  METRIC: METamorphic Relation Identification based on the Category-choice framework
  T.Y. Chen, P-L. Poon, X. Xie
  Journal of Systems and Software
  Vol.116, pp. 177-190

  CCF-B
• [FGCS15]

  Search-based QoS Ranking Prediction for Web Services in Cloud Environments
  Chengying Mao, Jifu Chen, Dave Towey, Jinfu Chen, X. Xie
  Future Generation Computer Systems
  Vol.50, No.C, pp:111-126

  CCF-C
• [TOSEM13]

  A Theoretical Analysis of The Risk Evaluation Formulas for Spectrum-Based Fault Localization
  X. Xie, T. Y. Chen, F.-C. Kuo, B. W. Xu
  ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology
  Vol. 22, No.4, pp.31:1-31:40

  CCF-A
• [IST13]

  Metamorphic Slice: An Application in Spectrum-Based Fault
  X. Xie, W. E. Wong, T. Y. Chen, B. W. Xu
  Information and Software Technology
  Vol.55, No.5, pp.866-879

  CCF-B
• [JSS11]

  Testing and Validating Machine Learning Classifiers by Metamorphic Testing
  X. Xie, J. W. K. Ho, C. Murphy, G. Kaiser, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen
  Journal of Systems and Software
  Vol.84, No.4, pp.544-558

  CCF-B
• [BMCB09]

  An Innovative Approach for Testing Bioinformatics Programs Using Metamorphic Testing
  T. Y. Chen, J. W. K. Ho, H. Liu, and X. Xie
  BMC Bioinformatics
  Vol.10, No.1, pp.24-35 (alphabetic author order)-highly accessed

  CCF-C
• [JSS09]

  Genetic Test Case Generation for Path-oriented Testing
  X. Xie, B. W. Xu, L. Shi, C. H. Nie
  Journal of Software
  Vol.20, No.12, pp.3117-3136

  CCF-B
• [FCST08]

  Survey of Evolutionary Testing
  X. Xie, L. Xu, B. W. Xu, C. H. Nie, and L. Shi
  Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology
  Vol.2, No.5, pp.449-466
• [CS&NS06]

  An Empirical Study of Configuration Strategies of Evolutionary Testing
  L. Shi, B. W. Xu, X. Xie
  International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
  Vol.6, No.1A, pp.44-49

Refereed Conferences

• [ICSE25]

  HedgeCode: A Multi-Task Hedging Contrastive Learning Framework for Code Search
  G. Chen, X. Xie, D. Tang, Q. Xin, W. Liu
  IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering
  pp.89-100 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ASE24]

  Do Not Neglect What's on Your Hands: Localizing Software Faults with Exception Trigger Stream
  X. Zhang, Y. Song, X. Xie, Q. Xin, C. Xing
  Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  pp. 982-994 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [QRS24]

  FMCS: Improving Code Search by Multi-Modal Representation Fusion and Momentum Contrastive Learning
  W. Liu, G. Chen, X. Xie
  IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security
  pp. 632-638 (corresponding author)

  CCF-C
• [ISSTA24]

  FastLog: An End-to-End Method to Efficiently Generate and Insert Logging Statements
  X. Xie, Z. Cai, S. Chen, J. Xuan
  Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
  pp. 26-37 (co-corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ICSE24]

  ReClues: Representing and indexing failures in parallel debugging with program variables
  Y. Song, X. Zhang, X. Xie, Q. Liu, R. Gao, C. Xing
  Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering
  pp.1-13 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ICPC23]

  Properly Offer Options to Improve the Practicality of Software Document Completion Tools
  Z. Cai, S. Chen, X. Xie
  IEEE/ACM 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension
  pp.237-241 (corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [DASFAA23]

  ML-KGCL: Multi-level Knowledge Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
  G. Chen, X. Xie
  International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
  pp.253-268 (corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [ASE22]

  Boosting the Revealing of Detected Violations in Deep Learning Testing: A Diversity-Guided Method
  X. Xie, P. Yin, S. Chen
  Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  pp.1-13 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ASE22]

  Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault Isolation
  Y. Song, X. Xie, X. Zhang, Q. Liu, R. Gao
  Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  pp.1-13 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ISSRE22]

  Towards the Robustness of Multiple Object Tracking Systems
  X. Xie, Y. Duan, S. Chen and J. Xuan
  Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
  pp.402-413 (co-corresponding author)

  CCF-B
• [ASE21]

  Testing Your Question Answering Software via Asking Recursively
  S. Chen, S. Jin, X. Xie
  Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
  pp.104-116 (co-first and corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [ASE21]

  Property-based Test for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool
  S. Jin, S. Chen, X. Xie
  Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering NIER Track
  pp.1306-1311 (corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [FSE21]

  Validation on machine reading comprehension software without annotated labels: a property-based method
  S. Chen, S. Jin, X. Xie
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  pp.590-602 (co-first and corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [SANER21]

  Towards Understanding Tool-chain Bugs in the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
  X. Xie, H. Yang, Q. He, L. Chen
  IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
  pp.1-11

  CCF-B
• [ASE20]

  Stay professional and efficient: automatically generate titles for your bug reports
  S. Chen, X. Xie, B. Yin, Y. Ji, L. Chen, B. Xu
  Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  (co-first and corresponding author)

  CCF-A
• [QRS19]

  On the investigation of essential diversities for deep learning testing criteria
  Z. Zhang, X. Xie
  IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security
  pp.394-405 (corresponding author)

  CCF-C
• [ICSME18]

  How do multiple pull requests change the same code: A study of competing pull requests in github
  X. Zhang, Y. Chen, Y. Gu, W. Zou, X. Xie, X. Jia, J. Xuan
  IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
  pp.228-239

  CCF-B
• [QRS16]

  Test case prioritization using adaptive random sequence with category-partition-based distance
  X. Zhang, X. Xie, T. Y. Chen
  IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security
  pp.374-385

  CCF-C
• [ICSE16]

  Revisit of automatic debugging via human focus-tracking analysis
  X. Xie, Z. Liu, S. Song, Z. Chen, J. Xuan, B. Xu
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering
  pp.808-819

  CCF-A
• [COMPSAC16]

  Code Coverage-based Failure Proximity without Test Oracles
  J. Tu, X. Xie, B.W. Xu
  IEEE 40th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference
  Vol.1, pp.133-142

  CCF-C
• [MET16]

  Looking for an MR? Try METWiki today
  X. Xie, J. Li, C. Wang, T. Y. Chen
  The 1st International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing (MET) co-located with ICSE
  (corresponding author)
• [COMPSAC15]

  A Revisit of a Theoretical Analysis on Spectrum-Based Fault Localization
  T.Y. Chen, X. Xie, F-C. Kuo, B.W. Xu
  IEEE 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference
  pp.17-22 (corresponding author)

  CCF-C
• [FSE15]

  Crash Reproduction via Test Case Mutation: Let Existing Test Cases Help
  J. Xuan, X. Xie, M. Monperrus
  Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
  pp. 910-913

  CCF-A
• [ICSC15]

  Spectrum-Based Runtime Anomaly Localisation in Service-Based Systems
  Q. He, X. Xie, F. Chen, C. Wang, R. Vasa, Y. Yang and H. Jin
  Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Service Computing
  pp.90-97
• [QSIC14]

  Bottom-up Integration Testing with the Technique of Metamorphic Testing
  X. Xie, J. Tu, T. Y. Chen, B. Xu
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Quality Software
  pp.73-78
• [SSBSE13]

  Provably Optimal and Human-Competitive Results in SBSE for Spectrum Based Fault Localisation
  X. Xie, F.-C. Kuo, T. Y. Chen, S. Yoo and M. Harman
  Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering
  pp.224-238
• [QSIC11]

  Spectrum-Based Fault Localization: Testing Oracles Are No Longer Mandatory
  X. Xie, W. E. Wong, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen
  Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Quality Software
  pp.1-10
• [COMPSACW10]

  An Optimization Strategy for Evolutionary Testing Based on Cataclysm
  M. Wang, B. Li, Z. Wang, and X. Xie
  Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops
  pp.359-364

  CCF-C
• [QSIC10]

  Isolating Suspiciousness from Spectrum-Based Fault Localization Techniques
  X. Xie, T. Y. Chen, B. W. Xu
  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quality Software
  
• [QSIC09]

  Application of Metamorphic Testing to Supervised Classifiers
  X. Xie, J. W. K. Ho, C. Murphy, G. Kaiser, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quality Software
  Bestpaper Award
  pp.135-144
• [APSEC05]

  A Dynamic Optimization Strategy for Evolutionary Testing
  X. Xie, B. W. Xu, L. Shi, C. H. Nie, Y. X. He
  Proceedings of the 12th ASIA-PACIFIC Software Engineering Conference
  pp.568-575

  CCF-C
• [COMPSAC05]

  Configuration Strategies for Evolutionary Testing
  X. Xie, B. W. Xu, C. H. Nie, L. Shi
  Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
  Vol.2, pp.13-14

  CCF-C

Book (Chapter)

• X. Xie, W. E. Wong, Theoretical Aspects of Software Fault Localization

  pp. 451-472, Handbook of Software Fault Localization: Foundations and Advances

  2023

• X. Xie, B. Xu, Essential Spectrum-based Fault Localization

  2021

• B. Xu, X. Xie, L. Shi, C. Nie, Application of Genetic Algorithms in Software Testing. Advances in Machine Learning Application in Software Engineering

  pp. 287-317, IGI Global

  2007

Others

• X. Xie, F.-C. Kuo, T. Y. Chen, S. Yoo, M. Harman, Theoretical Analysis of GP-Evolved Risk Evaluation Formulas for Spectrum Based Fault Localisation. Research Note RN/13/06

  Department of Computer Science, University College London

  2013

• X. Xie, W. E. Wong, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen, Spectrum-based Fault Localization Without Test Oracles. Technical Report UTDCS-07-10

  Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

  2010

Academic Services

• PC Members of ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA

• AE of Frontiers of Computer Science

• Guest Editors of JSS, STVR, IST

• PC Chair of International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing

• PC Chair of ICPC2024 Tool Demo Track

Teaching Experience

• Software Testing

• Compiler Principles