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

• X. Xie, X. Li, S. Chen, Metamorphic Testing of Image Captioning Systems via Image-Level Reduction, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

  (co-corresponding author)

  2024

• Y. Song, X. Zhang, X. Xie, S. Chen, Q. Liu, R. Gao, SURE: A Visualized Failure Indexing Approach using Program Memory Spectrum, accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  (corresponding author)

  2024

• X. Xie, S. Jin, S. Chen, S.C. Cheung, Word Closure-Based Metamorphic Testing for Machine Translation, accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  (co-corresponding author)

  2024

• Y. Song, X. Xie, B. Xu, When Debugging Encounters Artificial Intelligence: State of the Art and Open Challenges, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences

  Vol.67, No.4, pp.141101. (co-first and corresponding author)

  2024

• X. Xie, S. Jin, S. Chen, QAASKER+: a novel testing method for question answering software via asking recursive questions, Automated Software Engineering

  Vol.30, No.1, pp.14. (co-corresponding author)

  2023

• Y. Song, X. Xie, Q. Liu, X. Zhang, X. Wu, A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging, Journal of Systems and Software

  Vol.193, pp.111452. (corresponding author)

  2022

• J. Wang, X. Zhang, L. Chen, X. Xie, Personalizing label prediction for GitHub issues, Information and Software Technology

  Vol.145, pp.106845.

  2022

• X. Xie, Y. Su, S. Chen, L. Chen, J. Xuan, B. Xu, MULA: A Just-In-Time Multi-labeling System for Issue Reports, IEEE Transactions on Reliability

  Vol.71, No.1, pp.250-263. (corresponding author)

  2021

• X. Xie, Z. Zhang, T.Y. Chen, Y. Liu, P-L. Poon, B. Xu, METTLE: a METamorphic testing approach to assessing and validating unsupervised machine LEarning systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability

  Vol.69, No.4, pp.1293-1322. (corresponding author)

  2020

• W. Zou, J. Xuan, X. Xie, Z. Chen, B. Xu, How does code style inconsistency affect pull request integration? an exploratory study on 117 github project, Empirical Software Engineering

  Vol.24, No.6, pp.3871-3903.

  2019

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

  2019

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

  Vol.148, pp. 88-104.

  2019

• J. Tu , X. Xie , T. Y. Chen , B. Xu , On the analysis of spectrum based fault localization using hitting sets, Journal of Systems and Software

  Vol.147, pp. 106-123.

  2019

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

  Vol.92, pp.145-157.

  2017

• Z. Chi, J. Xuan, Z. Ren, X. Xie, H. Guo, Multi-level random walk for software test suite reduction, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

  Vol.12, No.2, pp.24-33.

  2017

• S. Yoo (*), X. Xie (*), F-C. Kuo, T. Y. Chen, M. Harman, Human Competitiveness of Genetic Programming in Spectrum-Based Fault Localisation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

  26(1), pp. 4:1-4:30. (co-corresponding author)

  2017

• Q. He, X. Xie, Y. Wang, D. Ye, F. Chen, H. Jin, Y. Yang, Localizing runtime anomalies in service-oriented systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

  Vol.10, No.1, pp.94-106.

  2017

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

  Vol.116, pp. 177-190.

  2016

• Chengying Mao, Jifu Chen, Dave Towey, Jinfu Chen, X.Xie, Search-based QoS Ranking Prediction for Web Services in Cloud Environments, Future Generation Computer Systems,

  Vol. 50, No.C, pp: 111-126.

  2015

• X. Xie, T. Y. Chen, F.-C. Kuo, B. W. Xu, A Theoretical Analysis of The Risk Evaluation Formulas for Spectrum-Based Fault Localization, ACM Transaction on Software Engineering and Methodology,

  Vol. 22, No.4, pp. 31:1-31:40.

  2013

• X. Xie, W. E. Wong, T. Y. Chen, B. W. Xu, Metamorphic Slice: An Application in Spectrum-Based Fault Localization, Information and Software Technology

  Vol.55, No. 5, pp. 866-879.

  2013

• X. Xie, J. W. K. Ho, C. Murphy, G. Kaiser, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen, Testing and Validating Machine Learning Classifiers by Metamorphic Testing, Journal of Systems and Software,

  Vol.84, No. 4, pp. 544-558.

  2011

• T. Y. Chen, J. W. K. Ho, H. Liu, and X. Xie, An Innovative Approach for Testing Bioinformatics Programs Using Metamorphic Testing, BMC Bioinformatics,

  Vol.10, No.1, pp. 24-35. (alphabetic author order) -highly accessed

  2009

• X. Xie, B. W. Xu, L. Shi, C. H. Nie, Genetic Test Case Generation for Path-oriented Testing, Journal of Software,

  Vol.20, No.12, pp. 3117-3136.

  2009

• X. Xie, L. Xu, B. W. Xu, C. H. Nie, and L. Shi, Survey of Evolutionary Testing, Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology

  Vol.2, No.5, pp.449-466.

  2008

• L. Shi, B. W. Xu, X. Xie, An Empirical Study of Configuration Strategies of Evolutionary Testing, International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security,

  Vol.6, No.1A, pp.44-49.

  2006

Refereed Conferences

• G. Chen, X. Xie, D. Tang, Q. Xin, W. Liu, HedgeCode: A Multi-Task Hedging Contrastive Learning Framework for Code Search, accepted by the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

  (corresponding author)

  2025

• X. Zhang, Y. Song, X. Xie, Q. Xin, C. Xing, Do Not Neglect What's on Your Hands: Localizing Software Faults with Exception Trigger Stream, accepted by the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

  (corresponding author)

  2024

• X. Xie, Z. Cai, S. Chen, J. Xuan, FastLog: An End-to-End Method to Efficiently Generate and Insert Logging Statements, accepted by the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)

  (co-corresponding author)

  2024

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

  pp.1-13. (corresponding author)

  2024

• G. Chen, X. Xie, ML-KGCL: Multi-level Knowledge Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation, the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)

  pp.253-268. (corresponding author)

  2023

• X. Xie, P. Yin, S. Chen, Boosting the Revealing of Detected Violations in Deep Learning Testing: A Diversity-Guided Method, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

  pp.1-13. (corresponding author, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)

  2022

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

  pp.1-13. (corresponding author)

  2022

• X. Xie, Y. Duan, S. Chen and J. Xuan, Towards the Robustness of Multiple Object Tracking Systems, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)

  pp.402-413. (co-corresponding author)

  2022

• S. Chen, S. Jin, X. Xie, Testing Your Question Answering Software via Asking Recursively, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

  pp.104-116. (co-first and corresponding author, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)

  2021

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

  pp.1306-1311. (corresponding author)

  2021

• S. Chen, S. Jin, X. Xie, Validation on machine reading comprehension software without annotated labels: a property-based method, Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)

  pp.590-602. (co-first and corresponding author)

  2021

• X. Xie, H. Yang, Q. He, L. Chen, Towards Understanding Tool-chain Bugs in the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

  pp.1-11

  2021

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

  pp.385-397. (co-first and corresponding author)

  2020

• Z. Zhang, X. Xie, On the investigation of essential diversities for deep learning testing criteria, 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)

  pp.394-405. (corresponding author)

  2019

• X. Zhang, Y. Chen, Y. Gu, W. Zou, X. Xie, X. Jia, J. Xuan, How do multiple pull requests change the same code: A study of competing pull requests in github, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

  pp.228-239.

  2018

• X. Zhang, X. Xie, T. Y. Chen, Test case prioritization using adaptive random sequence with category-partition-based distance, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)

  pp.374-385.

  2016

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

  pp.808-819.

  2016

• J. Tu, X. Xie, B.W. Xu, Code Coverage-based Failure Proximity without Test Oracles, accepted by IEEE 40th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

  2016

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

  2016

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

  pp.17-22.

  2015

• J. Xuan, X. Xie, M. Monperrus, Crash Reproduction via Test Case Mutation: Let Existing Test Cases Help, Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

  pp. 910-913.

  2015

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

  pp.90-97.

  2015

• X. Xie, J. Tu, T. Y. Chen, B. Xu, Bottom-up Integration Testing with the Technique of Metamorphic Testing. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC)

  Dallas, USA, pp.73-78.

  2014

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

  Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 224-238.

  2013

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

  Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-10.

  2011

• M. Wang,B. Li, Z. Wang, and X. Xie, An Optimization Strategy for Evolutionary Testing Based on Cataclysm. Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW)

  Seoul, Korea, pp.359-364.

  2010

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

  Zhangjia Jie, China, pp. 385-392.

  2010

• X.Xie, J. W. K. Ho, C. Murphy, G. Kaiser, B. W. Xu, and T. Y. Chen, Application of Metamorphic Testing to Supervised Classifiers. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC)

  Jeju, Korea, pp. 135-144 (Bestpaper).

  2009

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

  Taipei, Taiwanpp. 568-575.

  2005

• X. Xie, B. W. Xu, C. H. Nie, L. Shi, Configuration Strategies for Evolutionary Testing. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

  Edinburgh, Scotland, vol. 2, pp. 13-14.

  2005

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