Publication

[17] [TSE'25] Zhonghao Jiang, Meng Yan, Li Huang, Weifeng Sun, Chao Liu, Song Sun, David Lo. "DeepVec: State-Vector Aware Test Case Selection for Enhancing Recurrent Neural Network". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2025 [PDF]

[16] [TSE'25] Hongyan Li✰, Weifeng Sun✰, Meng Yan, Ling Xu, Qiang Li, Xiaohong Zhang, Hongyu Zhang. "Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning for Improving Retrieve-and-Edit Based Assertion Generation". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2025 [PDF]

[15] [ASEJ'25] Xiao Liu, Yinkang Xu, Weifeng Sun*, Naiqi Huang, Song Sun, Qiang Li, Dan Yang, Meng Yan*. "TAB: Template-Aware Bug Report Title Generation via Two-Phase Fine-tuned Models". Automated Software Engineering (ASEJ, CCF-B), 2025 [PDF]

[14] [TOSEM'24] Quanjun Zhang✰, Weifeng Sun✰, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Jianyi Zhou, Zhenyu Chen. "Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2024 [PDF]

[13] [TSE'24] Weifeng Sun, Zhenting Guo, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Yan Lei, Hongyu Zhang. "Method-Level Test-to-Code Traceability Link Construction by Semantic Correlation Learning". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2024 [PDF]

[12] [TOSEM'24] Li Huang✰, Weifeng Sun✰, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Yan Lei, David Lo. "Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2024 [PDF]

[11] [TSE'24] Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Junlong Lian, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, Haibo Chen. "Toward Cost-effective Adaptive Random Testing: An Approximate Nearest Neighbor Approach". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2024 [PDF]

[10] [TSE'23] Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, David Lo. "Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2023 [PDF]

[9] [TOSEM'23] Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, Yan Lei, David Lo. "Revisiting the Identification of the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2023 [PDF]

[8] [JSS'23] Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Weifeng Sun, Xiao Liu, Yunsong Wu. "A first look at bug report templates on GitHub". Journal of Systems and Software (JSS, CCF-B), 2023 [PDF]

[7] [TR'23] Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, Junlong Lian. "VPP-ART: An Efficient Implementation of Fixed-Size-Candidate-Set Adaptive Random Testing Using Vantage Point Partitioning". IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR, JCR Q1), 2023 [PDF]

[6] [SCP'22] Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun*, Haibo Chen, Chenhui Cui, Ning Yang. "A nearest-neighbor divide-and-conquer approach for adaptive random testing". Science of Computer Programming (SCP, CCF-B, Corresponding Author), 2022 [PDF]

[5] [SCP'22] Rubing Huang, Haibo Chen, Weifeng Sun, Dave Towey. "Candidate test set reduction for adaptive random testing: An overheads reduction technique". Science of Computer Programming (SCP, CCF-B) (Invited to SANER 2023 as part of the Journal First Paper Track), 2022 [PDF]

[4] [JSS'21] Rubing Huang, Quanjun Zhang, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, Jinfu Chen. "Regression test case prioritization by code combinations coverage". Journal of Systems and Software (JSS, CCF-B), 2021 [PDF]

[3] [TETCI'20] Rubing Huang,Weifeng Sun (First-author student), Tsong Yueh Chen, Sebastian Ng, Jinfu Chen. "Identification of failure regions for programs with numeric inputs". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI, JCR Q2), 2020 [PDF]

[2] [TSE'19] Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun (First-author student), Yinyin Xu, Haibo Chen, Dave Towey, Xin Xia. "A survey on adaptive random testing". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2019 [PDF]

[1] [TR'19] Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun (First-author student), Tsong Yueh Chen, Dave Towey, Jinfu Chen, Weiwen Zong, Yunan Zhou. "Abstract test case prioritization using repeated small-strength level-combination coverage". IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR, JCR Q1), 2019 [PDF]

[8] [ICSE'25] Li Huang, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan. "Iterative Generation of Adversarial Example for Deep Code Models". The 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, CCF-A), Full paper (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award), 2025 [PDF]

[7] [Internetware'24] Zhonghao Jiang, Weifeng Sun, Xiaoyan Gu, Jiaxin Wu, Tao Wen, Haibo Hu, Meng Yan. "DFEPT: Data Flow Embedding for Enhancing Pre-Trained Model Based Vulnerability Detection". The 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware, CCF-C), Full paper, 2024 [PDF]

[6] [QRS'23] Zhenting Guo, Meng Yan, Hongyan Li, Zhezhe Chen, Weifeng Sun. "Just-In-Time Method Name Updating With Heuristics and Neural Model". The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS, CCF-C), Full paper, 2023 [PDF]

[5] [ASE'23] Weifeng Sun✰, Hongyan Li✰, Meng Yan, Yan Lei, Hongyu Zhang. "Revisiting and Improving Retrieval-Augmented Deep Assertion Generation". The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE, CCF-A), Full paper, 2023 [PDF]

[4] [SANER'23] Yisheng Xia, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Lei Xu, Dan Yang. "An Adaptive Partition-Based Approach for Adaptive Random Testing on Real Programs". The 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER, CCF-B), Short paper, 2023 [PDF]

[3] [DSA'21] Junlong Lian, Chenhui Cui, Weifeng Sun, Yiming Wu, Rubing Huang. "KD-RRT: Restricted Random Testing based on K-Dimensional Tree". The 8th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA, EI), 2021 [PDF]

[2] [SAC'21] Weifeng Sun, Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Haibo Chen, Weijie Liu. "Which type of exclusion region is better for restricted random testing? an empirical study". The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC, EI), Short paper, 2021 [PDF]

[1] [ICST'20] Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Weifeng Sun, Dave Towey. "Poster: Is euclidean distance the best distance measurement for adaptive random testing?". The 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST, CCF-C), Poster Track, 2020 [PDF]