Publications

Journal articles and conference papers

17 marked · † first author 12 · ✰ co-first author 3 · * corresponding author 2

2026

  1. TSE
    Cost-Effective Adversarial Attacks Against Code LLM with Model Attention †
    Weifeng Sun, Naiqi Huang, Meng Yan, Li Huang, Zhongxin Liu, Xiao Liu, and David Lo
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2026
  2. TOSEM
    On-the-Fly Generation-Quality Enhancement of Deep Code Models via Model Collaboration †
    Weifeng Sun, Naiqi Huang, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Hongyan Li, Yan Lei, and David Lo
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2026
  3. EMSE
    Exploring and improving knowledge distillation for pre-trained code models †
    Weifeng Sun, Ruifeng Wu, Hongyan Li, Ying Fu, Min Yu, and Meng Yan
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE, CCF-B), 2026
  4. ACL Findings
    MultiCodeAttack: Iterative Jailbreak Attacking on LLMs with Multi-Code Prompt Injection †
    Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhou Yang, Yuchen Chen, Song Sun, and David Lo
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 (ACL, CCF-A), 2026
  5. AAAI
    Intention Chain-of-Thought Prompting with Dynamic Routing for Code Generation
    Shen Li, Li Huang, Shaoxiong Zhan, Weifeng Sun, Tao Yin, Zhongxin Liu, and Meng Yan
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, CCF-A), 2026
  6. TSE
    Steer Your Model: Secure Code Generation with Contrastive Decoding
    Li Huang, Meng Yan, Tao Yin, Weifeng Sun, Zhongxin Liu, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2026

2025

  1. TSE
    DeepVec: State-Vector Aware Test Case Selection for Enhancing Recurrent Neural Network
    Zhonghao Jiang, Meng Yan, Li Huang, Weifeng Sun, Chao Liu, Song Sun, and David Lo
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2025
  2. TSE
    Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning for Improving Retrieve-and-Edit Based Assertion Generation ✰
    Hongyan Li, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Ling Xu, Qiang Li, Xiaohong Zhang, and Hongyu Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2025
  3. ASEJ
    TAB: Template-Aware Bug Report Title Generation via Two-Phase Fine-tuned Models *
    Xiao Liu, Yinkang Xu, Weifeng Sun, Naiqi Huang, Song Sun, Qiang Li, Dan Yang, and Meng Yan
    Automated Software Engineering (ASEJ, CCF-B), 2025
  4. ICSE
    Iterative Generation of Adversarial Example for Deep Code Models
    Li Huang, Weifeng Sun, and Meng Yan
    In The 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, CCF-A), Full paper (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award), 2025

2024

  1. TOSEM
    Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models ✰
    Quanjun Zhang, Weifeng Sun, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Jianyi Zhou, and Zhenyu Chen
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2024
  2. TSE
    Method-Level Test-to-Code Traceability Link Construction by Semantic Correlation Learning †
    Weifeng Sun, Zhenting Guo, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Yan Lei, and Hongyu Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2024
  3. TOSEM
    Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing ✰
    Li Huang, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Yan Lei, and David Lo
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2024
  4. TSE
    Toward Cost-effective Adaptive Random Testing: An Approximate Nearest Neighbor Approach
    Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Junlong Lian, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, and Haibo Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2024
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  5. Internetware
    DFEPT: Data Flow Embedding for Enhancing Pre-Trained Model Based Vulnerability Detection
    Zhonghao Jiang, Weifeng Sun, Xiaoyan Gu, Jiaxin Wu, Tao Wen, Haibo Hu, and Meng Yan
    In The 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware, CCF-C), Full paper, 2024

2023

  1. TSE
    Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks †
    Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, and David Lo
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2023
  2. TOSEM
    Revisiting the Identification of the Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code †
    Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Zhongxin Liu, Xin Xia, Yan Lei, and David Lo
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM, CCF-A), 2023
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  3. JSS
    A first look at bug report templates on GitHub
    Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Weifeng Sun, Xiao Liu, and Yunsong Wu
    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS, CCF-B), 2023
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  4. TR
    VPP-ART: An Efficient Implementation of Fixed-Size-Candidate-Set Adaptive Random Testing Using Vantage Point Partitioning
    Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, and Junlong Lian
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR, JCR Q1), 2023
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  5. QRS
    Just-In-Time Method Name Updating With Heuristics and Neural Model
    Zhenting Guo, Meng Yan, Hongyan Li, Zhezhe Chen, and Weifeng Sun
    In The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS, CCF-C), Full paper, 2023
  6. ASE
    Revisiting and Improving Retrieval-Augmented Deep Assertion Generation †
    Weifeng Sun, Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Yan Lei, and Hongyu Zhang
    In The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE, CCF-A), Full paper, 2023
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  7. SANER
    An Adaptive Partition-Based Approach for Adaptive Random Testing on Real Programs
    Yisheng Xia, Weifeng Sun, Meng Yan, Lei Xu, and Dan Yang
    In The 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER, CCF-B), Short paper, 2023
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2022

  1. SCP
    A nearest-neighbor divide-and-conquer approach for adaptive random testing *
    Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun, Haibo Chen, Chenhui Cui, and Ning Yang
    Science of Computer Programming (SCP, CCF-B, Corresponding Author), 2022
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  2. SCP
    Candidate test set reduction for adaptive random testing: An overheads reduction technique
    Rubing Huang, Haibo Chen, Weifeng Sun, and Dave Towey
    Science of Computer Programming (SCP, CCF-B) (Invited to SANER 2023 as part of the Journal First Paper Track), 2022
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2021

  1. JSS
    Regression test case prioritization by code combinations coverage
    Rubing Huang, Quanjun Zhang, Dave Towey, Weifeng Sun, and Jinfu Chen
    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS, CCF-B), 2021
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  2. DSA
    KD-RRT: Restricted Random Testing based on K-Dimensional Tree
    Junlong Lian, Chenhui Cui, Weifeng Sun, Yiming Wu, and Rubing Huang
    In The 8th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA, EI), 2021
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  3. SAC
    Which type of exclusion region is better for restricted random testing? an empirical study †
    Weifeng Sun, Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Haibo Chen, and Weijie Liu
    In The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC, EI), Short paper, 2021
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2020

  1. TETCI
    Identification of failure regions for programs with numeric inputs †
    Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun, Tsong Yueh Chen, Sebastian Ng, and Jinfu Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI, JCR Q2), 2020
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  2. ICST
    Poster: Is euclidean distance the best distance measurement for adaptive random testing?
    Rubing Huang, Chenhui Cui, Weifeng Sun, and Dave Towey
    In The 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST, CCF-C), Poster Track, 2020
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2019

  1. TSE
    A survey on adaptive random testing †
    Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun, Yinyin Xu, Haibo Chen, Dave Towey, and Xin Xia
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE, CCF-A), 2019
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  2. TR
    Abstract test case prioritization using repeated small-strength level-combination coverage †
    Rubing Huang, Weifeng Sun, Tsong Yueh Chen, Dave Towey, Jinfu Chen, Weiwen Zong, and Yunan Zhou
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR, JCR Q1), 2019
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