Teaching

• Foundations of Computing Systems (Freshman)
• Software Engineering and Computing II (Sophomore)
• Software Engineering and Computing III (Junior)
• Automated Testing (Junior & Graduate)
• Comprehensive Practice of Software Engineering Advanced Technology Direction (Senior)

Publication

     Full List:     Google Scholar      DBLP

Preprints

• A Systematic Literature Review on Large Language Models for Automated Program Repair
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yang Xie, YuXiang Ma, Weisong Sun, Yun Yang, Zhenyu Chen
  
  
• A Survey on Large Language Models for Software Engineering
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yang Xie, Yaxin Zhang, Yun Yang, Weisong Sun, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen
  
  
• A Prompt Learning Framework for Source Code Summarization
  Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yudu You, Yuchen Chen, Yi Liu, Chong Wang, Jian Zhang, Quanjun Zhang, Hanwei Qian, Wei Zhao, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  
  
• A Critical Review of Large Language Model on Software Engineering: An Example from ChatGPT and Automated Program Repair
  Quanjun Zhang, Tongke Zhang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
  
  
• Automatic Code Summarization via ChatGPT: How Far Are We
  Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yudu You, Yun Miao, Yi Liu, Yuekang Li, Gelei Deng, Shenghan Huang, Yuchen Chen, Quanjun Zhang, Hanwei Qian, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  
  
• Vision-Based Mobile App GUI Testing: A Survey
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Ziyuan Tuo, Quanjun Zhang, Chunyang Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su
  
  
• No Man is an Island: Towards Fully Automatic Programming by Code Search, Code Generation and Program Repair
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Ye Shang, Tongke Zhang, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen
  
  

2025

• Source Code Summarization in the Era of Large Language Models
  Weisong Sun, Yun Miao, Yuekang Li, Hongyu Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  ICSE 2025
  
  

2024

• A Large-scale Empirical Study of Actionable Warning Distribution within Projects
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Xuanye Li, Qirui Zheng, Jia Liu, Zhihong Zhao, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  
  
• FunFuzz: Greybox Fuzzing with Function Significance
  Ruixiang Qian, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Lihua Guo, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models
  Quanjun Zhang, Weifeng Sun, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Jianyi Zhou, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Machine Learning for Actionable Warning Identification: A Comprehensive Survey
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Xuanye Li, Weisong Sun, Daoyuan Wu, Juan Zhai, Shangwei Lin, Zhihong Zhao, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Computing Surveys
  
  
• DevMuT: Testing Deep Learning Framework via Developer Expertise-Based Mutation
  Yanzhou Mu, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhixiang Cao, Peiran Yang, Yinglong Zou, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen
  ASE 2024
  
  
• Mutation-Based Deep Learning Framework Testing Method in JavaScript Environment
  Yinglong Zou, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen
  ASE 2024
  
  
• SoVAR: Build Generalizable Scenarios from Accident Reports for Autonomous Driving Testing
  An Guo, Yuan Zhou, Haoxiang Tian, Chunrong Fang, Yunjian Sun, Weisong Sun, Xinyu Gao,Luu Anh Tuan, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  ASE 2024
  
  
• CooTest: An Automated Testing Approach for V2X Communication Systems
  An Guo, Xinyu Gao, Zhenyu Chen, Yuan Xiao, Jiakai Liu, Xiuting Ge, Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang
  ISSTA 2024
  
  
• ESALE: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization
  Chunrong Fang, Weisong Sun, Yuchen Chen, Xiao Chen, Zhao Wei, Quanjun Zhang, Yudu You, Bin Luo, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Practical, Automated Scenario-based Mobile App Testing
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Mingzhe Du, Zimin Ding, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Effective, Platform-Independent GUI Testing via Image Embedding and Reinforcement Learning
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Xin Li, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Benchmarking Object Detection Robustness against Real-World Corruptions
  Jiawei Liu, Zhijie Wang, Lei Ma, Chunrong Fang, Tongtong Bai, Xufan Zhang, Jia Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  International Journal of Computer Vision
  
  
• TransformCode: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Code Embedding via Subtree Transformation
  Zixiang Xian, Rubing Huang, Dave Towey, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Semi-Supervised Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering via Screenshot-Text Binding Rules
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Quanjun Zhang, Mingzhe Du, Jia Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  FSE 2024
  
  
• A Survey of Source Code Search: A 3-Dimensional Perspective
  Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yifei Ge, Yuling Hu, Yuchen Chen, Quanjun Zhang, Xiuting Ge, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• DiPri: Distance-based Seed Prioritization for Greybox Fuzzing
  Ruixiang Qian, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Ding Yang, Shun Li, Binyu Li, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Towards General Robustness Verification of MaxPool-based Convolutional Neural Networks via Tightening Linear Approximation
  Yuan Xiao, Shiqing Ma, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jinyuan Jia, Zhenyu Chen
  CVPR 2024
  
  
• APPT: Boosting Automated Patch Correctness Prediction via Fine-tuning Pre-trained Models
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Weisong Sun, Yan Liu, Tieke He, Xiaodong Hao, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Coverage Goal Selector for Combining Multiple Criteria in Search-Based Unit Test Generation
  Zhichao Zhou, Yuming Zhou, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Xiapu Luo, Jingzhu He, Yutian Tang
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Practical Non-Intrusive GUI Exploration Testing with Visual-based Robotic Arms
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Mingzhe Du, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su
  ICSE 2024
  
  
• Improving Actionable Warning Identification via the Refined Warning-inducing Context Representation
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Xuanye Li, Quanjun Zhang, Jia Liu, Zhihong Zhao, Zhenyu Chen
  SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
  
  

2023

• Machine Translation Testing via Syntactic Tree Pruning
  Quanjun Zhang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Weisong Sun, Haichuan Hu, Qingyu Wang
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• An Extractive-and-Abstractive Framework for Source Code Summarization
  Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen, Quanjun Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Yudu You, Tingxu Han, Yifei Ge, Yuling Hu, Bin Luo, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yuxiang Ma, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Generation-Based Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries
  Jiawei Liu, Yuheng Huang, Zhijie Wang, Lei Ma, Chunrong Fang, Mingzheng Gu, Xufan Zhang, Zhenyu Chen
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Pre-trained Model-based Automated Software Vulnerability Repair: How Far are We?
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Tongke Zhang, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  
  
• GAMMA: Revisiting Template-based Automated Program Repair via Mask Prediction
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Tongke Zhang, Bowen Yu, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
  ASE 2023
  
  
• Towards Effective Bug Reproduction for Mobile Applications
  Xin Li, Shengcheng Yu, Lifan Sun, Yuexiao Liu, Chunrong Fang
  DSA 2023 Best Paper Award
  
  
• Security-based Code Smell Definition, Detection, and Impact Quantification in Android
  Yi Zhong, Mengyu Shi, Jiawei He, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  Software: Practice and Experience
  
  
• OATGA: Optimizing Adversarial Training via Genetic Algorithm for Automatic Modulation Classification
  Zhida Bao, Jiawei He, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Keshav Sood, Yun Lin
  Globecom 2023
  
  
• Distance-based Seed Selection for Greybox Fuzzing
  Ruixiang Qian, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  FUZZING 2023
  
  
• Mobile App Crowdsourced Test Report Consistency Detection via Deep Image-and-Text Fusion Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Quanjun Zhang, Zhihao Cao, Yexiao Yun, Zhenfei Cao, Kai Mei, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Backdooring Neural Code Search
  Weisong Sun, Yuchen Chen, Guanhong Tao, Chunrong Fang, Xiangyu Zhang, Quanjun Zhang, Bin Luo
  ACL 2023
  
  
• An Unsupervised Feature Selection Approach for Actionable Warning Identification
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Jia Liu, Mingshuang Qing, Xuanye Li, Zhihong Zhao
  Expert Systems with Applications
  
  
• Deep Learning Framework Testing via Hierarchical and Heuristic Model Generation
  Yinglong Zou, Haofeng Sun, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Zhenping Zhang
  Journal of Systems and Software
  
  
• Test Report Generation for Android App Testing via Heterogeneous Data Analysis
  Chunrong Fang, Shengcheng Yu, Ting Su, Jing Zhang, Yuanhan Tian, Yang Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• An Empirical Study of Class Rebalancing Methods for Actionable Warning Identification
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Tongtong Bai, Jia Liu, Zhihong Zhao
  IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  
  
• Leveraging Android Automated Testing to Assist Crowdsourced Testing
  Xiuting Ge, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Qi Zhu, Zhihong Zhao
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  

2022

• SemCluster: A Semi-Supervised Clustering Tool for Crowdsourced Test Reports with Deep Image Understanding
  Mingzhe Du, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Tongyu Li, Heyuan Zhang, Zhenyu Chen
  ESEC/FSE 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Selectively Combining Multiple Coverage Goals in Search-Based Unit Test Generation
  Zhichao Zhou, Yuming Zhou, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Yutian Tang
  ASE 2022
  
  
• ElecDaug: Electromagnetic Data Augmentation for Model Repair based on Metamorphic Relation
  Jiawei He, Zhida Bao, Quanjun Zhang, Weisong Sun, Jiawei Liu, Chunrong Fang, Yun Lin
  ASE 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• RULER: Discriminative and Iterative Adversarial Training for Deep Neural Network Fairness
  Guanhong Tao, Weisong Sun, Tingxu Han, Chunrong Fang, Xiangyu Zhang
  ESEC/FSE 2022
  
  
• Test Case Recommendation based on Balanced Distance of Test Targets
  Weisong Sun, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen, Xingya Wang, Ziyuan Wang
  Information and Software Technology
  
  
• Test Case Prioritization Using Partial Attention
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Weisong Sun, Shengcheng Yu, Yutao Xu, Yulei Liu
  Journal of Systems and Software
  
  
• UniRLTest: Universal Platform-Independent Testing with Reinforcement Learning via Image Understanding
  Ziqian Zhang, Yulei Liu, Shengcheng Yu, Xin Li, Yexiao Yun, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  ISSTA 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Investigating Coverage Guided Fuzzing with Mutation Testing
  Ruixiang Qian, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Lihua Guo
  Internetware 2022
  
  
• CIRCLE: Continual Repair across Programming Languages
  Wei Yuan, Quanjun Zhang, Tieke He, Chunrong Fang, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Xiaodong Hao, Hongzhi Yin
  ISSTA 2022
  
  
• Locality-based Security Bug Report Identification via Active Learning
  Xiuting Ge, Chunrong Fang, Meiyuan Qian, Yu Ge, Mingshuang Qing
  Information and Software Technology
  
  
• TauLiM: Test Data Augmentation of LiDAR Point Cloud by Metamorphic Relation
  Ju Lin, Jiawei Liu, Quanjun Zhang, Xufan Zhang, Chunrong Fang
  ICSE 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• TauPad: Test Data Augmentation of Point Clouds by Adversarial Mutation
  Guandi Liu, Jiawei Liu, Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Xufan Zhang
  ICSE 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Code Search based on Context-aware Code Translation
  Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yuchen Chen, Guanhong Tao, Tingxu Han, Quanjun Zhang
  ICSE 2022
  
  

2021

• Duo: Differential Fuzzing for Deep Learning Operators
  Xufan Zhang, Jiawei Liu, Ning Sun, Chunrong Fang, Jia Liu, Dong Chai, Jiang Wang, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  
  
• TauMed: Test Augmentation of Deep Learning in Medical Diagnosis
  Yunhan Hou, Jiawei Liu, Daiwei Wang, Jiawei He, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  ISSTA 2021 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Predoo: Precision Testing of Deep Learning Operators
  Xufan Zhang, Ning Sun, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Jia Liu, Dong Chai, Jiang Wang, Zhenyu Chen
  ISSTA 2021
  
  
• An Online Multi-step-forward Voltage Prediction Approach based on LSTM-TD Modeand KF Algorithm
  Ye Ni, Zhilong Xia, Fangtong Zhao, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  IEEE Computer
  
  
• Layout and Image Recognition Driving Cross-platform Automated Mobile Testing
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Yexiao Yun, Yang Feng
  ICSE 2021
  
  
• Prioritize Crowdsourced Test Reports via Deep Screenshot Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenfei Cao, Xu Wang, Tongyu Li, Zhenyu Chen
  ICSE 2021
  
  
• Graph-based Fuzz Testing for Deep Learning Inference Engine
  Weisi Luo, Xiaoyue Run, Dong Chai, Jiang Wang, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  ICSE 2021
  
  

2020

• STIFA: Crowdsourced Mobile Testing Report Selection Based on Text and Image Fusion Analysis
  Zhenfei Cao, Xu Wang, Shengcheng Yu, Yexiao Yun, Chunrong Fang
  ASE 2020 (Demo Track)
  
  
• HomoTR: Online Test Recommendation System based on Homologous Code Matching
  Chenqian Zhu, Weisong Sun, Qin Liu, Yangyang Yuan, Chunrong Fang, Yong Huang
  ASE 2020 (Demo Track)
  
  
• C2S: Translating NaturaLanguage Comments to Formal Program Specifications
  Juan Zhai, Yu Shi, Minxue Pan, Guian Zhou, Yongxiang Liu, Chunrong Fang, Shiqing Ma, Lin Tan, Xiangyu Zhang
  ESEC/FSE 2020
  
  
• Functional Code Clone Detection with Syntax and Semantics Fusion Learning
  Chunrong Fang, Zixi Liu, Yangyang Shi, Jeff Huang, Qingkai Shi
  ISSTA 2020
  
  
• DeepGini: Prioritizing Massive Tests to Enhance the Robustness of Deep Neural Networks
  Yang Feng, Qingkai Shi, Xinyu Gao, Jun Wan, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  ISSTA 2020
  
  
• FuRong: Fusing Report of Automated Android Testing on Multi-Devices
  Yuanhan Tian, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Peiyuan Li
  ICSE 2020 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Quality Assessment of Crowdsourced Test Cases
  Yuan Zhao, Yang Feng, Yi Wang, Rui Hao, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
  Science China Information Sciences
  
  
• Accuracy Measurement of Deep Neural Network Accelerator via Metamorphic Testing
  Chaojin Wang, Jian Shen, Chunrong Fang, Xiangsheng Guan, Kaitao Wu, Jiang Wang
  AITest 2020 Collaboration with Huawei
  
  

Awards

• FSE 2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award
• ASE 2023 Distinguished PC Member Award
• IEEE DSA 2023 Best Paper Award
• 2022 National Teaching Achievement Award
• 2021 CCF-TCFTC Software Testing Youth Innovation Award

Academic Service

• Vice Chapter Chair: Nanjing Section Chapter, IEEE Reliability Society
• Guest Editor: STVR (2023), JSEP (2022), Applied Sciences (2022), 计算机工程(青年编委)
• PC Chair: AST@ICSE (2023), AIST (2020)
• PC Member: ESEC/FSE (2023), ASE (2022/2023/2024), ISSRE (2021/2022/2023), COMPSAC (2021), AITest (2020/2021), CCF-CFTC (2020/2021), IBF (2020), PRDC (2023), ICSE-Demo (2022), ASE-Demo (2020/2021/2022), ISSTA-Demo (2023), ICSME-Demo (2020)
• Journal Reviewer: TSE, TOSEM, TR, JSS, JSEP, TPDC
• National Standard (China)
• GB/T 41905-2022 软件与系统工程 软件测试工具能力
• GB/T 25000.21-2019 系统与软件工程 系统与软件质量要求和评价(SQuaRE) 第21部分：质量测度元素
• GB/T 25000.22-2019 系统与软件工程 系统与软件质量要求和评价(SQuaRE) 第22部分：使用质量测量
• GB/T 25000.23-2019 系统与软件工程 系统与软件质量要求和评价(SQuaRE) 第23部分：系统与软件产品质量测量
• GB/T 37729-2019 信息技术 智能移动终端应用软件（APP）技术要求
• Organizer of Contest on Software Testing