Publications

  • [FSE'25] Has My Code Been Stolen for Model Training? A Naturalness Based Approach to Code Contamination Detection
    Haris Ali Khan, Yanjie Jiang, Qasim Umer, Yuxia Zhang, Waseem Akram, and Hui Liu.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2025

  • [FSE'25] LLM-based Method Name Suggestion with Automatically Generated Context-Rich Prompts
    Waseem Akram, Yanjie Jiang, Yuxia Zhang, Haris Ali Khan, and Hui Liu.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2025

  • [ICSE'25] ChatGPT-Based Test Generation for Refactoring Engines Enhanced by Feature Analysis on Examples
    Chunhao Dong, Yanjie Jiang, Yuxia Zhang, Yang Zhang, and Hui Liu.
    In: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2025.

  • [ICSE'25] A First Look at Conventional Commits Classification
    Qunhong Zeng, Yuxia Zhang*, Zhiqing Qiu, and Hui Liu.
    In: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2025.

  • [CSCW'25] Characterising Co-opetition in Company-Hosted OSS Projects: The Cases of TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Transformers
    Cailean Osborne, Farbod Daneshyan, Runzhi He, Hengzhi Ye, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou.
    In: ACM SIGCHI 28th Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2025.

  • [ICSE'24] How Are Paid and Volunteer Open Source Developers Different? A Study of the Rust Project.
    Yuxia Zhang, Mian Qin, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou, and Hui Liu*.
    In: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

  • [TOSEM'24] Recommending Variable Names for Extract Local Variable Refactorings
    Taiming Wang, Hui Liu, Yuxia Zhang, and Yanjie Jiang
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024.

  • [TOSEM'24] Automated Recommendation of Extracting Local Variable Refactorings
    Yanjie Jiang, Xiaye Chi, Yuxia Zhang, Weixing Ji, Guangjie Li, Weixiao Wang, Yunni Xia, Lu Zhang, and Liu, Hui.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024.

  • [TOSEM'24] Systematic Literature Review of Commercial Participation in Open Source Software
    Xuetao Li, Yuxia Zhang*, Cailean Osborne, Minghui Zhou, Zhi Jin, and Hui Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024.

  • [TOSEM'24] Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?
    Guoqing Wang, Zeyu Sun, Jinhao Dong, Yuxia Zhang, Mingxuan Zhu, Qingyuan Liang, and Dan Hao.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024.

  • [TOSEM'24] An Empirical Study on Common Sense-Violating Bugs in Mobile Apps
    Fu Fan, Yanjie Jiang, Tianyi Chen, Hengshu Zhang, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, and Hui Liu*.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024.

  • [EmSE'24] Deep learning based identification of inconsistent method names: How far are we?
    Taiming Wang, Yuxia Zhang*, Lin Jiang, Yi Tang, Guangjie Li, and Hui Liu*.
    In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2024

  • [ICSE'24] Context-Aware Name Recommendation for Field Renaming.
    Chunhao Dong, Yanjie Jiang, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, and Hui Liu*.
    In: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

  • [TSE'24] Bringing Open Source Communication and Development Together: A Cross-Platform Study on Gitter and GitHub.
    Hanzhi Jiang, Lin Shi*, Meiru Che, Yuxia Zhang, and Qing Wang.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024

  • [TSE'24] Automatic Commit Message Generation: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Work.
    Yuxia Zhang, Zhiqing Qiu, Klaas-Jan Stol, Wenhui Zhu, Jiaxin Zhu, Yingchen Tian, and Hui Liu*.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024

  • [Saner'24] COLARE: Commit Classification via Fine-grained Context-aware Representation of Code Changes.
    Qunhong Zeng, Yuxia Zhang*, Zeyu Sun, Yujie Guo, Hui Liu.
    In: IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, 2024

  • [ASE'23] Automated Software Entity Matching Between Successive Versions.
    Bo Liu, Hui Liu*, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Guangjie Li, Yanjie Jiang.
    In: IEEE/ACM 38th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023

  • [FSE'23] How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects?
    Wenxin Xiao, Hao He, Weiwei Xu, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou*.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023

  • [FSE'23] An Automated Approach to Extracting Local Variables.
    Xiaye Chi, Hui Liu*, Guangjie Li, Weixiao Wang, Yunni Xia, Yanjie Jiang, Yuxia Zhang, Weixing Ji.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023
    🏆Distinguished Paper Award!

  • [FSE'23] Deep Learning Based Feature Envy Detection Boosted by Real-World Examples.
    Bo Liu, Hui Liu*, Guangjie Li, Nan Niu, Zimao Xu, Yifan Wang, Yunni Xia, Yuxia Zhang, Yanjie Jiang.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023

  • [TSE'23] Automating Dependency Updates in Practice: An Exploratory Study on GitHub Dependabot.
    Runzhi He, Hao He, Yuxia Zhang, and Minghui Zhou*.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023

  • [FSE'22] Corporate Dominance in Open Source Ecosystems: A Case Study of OpenStack.
    Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Liu Hui*, Minghui Zhou.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

  • [FSE'22] Do Bugs Lead to Unnaturalness of Source Code?
    Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu*, Yuxia Zhang*, Weixing Ji, Hao Zhong, Lu Zhang.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

  • [TOSEM'22] Turnover of Companies in OpenStack: Prevalence and Rationale.
    Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu*, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou*, Zhi Jin, and Jiaxin Zhu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2022.

  • [ICSE'22] What Makes a Good Commit Message?
    Yingchen Tian, Yuxia Zhang*, Klaas-Jan Stol, Lin Jiang, and Hui Liu*.
    In: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2022 🏆Distinguished Paper Award!

  • [Computer'22] Commercial Participation in OpenStack: Two Sides of a Coin.
    Yuxia Zhang, Hao He, and Minghui Zhou*.
    In: Computer 2022, 55(2): 78-84.

  • [TSE'22] BugBuilder: An Automated Approach to Building Bug Repository
    Yanjie Jiang, Liu Hui*, Xiaoqing Luo, Zhihao Zhu, Xiaye Chi, Nan Niu, Yuxia Zhang, Yamin Hu, Pan Bian, and Lu Zhang.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2022

  • [TSE'21] Companies' Participation in OSS Development - An Empirical Study of OpenStack.
    Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou*, Audris Mockus, Zhi Jin.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021

  • [FSE'21] Which Abbreviations Should Be Expanded?
    Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu*, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, Yuhai Zhao, Lu Zhang.
    In: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2021

  • [JoS'21] A Hybrid Approach to Fine-grained Automated Fault Localization.
    Leping Li, Yuxia Zhang*, Hui Liu.
    In: Journal of Software, 2021

  • [JoS'21] A Review of Code Smell Research.
    Yingchen Tian, Kejun Li, Taiming Wang, Qingqing Jiao, Guangjie Li, Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu*.
    In: Journal of Software, 2021

  • [ICSE'20] How do Companies Collaborate in Open Source Ecosystems? An Empirical Study of OpenStack.
    Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou*, Jianyu Wu, Zhi Jin.
    In: IEEE/ACM 42th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2020

  • [EmSE'20] ALFAA: Active Learning Fingerprint Based Anti-Aliasing for Correcting Developer Identity Errors in Version Control Data.
    Sadika Amreen, Audris Mockus, Russell Zaretzki, Christopher Bogart, Yuxia Zhang. In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2020

  • [SCIS'19] Software Digital Sociology.
    Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan.
    In: SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2019

  • [Internetware'18] Which Projects to Develop: Companies' Participation in OpenStack.
    Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou*, Zhi Jin.
    In: Internetware, 2018 🏆ACM First Prize of Poster Track!

  • [ICSE-Poster'18] Companies' Domination in FLOSS Development: An Empirical Study of OpenStack.
    Yuxia Zhang, Xin Tan, Minghui Zhou*, Zhi Jin.
    In: IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2018

  • [JoS'18] Analysis of Contribution Composition Patterns of Code Files.
    Xin Tan, Zeyan Lin, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou*.
    In: Journal of Software, 2018

  • [JoS'17] How Commercial Organizations Participate in OpenStack Open Source Projects.
    Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin.
    In: Journal of Software, 2017

  • [STR'16] Open Source Software and its Eco-systems: Today and Tomorrow.
    Zhi Jin, Minghui Zhou, Yuxia Zhang.
    In: Science & Technology Review, 2016