Zhongxin Liu

Automating just-in-time comment updating

2020

Code comments are valuable for program comprehension and software maintenance, and also require maintenance with code evolution. However, when changing code, developers sometimes neglect updating the related comments, bringing in inconsistent or obsolete comments (aka., …

Plot2API: Recommending Graphic API from Plot via Semantic Parsing Guided Neural Network

2021

Plot-based Graphic API recommendation (Plot2API) is an unstudied but meaningful issue, which has several important applications in the context of software engineering and data visualization, such as the plotting guidance of the beginner, graphic API …

Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing

2024 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

In recent years, significant progress has been made in testing methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) to ensure their correctness and robustness. Coverage-guided criteria, such as neuron-wise, layer-wise, and path-/trace-wise, have been proposed for DNN …

Neural-machine-translation-based commit message generation: how far are we?

2018

Commit messages can be regarded as the documentation of software changes. These messages describe the content and purposes of changes, hence are useful for program comprehension and software maintenance. However, due to the lack of …