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Ziheng Xiu
dblp:269/8092
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing
search-based software testing |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Recovering fitness gradients for interprocedural Boolean flags in search-based testing · ISSTA 2020 |
Software testing
test input generation |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Recovering fitness gradients for interprocedural Boolean flags in search-based testing · ISSTA 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
search-based software testing · 0.4program transformation · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Recovering fitness gradients for interprocedural Boolean flags in search-based testingabstractIn Search-based Software Testing (SBST), test generation is guided by fitness functions that estimate how close a test case is to reach an uncovered test goal (e.g., branch). A popular fitness function estimates how close conditional statements are to evaluating to true or false, i.e., the branch distance. However, when conditions read Boolean variables (e.g., if(x && y)), the branch distance provides no gradient for the search, since a Boolean can either be true or false. This flag problem can be addressed by transforming individual procedures such that Boolean flags are replaced with numeric comparisons that provide better guidance for the search. Unfortunately, defining a semantics-preserving transformation that is applicable in an interprocedural case, where Boolean flags are passed around as parameters and return values, is a daunting task. Thus, it is not yet supported by modern test generators. Yun Lin 0001, Jun Sun 0001, Gordon Fraser 0001, Ziheng Xiu, Ting Liu 0002, Jin Song Dong 0001 |
ISSTA | 4 |