Publications
With links to replication packages (* corresponding author)
2025
- Jingling Wang, Huayao Wu*, Peng Wang, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. SETS: A Simple yet Effective DNN Test Selection Approach. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025, accepted [CCF-A]
- Senyao Yu, Huayao Wu*, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Injection Testing of Microservice Systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2025, accepted [CCF-A]
- Lixin Xu, Huayao Wu*, Zhenyu Pan, Tongtong Xu, Shaohua Wang, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. Effective REST APIs Testing with Error Message Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue ISSTA, 2025: 1978-2000 [CCF-A]
- Yan Wang, Xintao Niu, Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, Lei Yu, Xiaoyin Wang, and Jiaxi Xu. Top-down: A Better Strategy for Incremental Covering Array Generation. Information and Software Technology (IST), 178: 107601, 2025 [CCF-B]
- Jingling Wang, Shuwei Qiu, Peng Wang, Jiyuan Song, Huayao Wu*, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. Cluster-Based Multi-Objective Metamorphic Test Case Pair Selection for Deep Neural Networks. International Conference on Internetware (Internetware), 2025: 152-162 [CCF-C]
- Jialin Fan, Jingling Wang, Shengyou Hu, Huayao Wu*, and Changhai Nie. Boosting the Cost-Effectiveness of Metamorphic Test Case Pair Selection for DNN Testing with Surrogate Model. International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2025: 304-314 [CCF-C]
- Shengyou Hu, Wenyang Lyu, Huayao Wu*, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. Uncertainty and Geometric Dispersion Driven Metamorphic Testing for DNN-based Systems. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), 2025, accepted [CCF-C]
2024
- Peng Wang, Shengyou Hu, Huayao Wu*, Xintao Niu, Changhai Nie, and Lin Chen. A Combinatorial Interaction Testing Method for Multi-Label Image Classifier. International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2024: 463-474 [CCF-B]
- Yuge Nie, Yulei Chen, Yujia Jiang, Huayao Wu, Beibei Yin, and Kai-Yuan Cai. A Method of Multidimensional Software Aging Prediction based on Ensemble Learning: A Case of Android OS. Information and Software Technology (IST), 170: 107422, 2024 [CCF-B]
2023
- Huayao Wu, Senyao Yu, Xintao Niu, Changhai Nie, Yu Pei, Qiang He, and Yun Yang. Enhancing Fault Injection Testing of Service Systems via Fault-Tolerance Bottleneck. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 49(8): 4097-4114, 2023 [CCF-A]
- Shengyou Hu, Huayao Wu*, Peng Wang, Jing Chang, Yongjun Tu, Xiu Jiang, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. ATOM: Automated Black-Box Testing of Multi-Label Image Classification Systems. International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023: 230-242 [CCF-A]
- Yulei Chen, Yuge Nie, Beibei Yin, Zheng Zheng, and Huayao Wu. An Empirical Study to Identify Software Aging Indicators for Android OS. International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2023: 428-439 [CCF-C]
2022
- Huayao Wu, Lixin Xu, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. Combinatorial Testing of RESTful APIs. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022: 426-437 [CCF-A]
- Xintao Niu, Huayao Wu*, Changhai Nie, Yu Lei, and Xiaoyin Wang. A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(10): 4119-4151, 2022 [CCF-A]
- Xintao Niu, Yanjie Sun, Huayao Wu, Gang Li, Changhai Nie, Yu Lei, and Xiaoyin Wang. Enhance Combinatorial Testing with Metamorphic Relations. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 48(12): 5007-5029, 2022 [CCF-A]
- Yan Wang, Huayao Wu*, Xintao Niu, Changhai Nie, and Jiaxi Xu. An Adaptive Penalty based Parallel Tabu Search for Constrained Covering Array Generation. Information and Software Technology (IST), 143: 106768, 2022 [CCF-B]
- 王燕, 吴化尧, 聂长海, 徐家喜, 尹震, 钮鑫涛. Firefox 缺陷跟踪系统中的用户反馈, 软件学报, 33(11): 3983-4007, 2022 [CCF-T1]
2021
- Huayao Wu, Wenjun Deng, Xintao Niu, and Changhai Nie. Identifying Key Features from App User Reviews. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2021: 922-932 [CCF-A]
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, Justyna Petke, Yue Jia and Mark Harman. Comparative Analysis of Constraint Handling Techniques for Constrained Combinatorial Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 47(11): 2549-2562, 2021 [CCF-A]
2020
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, Justyna Petke, Yue Jia and Mark Harman. An Empirical Comparison of Combinatorial Testing, Random Testing and Adaptive Random Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 46(3): 302-320, 2020 [CCF-A]
- 徐立鑫, 吴化尧*. 基于群体智能的软件工程方法综述. 计算机研究与发展, 57(3): 487-512, 2020 [CCF-T1]
- 吴化尧, 邓文俊. 面向微服务软件开发方法研究进展. 计算机研究与发展, 57(3): 525-541, 2020 [CCF-T1]
Before 2020
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, Justyna Petke, Yue Jia and Mark Harman. A Survey of Constrained Combinatorial Testing. arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02480, 2019
- 马骅, 聂长海, 吴化尧. 基于历史的云平台故障注入测试. 计算机学报, 42(10): 2281-2296, 2019 [CCF-T1]
- 王燕, 聂长海, 钮鑫涛, 吴化尧, 徐家喜. 覆盖表生成的禁忌搜索算法. 软件学报, 29(12):3665-3691, 2018 [CCF-T1]
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, and Fei-Ching Kuo. The Optimal Testing Order in the Presence of Switching Cost. Information and Software Technology (IST), 80: 57-72, 2016 [CCF-B]
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, Fei-Ching Kuo, Hareton Leung and Charles J. Colbourn. A Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Covering Array Generation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC), 19(4): 575-591, 2015 [CCF-B]
- Changhai Nie, Huayao Wu, Xintao Niu, Fei-Ching Kuo, Hareton Leung and Charles J. Colbourn. Combinatorial Testing, Random Testing, and Adaptive Random Testing for Detecting Interaction Triggered Failures. Information and Software Technology (IST), 62: 198-213, 2015 [CCF-B]
- Huayao Wu, and Changhai Nie. An Overview of Search Based Combinatorial Testing.International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), 2014: 27-30
- Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie and Fei-Ching Kuo. Test Suite Prioritization by Switching Cost. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, Workshops (ICSTW), 2014: 133-142
- Xiaohua Li, Zhao Dong, Huayao Wu, Changhai Nie, and Kai-Yuan Cai. Refining a Randomized Post-Optimization Method for Covering Arrays. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, Workshops (ICSTW), 2014: 143-152
- Changhai Nie, Jing Jiang, Huayao Wu, Hareton Leung, and Charles J. Colbourn. Empirically Identifying the Best Greedy Algorithm for Covering Array Generation. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, Workshops (ICSTW), 2013: 239-248
- Changhai Nie, Huayao Wu, Yalan Liang, Hareton Leung, Fei-Ching Kuo, and Zheng Li. Search Based Combinatorial Testing. Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2012: 778-783 [CCF-C]
- 吴化尧, 聂长海. 覆盖表生成的粒子群算法: 参数优化和自适应算法. 小型微型计算机系统, 33(10):2259-2267, 2012