Selected Publications

* denotes that I am the corresponding or co-corresponding author.

  • [Preprint] Can Agents Fix Agent Issues?
    Alfin Wijaya Rahardja, Junwei Liu, Weitong Chen, Zhenpeng Chen, Yiling Lou.
    Paper Project

  • [Preprint] AMQA: An Adversarial Dataset for Benchmarking Bias of LLMs in Medicine and Healthcare
    Ying Xiao, Jie Huang, Ruijuan He, Jing Xiao, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Yepang Liu, Kezhi Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang.
    Paper Project

  • [Preprint] Large Language Model-Based Agents for Software Engineering: A Survey
    Junwei Liu, Kaixin Wang, Yixuan Chen, Xin Peng, Zhenpeng Chen, Lingming Zhang, Yiling Lou.
    Paper Project

  • [Preprint] Benchmarking Bias in Large Language Models during Role-Playing
    Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Yiling Lou, Tianlin Li, Weisong Sun, Yang Liu, Xuanzhe Liu.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'25] Automatically Deriving Developers’ Technical Expertise from the GitHub Social Network CCF-A
    Yanchun Sun, Jiawei Wu, Xiaohan Zhao, Haizhou Xu, Ye Zhu, Zhenpeng Chen, Sihan Wang, Huizhen Jiang, Gang Huang.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, accepted to appear, 2025.

  • [TOSEM'25] LLM-Based Misconfiguration Detection for AWS Serverless Computing CCF-A
    Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen*, Federica Sarro, Zixi Zhu, Yi Liu, Haodi Ping, Shangguang Wang.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, accepted to appear, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [ACL'25] Personality-Guided Code Generation Using Large Language Models CCF-A
    Yaoqi Guo, Zhenpeng Chen*, Jie M. Zhang, Yang Liu, Yun Ma.
    In: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, accepted to appear, July 27 - August 1, 2025, Vienna, Austria.
    Paper Project

  • [ACL'25] LLM-Powered Test Case Generation for Detecting Bugs in Plausible Programs CCF-A
    Kaibo Liu, Zhenpeng Chen*, Yiyang Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Mark Haman, Yudong Han, Yun Ma, Yihong Dong, Ge Li, Gang Huang.
    In: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, accepted to appear, July 27 - August 1, 2025, Vienna, Austria.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'25] Security of Language Models for Code: A Systematic Literature Review CCF-A
    Yuchen Chen, Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Zhenpeng Chen, Yifei Ge, Tingxu Han, Quanjun Zhang, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen, Baowen Xu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, accepted to appear, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [FSE'25] Software Fairness Dilemma: Is Bias Mitigation a Zero-Sum Game? CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Xinyue Li, Jie M. Zhang, Weisong Sun, Ying Xiao, Tianlin Li, Yiling Lou, Yang Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue FSE, pp.1780-1801, June 23-27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway.
    Paper Project

  • [FSE'25-SE2030] Promptware Engineering: Software Engineering for LLM Prompt Development
    Zhenpeng Chen, Chong Wang, Weisong Sun, Guang Yang, Xuanzhe Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Yang Liu.
    In: Software Engineering in 2030 Workshop, co-located with FSE 2025, accepted to appear, June 23-27, 2025, Trondheim, Norway.
    Paper

  • [TOSEM'25] SCOPE: Performance Testing for Serverless Computing CCF-A
    Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Jianshu Zhao, Federica Sarro, Haodi Ping, Ying Zhang, Shangguang Wang, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, accepted to appear, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [ICSE'25] Dissecting Global Search: A Simple yet Effective Method to Boost Individual Discrimination Testing and Repair CCF-A
    Lili Quan, Tianlin Li, Xiaofei Xie, Zhenpeng Chen, Sen Chen, Lingxiao Jiang, Xiaohong Li.
    In: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering, accepted to appear, April 27-May 3, 2025, Ottawa, Canada.
    Paper Project

  • [ICSE'25] Show Me Your Code! Kill Code Poisoning: A Lightweight Method Based on Code Naturalness CCF-A
    Weisong Sun, Yuchen Chen, Mengzhe Yuan, Chunrong Fang, Zhenpeng Chen, Chong Wang, Yang Liu, Baowen Xu, Zhenyu Chen.
    In: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering, accepted to appear, April 27-May 3, 2025, Ottawa, Canada.
    Paper Project

  • [EMSE'25] Unveiling Overlooked Performance Variance in Serverless Computing CCF-B
    Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen*, Federica Sarro, Shangguang Wang.
    In: Empirical Software Engineering, 30:59, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [ICSE'25-NIER] Towards Trustworthy LLMs for Code: A Data-Centric Synergistic Auditing Framework
    Chong Wang, Zhenpeng Chen*, Tianlin Li, Yilun Zhang, Yang Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results Track, accepted to appear, April 27-May 3, 2025, Ottawa, Canada.
    Paper

  • [ICSE'25] Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Xinyue Li, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Yang Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering, accepted to appear, April 27-May 3, 2025, Ottawa, Canada.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'25] Bias Behind the Wheel: Fairness Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems CCF-A
    Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen*, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Ying Zhang, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 34(3): 82:1-82:24, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'25] Anatomizing Deep Learning Inference in Web Browsers CCF-A
    Qipeng Wang, Shiqi Jiang, Zhenpeng Chen*, Xu Cao, Yuanchun Li, Aoyu Li, Yun Ma, Ting Cao, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 34(2): 47:1-47:43, 2025.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'24] When Automated Program Repair Meets Regression Testing—An Extensive Study on Two Million Patches CCF-A
    Yiling Lou, Jun Yang, Samuel Benton, Dan Hao, Lin Tan, Zhenpeng Chen*, Lu Zhang, Lingming Zhang.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(7): 180:1-180:23, 2024.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'24] Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems CCF-A
    Zeyu Sun, Zhenpeng Chen*, Jie M. Zhang, Dan Hao.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(6): 156:1-156:27, 2024.
    Paper Project

  • [JSS'24] Research Artifacts in Software Engineering Publications: Status and Trends CCF-B
    Mugeng Liu, Xiaolong Huang, Wei He, Yibing Xie, Jie M. Zhang, Xiang Jing, Zhenpeng Chen, Yun Ma.
    In: Journal of Systems and Software, 112032, 2024.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'24] Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Max Hort, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(5): 137:1-137:59, 2024.
    Paper

  • [MSR'24-DT] TrickyBugs: A Dataset of Corner-case Bugs in Plausible Programs
    Kaibo Liu, Yudong Han, Yiyang Liu, Zhenpeng Chen*, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Gang Huang, Yun Ma.
    In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Data and Tool Showcase Track, pp.113-117, April 15-16, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Paper Project

  • [ICSE'24] Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes: How Far Are We? CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman.
    In: Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, pp.160:1-160:13, April 14-20, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. Acceptance Rate: 22% (234/1,051).
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'24] Adonis: Practical and Efficient Control Flow Recovery through OS-Level Traces CCF-A
    Xuanzhe Liu, Chengxu Yang, Ding Li, Yuhan Zhou, Shaofei Li, Jiali Chen, Zhenpeng Chen*.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(1): 2:1-2:27, 2024. (Selected for ASE 2023 journal-first presentation)
    Paper Project

  • [TMC'24] FLASH: Heterogeneity-aware Federated Learning at Scale CCF-A
    Chengxu Yang, Mengwei Xu, Qipeng Wang, Zhenpeng Chen, Kang Huang, Yun Ma, Kaigui Bian, Gang Huang, Yunxin Liu, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 23(1): 483-500, 2024.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'24] Characterizing and Detecting WebAssembly Runtime Bugs CCF-A
    Yixuan Zhang, Shangtong Cao, Haoyu Wang, Zhenpeng Chen, Xiapu Luo, Dongliang Mu, Yun Ma, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(2): 37:1-37:29, 2024.
    Paper Project

  • [SCIS'24] What Can We Learn from Quality Assurance Badges in Open-Source Software? CCF-A
    Feng Li, Yiling Lou, Xin Tan, Zhenpeng Chen, Jinhao Dong, Yang Li, Xuanzhi Wang, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang.
    In: Science China Information Sciences, 67(4): 142103:1-142103:18.
    Paper Project

  • [JRC'24] Bias Mitigation for Machine Learning Classifiers: A Comprehensive Survey
    Max Hort, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Federica Sarro.
    In: ACM Journal on Responsible Computing, 1(2): 11:1-11:52.
    Paper Project

  • [MSR'23] AutoML from Software Engineering Perspective: Landscapes and Challenges CCF-C
    Chao Wang, Zhenpeng Chen, Minghui Zhou.
    In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp.39-51, May 15-16, 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Acceptance Rate: 37% (43/115).
    🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'23] FaaSLight: General Application-Level Cold-Start Latency Optimization for Function-as-a-Service in Serverless Computing CCF-A
    Xuanzhe Liu, Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen*, Ding Li, Junkai Chen, Yi Liu, Haoyu Wang, Xin Jin.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(5): 119:1-119:29, 2023. (Selected for ASE 2023 journal-first presentation)
    Paper Project

  • [ISSTA'23] Who Judges the Judge: An Empirical Study on Online Judge Tests CCF-A
    Kaibo Liu, Yudong Han, Jie M. Zhang, Zhenpeng Chen*, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Gang Huang, Yun Ma.
    In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp.334–346, July 17-21, 2023, Seattle, USA. Acceptance Rate of first round submission: 18% (28/159).
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'23] Rise of Distributed Deep Learning Training in the Big Model Era: From a Software Engineering Perspective CCF-A
    Xuanzhe Liu, Diandian Gu, Zhenpeng Chen, Jinfeng Wen, Zili Zhang, Yun Ma, Haoyu Wang, Xin Jin.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(6): 156:1-156:26, 2023. (Selected for ASE 2023 journal-first presentation)
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'23] A Comprehensive Empirical Study of Bias Mitigation Methods for Machine Learning Classifiers CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(4): 106:1-106:30, 2023.
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'23] Rise of the Planet of Serverless Computing: A Systematic Review CCF-A
    Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen*, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(5): 131:1-131:61, 2023.
    Paper Project

  • [JSEP'23] Characterizing Commodity Serverless Computing Platforms CCF-B
    Jinfeng Wen, Yi Liu, Zhenpeng Chen, Junkai Chen, Yun Ma.
    In: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 35(10):e2394, 2023. (Selected for SANER 2022 journal-first presentation)
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'22] MAAT: A Novel Ensemble Approach to Addressing Fairness and Performance Bugs for Machine Learning Software CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.1122-1134, November 14-18, 2022, Singapore. Acceptance Rate: 22% (99/449).
    Paper Project

  • [PONE'22] Emojis Predict Dropouts of Remote Workers: An Empirical Study of Emoji Usage on GitHub
    Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Qiaozhu Mei.
    In: PLOS ONE, 17(1): e0261262, 2022, 21 pages.
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'21] TaintStream: Fine-grained Taint Tracking for Big Data Platforms through Dynamic Code Translation CCF-A
    Chengxu Yang, Yuanchun Li, Mengwei Xu, Zhenpeng Chen, Yunxin Liu, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.806-817, August 23-27, 2021, Athens, Greece. Acceptance Rate: 24% (97/396).
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'21] An Empirical Study on Challenges of Application Development in Serverless Computing CCF-A
    Jinfeng Wen#, Zhenpeng Chen#, Yi Liu, Yiling Lou, Yun Ma, Gang Huang, Xin Jin, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.416-428, August 23-27, 2021, Athens, Greece. Acceptance Rate: 24% (97/396).
    Paper Project

  • [ICSE'21] An Empirical Study on Deployment Faults of Deep Learning Based Mobile Applications CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Huihan Yao, Yiling Lou, Yanbin Cao, Yuanqiang Liu, Haoyu Wang, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, pp.674-685, May 23-29, 2021, Madrid, Spain. Acceptance Rate: 22% (138/615).
    Paper Project

  • [WWW'21] Characterizing Impacts of Heterogeneity in Federated Learning upon Large-Scale Smartphone Data CCF-A
    Chengxu Yang, Qipeng Wang, Mengwei Xu, Zhenpeng Chen, Kaigui Bian, Yunxin Liu, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 2021 World Wide Web Conference (known as The Web Conference), pp.935-946, April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Acceptance Rate: 21% (357/1736).
    Paper Project

  • [TOSEM'21] Emoji-Powered Sentiment and Emotion Detection from Software Developers’ Communication Data CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Huihan Yao, Xuan Lu, Xin Peng, Hong Mei, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 30(2): 18:1-18:48, 2021.
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'20] A Comprehensive Study on Challenges in Deploying Deep Learning Based Software CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Yuanqiang Liu, Haoyu Wang, Tao Xie, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.750-762, November 8-13, 2020, Sacramento, USA. Acceptance Rate: 28% (101/360).
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'20] Understanding Build Issue Resolution in Practice: Symptoms and Fix Patterns CCF-A
    Yiling Lou, Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.617-628, November 8-13, 2020, Sacramento, USA. Acceptance Rate: 28% (101/360).
    Paper Project

  • [IJCAI'20] Emoji-Powered Representation Learning for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification (Extended Abstract)
    Zhenpeng Chen, Sheng Shen, Ziniu Hu, Xuan Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.4701-4705, July 11-17, 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
    Invited Paper, an abridged version of our WWW'19 paper

  • [AAAI'20] Solving Sequential Text Classification as Board-Game Playing CCF-A
    Chen Qian, Fuli Feng, Lijie Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Li Lin, Yanan Zheng, Tat-Seng Chua.
    In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.8640-8648, February 7-12, 2020, New York, USA. Acceptance Rate: 21% (1591/7737).
    Paper Project

  • [ESEC/FSE'19] SEntiMoji: An Emoji-Powered Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Xuan Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp.841-852, August 26-30, 2019, Tallinn, Estonia. Acceptance Rate: 24% (74/303).
    Paper Project

  • [WWW'19] Emoji-Powered Representation Learning for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen#, Sheng Shen#, Ziniu Hu, Xuan Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (known as The Web Conference), pp.251-262, May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA. Acceptance Rate: 18% (225/1247).
    🏆 Best Full Paper Award (First WWW Best Paper from China)
    Paper Project

  • [WWW'18] Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users CCF-A
    Zhenpeng Chen, Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Huoran Li, Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanzhe Liu.
    In: Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference (known as The Web Conference), pp.763-772, April 23-27, 2018, Lyon, France. Acceptance Rate: 15% (171/1155).
    Paper

  • [UbiComp'17] PRADO: Predicting App Adoption by Learning the Correlation between Developer-Controllable Properties and User Behaviors CCF-A
    Xuan Lu, Zhenpeng Chen, Xuanzhe Liu, Huoran Li, Tao Xie, Qiaozhu Mei.
    In: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(3):79:1-79:30. (presented on the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 11-15, 2017, MAUI, USA).
    Paper