Biography

Dr. Yi Song is currently a HongYi Postdoc Research Fellow (弘毅博士后) in School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China, working with Prof. Bo Du and Prof. Xiaoyuan Xie. He is also a member of CSTAR - Centre of Software Testing, Analysis, and Reliability. His research interests mainly include software testing, debugging, program analysis, and search-based software engineering. Any cooperation is warmly welcomed, and more information can be found at GitHub and Google Scholar.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Wuhan University in 2024. He received his B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from China Three Gorges University in 2018 and 2020, respectively, and received his dual bachelor's degree from Communication University of China in 2018. He visited Advanced Research Center on Software Testing and Quality Assurance at The University of Texas at Dallas as a short-term scholar from April to June 2019.

Publications

Refereed Journals

  • Yi Song, Xihao Zhang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Songqiang Chen, Quanming Liu and Ruizhi Gao. SURE: A Visualized Failure Indexing Approach using Program Memory Spectrum. Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) [CCF-A, JCR-1] [Just Accept] New
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie and Baowen Xu. When Debugging Encounters Artificial Intelligence: State of the Art and Open Challenges. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2024, 67(4): 141101 [CCF-A, JCR-1] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Quanming Liu, Xihao Zhang and Xi Wu. A Comprehensive Empirical Investigation on Failure Clustering in Parallel Debugging. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2022, 193: 111452 [CCF-B, JCR-2] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Zhao Li, Yuhang Chen, Yi Song, Kangjie Lu and Jinwei Shen. Effective Covering Array Generation Using an Improved Particle Swarm Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR), 2022, 71(1): 284-294 [JCR-1] [PDF] [HTML]

Refereed Conferences

  • Xihao Zhang, Yi Song (co-first author), Xiaoyuan Xie, Qi Xin and Chenliang Xing. Do not neglect what's on your hands: localizing software faults with exception trigger stream. 2024 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’24) [CCF-A] [Just Accept] New
  • Yi Song, Xihao Zhang, Xiaoyuan Xie, Quanming Liu, Ruizhi Gao and Chenliang Xing. ReClues: Representing and indexing failures in parallel debugging with program variables. 2024 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’24) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML]
  • Yi Song, Xiaoyuan Xie, Xihao Zhang, Quanming Liu and Ruizhi Gao. Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault Isolation. 2022 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’22) [CCF-A] [PDF] [HTML]
News
  • January 28, 2024: Our research paper ReClues: Representing and indexing failures in parallel debugging with program variables was awarded an Available and a Reusable badges by the Artifact Evaluation track of ICSE 2024.
  • September 3, 2022: Our research paper Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault Isolation was awarded an Available and a Reusable badges by the Artifact Evaluation track of ASE 2022.
Academic Services
  • Co-chair of SDPA 2022 (In conjunction with QRS 2022, Guangzhou, China)
  • PC member of the Short Papers and Posters Track of SANER 2025
  • PC member of the Software Engineering Track of SAC 2025
Awards
  • [2024] ACM-Wuhan & HBCS Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACM-Wuhan & Computer Society of Hubei Province)
  • [2024] Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (China Postdoctoral Science Foundation)
  • [2024] The First-class Award of the Doctoral Academic Forum (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University & DiDi)
  • [2024] Outstanding PhD Graduate (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University)
  • [2024] Social Activity Activist (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University)
  • [2023] Outstanding Graduate Student (Wuhan University)
  • [2023] Tencent Scholarship (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University & Tencent)
  • [2023] The First-class Award of the Doctoral Academic Forum (School of Computer Science, Wuhan University & DiDi)
  • [2022] Graduate Student International Exchange Scholarship (Wuhan University)
  • [2022] Outstanding Graduate Student (Wuhan University)
  • [2022] Academic Scholarship (Wuhan University)
  • [2021] Outstanding Graduate Student (Wuhan University)
  • [2021] Academic Scholarship (Wuhan University)
  • [2019] Graduate Student National Scholarship (Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China)
  • [2018] Top Ten Excellent Youth (China Three Gorges University)