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Publications [Google Scholar]  [ResearchGate] #: co-first author, *: corresponding author.

 (ISSTA'25, CCF-A) Zhiling Zhu, Tieming Chen, Chengwei Liu*, Han Liu, Qijie Song, Zhengzi Xu, Yang Liu, "Doctor: Optimizing Container Rebuild Efficiency by Instruction Re-Orchestration", In Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2025.

 (ISSTA'25, CCF-A) Lyuye Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Chengwei Liu*, Kaixuan Li, Xiaoyu Sun, Lida Zhao, Chong Wang, Yang Liu, "Fixing Outside the Box: Uncovering Tactics for Open-Source Security Issue Management", In Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2025.

 (FSE-IVR'25) Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu*, Jiahui Wu, Shiyang Zhang, Chengyue Liu, Zhengzi Xu, Sen Chen, Yang Liu, "Drop the Golden Apples: Identifying Third-Party Reuse by DB-Less Software Composition Analysis", In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025.

 (TSE'25, CCF-A) Chenghao Li, Yifei Wu, Wenbo Shen, Zichen Zhao, Rui Chang, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Kui Ren, "Demystifying Rust Unstable Features at Ecosystem Scale: Evolution, Propagation, and Mitigation", In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2025.

 (FSE'25, CCF-A) Xiaokun Luan, David Sanan, Zhe Hou, Qiyuan Xu, Chengwei Liu, Yufan Cai, Yang Liu, Meng Sun, "Why the Proof Fails in Different Versions of Theorem Provers: An Empirical Study of Compatibility Issues in Isabelle", In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025.

 (JSS, CCF-B) Shuo Li, Haocheng Gao, Wei Chen, Yi Li, Haoxiang Tian, Chengwei Liu, Dan Ye, "Characterizing and Detecting Python Version Incompatibilities Caused by Inconsistent Version Specifications", Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2025.

 (ICSE-APR'25) Lyuye Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Chengwei Liu*, Kaixuan Li, Sen Chen, Yang Liu, "Towards Unveiling Vulnerability Remediation Tactics from OSS Community", In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR 2025, co-hosted with ICSE), 2025.

 (ASE-NIER'24) Yueming Wu, Chengwei Liu*, Zhengzi Xu, Lyuye Zhang, Yiran Zhang, Zhu Zhiling, Yang Liu, "The Software Genome Project: Unraveling Software Through Genetic Principles", In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024.

 (SANER'24, CCF-B) Tao Liu, Chengwei Liu*, Tianwei Liu, He Wang, Gaofei Wu, Yang Liu, Yuqing Zhang, "Catch the Butterfly: Peeking into the Terms and Conflicts among SPDX Licenses", In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, 2024.

 (ICSE'24, CCF-A) Jinchang Hu, Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu*, Sen Yang, Song Huang, Yang Liu, "Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities Life Cycle in Golang Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024.

 (ICSE'24, CCF-A) Ruofan Zhu, Xingyu Wang, Chengwei Liu, Zhengzi Xu, Wenbo Shen, Rui Chang, Yang Liu, "ModuleGuard: Understanding and Detecting Module Conflicts in Python Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024.

 (AAAI'24, CCF-A) Ming Hu, Yue Cao, Anran Li, Zhiming Li, Chengwei Liu, Tianlin Li, Mingsong Chen, Yang Liu, "FedMut: Generalized Federated Learning via Stochastic Mutation", In Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 (Oral).

 (ICSE'24, CCF-A) Chenghao Li, Yifei Wu, Wenbo Shen, Zichen Zhao, Rui Chang, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Kui Ren, "Demystifying Compiler Unstable Feature Usage and Impacts in the Rust Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024.

 (FSE'23, CCF-A) Yiran Zhang, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu*, Hongxu Chen, Jianwen Sun, Dong Qiu, Yang Liu, "Software Architecture Recovery with Information Fusion", In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023.

 (FSE'23, CCF-A) Lida Zhao, Sen Chen, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Lyuye Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, "Software Composition Analysis for Vulnerability Detection: An Empirical Study on Java Projects", In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023.

 (FSE'23, CCF-A) Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li, Yang Liu, "Demystifying the Composition and Code Reuse in Solidity Smart Contracts", In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023.

 (FSE'23, CCF-A) Kaixuan Li, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Ruitao Feng, Han Liu, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Yixiang Chen, "Comparison and Evaluation on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Java", In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023.

 (ASE'23, CCF-A) Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu*, Sen Chen, Zhengzi Xu, Lingling Fan, Lida Zhao, Yiran Zhang, Yang Liu, "Mitigating Persistence of Open-Source Vulnerabilities in Maven Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023.

 (ASE'23, CCF-A) Yuqiang Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Yiran Zhang, Yang Liu, "Who is the Real Hero? Measuring Developer Contribution via Multi-dimensional Data Integration", In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023.

 (ASE'23, CCF-A) Wenbo Guo, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Cheng Huang, Yong Fang, Yang Liu, "An Empirical Study of Malicious Code In PyPI Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023.

 (ASE'23, CCF-A) Yi Liu, Yuekang Li, Gelei Deng, Felix Juefei-Xu, Yao Du, Cen Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Yeting Li, Lei Ma, Yang Liu, "Aster: Automatic Speech Recognition System Accessibility Testing for Stutterers", In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023.

 (TDSC'23, CCF-A) Ziyue Pan, Wenbo Shen, Xingkai Wang, Yutian Yang, Rui Chang, Yao Liu, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Kui Ren, "Ambush from All Sides: Understanding Security Threats in Open-Source Software CI/CD Pipelines", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023.

 (ISSTA'23, CCF-A) Han Liu, Sen Chen, Ruitao Feng, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li, Zhengzi Xu, Liming Nie, Yang Liu, Yixiang Chen, "A Comprehensive Study on Quality Assurance Tools for Java", In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2023.

 (ICSE'23, CCF-A) Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu*, Zhengzi Xu, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Lida Zhao, Jiahui Wu, and Yang Liu, "Compatible Remediation on Vulnerabilities from Third-Party Libraries for Java Projects", In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

 (ASE'22, CCF-A) Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Zhengzi Xu, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Bihuan Chen, and Yang Liu, "Has My Release Disobeyed Semantic Versioning? Static Detection Based On Semantic Differencing", In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

 (ASE'22, CCF-A) Wei Tang, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Jiahui Wu, Shouguo Yang, Yi Li, Ping Luo, and Yang Liu, "Towards Understanding Third-party Library Dependency in C/C++ Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022.

 (ICSE'22, CCF-A) Chengwei Liu, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Bihuan Chen, Yang Liu, and Xin Peng, "Demystifying the Vulnerability Propagation and Its Evolution via Dependency Trees in the NPM Ecosystem", In Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2022.
[Press]

 (IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Core Rank A, JCR-Q2) Fei Wang, Zhibin Yang, Zhiqiu Huang, Chengwei Liu, Yong Zhou, Jean-Paul Bodeveix and Mamoun Filali, "An Approach to Generate the Traceability Between Restricted Natural Language Requirements and AADL Models," in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 154-173, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/TR.2019.2936072.

 (MEMOCODE) Jinmiao Xu, Zhibin Yang, Zhiqiu Huang, Yong Zhou, Chengwei Liu, Lei Xue, Jean-Paul Bodeveix and Mamoun Filali, "Hierarchical Behavior Annex: Towards an AADL Functional Specification Extension," 2018 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE), 2018, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/MEMCOD.2018.8557005.

 (Journal of Software) Fei Wang, Zhibin Yang, Zhiqiu Huang, Yong Zhou, Chengwei Liu, Wenbing Zhang,Lei Xue and Jinmiao Xu, "Approach for generating AADL model based on restricted natural language requirement template," Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software, 2018,29(8):2350−2370 (in Chinese). http://www.jos.org.cn/1000-9825/5530.htm.

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