Publications

@article{Batoun2024LogSurvey,

title = {A Literature Review and Existing Challenges on Software Logging Practices - From the Creation to the Analysis of Software Logs},

author = {Mohamed Amine Batoun and Mohammed Sayagh and Roozbeh Aghili and Ali Ouni and Heng Li},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10452-w},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {29},

number = {103},

pages = {61 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Foalem2024MLLogging,

title = {Studying Logging Practice in Machine Learning-based Applications},

author = {Patrick Loic Foalem and Foutse Khomh and Heng Li},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04234.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107450},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},

volume = {170},

pages = {1–17},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ghadesi2024MLException,

title = {What Causes Exceptions in Machine Learning Applications? Mining Machine Learning-Related Stack Traces on Stack Overflow},

author = {Amin Ghadesi and Maxime Lamothe and Heng Li},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.12857},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10499-9},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {29},

number = {107},

pages = {37 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Lyu2024AIOpsUpdate,

title = {On the Model Update Strategies for Supervised Learning in AIOps Solutions},

author = {Yingzhe Lyu and Heng Li and Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03213},

doi = {10.1145/366459},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {33},

number = {7},

pages = {1–38},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Noei2024MLRefScanner,

title = {Detecting Refactoring Commits in Machine Learning Python Projects: A Machine Learning-Based Approach},

author = {Shayan Noei and Heng Li and Ying Zou},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06572},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (accepted)},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wu2024PostIntention,

title = {Characterizing and Classifying Developer Forum Posts with their Intentions},

author = {Xingfang Wu and Eric Laufer and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh and Santhosh Srinivasan and Jayden Luo},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14279},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10487-z},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {29},

number = {84},

pages = {34 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{xia2024reducing,

title = {Reducing the Length of Field-replay Based Load Testing},

author = {Yuanjie Xia and Lizhi Liao and Jinfu Chen and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2024.3408079},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {50},

number = {8},

pages = {1967–1983},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Aghili2023AIOps,

title = {Studying the characteristics of AIOps projects on GitHub},

author = {Roozbeh Aghili and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13245},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-023-10382-z},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {28},

number = {143},

pages = {49 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Bhagya2023SportsApps,

title = {A Large-Scale Exploratory Study of Android Sports Apps in the Google Play Store},

author = {Bhagya Chembakottu and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh},

doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107321},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},

volume = {164},

number = {107321},

pages = {1–18},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ding2022CodeEmbeddingGCN,

title = {Towards Learning Generalizable Code Embeddings using Task-agnostic Graph Convolutional Networks},

author = {Zishuo Ding and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Tse-Hsun Chen},

doi = {10.1145/3542944},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {32},

number = {2},

pages = {1–43},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ding2023LoGenTextPlus,

title = {LoGenText-Plus: Improving Neural Machine Translation-based Logging Texts Generation with Syntactic Templates},

author = {Zishuo Ding and Yiming Tang and Xiaoyu Cheng and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3624740},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {2},

number = {33},

pages = {1–45},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Noei2023RefactoringRhythmsTactics,

title = {An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process},

author = {Shayan Noei and Heng Li and Stefanos Georgiou and Ying Zou},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2023.3326775},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {49},

number = {12},

pages = {5103–5119},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Wu2023LogRepresentation,

title = {On the Effectiveness of Log Representation for Log-based Anomaly Detection},

author = {Xingfang Wu and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-023-10364-1},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {28},

number = {137},

pages = {39 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{YOUSEFIFESHKI2023107196,

title = {Studying the challenges of developing hardware description language programs},

author = {Fatemeh Yousefifeshki and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584923000502},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107196},

issn = {0950-5849},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},

volume = {159},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ding2022CodeEmbeddings,

title = {Can Pre-trained Code Embeddings Improve Model Performance? Revisiting the Use of Code Embeddings in Software Engineering Tasks},

author = {Zishuo Ding and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Tse-Hsun Chen},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-022-10118-5},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {27},

number = {63},

pages = {38 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Lamothe2021APIMisuse,

title = {Assisting Example-based API Misuse Detection via Complementary Artificial Examples},

author = {Maxime Lamothe and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3093246},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {9},

pages = {3410–3422},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Li2021StackTrace,

title = {Studying the Practices of Logging Exception Stack Traces in Open-Source Software Projects},

author = {Heng Li and Haoxiang Zhang and Shaowei Wang and Ahmed E. Hassan},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3129688},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {12},

pages = {4907–4924},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Liao2021DNNPerformance,

title = {An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks},

author = {Lizhi Liao and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Lei Ma},

doi = {10.1145/3506695},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {31},

number = {3},

pages = {1–40},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Liao2021LocatePerfReg,

title = {Locating Performance Regression Root Causes in the Field Operations of Web-based Systems: An Experience Report},

author = {Lizhi Liao and Jinfu Chen and Heng Li and Yi Zeng and Weiyi Shang and Catalin Sporea and Andrei Toma and Sarah Sajedi},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3131529},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {12},

pages = {4986–5006},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Locke2021LogAssist,

title = {LogAssist: Assisting Log Analysis Through Log Summarization},

author = {Steven Locke and Heng Li and Tse-Hsun Peter Chen and Weiyi Shang and Wei Liu},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3083715},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {9},

pages = {3227–3241},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Raed2022QuantumBugs,

title = {Bug Characteristics in Quantum Software Ecosystem},

author = {Mohamed Raed and Heng Li and Foutse Khomh and Lionel Tidjon},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.11965},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11965},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Zhang2021CodeWeaknessesOnStackOverflow,

title = {A Study of C/C++ Code Weaknesses on Stack Overflow},

author = {Haoxiang Zhang and Shaowei Wang and Heng Li and Tse-Hsun Peter Chen and Ahmed E. Hassan},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2021.3058985},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {7},

pages = {2359–2375},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Zhang2022TestLog,

title = {Studying Logging Practice in Test Code},

author = {Haonan Zhang and Yiming Tang and Maxime Lamothe and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-022-10139-0},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {27},

number = {83},

pages = {45 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Gujral2021LoggingQuestions,

title = {An Exploratory Semantic Analysis of Logging Questions},

author = {Harshit Gujral and Sangeeta Lal and Heng Li},

doi = {10.1002/smr.2361},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSME)},

volume = {33},

number = {7},

pages = {e2361},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{LyuAIOpsDataSplitting,

title = {An Empirical Study of the Impact of Data Splitting Decisions on the Performance of AIOps Solutions},

author = {Yingzhe Lyu and Heng Li and Mohammed Sayagh and Zhen Ming Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan},

doi = {10.1145/3447876},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {30},

number = {4},

pages = {1–38},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Dai2020Logram,

title = {Logram: Efficient Log Parsing Using n-Gram Dictionaries},

author = {Hetong Dai and Heng Li and Che-Shao Chen and Weiyi Shang and Tse-Hsun Chen},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2020.3007554},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {48},

number = {3},

pages = {879–892},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Li2020LoggingQualitativeStudy,

title = {A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging from Developers' Perspectives},

author = {Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Bram Adams and Mohammed Sayagh and Ahmed Hassan},

doi = {10.1109/TSE.2020.2970422},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},

volume = {47},

number = {12},

pages = {2858–2873},

publisher = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Li2020NodeFailurePrediction,

title = {Predicting Node Failures in an Ultra-Large-Scale Cloud Computing Platform: An AIOps Solution},

author = {Yangguang Li and Zhen Ming Jiang and Heng Li and Ahmed E. Hassan and Cheng He and Ruirui Huang and Zhengda Zeng and Mian Wang and Pinan Chen},

doi = {10.1145/3385187},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {29},

number = {2},

pages = {13:1–13:24},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Liao2020LogPerfReg,

title = {Using Black-Box Performance Models to Detect Performance Regressions under Varying Workloads: An Empirical Study},

author = {Lizhi Liao and Jinfu Chen and Heng Li and Yi Zeng and Weiyi Shang and Jianmei Guo and Catalin Sporea and Andrei Toma and Sarah Sajedi},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-020-09866-z},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {25},

number = {5},

pages = {4130–4160},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Yao2020LogCompression,

title = {A Study of the Performance of General Compressors on Log Files},

author = {Kundi Yao and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Ahmed E. Hassan},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-020-09822-x},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {25},

number = {5},

pages = {3043–3085},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Li2018studying,

title = {Studying software logging using topic models},

author = {Heng Li and Tse-Hsun Peter Chen and Weiyi Shang and Ahmed E Hassan},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-018-9595-8},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {23},

number = {5},

pages = {2655–2694},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Li2017LogChange,

title = {Towards just-in-time suggestions for log changes},

author = {Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Ying Zou and Ahmed E Hassan},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-016-9467-z},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {22},

number = {4},

pages = {1831–1865},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}