Publications

@inproceedings{belkhiri2026DPDKTracing,

title = {A Transparent and Efficient Performance Analysis Approach to Enhance DPDK Observability},

author = {Adel Belkhiri and Arnaud Fiorini and Matthew Khouzam and Heng Li},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

urldate = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)},

organization = {ACM/SPEC},

series = {ICPE '26},

note = {Best Industry Paper candidate},

keywords = {Observability, Performance, Tracing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Jin2026EnergySO,

title = {Energy-Efficient Software Development: A Multi-dimensional Empirical Analysis of Stack Overflow},

author = {Bihui Jin and Heng Li and Pengyu Nie and Ying Zou},

url = {https://arxiv.org/html/2409.19222, Preprint},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

urldate = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},

organization = {IEEE},

series = {ICSE '26 (acceptance rate 24.2%)},

keywords = {Performance, Sustainability},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{shahedi2026PerfArchetypes,

title = {Discovering Performance Archetypes: Critical-Path-Aware Pattern Analysis and Regression Detection},

author = {Kaveh Shahedi and Heng Li and Maxime Lamothe and Foutse Khomh},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17179, Preprint

https://github.com/mooselab/performance-archetypes, Data},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

urldate = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},

organization = {IEEE/ACM},

series = {ASE '26 (direct acceptance rate 8.8%)},

note = {ACM Distinguished Paper Award },

keywords = {Observability, Performance, Trace analysis, Tracing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{ghari2025sparkperf,

title = {SparkPerf: A Benchmarking Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Spark Data Analytics Projects},

author = {Soude Ghari and Marios Fokaefs and Heng Li},

doi = {10.1109/cloud-summit64795.2025.00015},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {2025 IEEE Cloud Summit},

pages = {46–53},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {Benchmarking, Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Liao2024BridgingPerformance,

title = {Early Detection of Performance Regressions by Bridging Local Performance Data and Architectural Models},

author = {Lizhi Liao and Simon Eismann and Heng Li and Cor-Paul Bezemer and Diego Elias Costa and André Hoorn and Weiyi Shang},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08148, Preprint},

doi = {10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00026},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},

pages = {2841--2853},

organization = {IEEE},

series = {ICSE '25},

note = {ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Aghili2024Workloads,

title = {Understanding Web Application Workloads and Their Applications: Systematic Literature Review and Characterization},

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

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12299, Preprint

https://github.com/mooselab/web-app-workloads, Data},

doi = {10.1109/ICSME58944.2024.00050},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) (accepted)},

pages = {474–486},

organization = {IEEE},

series = {ICSME '24},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Chen2023IoPV,

title = {IoPV: On Inconsistent Option Performance Variations},

author = {Jinfu Chen and Zishuo Ding and Yiming Tang and Mohammed Sayagh and Heng Li and Bram Adams and Weiyi Shang},

doi = {10.1145/3611643.3616319},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)},

pages = {845–857},

organization = {ACM},

series = {ESEC/FSE '23},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Liao2023SQLPerf,

title = {Adapting Performance Analytic Techniques in a Real-World Database-Centric System: An Industrial Experience Report},

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

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Industrial Track},

pages = {1855–1866},

organization = {ACM},

series = {ESEC/FSE '23},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Shariff2019LoadTesting,

title = {Improving the Testing Efficiency of Selenium-based Load Tests},

author = {Shahnaz M. Shariff and Heng Li and Cor-Paul Bezemer and Ahmed E. Hassan and Thanh H. D. Nguyen and Parminder Flora},

doi = {10.1109/AST.2019.00008},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST)},

pages = {14–20},

series = {AST '19},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Li2018adopting,

title = {Adopting Autonomic Computing Capabilities in Existing Large-Scale Systems: An Industrial Experience Report},

author = {Heng Li and Tse-Hsun Peter Chen and Ahmed E. Hassan and Mohamed Nasser and Parminder Flora},

doi = {10.1145/3183519.3183544},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-SEIP)},

organization = {IEEE Press},

series = {ICSE-SEIP '18},

keywords = {Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}