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  1. Understanding the potentially confounding effect of test suite size in test effectiveness evaluation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  2. Boosting Code-line-level Defect Prediction with Spectrum Information and Causality Analysis

    Article • April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lin Chen

  3. Less is More: Feature Engineering for Fairness and Performance of Machine Learning Software

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  4. Weighted Suspiciousness and Balanced Aggregation to Boost Spectrum-based Fault Localization of Deep Learning Models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  5. Optimizing Search-Based Unit Test Generation with Large Language Models: An Empirical Study

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen, Yimeng Guo

  6. Risky Dynamic Typing-related Practices in Python: An Empirical Study

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Song Wei Song, Lin Chen

  7. Knowledge Graph Driven Inference Testing for Question Answering Software

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  8. Generating Python Type Annotations from Type Inference: How Far Are We?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen, Yimeng Guo

  9. Assessing effectiveness of test suites: what do we know and what should we do?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen, Dr Chang-ai Sun

  10. Towards Better Dependency Scope Settings in Maven Projects

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  11. Back Deduction Based Testing for Word Sense Disambiguation Ability of Machine Translation Systems

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  12. Code-line-level bugginess identification: How far have we come, and how far have we yet to go?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Zhaoqiang Guo, Lin Chen

  13. Accelerating OCR-Based Widget Localization for Test Automation of GUI Applications

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  14. Training data debugging for the fairness of machine learning software

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  15. Mutant reduction evaluation: what is there and what is missing?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  16. How Far Have We Progressed in Identifying Self-admitted Technical Debts? A Comprehensive Empirical Study

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen, Zhaoqiang Guo

  17. Measuring Discrimination to Boost Comparative Testing for Multiple Deep Learning Models

    Article • May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Lin Chen

  18. Stay professional and efficient

    Article • December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  19. Multiple-boundary clustering and prioritization to promote neural network retraining

    Article • December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  20. An Empirical Study on Dynamic Typing Related Practices in Python Systems

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  21. An Empirical Study on Critical Blocking Bugs

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  22. RoScript

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  23. Impact analysis of cross-project bugs on software ecosystems

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  24. How C++ Templates Are Used for Generic Programming

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen

  25. Python probabilistic type inference with natural language support

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Lin Chen