I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering and Game Design and Development at Kennesaw State University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. My advisor is Professor Lingming Zhang.

Research Interests

My research interests focus on Software Engineering, in particular: software testing and debugging involving dynamic/static program analysis.

Publications

1. Improving Mutation-Based Fault Localization via Mutant Categorization
   Xia Li, Durga Nagarjuna Tadikonda
   The 34th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2022), July 2022

2. Software Engineering Process and Methodology in Blockchain-Oriented Software Development: A Systematic Study
   Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Santhiya Subramanian, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero, Xia Li, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
   20th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications (SERA 2022), May 2022

3. Towards Boosting Patch Execution On-the-Fly
   Samuel Benton, Yuntong Xie, Lan Lu, Mengshi Zhang, Xia Li, Lingming Zhang
   Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), May 2022

4. Evaluating and Improving Unified Debugging
   Samuel Benton, Xia Li, Yiling Lou, Lingming Zhang
   IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering(TSE 2021)

5. Boosting Coverage-Based Fault Localization via Graph-Based Representation Learning
   Yiling Lou, Qihao Zhu, Jinhao Dong, Xia Li, Zeyu Sun, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang, Lingming Zhang
   Proceedings of 28th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2021), August 2021

6. A Large-Scale Study on API Misuses in the Wild
   Xia Li, Jiajun Jiang, Samuel Benton, Yingfei Xiong, Lingming Zhang
   Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2021), April 2021

7. On the Effectiveness of Unified Debugging: An Extensive Study on 16 Program Repair Systems
   Samuel Benton, Xia Li, Yiling Lou, Lingming Zhang
   The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020), September 2020

8. Can Automated Program Repair Refine Fault Localization? A Unified Debugging Approach
   Yiling Lou, Ali Ghanbari, Xia Li, Lingming Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Dan Hao, Lu Zhang
   Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020), July 2020

9. DeepFL: Integrating Multiple Fault Diagnosis Dimensions for Deep Fault Localization
   Xia Li, Wei Li, Yuqun Zhang and Lingming Zhang
   Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), July 2019 [PDF]
   (This paper won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)

10. An Empirical Study of Boosting Spectrum-based Fault Localization via PageRank
    Mengshi Zhang, Yaoxian Li, Xia Li, Lingchao Chen, Yuqun Zhang, Lingming Zhang and Sarfraz Khurshid
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2019), 2019. [PDF]

11. Transforming Programs and Tests in Tandem for Fault Localization
    Xia Li and Lingming Zhang
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (SPLASH/OOPSLA 2017), Oct 2017 [PDF]

12. Boosting Spectrum-based Fault Localization using PageRank
    Mengshi Zhang, Xia Li, Lingming Zhang and Sarfraz Khurshid
    Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017), July 2017 [PDF]

Professional Service

Program Committee member

• 2022: IEEE IRI
• 2021: IEEE IRI, APR
• 2020: PerCom WiP, IEEE IRI, IEEE CCWC

Reviewer

• 2021: Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Software Quality Journal, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• 2020: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
• 2020: Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
• 2018: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

Co-Reviewer

• 2020: ICSE, ISSTA, FSE, ASE
• 2019: ICST, ISSTA, QRS, ICSME, ASE
• 2018: QRS, COMPSAC, ASE, SPE
• 2017: ICST, QRS, COMPSAC, ASE