Hengcheng Zhu

I am a PhD candidate at the CSE department of HKUST. I work with Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung in the CASTLE research group. I obtained my Bachelor's degree in engineering at SUSTech in 2020. My research focuses on software testing and program analysis. Currently, I am working on research projects in mocking, IoT testing, and metamorphic testing. During my spare time, I visit various hiking trails in Hong Kong and take nice photos there. I am also a tech enthusiast and I contribute to open-source projects such as Homebrew.

Education

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Since Aug. 2020
  • In CASTLE research group, advised by Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung
• Southern University of Science and Technology: B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
  • In Software Quality Lab, advised by Prof. Yepang Liu
  • With outstanding graduate honor and distinguished UG thesis honor

Publications

• TOSEM 2024 Congying Xu, Valerio Terragni, Hengcheng Zhu, Jiarong Wu, and Shing-Chi Cheung^*. MR-Scout: Automated Synthesis of Metamorphic Relations from Existing Test Cases. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. Accepted in March 2024. DOI Preprint arXiv

• TOSEM 2023 ICSE 2024 J1 Hengcheng Zhu, Lili Wei, Valerio Terragni, Yepang Liu, Shing-Chi Cheung^*, Jiarong Wu, Qin Sheng, Bing Zhang, and Lihong Song. StubCoder: Automated Generation and Repair of Stub Code for Mock Objects. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2024. DOI Preprint Slides arXiv

• ASE 2021 Mingwei Zheng, Jun Yang, Ming Wen^*, Hengcheng Zhu, Yepang Liu, and Hai Jin. Why Do Developers Remove Lambda Expressions in Java?. In Proceedings of The 36^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2021. DOI Preprint Slides

• ASE 2020 Hengcheng Zhu^#, Lili Wei^#, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu^*, Shing-Chi Cheung^*, Qin Sheng, and Cui Zhou. MockSniffer: Characterizing and Recommending Mocking Decisions for Unit Tests. In Proceedings of The 35^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 2020. DOI Preprint Slides Talk Artifact

• SANER 2020 Zhaoxu Zhang^#, Hengcheng Zhu^#, Ming Wen, Yida Tao, Yepang Liu^*, and Yingfei Xiong. How Do Python Framework APIs Evolve? An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of The 2020 IEEE 27^th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. London, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 2020. DOI Preprint Slides Talk Artifact

Honors and Awards

• Postgraduate studentship, HKUST, 2020 - 2024
• Distinguished UG thesis, SUSTech, Jun., 2020
• Outstanding graduate, SUSTech, May, 2020
• Annual outstanding students scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2017, 2018, and 2019
• Outstanding teaching assistant, CSE department, SUSTech, Jan. and Jul. 2019
• Outstanding freshmen scholarship, Third Class, SUSTech, Oct. 2016

Academic Services

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) in 2024
• PC member, ICSE 2024 Artifact Evaluation Track
• PC member, ISSRE 2023 Artifact Evaluation Track
• PC member, ESEC/FSE 2023 Artifact Evaluation Track
• PC member, ISSTA 2023 Artifact Evaluation Track
• Student volunteer, ISSTA 2019

Teaching

I worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses at HKUST.

• COMP 1021 Introduction to Computer Science (Python Programming) (Fall 2023-24)
• COMP 3021 Java Programming (Fall 2022-23)
• COMP 3021 Java Programming (Fall 2021-22)
• COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (C/C++ Programming) (Spring 2020-21)