Quanjun Zhang

Experience

• 04/2025~now, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Professor

• 01/2025~04/2025, Swinburne University of Technology, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, under the supervision of Professor Yun Yang

• 09/2020~12/2024, Software Institute, Nanjing University, Ph.D. in Software Engineering under the supervision of Professor Zhenyu Chen & Associate Professor Chunrong Fang

• 10/2023~10/2024, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, visiting PhD student in Software Engineering under the supervision of Professor Yun Yang

• 09/2017~07/2020,   School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Master Diploma of Software Engineering, under the supervision of Associate Professor Rubing Huang

• 09/2013~07/2017,   School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University, Bachelor Diploma of Software Engineering

Research Interests

Software Testing and Debugging: Regression Testing, Vulnerability Detection

Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering: Program Repair, Code Representation

Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence: DL System Testing and Repair

Selected Publications

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1. [TSE'25] Improving Retrieval-Augmented Deep Assertion Generation via Joint Training. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yi Zheng, Ruixiang Qian, Shengcheng Yu, Yuan Zhao, Jianyi Zhou, Yun Yang, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen
   In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pages to appear, 2025. [PDF] [Data] 

2. [TOSEM'25] Improving Deep Assertion Generation via Fine-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Pre-trained Language Models. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yi Zheng, Yaxin Zhang, Yuan Zhao, Rubing Huang, Jianyi Zhou, Yun Yang, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, pages to appear, 2025.

3. [TOSEM'24] Exploring Automated Assertion Generation via Large Language Models. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Weifeng Sun, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Hongyan Li, Meng Yan, Jianyi Zhou, Zhenyu Chen.
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, pages to appear, 2024.

4. [TSE'24] APPT: Boosting Automated Patch Correctness Prediction via Fine-tuning Pre-trained Models. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Weisong Sun, Yan Liu, Tieke He, Xiaodong Hao, Zhenyu Chen
   In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pages to appear, 2024. 

5. [TOSEM'24] Machine Translation Testing via Syntactic Tree Pruning. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Jiawei Liu, Weisong Sun, Haichuan Hu and Qingyu Wang
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 39 pages, 2024. [PDF]   [Data]

6. [TOSEM'23] A Survey of Learning-based Automated Program Repair. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yuxiang Ma, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
   In: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 69 pages, 2023. [PDF]   [Data]

7. [TDSC'23] Pre-trained Model-based Automated Software Vulnerability Repair: How Far are We?. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Bowen Yu, Weisong Sun, Tongke Zhang, Zhenyu Chen
   In: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, pages to appear, 2023. [PDF]   [Data]

8. [ASE'23] GAMMA: Revisiting Template-based Automated Program Repair via Mask Prediction. (CCF-A)
   Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Tongke Zhang, Bowen Yu, Weisong Sun, Zhenyu Chen
   In: 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), pages to appear, 2023. [PDF]   [Data]

9. [JSS'22] Test Case Prioritization Using Partial Attention. (CCF-B)

Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Weisong Sun, Shencheng Yu, Yutao Xu, Yulei Liu

In: Journal of Systems & Software, pages to appear, 2022.

10. [ISSTA'25] A Large-scale Empirical Study on Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Unit Testing. (CCF-A, Equal Contribution)
    Ye Shang, Quanjun Zhang✰, Chunrong Fang, Siqi Gu, Jianyi Zhou, Zhenyu Chen
    In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2025), pages to appear.

11. [ISSTA'22] CIRCLE: Continual Repair across Programming Languages. (CCF-A, Equal Contribution)
    Wei Yuan, Quanjun Zhang✰, Tieke He, Chunrong Fang, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Hongzhi Yin
    In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, July 18--22, 2022, pages to appear, Virtual, South Korea.

Last update time: 2025.02.24