Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs

Accenture 161 North Clark St. Chicago IL 60601 USA Research Interests Software testing, software engineering, software maintenance and empirical studies. Recent Projects Currently, I am working on two projects: - Automated reference testing.
- Automatic debugging.
Selected Publications Designing and Comparing Automated Test Oracles for GUI-based Software Applications Qing Xie and Atif Memon ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology vol. 16, no. 1, February, 2007 Studying the Fault-Detection Effectiveness of GUI Test Cases for Rapidly Evolving Software Atif Memon and Qing Xie IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 884-896, October, 2005 Automating Regression Testing for Evolving GUI Software Atif Memon, Adithya Nagarajan and Qing Xie Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution:Research and Practice vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 27-64, January, 2005 Agile Quality Assurance Techniques for GUI-Based Applications Qing Xie and Atif Memon in Agile Software Development Quality Assurance, edited by Ioannis Stamelos and Panagiotis Sfetsos Information Science Reference, February, 2007 Studying the Characteristics of a "Good" GUI Test Suite Qing Xie and Atif Memon 17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'06) pp. 159-168, Nov. 6-10, 2006 Raleigh, NC, USA Model-based Testing of Community-Driven driven Open Source GUI Applications Qing Xie and Atif Memon 22nd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'06) pp. 145-154, Sept. 25-27, 2006 Philadelphia, PA, USA Developing Cost-Effective effective Model-Based based Techniques for GUI Testing Qing Xie the Doctoral Symposium, 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'06) pp. 997-1000, May 20-28, 2006. Shanghai, China Rapid "Crash Testing" for Continuously Evolving GUI-Based based Software Applications Qing Xie and Atif Memon 21st International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05) pp. 473-482, Sept. 25-30, 2005 Budapest, Hungary Using Transient/Persistent Errors to Develop Automated Test Oracles for Event-driven Software Atif Memon and Qing Xie 19th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'04) pp. 186-195, Sept. 20-24, 2004 Linz, Austria Empirical Evaluation of the Fault-detection Effectiveness of Smoke Regression Test Cases for GUI-based Software Atif Memon and Qing Xie 20th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'04) pp. 8-17, Sept. 11-17, 2004 Chicago, Illinois, USA Education Ph.D. in computer science, The University of Maryland at College Park Personal Interests Travel, swimming and badminton. To Top |