Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Maryland at College Park
Professional Organizations
IEEE member, ACM SigSoft member
Research Interests
Software testing, software engineering, software maintenance and empirical studies.
Recent Projects
ART—Automated Regression Testing Suite (a set of automated tools to address different issues during testing and regression testing of GUI-based software)
Selected Publications
- Using a Pilot Study to Derive a GUI Model for Automated Testing
Qing Xie and Atif Memon
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
vol. 18, no. 2, November, 2008
- 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
Conferences:
- An Empirical Investigation into a Large-Scale Java Open Source Code Repository
Mark Grechanik, Collin McMillan, Luca DeFerrari, Marco Comi, Stefano Crespi, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chen Fu, Qing Xie, and Carlo Ghezzi
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'10)
Sept 16-17, 2010
Bozano-Bolzen, Italy
- A Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications
Mark Grechanik, Chen Fu, Qing Xie, Collin McMillan, Denys Poshyvanyk and Chad Cumby
32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'10)
pp. 475-484, May 1-8, 2010
Cape Town, South Africa
- Exemplar: EXEcutable exaMPLes ARchive
Mark Grechanik, Chen Fu, Qing Xie, Collin McMillan, Denys Poshyvanyk and Chad Cumby
the Demo Track, 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'10)
pp. 259-262, May 1-8, 2010
Cape Town, South Africa
- GUIDE: A GUI Differentiator
Qing Xie, Mark Grechanik, Chen Fu and Chad Cumby
the Demo Track, 25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'09)
pp. 395-396, Sept. 20-26, 2009
Edmonton, Canada
- Experimental Assessment of Manual versus Tool-based Maintenance of GUI-directed Test Scripts
Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie and Chen Fu
25th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'09)
pp. 9-18, Sept. 20-26, 2009
Edmonton, Canada
- Maintaining and Evolving GUI-directed Test Scripts
Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie and Chen Fu
31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'09)
pp. 408-418, May 16-24, 2009
Vancouver, Canada
- Inferring Types of References to GUI Objects in Test Scripts
Chen Fu, Mark Grechanik and Qing Xie
2nd International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST'09)
pp. 1-10, Apr. 1-4, 2009
Denver, CO, USA
- REST: A Tool for Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing
Qing Xie, Mark Grechanik and Chen Fu
the Demo Track, 24th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'08)
pp. 468-469, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2008
Beijing, China
- SMART: A Tool for Application Reference Testing
Qing Xie, Mark Grechanik and Matthew Hellige
the Demo Track, 22nd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'07)
pp. 537-538, Nov. 5-Nov. 9, 2007
Atlanta, GA, USA
- Automatic Test Generation from GUI Applications for Testing Web Services
Kevin M. Conroy, Mark Grechanik, Matthew Hellige, Edy S. Liongosari and Qing Xie
23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'07)
pp. 345-354, Oct. 2-Oct. 5, 2007
Paris, France
- 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
Personal Interests
Travel, swimming and eating.