Examples of the excellent produced in collaboration with Chinese visitors

Xiangjuan YAO

College of Science, China University of Mining and Technology, China

• Funded by: The China Scholarship Council (CSC)
• Duration of visit: 6 months 
• Date: March - August 2013

Xiangjuan worked with Prof Harman and Dr Jia on the problem of equivalent mutants in mutation testing. Her worl was published in ICSE 2014:

Xiangjuan Yao, Mark Harman and Yue Jia.
A Study of Equivalent and Stubborn Mutation Operators using Human Analysis of Equivalence.
36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014).
Hyderabad, India, 31st May - 7th June , 2014.
Pages 919-930.

Dr TianTian WANG

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

• Funded by: The China Scholarship Council (CSC)
• Duration of visit: 12 months
• Date: January 2012 - December 2012

TianTian worked on SBSE as a way to search the space of clone detection configurations to improve the rigour of experiments of clone detection. This led to a paper in FSE:

Tiantian Wang, Mark Harman, Yue Jia and Jens Krinke. Searching for Better Configurations: A Rigorous Approach to Clone Evaluation ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2013) Saint Petersburg, Russia August 18th- 23rd, 2013. Pages 455-465.

Prof Rui-Lian ZHAO

Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

• Funded by: The China Scholarship Council (CSC)
• Duration of visit: 12 months
• Date: 2008 - 2009

Rui-Lian worked on model based testing leading to a paper in SBST:

Ruilian Zhao, Mark Harman and Zheng Li. Empirical study on the efficiency of search based test generation for EFSM models 3rd International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST 2010). Paris, France, 6 April, 2010.

Professor Zheng LI

Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

• Funded by: The China Scholarship Council (CSC)
• Duration of visit: 12 months
• Date: 2004 - 2005

Zheng worked on Regression Testing leading to a paper in TSE which is now very widely cited and influential:

Zheng Li, Mark Harman and Rob Hierons.
Search Algorithms for Regression Test Case Prioritisation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
33(4): 225-237, 2007.

Zheng went on to do a PhD under the supervision of Prof Harman and became a post doctoral researcher in CREST. On his return to China in 2010 he was appointed Full Professor at BUCT.

He founded the first Chinese Search Based Software Engineering Workshop (CSBSE) which took place on 2nd July 2012 in Beijing, China.