MUST scholar’s study on uses’ change request localization for mobile apps utilized user review to find the information about software bugs and users’ feature request to propose a novel localization model-Where2Change. By evaluating this model on 31597 user reviews and 3272 issue reports of 10 open source mobile apps, it performs better than CHANGEADVISOR proposed by Palomba et al. at top-tier software engineering conference-ICSE. Where2Change can successfully locate more source code classes related to the change requests for more user feedback clusters than CHANGEADVISOR. The recall value improves up to 50%.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) is one of two top-tier international journals in software engineering (SE) field. It is ranked as A and A* at CCF ranking list and CORE ranking list, respectively. This journal only publishes very high impact and significant studies. The number of published articles is less than 80 per year. For this article, Prof. Tao Zhang coming from Faculty of Information Technology is the first author and MUST is the first affiliation. It is worth mentioning that, this article is the first study published at the top-tier SE journal since Macau being returned to China. Recently，due to importance and novelty of this study, one of top-tier SE international conference-ESEC/FSE invited Prof. Zhang to present this article at its journal first track. ESEC/FSE is one of three SE top-tier conference as well as is one of low-acceptance-rate computer science conferences. The conference as same as TSE only presented very creative research. Till now, there are no studies from Macau scholars accepted by ESEC/FSE. ESEC/FSE 2020 will be held at 8th -13th November. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the conference will be held virtually.
Prof. Zhang joined MUST at September 2019，he has gotten his Ph.D. from University of Seoul，then he served as postdoc. Research fellow at University of Malaya and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests focus on intelligent software engineering, mining software repositories, and software security.
Faculty of information technology (FI) is one of the first four founded faculties at MUST. By all faculty members’ efforts, FI published a lot of top-tier studies. According to the World University Rankins in subject by Times Higher Education, MUST is ranked as top 150 at computer science subject.
(online publication: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8924692)