News Archive
Older SAGE Lab updates. See the home page for the latest news.
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December 2024
One technical paper on IoT Testing Practices accepted to ICST’25!! Congrats to Sage Lab member Safwat!! -
November 2024
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July 2024
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May 2024
Our IEEE S&P’24 paper on Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis Tools for Security has received a distinguished paper award (awarded to 9 out of 1,463 submissions)!!! 🏆 Congrats to SAGE Lab collaborator Amit!! Award Photo! -
March 2024
One journal paper accepted to IEEE TSE on building a Theory of Causation for Interpreting Neural Models of Source Code!! Congrats to SAGE Lab Collaborators David, Alejandro, and Nathan!! If you are interested in Interpretability for LLMs of code, check out this paper! -
January 2024
Two technical papers on Automated GUI Evolution and Automated GUI Oracles accepted to MSR’24!!! Congrats to SAGE Lab members Sabiha and Junayed!! -
January 2024
Dr. Moran was selected to receive the 2024 ACM SigSoft Early Career Researcher Award!! Thank you to all students and collaborators for making this award possible!! -
January 2024
Junayed Mahmud has received the Outstanding Graduate Creative Work Award from UCF CECS for his paper, “On Using GUI Interaction Data to Improve Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization”!! Congrats Junayed!! -
January 2024
One technical paper on Neural Code Understanding for Impact Analysis accepted to FSE’24!! Congrats to SAGE Lab collaborators Yanfu Yan and Nathan Cooper!! This paper is also a collaboration with Cisco Systems!! -
December 2023
One technical paper on using Neural Screen Understanding for UI Testing accepted to ICST’24!!! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Safwat! -
December 2023
One technical paper on using Neural Screen Understanding for Detecting Accessibility Issues accepted to ICSE’24!!! Congrats to SAGE Lab members Arun and Hasan! -
October 2023
One technical paper on using Semantic GUI Scene Learning to Detect Duplicate UI Bugs accepted to ICSE’24!!! -
July 2023
One technical paper on Industry Perspectives of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools accepted to Oakland’24!! -
July 2023
Two Tool Demonstration papers on Smart Home Security and Analysis of Crypto Detectors accepted at ESEC/FSE 2023!! -
July 2023
One technical paper on Neural Bug Triaging accepted to ASE’23!! Congrats to Sage Lab Member Atish!! -
June 2023
One technical paper entitled On Using GUI Interaction Data to Improve Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization unconditionally accepted to the Technical Track at ICSE’24!! Congrats to SAGE Lab members Junayed, Hasan, Safwat, and Hooman!! -
April 2023
Dr. Moran was selected to receive a distinguished reviewer award for ICSE’23!! 🏆 -
March 2023
Dr. Moran was selected to receive the MobileSoft Rising Star Award for 2023!!! Thank you to the MobileSoft community for the recognition and to my collaborators and students without whom, my research wouldn't be possible!! 🏆 -
February 2023
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January 2023
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December 2022
Technical paper on Automated UI Analysis for Detecting Deceptive UI Designs accepted to ICSE’23!!! Congrats to Sage Lab Members Hasan, Sabiha, and Damilola!! -
October 2022
Dr. Moran gave a keynote address at the A-Mobile workshop, and participated in a panel on AI and program comprehension at the AeSIR Workshop!! -
August 2022
Grant awarded from Cisco Systems on Neural Code Search and Refactoring!! Thank you to the research team at Cisco!! -
June 2022
Two Technical papers on UI Testing and Bug Reporting have been accepted to ESEC/FSE’22!! Congrats to Sage Lab Members Junayed, Safwat, and Kesina!! -
May 2022
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February 2022
I gave an invited research talk titled “Learning Patterns from User Interfaces to Automate Software Engineering Tasks” at Montreal’s ML4Code group. -
January 2022
Two Research Papers accepted as Oral Presentations to SANER’22!! Congrats to SAGE Lab Member Junayed!! -
September 2021
Journal Paper entitled “A Systematic Literature Review of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research” accepted to TOSEM!! -
August 2021
Paper entitled “Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques” was accepted to IEEE S&P 2022!!! -
August 2021
Grant awarded from the NSF CPS program on Understanding and Testing Smart Homes!! Thank you to the NSF!! -
July 2021
Grant awarded from Cisco Systems on Automated Code Review!! Thank you Cisco!! -
June 2021
Paper entitled “Code to Comment Translation: A Comparative Study on Model Effectiveness and Errors” was accepted to NLP4Prog’21!! -
May 2021
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February 2021
MSR’21 Data Showcase paper accepted: “AndroR2: A Dataset of Manually-Reproduced Bug Reports for Mobile Apps”!! Congrats to GMU Ph.D. students Junayed and Hasan!! -
December 2020
Technical Paper entitled “It Takes Two to Tango: Combining Visual and Textual Information for Detecting Duplicate Video-Based Bug Reports” accepted to ICSE’21!! -
November 2020
Journal Paper entitled “Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques” accepted to ACM TOPS!! -
July 2020
Journal Paper entitled “Security in Centralized Data Store-based Home Automation Platforms: A Systematic Analysis of Nest and Hue” accepted to ACM TCPS!! -
July 2020
Our ICSE’20 Paper entitled “Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable Scenarios” has been awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!! 🏆 -
July 2020
Two grants from the NSF have been awarded to support our research on Bug Reporting and Automated Software Traceability!! Thank you to the NSF!! -
May 2020
I am part of the steering committee that recently published a community report from the 2019 NSF Workshop on Deep Learning and Software Engineering. Take a look at the report and contribute! -
April 2020
I will be joining George Mason University in Fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department! -
March 2020
Journal paper entitled “Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps” accepted to IEEE TSE!! -
January 2020
Technical paper entitled “Towards a Natural Perspective of Smart Homes for Practical Security and Safety Analyses” accepted to S&P’20!! -
December 2019
Three Technical Papers on Automated Traceability, Android Testing, and Predicting Test Asserts accepted to ICSE’20!! -
June 2019
Our paper “Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports” accepted to ESEC/FSE’19 has won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!! 🏆 -
May 2019
Technical Paper entitled “Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports” accepted to ESEC/FSE’19!! -
March 2019
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December 2018
Technical Paper entitled “A Study of Data Store-Based Home Automation” accepted to CODASPY’19! -
December 2018
Tool Demo Paper entitled “Guigle: a GUI Search Engine for Android Apps” accepted to ICSE’19! -
July 2018
Technical Paper entitled "Detecting and Summarizing GUI Changes in Evolving Mobile Apps" accepted to ASE'18! -
June 2018
Technical Paper entitled "Assessing Test Case Prioritization on Real Faults & Mutants" accepted to ICSME'18! -
May 2018
Technical Paper entitled “Discovering Flaws in Security-Focused Static Analysis Tools for Android using Systematic Mutation" accepted to USENIX'18! -
May 2018
I have successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation and will be joining William & Mary as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in August 2018! -
May 2018
Journal First paper entitled "Machine Learning-Based Prototyping of Graphical User Interfaces for Mobile Apps" has been accepted to TSE'18! -
January 2018
Tool Demo Paper entitled "MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android" accepted to ICSE'18! -
December 2017
Technical Paper entitled "Automated Reporting of GUI Design Violations for Mobile Apps" accepted to ICSE'18! -
July 2017
Paper entitled "How do Developers Test Android Apps" accepted to ICSME'17Industry Track! -
June 2017
Technical Paper entitled "Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps" accepted to ESEC/FSE'17! -
June 2017
Paper entitled “Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing” accepted to ICSME'17! -
February 2017
Short Paper accepted to MobileSoft'17! Congrats to W&M undergraduate Richard Bonett on his first publication! -
January 2017
Paper accepted to the Formal Research Tool Demonstration Trackat ICSE'17! -
July 2016
Paper entitled "A Large-scale Empirical Comparison of Static and Dynamic Test Case Prioritization Techniques" accepted to FSE'16! -
May 2016
I'm presenting at the ICSE16DSand Tool Demo Track! Stop by if you are interested in tools for Android Debugging! -
March 2016
Check out my article in the IEEE Software Blog about improving bug reporting for mobile applications. -
January 2016
Papers accepted to the Formal Research Tool Demonstration, and Doctoral Symposium Tracks at ICSE'16! -
December 2015
Paper entitled "Automatically Discovering, Reporting and Reproducing Android Application Crashes" accepted to ICST'16! -
September 2015
Second Place among Graduate students at the ACM Student Research Competition held at ESEC/FSE'15 and sponsored by Microsoft Research! 🏆 -
July 2015
Paper Accepted to Student Research Competition (SRC) Sponsored by Microsoft at FSE/ESEC'15! For more info click here. -
July 2015
Replication Package (which includes the FUSION tool) for FSE'15 paper accepted! Visit the webpage here! -
June 2015
My Paper "Auto-Completing Bug Reports for Android Applications" has been accepted to ESEC/FSE’15! For more info click here. -
March 2015
First co-authored paper accepted to MSR'15! For more info click here. -
March 2015
Recipient of a 2015-2016 Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship! Read more about the award and program here. -
September 2014
I just launched a new app on the Google Play Store called SensorPass! This app will help me and my research partners collect data for an Android Security Project. Check it out and Install it from here!
