Publications

A selection of SAGE Lab publications from 2021 onward. Underlined authors are students advised in the lab; bold indicates the lab director, Dr. Kevin Moran.

• Conference & Journal Publications

• 2026

• Reassessing Code Authorship Attribution in the Era of Language Models

  Atish Kumar Dipongkor, Ziyu Yao, Kevin Moran

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2026, accepted

  Neural Code Models AI for Software Engineering Security & Privacy

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• Automated Program Repair for UI-centric Android Bugs: How Far are We?

  Junayed Mahmud, Sparsh Pandey, Nadeeshan De Silva, Atish Kumar Dipongkor, JingJing Wu, Oscar Chaparro, Mattia Fazzini, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE), Vol. 3, ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026), Oakland, California, USA, October 3rd-9th, to appear 23% acceptance rate

  Program Repair Mobile App Engineering Automated UI Analysis Software Testing Empirical Studies

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Lost in Transmission: An Information-Theoretic Account of Unsupervised Software Traceability

  D. Rodriguez-Cardenas, David N. Palacio, Logan Fecko, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’26), Industry Track, Benevento, Italy, September 14th-18th, to appear

  Traceability & Impact Analysis AI for Software Engineering Neural Code Models

  pdfgithub

• Fusing UI Structure and Semantics for Feature-Oriented App Screen Retrieval and Clustering

  Arun Krishnavajjala, Yanfu Yan, Shurnal Pothagoni, Denys Poshyvanyk, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’26), Benevento, Italy, September 14th-18th, to appear 26% acceptance rate

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Test Coverage Analysis of Agentic Pull Requests

  Atish Kumar Dipongkor, Talank Baral, Wing Lam, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’26), Vision and Emerging Results Track, Benevento, Italy, September 14th-18th, to appear

  Agentic Software Engineering Software Testing Empirical Studies

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Mutation-based Evaluation of Cryptographic API-Misuse Detectors

  Amit Seal Ami, Scott Marsden, Kevin Moran, Adwait Nadkarni, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2026, accepted

  Security & Privacy Software Testing

  pdfgithub

• 2025

• Failure by Interference: Language Models Make Balanced Parentheses Errors When Faulty Mechanisms Overshadow Sound Ones

  Daking Rai, Samuel Miller, Kevin Moran, Ziyu Yao

  Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’25), San Diego, California, December 2nd-7th, 2025, 23 pages

  Neural Code Models AI for Software Engineering

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• Generating Failure-based Oracles to Support Testing of Reported Bugs in Android Apps

  Jack Johnson, Junayed Mahmud, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Mattia Fazzini

  Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’25), Seoul, South Korea, November 16th-20th, 2025, 12 pages

  Software Testing Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

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• LadyBug: A GitHub Bot for UI-Enhanced Bug Localization in Mobile Apps

  Junayed Mahmud, James Chen, Terry Achille, Camilo Alvarez-Velez, Darren Dean Bansil, Patrick Ijieh, Samar Karanch, Nadeeshan De Silva, Oscar Chaparro, Andrian Marcus, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Maintenance & Evolution (ICSME’25), Auckland, New Zealand, September 7th-12th, 2025, 12 pages

  Bug Localization Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering Bug Reporting

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• Combining Language and App UI Analysis for the Automated Assessment of Bug Reproduction Steps

  Junayed Mahmud*, Antu Saha*, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus (*co-first authors)

  Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC’25), Ottawa, Canada, April 27th-28th, 2025, 12 pages

  Bug Reporting Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

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• Testing Practices, Challenges, and Developer Perspectives in Open-Source IoT Platforms

  Daniel Rodriquez-Cardenas, Safwat Ali Khan, Prianka Mandal, Adwait Nadkarni, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST’25), Naples, Italy, March 31st-April 4th, 2025, 12 pages

  Software Testing IoT & Smart Homes Empirical Studies

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• Can You Mimic Me? Exploring the Use of Android Record & Replay Techniques in Debugging

  Zihe Song, S M Hasan Mansur, Ravishka Shemal Rathnasuriya, Yumna Fatima, Wei Yang, Kevin Moran, Wing Lam

  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft’25), Ottawa, Canada, April 26th-28th, 2025, 12 pages

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering Empirical Studies

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• 2024

• Toward the Automated Localization of Buggy Mobile App UIs from Bug Descriptions

  Antu Saha, Yang Song, Junayed Mahmud, Ying Zhou, Kevin Moran, Oscar Chaparro

  Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SigSoft International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’24), Vienna, Austria, September 16th-20th, 2024, 13 pages

  Bug Localization Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering Bug Reporting

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Toward a Theory of Causation for Interpreting Neural Code Models

  David N. Palacio, Alejandro Velasco, Nathan Cooper, Alvaro Rodriguez, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), to appear, 28 pages

  Neural Code Models AI for Software Engineering

  pdfgithub

• Enhancing Code Understanding for Impact Analysis by Combining Transformers and Program Dependence Graphs

  Yanfu Yan, Nathan Cooper, Kevin Moran, Gabriele Bavota, Denys Poshyvanyk, Steve Rich

  Proceedings of the 2024 Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, July 15th-19th, 2024

  Traceability & Impact Analysis Neural Code Models Program Comprehension AI for Software Engineering

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• MotorEase: Automated Detection of Motor Impairment Accessibility Issues in Mobile App UIs

  Arun Krishnavajjala, S M Hasan Mansur, Justin Jose, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14th-20th, 2024, 12 pages

  Accessibility Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

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• On Using GUI Interaction Data to Improve Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization

  Junayed Mahmud, Nadeeshan De Silva, Safwat Ali Khan, Seyed Hooman Mostafavi, S M Hasan Mansur, Oscar Chaparro, Andrian Marcus, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14th-20th, 2024, 12 pages

  Bug Localization Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering Bug Reporting

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Semantic GUI Scene Learning and Video Alignment for Detecting Duplicate Video-based Bug Reports

  Yanfu Yan, Nathan Cooper, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 14th-20th, 2024, 12 pages

  Bug Reporting Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfgithubzenodo

• GuiEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile App UIs

  Sabiha Salma, SM Hasan Mansur, Yule Zhang, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 15th-16th, 2024, 12 pages

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

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• Automating GUI-based Test Oracles for Mobile Apps

  Kesina Baral, Jack Johnson, Junayed Mahmud, Sabiha Salma, Mattia Fazzini, Julia Rubin, Jeff Offutt, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 15th-16th, 2024, 12 pages

  Software Testing Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

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• AURORA: Navigating UI Tarpits via Automated Neural Screen Understanding

  Safwat Ali Khan, Wenyu Wang, Yiran Ren, Bin Zhu, Jiangfan Shi, Alyssa McGowan, Wing Lam, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST 2024), Toronto, Canada, May 27th-31st, 2024, 12 pages

  Automated UI Analysis Software Testing Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

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• "False negative - that one is going to kill you." - Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis-based Security Testing

  Amit Seal Ami, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk, Adwait Nadkarni

  Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2024), San Francisco, California, May 20th-23rd, 2024, 15 pages

  Security & Privacy Software Testing Empirical Studies

  🏆 Distinguished Paper Award

  pdfgithub

• 2023

• A Comparative Study of Transformer-based Neural Text Representation Techniques on Bug Triaging

  Atish Kumar Dipongkor, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023, 12 pages

  Bug Reporting Neural Code Models AI for Software Engineering Empirical Studies

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• AidUI: Toward Automated Recognition of Dark Patterns in User Interfaces

  SM Hasan Mansur, Sabiha Salma, Damilola Awofisayo, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), Melbourne, Australia, May 14th-20th, 2023, 12 pages

  Automated UI Analysis Security & Privacy AI for Software Engineering

  pdfgithubzenodo

• Towards a Universal Python: Translating the Natural Modality of Python into Other Human Languages

  Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Maintenance & Evolution (ICSME 2023), New Ideas and Emerging Research (NIER Track), Bogota, Colombia, October 1st-6th, 2023, 6 pages

  Program Comprehension AI for Software Engineering

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• Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes

  Priyanka Mandal, Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk, Adwait Nadkarni

  Proceedings of The 2023 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023), San Francisco, California, Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, December 3rd-9th, 2023

  IoT & Smart Homes Software Testing Security & Privacy

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• MASC: A Tool for Mutation-based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors

  Amit Seal Ami, Syed Yusuf Ahmed, Radowan Mahmud Redoy, Nathan Cooper, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk, Adwait Nadkarni

  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023), San Francisco, California, Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, December 3rd-9th, 2023

  Security & Privacy Software Testing

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• ChatGPT and Software Testing Education: Promises & Perils

  Sajed Jalil, Suzzana Rafi, Thomas D. LaToza, Kevin Moran, Wing Lam

  Proceedings of the 2nd Software Testing Education Workshop (TestEd’23), co-located with ICST’23, Dublin, Ireland, April 16th, 2023

  Software Testing AI for Software Engineering Empirical Studies

  pdfgithubzenodo

• BURT: A Chatbot for Interactive Bug Reporting

  Yang Song, Junayed Mahmud, Nadasheen De Silva, Ying Zhou, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, Melbourne, Australia, May 14th-20th, 2023

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

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• AVGUST: A Tool for Generating Usage-Based Tests from Videos of App Executions

  Saghar Talebipour, Hyojae Park, Kesina Baral, Leon Yee, Safwat Ali Khan, Kevin Moran, Yuriy Brun, Nenad Medvidovic, Yixue Zhao

  Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, Melbourne, Australia, May 14th-20th, 2023

  Software Testing Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 2022

• AVGUST: Automating Usage-based Test Generation from Videos of App Executions

  Yixue Zhao, Saghar Talebipour, Kesina Baral, Hyojae Park, Leon Yee, Safwat Ali Khan, Yuriy Brun, Nenad Medvidovic, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022), Singapore, November 14th-18th, 2022

  Software Testing Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfzenodogithub

• Toward Interactive Bug Reporting for (Android App) End Users

  Yang Song, Junayed Mahmud, Ying Zhou, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022), Singapore, November 14th-18th, 2022

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

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• Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-time Understanding of Reproduction Steps

  Mattia Fazzini, Kevin Moran, Carlos Bernal Cárdenas, Tyler Wendland, Alessandro Orso, Denys Poshyvanyk

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), to appear, 26 pages

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

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• Translating Video Recordings of Complex Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios for Native & Hybrid Apps

  Carlos Bernal Cárdenas, Nathan Cooper, Madeleine Havranek, Kevin Moran, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk, Andrian Marcus

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), to appear, 21 pages

  Automated UI Analysis Software Testing Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfdatagithubzenodo

• Learning Patterns from User Interfaces to Support Software Engineering Tasks

  Kevin Moran

  CHI 2022 Workshop on Computational Approaches for Understanding, Generating, and Adapting User Interfaces (Computational UI@CHI’22), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 30th, 2022

  Automated UI Analysis AI for Software Engineering Mobile App Engineering

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• An Empirical Investigation into the Use of Image Captioning for Automated Software Documentation

  Kevin Moran, Ali Yachnes, George Purnell, Junayed Mahmud, Michele Tufano, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk, Zach H-Doubler

  Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’22), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 15-18, 2022 24% acceptance rate

  Automated UI Analysis Program Comprehension AI for Software Engineering Empirical Studies

  pdfgithubzenodo

• An Empirical Investigation into the Reproduction of Bug Reports for Android Apps

  Jack Johnson, Junayed Mahmud, Tyler Wendland, Kevin Moran, Julia Rubin, Mattia Fazzini

  Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’22), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 15-18, 2022 24% acceptance rate

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering Empirical Studies

  pdfdatagithub

• A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research

  Cody Watson, Nathan Cooper, David N. Palacio, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology (TOSEM), to appear, 58 pages

  AI for Software Engineering Neural Code Models Empirical Studies

  pdfdatagithubzenodo

• Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques

  Amit Seal Ami, Nathan Cooper, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk, Adwait Nadkarni

  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 22-26, 2022, to appear, 18 pages

  Security & Privacy Software Testing Empirical Studies

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• 2021

• Code to Comment Translation: A Comparative Study on Model Effectiveness & Errors

  Junayed Mahmud, Fahim Faisal, Raihan Islam Arnob, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Programming (NLP4Prog’21) Co-Located with ACL-IJCNLP’21, Virtual (originally Bangkok, Thailand), August 6th, 2021, to appear, 9 pages

  Neural Code Models Program Comprehension AI for Software Engineering Empirical Studies

  pdfgithubzenodo

• AndroR2: A Dataset of Manually-Reproduced Bug Reports for Android Apps

  Tyler Wendland, Jingyang Sun, Junayed Mahmud, S.M. Hasan Mansur, Steven Huang, Kevin Moran, Julia Rubin, Mattia Fazzini

  Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’21), Data Showcase Track, Virtual (originally Madrid, Spain), May 17th - 19th, 2021, to appear, 5 pages

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfdatazenodo

• It Takes Two to Tango: Combining Visual and Textual Information for Detecting Duplicate Video-Based Bug Reports

  Nathan Cooper, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’21), Virtual (originally Madrid, Spain), May 25th - 28th, 2021, to appear, 13 pages

  Bug Reporting Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfdatagithubzenodo

• V2S: A Tool for Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable Scenarios

  Madeleine Havranek, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Nathan Cooper, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk, Kevin Moran

  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’21) - Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, Virtual (originally Madrid, Spain), May 25th - 28th, 2021, to appear, 4 pages 37% acceptance rate

  Automated UI Analysis Software Testing Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

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• Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android

  Amit Seal Ami, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Adwait Nadkarni, Denys Poshyvanyk

  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’21) - Formal Tool Demonstrations Track, Virtual (originally Madrid, Spain), May 25th - 28th, 2021, to appear, 4 pages 37% acceptance rate

  Security & Privacy Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

  pdftool

• Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques

  Amit Seal Ami, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Adwait Nadkarni, Denys Poshyvanyk

  ACM Transactions on Security & Privacy (TOPS), accepted

  Security & Privacy Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

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• Security in Centralized Data Store-based Home Automation Platforms: A Systematic Analysis of Nest and Hue

  Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Sunil Manandhar, Adwait Nadkarni, Denys Poshyvanyk

  ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS), accepted

  Security & Privacy IoT & Smart Homes

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