Yiheng Xiong (熊一衡) is a postdoctoral research scientist at Singapore Management University (SMU), advised by Prof. Xiaofei Xie. He received his Ph.D. degree from East China Normal University (ECNU), under the supervision of Prof. Ting Su and Prof. Geguang Pu. He was fortunate enough to visit the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. Zhendong Su. He obtained the B.Eng. degree at SUSTech in 2020.
His research interests include but are not limited to mobile app testing. He is maintaining a paper list on Android testing, analysis, and security.
📖 Educations
- 2023.10 - 2024.10, Visiting Ph.D. Student, ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Zhendong Su.
- 2020.09 - 2025.06, Ph.D. in Software Engineering, East China Normal University, supervised by Prof. Ting Su and Prof. Geguang Pu.
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).
🔥 News
- 2026.04: 🎉 One paper accepted to ISSTA 2026.
- 2026.02: 🎉 One paper accepted to FSE 2026 (demo track).
- 2025.06: 🎓 Received Ph.D. from East China Normal University.
- 2025.06: 🎉 One paper accepted to FSE 2025 (industry track).
- 2025.04: 🏆 Awarded Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai (上海市优秀毕业生).
- 2024.12: 🏆 ASE 2024 paper received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
- 2024.10: 🇨🇭 Completed visiting Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. Zhendong Su.
- 2024.08: 🎉 One paper accepted to ASE 2024.
- 2023.07: 🏆 ISSTA 2023 paper received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
- 2023.05: 🎉 One paper accepted to ISSTA 2023.
- 2021.07: 🎉 One paper accepted to OOPSLA 2021.
📝 Publications
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[Preprint, arXiv] From Exploration to Specification: LLM-Based Property Generation for Mobile App Testing
Yiheng Xiong, Shiwen Song, Bo Ma, Ting Su, Xiaofei Xie
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[ISSTA 2026] Characterizing and Repairing Obsolete Android GUI Tests under UI Evolution
Shiwen Song, Yiheng Xiong*, Wenbo Guo, Manqi Sun, Jiaolong Kong, Xiaofei Xie -
[FSE 2026 Demo] Kea2: Practical Property-based Testing for Mobile Apps
Xixian Liang, Cheng Peng, Bo Ma, Xiangchen Shen, Yiheng Xiong, Ting Su
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[FSE 2025 Industry] ProphetAgent: Automatically Synthesizing GUI Tests from Test Cases in Natural Language for Mobile Apps
Qichao Kong, Zhengwei Lv, Yiheng Xiong, Jingling Sun, Ting Su, Dingchun Wang, Letao Li, Xu Yang, Gang Huo
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[ASE 2024] General and Practical Property-based Testing for Android Apps
Yiheng Xiong, Ting Su, Jue Wang, Jingling Sun, Geguang Pu, Zhendong Su
[pdf] [repo] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award -
[ISSTA 2023] An Empirical Study of Functional Bugs in Android Apps
Yiheng Xiong, Mengqian Xu, Ting Su, Jingling Sun, Jue Wang, He Wen, Geguang Pu, Jifeng He, Zhendong Su
[pdf] [repo] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award -
[OOPSLA 2021] Fully Automated Functional Fuzzing of Android Apps for Detecting Non-Crashing Logic Bugs
Ting Su, Yichen Yan, Jue Wang, Jingling Sun, Yiheng Xiong, Geguang Pu, Ke Wang, Zhendong Su
[pdf] [repo]
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025, Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai (上海市优秀毕业生)
- 2024, National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
- 2024, Merit Student of East China Normal University (华东师范大学优秀学生)
- 2024, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ASE
- 2023, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA
- 2023, Merit Student of East China Normal University (华东师范大学优秀学生)
- 2023, Joint Ph.D Student Scholarship, CSC (国家留学基金委博士研究生联合培养奖学金)