Publications

Underlined authors are students supervised at GMU & UCF. Bold indicates Kevin Moran.

Conference & Journal Publications

2026

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

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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

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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

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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), Aukland, New Zealand, September 7th-12th, 2025, 12 pages

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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GuiEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile App UIs

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

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

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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 the21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 15th-16th, 2024, 12 pages

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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

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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 the45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2024), San Francisco, California, May 20th-23rd, 2024, 15 pages

🏆 Distinguished Paper Award

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2023

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

Atish Kumar Dipongkor, Kevin Moran

Proceedings of the38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023, 12 pages

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AidUI: Toward Automated Recognition of Dark Patterns in User Interfaces

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

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

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

Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran

Proceedings of the39th International Conference on Software Maintenance & Evolution (ICSME 2023), New Ideas and Emerging Research (NIER Track), Bogota, Colombia, October 1st-6th, 2023, 6 pages

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Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes

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

Proceedings ofThe 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

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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 ofthe 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 the29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’22), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 15-18, 2022 24% acceptance

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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 the29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’22), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 15-18, 2022 24% acceptance

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2020

Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps

Camilo Escobar-Velásquez, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Michele Tufano, Kevin Moran, Massimiliano Di Penta, Christopher Vendome, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), accepted

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Towards a Natural Perspective of Smart Homes for Practical Security and Safety Analyses

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

Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P’20), Virtual (Originally San Francisco, California), May 18th-20th 2020 12.3% acceptance

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Improving the Effectiveness of Traceability Link Recovery using Hierarchical Bayesian Networks

Kevin Moran, David N. Palacio, Carlos B. Cárdenas, Daniel McCrystal, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chris Shenefiel, Jeff Johnson

Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’20), Virtual (Originally Seoul, South Korea), May 23rd- 29th 2020, to appear, 12 pages 20% acceptance

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Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable Scenarios

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

Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’20), Virtual (Originally Seoul, South Korea), May 23rd- 29th 2020, to appear, 12 pages 20% acceptance

🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

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On Learning Meaningful Assert Statements for Unit Test Cases

Cody Watson, Michele Tufano, Kevin Moran, Gabriele Bavota, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’20), Virtual (Originally Seoul, South Korea), May 23rd- 29th 2020, to appear, 12 pages 20% acceptance

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2019

Learning to Identify Security-Related Issues Using Convolutional Neural Networks

David N. Palacio, Daniel McCrystal, Kevin Moran, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chris Shenefiel

Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’19), Cleveland, Ohio, September 30th-October 4th 2019, to appear, 5 pages 56% acceptance

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Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports

Oscar Chaparro, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Jing Lu, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Massimiliano Di Penta, Denys Poshyvanyk, Vincent Ng

Proceedings of the 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’19), Tallinn, Estonia, August 26th-30th 2019, to appear, 12 pages 24% acceptance

🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

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Guigle: A GUI Search Engine for Android Apps

Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Kevin Moran, Michele Tufano, Zichang Liu, Linyong Nan, Zhehan Shi, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’19), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 25th-29th 2019, to appear, 4 pages 47% acceptance

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A Study of Data Store-Based Home Automation

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

Proceedings of the The 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY’19), Dallas, Texas, March 25th-27th, 2019, to appear, 12 pages 23% acceptance

🏆 CODASPY’19 Best Paper Award

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2018

Detecting and Summarzing GUI Changes in Evolving Mobile Apps

Kevin Moran, Cody Watson, John Hoskins, George Purnell, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'18), Montpellier, France, September 3rd-7th 2018, pp. 543-553 21% acceptance

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Assessing Test Case Prioritization on Real Faults and Mutants

Qi Luo, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk, Massimiliano Di Penta

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'18), Madrid, Spain, September 23rd-29th, 2018, pp. 240-251 26% acceptance

🏆 Nominated for IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

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Automating Software Development for Mobile Computing Platforms

Kevin Moran

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'18), Doctoral Symposium (Post-Doctoral Track), Madrid, Spain, September 23rd-29th, 2018, to appear, pp. 749-754

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Discovering Flaws in Security-Focused Static Analysis Tools for Android using Systematic Mutation

Richard Bonett, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Adwait Nadkarni, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'18), Baltimore, MD, USA, August 15-17th, 2018, pp. 1263-1280 19% acceptance

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How Do Static and Dynamic Test Case Prioritization Techniques Perform on Modern Software Systems? An Extensive Study on GitHub Projects

Qi Luo, Kevin Moran, Lingming Zhang, Denys Poshyvanyk

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), accepted

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Machine Learning-Based Prototyping of Graphical User Interfaces for Mobile Apps

Kevin Moran, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Michael Curcio, Richard Bonett, Denys Poshyvanyk

To be presented as a Journal First Paper at the 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'18)

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Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development

Kevin Moran, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27- 28, 2018, pp. 7-18 (Invited Paper)

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Automated Reporting of GUI Design Violations for Mobile Apps

Kevin Moran, Boyang Li, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Dan Jelf, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-June 3, 2018, pp. 165-175 21% acceptance

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MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android

Kevin Moran, Michele Tufano, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Christopher Vendome, Massimiliano DiPenta, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18), Formal Research Demonstrations Track, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-June 3, 2018, pp. 33-36 35% acceptance

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2017

How do Developers Test Android Applications?

Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'17), Industry Track, Shanghai, China, September 20-22, 2017, pp. 613-622

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Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing

Mario Linares-Vásquez, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'17), Shanghai, China, September 20-22, 2017, pp. 399-410 27.8% acceptance

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Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps

Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Michele Tufano, Kevin Moran, Massimiliano DiPenta, Christopher Vendome, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 25th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'17), Paderborn, Germany, September 4-8, 2017, pp. 233-244 24.4% acceptance

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CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Christopher Vendome, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’17), Formal Research Demonstrations Track, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017, pp. 15-18 31% acceptance

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Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’17), Technical Briefing, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017

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On-Device Bug Reporting for Android Applications

Kevin Moran, Richard Bonnet, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Brendan Otten, Daniel Park, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft'17), Tool Demos and Mobile Apps Track, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22-23, 2017 44% acceptance

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2016

Toward Sensor-Based Random Number Generation for Mobile and IoT Devices

Kyle Wallace, Kevin Moran, Edward Novak, Gang Zhou, Kun Sun

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)

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Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'16), Technical Briefing, Raleigh, NC, October 2-10, 2016

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A Large-scale Empirical Comparison of Static and Dynamic Test Case Prioritization Techniques

Qi Luo, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’16), Seattle, WA, November 13-18, 2016, pp. 559-570 27% acceptance

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FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 38thACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’16), Formal Research Tool Demonstration Track, Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016, pp. 609-612 32% acceptance

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Fixing Bug Reporting for Mobile and GUI-Based Applications

Kevin Moran

Proceedings of 38thACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’16), Doctoral Symposium,Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016 22% acceptance

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Automatically Discovering, Reporting and Reproducing Android Application Crashes

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Christopher Vendome, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST’16),Chicago, IL, April 10-15, 2016, pp. 33-44 27% acceptance

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2015

Auto-Completing Bug Reports for Android Applications

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 23rd ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’15), Bergamo, Italy, August 31-September 4, 2015, pp. 673-686 25.4% acceptance

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Enhancing Android Application Bug Reporting

Kevin Moran

Proceedings of 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 23rd ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’15), Student Research Competition (SRC), Bergamo, Italy, August 31-September 4, 2015, pp. 1045-1047

🏆 Second Place Graduate Student in ACM Student Research Competition

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Enhancing Bug Reports for Mobile Apps

Kevin Moran

Master's Thesis, College of William & Mary, 2015, 77 pages

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Mining Android App Usages for Generating Actionable GUI-based Execution Scenarios

Mario Linares-Vásquez, Martin White, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'15), Florence, Italy, May 16-17, 2015, pp. 111-122 30% acceptance

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Patents

Computer Aided Bug Reporting System for GUI Applications

Kevin Moran, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk

United States Utility Patent - 10,083,106

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Undergraduate Publications

2012

Laser Cooling of RB with Improved Laser Tuning and Microwave Sideband Light Power

Kevin Moran, Craig Richardson, Katie Candee, Timothy Roach

Proceedings of the College of the Holy Cross Undergraduate Research Symposium 2012, Poster Presentation

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2011

Construction of a Magneto-Optical Trap for Rubidium Cooling

Kevin Moran, Andrew Novicki, Mike DeFeo, Timothy Roach

Proceedings of the College of the Holy Cross Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011, Poster Presentation

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