Publications

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

  pdfgithub

• 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

  pdfzenodo

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfwebsitezenodo

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfgithub

• 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

  pdfgithub

• 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

  pdfgithub

• 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

  pdfgithubzenodovideo

• 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

  pdfdatazenodo

• 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

  pdfdata

• 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

  pdftoolgithubzenodo

• 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

  pdfdata

• 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

  pdf

• 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

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

  IoT & Smart Homes Security & Privacy

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

  Traceability & Impact Analysis AI for Software Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

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

  🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

  pdfwebsitegithubzenodo

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Neural Code Models AI for Software Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

  Security & Privacy AI for Software Engineering Bug Reporting

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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 rate

  Bug Reporting Empirical Studies

  🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

  pdfdata

• 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 rate

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• A Study of Data Store-Based Home Automation

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

  Proceedings of 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 rate

  IoT & Smart Homes Security & Privacy Empirical Studies

  🏆 CODASPY’19 Best Paper Award

  pdf

• 2018

• Detecting and Summarizing GUI Changes in Evolving Mobile Apps

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

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

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

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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 rate

  Software Testing Empirical Studies

  🏆 Nominated for IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

  pdfwebsiteslidespresentation

• 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

  Mobile App Engineering Automated UI Analysis Software Testing

  pdf

• 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 rate

  Security & Privacy Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

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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

  Software Testing Empirical Studies

  pdf

• 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)

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfwebsitezenodo

• 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)

  Program Comprehension Mobile App Engineering

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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 rate

  Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering AI for Software Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslides

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslides

• 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

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering Empirical Studies

  pdfslides

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

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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 rate

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Mobile App Engineering Bug Reporting

  pdfwebsiteslidesgithub

• 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

  Software Testing Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

  slides

• 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 rate

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslides

• 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)

  Security & Privacy IoT & Smart Homes Mobile App Engineering

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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

  Software Testing Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

  slides

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Empirical Studies

  pdfwebsiteslides

• FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting

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

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

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslides

• Fixing Bug Reporting for Mobile and GUI-Based Applications

  Kevin Moran

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

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering Automated UI Analysis

  pdf

• 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 rate

  Software Testing Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslidesgithub

• 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 rate

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsiteslides

• 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

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  🏆 Second Place Graduate Student in ACM Student Research Competition

  pdfwebsiteposter

• Enhancing Bug Reports for Mobile Apps

  Kevin Moran

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

  Bug Reporting Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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 rate

  Automated UI Analysis Software Testing Mobile App Engineering

  pdfwebsite

• 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

  Bug Reporting Automated UI Analysis Mobile App Engineering

  pdf

• 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

  pdfnews article

• 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

  pdf

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