Yuchen Ling (凌毓辰)

Research Interests

LLM-driven GUI Testing & Automation, Crowdsourced Testing, LLM Agent Safety & Security, Multi-Agent System

Experience

Publications

1. Scenario-Guided LLM-based Mobile App GUI Testing [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang*, Quan Zhou, Chunyang Chen, Shaomin Zhu, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2026.
2. Towards Automated Crowdsourced Testing via Personified-LLM [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Chunyang Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). 2026.
3. Human Cognitive Pattern Simulation for Crowdsourced Test Report Consistency Detection [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Shuguang Chen, Liuming Wang, Chunrong Fang*, Wenbin Guo, Jia Liu, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2026.
4. LLM-based Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Quan Zhou, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2025.
5. Redefining Crowdsourced Test Report Prioritization: An Innovative Approach with Large Language Model [DOI]
   Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Guobin Pan, Jun Wang, Jia Liu*.
   [CCF-B] Information and Software Technology (IST). 2024.
6. Effective, Platform-Independent GUI Testing via Image Embedding and Reinforcement Learning [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Xin Li, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
   [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2024.
7. Practical Non-Intrusive GUI Exploration Testing with Visual-based Robotic Arms [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Mingzhe Du, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
   [CCF-A] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 2024.
8. LLM for Test Script Generation and Migration: Challenges, Capabilities, and Opportunities [DOI]
   Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang*, Yuchen Ling, Chentian Wu, Zhenyu Chen.
   [CCF-C] IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS). 2023.

Academic Service

• External Reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (2025, 2026)
  • ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) (2025, 2026)
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (2025, 2026)
  • ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) (2025, 2026)
  • International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2025, 2026)
  • ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (2025, 2026)
• Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS)

Teaching

1. Automated Testing (Nanjing University, Software Institute): Teaching Assistant (2023 2024 2025)
2. Software Engineering and Computing III (Nanjing University, Software Institute): Teaching Assistant (2024 2025 2026)