Tsong Yueh Chen Explained

Tsong Yueh Chen
Nationality:	Australian
Occupation:	Professor of Software Engineering
Discipline:	Software Engineering
Workplaces:	Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Alma Mater:	The University of Hong Kong Imperial College London The University of Melbourne
Doctoral Advisor:	Jean-Louis Lassez
Known For:	Metamorphic testing
Awards:	ACM SIGSOFT outstanding research award

Tsong Yueh Chen is an Australian academic at the Swinburne University of Technology who is a professor and researcher in program testing and debugging.^[1] He is ranked internationally as the most prolific author in metamorphic testing.^[2]

Chen received the BSc and MPhil from The University of Hong Kong,^[1] the MSc and DIC from Imperial College London,^[1] and the PhD from The University of Melbourne under the supervision of Jean-Louis Lassez.^[3] He has an h-index of 62.^[4]

In 2021, Chen et al. were selected as the Grand Champion of the Most Influential Paper Award^[5] by the Journal of Systems and Software for their 2010 paper.^[6]

In 2024, Chen was selected for the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award 2024 “for contributions to software testing through the invention and development of metamorphic testing”.^{[7] [8]} This award is presented to individual(s) who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.^[8] As tokens of recognition, Chen was invited to give a keynote speech at the International Conference on Software Engineering in April 2024,^[8] and was interviewed by ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes after his presentation.^[9]

Selected publications

• Book: Tsong Yueh Chen. T.H. Tse. New visions on metamorphic testing after a quarter of a century of inception. Ideas, Visions and Reflections Track, Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE '21). ACM, New York, NY, USA . 1487–1490. 2021. 10.1145/3468264.3473136. 978-1-4503-8562-6.
• Tsong Yueh Chen . Fei-Ching Kuo . Huai Liu . Pak-Lok Poon . Dave Towey . T.H. Tse . Zhi Quan Zhou . Metamorphic testing: A review of challenges and opportunities . . 51 . 1 . 2018 . 1–27 . 10.1145/3143561.
• Zhi Quan Zhou . Shaowen Xiang . Tsong Yueh Chen . Metamorphic testing for software quality assessment: A study of search engines . . 42 . 3 . 2015 . 264–284 . 10.1109/TSE.2015.2478001.
• Huai Liu . Fei-Ching Kuo . Dave Towey . Tsong Yueh Chen . How effectively does metamorphic testing alleviate the oracle problem? . . 40 . 1 . 2013 . 4–22 . 10.1109/TSE.2013.46.
• Xiaoyuan Xie . Tsong Yueh Chen . Fei-Ching Kuo . Baowen Xu . A theoretical analysis of the risk evaluation formulas for spectrum-based fault localization . . 22 . 4 . 2013 . 1–40 . 10.1145/2522920.2522924.
• Tsong Yueh Chen . T.H. Tse . Zhi Quan Zhou . Semi-proving: An integrated method for program proving, testing, and debugging . . 37 . 1 . 2010 . 109–125 . 10.1109/TSE.2010.23. .
• Tsong Yueh Chen . Fei-Ching Kuo . Robert G. Merkel . T.H. Tse . Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity . . 83 . 1 . 60–66 . 2010 . 10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022.
• Tsong Yueh Chen . Robert Merkel . An upper bound on software testing effectiveness . . 17 . 3 . 2008 . 16:1–16:27 . 10.1145/1363102.1363107.
• Huo Yan Chen . T.H. Tse . Tsong Yueh Chen . TACCLE: a methodology for object-oriented software testing at the class and cluster levels . . 10 . 1 . 2001 . 56–109 . 10.1145/366378.366380.
• Tsong Yueh Chen . Yuen-Tak Yu . On the expected number of failures detected by subdomain testing and random testing . . 22 . 2 . 1996 . 109–119 . 10.1109/32.485221.

External links

• Swinburne University of Technology biography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Tsong Chen . Researcher Profile . . 8 April 2024.
2. S. Segura, G. Fraser, A.B. Sanchez, and A. Ruiz-Cortés, "A survey on metamorphic testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 42 (9): 805-824 (2016). doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2016.2532875.
3. Tsong Yueh Chen . Fixpoint semantics . PhD . . 1985 .
4. Web site: Tsong Yuen Chen . . 9 April 2024.
5. Web site: Journal of Systems and Software: Grand Champion of Most Influential Paper Award . . 24 June 2021 . 16 July 2021.
6. Tsong Yueh . Fei-Ching. Kuo . Robert G. Merkel . . Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity . . 83 . 1 . 60–66 . 2010 . 10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022.
7. Web site: SIGSOFT Awards 2024 . David Lo (SIGSOFT Awards Chair) . Thomas Zimmermann (SIGSOFT Chair) . ACM SIGSOFT Blog . 17 January 2024 . 1 April 2024.
8. Web site: Outstanding Research Award . . 1 April 2024.
9. Stefano Forti. An Interview with Tsong Yueh Chen – 2024 SIGSOFT Awardee. 49. 3. 21. 10.1145/3672089.3672095. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. July 2024.