Tsong Yueh Chen

Tsong Yueh Chen
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Professor of Software Engineering
Known for	Metamorphic testing
Awards	ACM SIGSOFT outstanding research award IEEE Fellow
Academic background
Alma mater	The University of Hong Kong Imperial College London The University of Melbourne
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Louis Lassez
Academic work
Discipline	Software Engineering
Institutions	Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Tsong Yueh Chen (Chinese: 陳宗岳) 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 January 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]

In December 2024, IEEE announced the election of Tsong Yueh Chen as an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2025 “for contributions to software testing through the invention of metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing”.[10]: p. 6  Only three software engineers were elected as IEEE Fellows in the same year.[10]: pp. 4, 6, 10 

Selected publications

• Tsong Yueh Chen; T.H. Tse (2021). "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. pp. 1487–1490. doi:10.1145/3468264.3473136. ISBN 978-1-4503-8562-6.
• Tsong Yueh Chen; Fei-Ching Kuo; Huai Liu; Pak-Lok Poon; Dave Towey; T.H. Tse; Zhi Quan Zhou (2018). "Metamorphic testing: A review of challenges and opportunities" (PDF). ACM Computing Surveys. 51 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1145/3143561.
• Zhi Quan Zhou; Shaowen Xiang; Tsong Yueh Chen (2015). "Metamorphic testing for software quality assessment: A study of search engines". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 42 (3): 264–284. doi:10.1109/TSE.2015.2478001.
• Huai Liu; Fei-Ching Kuo; Dave Towey; Tsong Yueh Chen (2013). "How effectively does metamorphic testing alleviate the oracle problem?" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 40 (1): 4–22. doi:10.1109/TSE.2013.46.
• Xiaoyuan Xie; Tsong Yueh Chen; Fei-Ching Kuo; Baowen Xu (2013). "A theoretical analysis of the risk evaluation formulas for spectrum-based fault localization". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 22 (4): 1–40. doi:10.1145/2522920.2522924. hdl:1959.3/367111.
• Tsong Yueh Chen; T.H. Tse; Zhi Quan Zhou (2010). "Semi-proving: An integrated method for program proving, testing, and debugging". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 37 (1): 109–125. doi:10.1109/TSE.2010.23. hdl:1959.3/84879..
• Tsong Yueh Chen; Fei-Ching Kuo; Robert G. Merkel; T.H. Tse (2010). "Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity". Journal of Systems and Software. 83 (1): 60–66. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022. hdl:1959.3/53402.
• Tsong Yueh Chen; Robert Merkel (2008). "An upper bound on software testing effectiveness". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 17 (3): 16:1–16:27. doi:10.1145/1363102.1363107.
• Huo Yan Chen; T.H. Tse; Tsong Yueh Chen (2001). "TACCLE: a methodology for object-oriented software testing at the class and cluster levels". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 10 (1): 56–109. doi:10.1145/366378.366380. hdl:1959.3/1735.
• Tsong Yueh Chen; Yuen-Tak Yu (1996). "On the expected number of failures detected by subdomain testing and random testing". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 22 (2): 109–119. doi:10.1109/32.485221.

References

1. "Professor Tsong Chen". Researcher Profile. Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 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 (1985). Fixpoint semantics (PhD). The University of Melbourne.
4. "Tsong Yuen Chen". Google Scholar. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
5. "Journal of Systems and Software: Grand Champion of Most Influential Paper Award". YouTube. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
6. Tsong Yueh; Fei-Ching. Kuo; Robert G. Merkel; T.H. Tse (2010). "Adaptive random testing: The ART of test case diversity". Journal of Systems and Software. 83 (1): 60–66. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2009.02.022. hdl:1959.3/53402.
7. David Lo (SIGSOFT Awards Chair); Thomas Zimmermann (SIGSOFT Chair) (17 January 2024). "SIGSOFT Awards 2024". ACM SIGSOFT Blog. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
8. "Outstanding Research Award". SIGSOFT. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
9. Stefano Forti (July 2024). "An Interview with Tsong Yueh Chen – 2024 SIGSOFT Awardee". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 49 (3): 21. doi:10.1145/3672089.3672095.
10. "IEEE Fellow Class of 2025" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 7 December 2024.

External links

• Swinburne University of Technology biography