Mengqian Xu

Mengqian Xu

Ph.D. student at Software Engineering Institute, ECNU

About Me

Mengqian Xu is a Ph.D. student of Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University (2024-) and Shanghai Innovation Institute, co-advised by Prof. Ting Su and Prof. Chengcheng Wan. Her undergraduate studies were undertaken at Anhui Normal University (2017-2021).

Her research include:

  • LLM for SE
  • Software Testing
  • Software Analysis

Publications

  1. RepoSim: Evaluating Prompt Strategies for Code Completion via User Behavior Simulation
    Chao Peng, Qinyun Wu, Jiangchao Liu, Jierui Liu, Bo Jiang, Mengqian Xu, Yinghao Wang, Xia Liu, Ping Yang. (ASE 2024 NIER)[paper]
  2. An Empirical Study of Functional Bugs in Android Apps
    Yiheng Xiong, Mengqian Xu, Ting Su, Jingling Sun, He Wen, Jue Wang, Geguang Pu, Jifeng He, Zhendong Su. (ISSTA 2023, won Distinguished Paper Award!) [Paper] [Artifact]

Intern Experience

  • ByteDance, QI-Algorithm Intern
    Jun 2023 – Oct 2023
    • Contributed to the Fastbot open-source project.
    • Participated in research on LLM evaluation, focusing on code completion capabilities.
    • Conducted research on automated testing assertions, leveraging property-based testing to address oracle problems.

Research Projects

  • CCF–Huawei Populus euphratica Innovation Research Funding
    “Automated Testing Technology for HarmonyOS Native Applications Enhanced by Program Static Analysis and Large Language Models”
    Sep 2025 – Sep 2026, completed

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
    “Automated Detection of Functional Bugs in Mobile Applications Based on Stochastic Properties”
    Jan 2021 – Dec 2024, completed

  • ByteDance Innovation Research Project
    “Validation Techniques for Ensuring the Correctness of Mobile Application Functionality”
    Nov 2022 – Nov 2024, completed

  • ByteDance Innovation Research Project
    “Automated Detection of Functional Bugs in Mobile Software Caused by User Configuration Modifications”
    Aug 2021 – Aug 2022, completed

Award

  1. Outstanding Graduate Award, Shanghai (in Chinese: 上海市优秀毕业生), 2024.
  2. Outstanding Master’s Thesis of East China Normal University (in Chinese: 华东师范大学优秀硕士学位论文), 2024.
  3. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award, ISSTA (in Chinese: ISSTA 杰出论文奖), 2023.
  4. Outstanding Student Cadre of East China Normal University (in Chinese: 华东师范大学优秀学生干部), 2023.
  5. Merit Student of East China Normal University (in Chinese: 华东师范大学优秀学生), 2022-2023.
  6. Outstanding Graduate Award (in Chinese: 安徽省优秀毕业生), Anhui, 2021.
  7. Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Anhui Province (in Chinese: 安徽省优秀本科毕业设计), 2021.