Experience

•   Feb. 2025 - Now: Postdoctoral Researcher (Technical University of Munich, School of Computation, Information and Technology)
  • Cooperating with Prof. Dr. Chunyang Chen
    
    
•   Oct. 2024 - Feb. 2025: Research Assistant (Nanjing University, Software Institute)
  
  
•   Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2024: Ph.D. in Software Engineering (Nanjing University, Software Institute)
  • Supervised by Professor Zhenyu Chen and Associate Professor Chunrong Fang
  • Ph.D. Thesis: Knowledge-Enhanced Intelligent GUI Testing Research
    
    
•   Oct. 2022 - Oct. 2023: Visiting Ph.D. (ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science)
  • Supervised by Professor Zhendong Su
    
    
•   Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020: B.Eng. in Software Engineering (Nanjing University, Software Institute)
  
  

Awards

• 2023 Nanjing University Dongliang Scholarship (Award of Excellence in Academic Achievements)
• 2023 Nanjing University Excellent Graduate Student Pacemaker
• 2023 Nanjing University Guotai Junan Scholarship
• 2023 Nanjing University Excellent Graduate Student Innovation Project
• 2021 National Scholarship for Graduate Students
• 2020 Nanjing University Graduate Scholarship
• 2020 Nanjing University - HPI Research Scholarship
• 2020 Nanjing University President's Special Scholarship for Ph.D. Student
• 2020 Nanjing University Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis - First Prize
• 2020 Nanjing University Software Institute Outstanding Graduate
• 2019 ACM SRC First Place Winner of Undergraduate Group in ASE 2019
• 2019 ACM SIGSOFT CAPS Program Award
• 2018 Nanjing University “NJU - Linkage” Leadership Scholarship
• 2018-2019 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship
• 2017-2018 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship
• 2016-2017 Nanjing University Renmin Scholarship

Funding

• Co-Principal Investigator: ACM SIGSOFT Funding for Summer / Winter School
  LLM Software Development
  
  
• Key Participant: National Key National Key R&D Program of China (2024YFF0908000)
  Technology Research, Development, and Application of Open Source and Open Innovation Service Platform
  
  
• Principal Investigator: Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX22_0174)
  Crowdsourced Test Report Optimization based on Multi-Modal Information Fusion Understanding
  
  
• Key Participant: National Natural Science Foundation of China (62141215)
  Crowdsourced Testing for Ubiquitous Operating System (UOS) Open Source Ecosystem
  
  
• Principal Investigator: Nanjing University Training Program of Innovation for Undergraduates (202010284073Z)
  Mobile Application Testing Research Based on Image Understanding
  
  
• Participant: National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFB1403400)
  R&D and Application of Integrated Crowdsourcing Test Service Platform for Information Products and Technology Services
  
  
• Participant: National Natural Science Foundation of China (61802171)
  Human-Machine Collaborative Mobile Application Testing Based on Comprehensible Information Fusion
  
  

Publication

     ^#: Co-first Author    ^*: Corresponding Author

Manuscript

• Vision-Based Mobile App GUI Testing: A Survey
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Ziyuan Tuo, Quanjun Zhang, Chunyang Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
  Under Review
  
  
• LLM-Guided Scenario-based GUI Testing
  Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang^*, Quan Zhou, Chunyang Chen, Shaomin Zhu, Zhenyu Chen.
  Under Review
  
  

2025

• Text–Image Fusion Template for Large Language Model Assisted Crowdsourcing Test Aggregation
  Yunfeng Zhu, Shengcheng Yu, Zhaowei Zong, Yue Wang, Yuan Zhao^*, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-B] Journal of Systems and Software
  
  
• Test Script Intention Generation for Mobile Application via GUI Image and Code Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Jia Liu^*, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Semantic Matching-based Cross-Platform Mobile App Test Script Record and Replay via Large Language Models
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Ye Zhong, Quanjun Zhang, Qin Liu, Jia Liu, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] (Chinese) Journal of Software (in Chinese)
  
  
• Improving Retrieval-Augmented Deep Assertion Generation via Joint Training
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang^*, Yi Zheng, Ruixiang Qian, Shengcheng Yu, Yuan Zhao, Jianyi Zhou, Yun Yang, Tao Zheng, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Enhanced Crowdsourced Test Report Prioritization via Image-and-Text Semantic Understanding and Feature Integration
  Chunrong Fang, Shengcheng Yu^*, Quanjun Zhang, Xin Li, Yulei Liu, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  

2024

• Redefining Crowdsourced Test Report Prioritization: An Innovative Approach with Large Language Model
  Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Guobin Pan, Jun Wang, Jia Liu^*.
  [CCF-B] Information and Software Technology
  
  
• Practical, Automated Scenario-based Mobile App Testing
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Mingzhe Du, Zimin Ding, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Effective, Platform-Independent GUI Testing via Image Embedding and Reinforcement Learning
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Xin Li, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
  [CCF-A] ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  
  
• Semi-Supervised Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering via Screenshot-Text Binding Rules
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Quanjun Zhang, Mingzhe Du, Jia Liu^*, Zhenyu Chen^*.
  [CCF-A] FSE 2024
  
  
• Practical Non-Intrusive GUI Exploration Testing with Visual-based Robotic Arms
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Mingzhe Du, Yuchen Ling, Zhenyu Chen, Zhendong Su.
  [CCF-A] ICSE 2024
  
  

2023

• LLM for Test Script Generation and Migration: Challenges, Capabilities, and Opportunities
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Yuchen Ling, Chentian Wu, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-C] QRS 2023
  
  
• Towards Effective Bug Reproduction for Mobile Applications
  Xin Li^#, Shengcheng Yu^#, Lifan Sun, Yuexiao Liu, Chunrong Fang^*. (Co-first Author)
  DSA 2023 Best Paper Award
  
  
• Mobile App Crowdsourced Test Report Consistency Detection via Deep Image-and-Text Fusion Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Quanjun Zhang, Zhihao Cao, Yexiao Yun, Zhenfei Cao, Kai Mei, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• Test Report Generation for Android App Testing via Heterogeneous Data Analysis
  Chunrong Fang^*#, Shengcheng Yu^#, Ting Su^*, Jing Zhang, Yuanhan Tian, Yang Liu. (Co-first Author)
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

2022

• Leveraging Android Automated Testing to Assist Crowdsourced Testing
  Xiuting Ge, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Qi Zhu, Zhihong Zhao.
  [CCF-A] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  
  
• SemCluster: A Semi-Supervised Clustering Tool for Crowdsourced Test Reports with Deep Image Understanding
  Mingzhe Du, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Tongyu Li, Heyuan Zhang, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] ESEC/FSE 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Test Case Prioritization Using Partial Attention
  Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang^*, Weisong Sun, Shengcheng Yu, Yutao Xu, Yulei Liu.
  [CCF-B] Journal of Systems and Software
  
  
• UniRLTest: Universal Platform-Independent Testing with Reinforcement Learning via Image Understanding
  Ziqian Zhang, Yulei Liu, Shengcheng Yu, Xin Li, Yexiao Yun, Chunrong Fang^*, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] ISSTA 2022 (Demo Track)
  
  

2021

• Layout and Image Recognition Driving Cross-platform Automated Mobile Testing
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Yexiao Yun, Yang Feng.
  [CCF-A] ICSE 2021
  
  
• Prioritize Crowdsourced Test Reports via Deep Screenshot Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Zhenfei Cao, Xu Wang, Tongyu Li, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] ICSE 2021
  
  

2020

• STIFA: Crowdsourced Mobile Testing Report Selection Based on Text and Image Fusion Analysis
  Zhenfei Cao, Xu Wang, Shengcheng Yu, Yexiao Yun, Chunrong Fang^*.
  [CCF-A] ASE 2020 (Demo Track)
  
  
• FuRong: Fusing Report of Automated Android Testing on Multi-Devices
  Yuanhan Tian^#, Shengcheng Yu^#, Chunrong Fang^*, Peiyuan Li. (Co-first Author)
  [CCF-A] ICSE 2020 (Demo Track)
  
  

2019

• LIRAT: Layout and Image Recognition Driving Automated Mobile Testing of Cross-Platform
  Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang^*, Yang Feng, Wenyuan Zhao, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-A] ASE 2019 (Demo Track)
  
  
• Crowdsourced Report Generation via Bug Screenshot Understanding
  Shengcheng Yu.
  [CCF-A] ASE 2019 (ACM Student Research Competition Track) First Place Undergraduate Winner
  
  
• From Data Quality to Model Quality: an Exploratory Study on Deep Learning
  Tianxing He, Shengcheng Yu, Ziyuan Wang, Jieqiong Li, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-C] Internetware 2019
  
  
• An Exploratory Study on Judicial Image Quality Assessment Based on Deep Learning
  Qiqi Gu, Weilin Cai, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen.
  [CCF-C] QRS 2019
  
  

Academic Service

• Journal Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
• Conference Technical/Research Track PC Member: ASE 2025, IJCAI 2025, IUI 2025, MSR 2024
• Conference Artifact Evaluation Track PC Member: ICSE 2024, ISSTA 2024, ISSTA 2025
• External Reviewer
• TIFS, JSS, FCS, IET Software, ICSE (2021 2022 2025), FSE (2020 2023 2025), ISSTA (2021 2024), ChinaSoft (2022), ISSRE (2020 2022 2023), ICST (2020 2021 2022), COMPSAC (2021), QRS (2020 2021 2022)
• [CST 2024] Organizer for National Contest on Software Testing
• [CST 2023] On-site Coordinator for National Contest on Software Testing
• [CST 2020] Online Coordinator for National Contest on Software Testing
• [CST 2019] On-site Coordinator for National Contest on Software Testing
• [QRS 2019] On-site Coordinator for IEEE International Contest on Software Testing
• [ISSTA 2019] Student Volunteer
• [ISSTA 2019] On-site Coordinator for Testing Competition Track

Invited Talk

• 2025-04-09 IPAI Beyond Chatbot: GUI Automation by LLM-based Agents

Teaching

• Technical University of Munich
  
  
• Seminar Automated Mobile App Testing (IN0014, INHN0015/INHN4010): Lecturer (Summer 2025)
• Development of LLM-driven GUI Agents (IN2106): Lecturer (Summer 2025)

• Nanjing University
  
  
• Automated Testing: Teaching Assistant (2019 2020 2021 2023 2024)
• Software Engineering and Computing III: Teaching Assistant (2021 2023)
• Foundation of Computing System: Teaching Assistant (2021)