Best Paper Award

The QRS conference presents a Best Paper Award to recognize outstanding papers with strong research quality, originality, and potential impact.

Selection criteria include technical merit, significance to the field, and effectiveness of presentation.

Each author will receive a certificate from the conference.

Best Paper for QRS 2025

• Prompt Learning for Source Code Summarization [Certificate]

  Tingting Xu, Chunrong Fang, Hanwei Qian, Xia Feng, and Weisong Sun

Best Papers for QRS 2024

• Requirements for Applying SCIA: A Structured Cyberattack Impact Analysis Approach for ICS [Certificate]

  Alvi Jawad, Zoe Arnott, and Jason Jaskolka

• The PIT-Cerberus Framework: Preventing Device Tampering During Transit [Certificate]

  Rakesh Podder, Jack Sovereign, Indrajit Ray, Madhan B. Santharam, and Stefano Righi

• EATS: Efficient Adaptive Test Case Selection for Deep Neural Networks [Certificate]

  Huanze Meng, Zhiyi Zhang, Yuchen Ding, Shuxian Chen, and Yongming Yao

• The ACPATH Structural Complexity Metric [Certificate]

  Roberto Bagnara, Abramo Bagnara, Alessandro Benedetti, and Patricia M. Hill

Best Papers for QRS 2023

• AndrAS: Automated Attack Surface Extraction for Android Applications [Certificate]

  Anh-Duy Tran, Koen Yskout, and Wouter Joosen
  imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, Belgium

• MAD: One-Shot Machine Activity Detector for Physics-Based Cyber Security [Certificate]

  Arthur Grisel-Davy and Sebastian Fischmeister
  University of Waterloo, Canada

• Performance Optimization for Information Sharing Process of BlockIoV Based on Multi-Objective Particle Swarm [Certificate]

  Xin Gu, Xingya Wang, Yu Ma, Zhenyu Chen, and Song Huang
  Nanjing University and Nanjing University of Technology, China

Best Papers for QRS 2022

• Valkyrie: Improving Fuzzing Performance Through Deterministic Techniques [Certificate]

  Yuyang Rong, Chibin Zhang, Jianzhong Liu, and Hao Chen
  

• Towards Extending the Range of Bugs That Automated Program Repair Can Handle [Certificate]

  Omar I. Al-Bataineh and Leon Moonen
  

• Context-Aware Program Simplification to Improve Information Retrieval-Based Bug Localization [Certificate]

  Yilin Yang, Ziyuan Wang, Zhenyu Chen, and Baowen Xu
  

Best Papers for QRS 2021

• Confuzzion: A Java Virtual Machine Fuzzer for Type Confusion Vulnerabilities

  William Bonnaventure, Ahmed Khanfir, Alexandre Bartel, Mike Papadakis, and Yves Le Traon
  (Best Paper Award + TR Recommendation)

• ConcSpectre: Be Aware of Forthcoming Malware Hidden in Concurrent Programs

  Yang Liu, Ming Fan, Ting Liu, Yu Hao, Zisen Xu, Kai Chen, Hao Chen, and Yan Cai
  (Best Paper Award + TR Recommendation)

• Understanding the Resilience of Neural Network Ensembles against Faulty Training Data

  Abraham Chan, Niranjhana Narayanan, Arpan Gujarati, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Sathish Gopalakrishnan
  (Best Paper Award + TR Recommendation)

• SRTEF: Automatic Test Function Recommendation with Scenarios for Implementing Stepwise Test Case

  Kaiqi Liu, Ji Wu, Haiyan Yang, Qing Sun, and Ruiyuan Wan
  (TR Recommendation)

• MINTS: Unsupervised Temporal Specifications Miner

  Pradeep K. Mahato and Apurva Narayan
  (TR Recommendation)

• Can Higher-Order-Mutants Improve the Performance of Mutation-based Fault Localization?

  Haifeng Wang, Zheng Li, Kun Lou, Xiang Chen, Yong Liu, and Ying Shang
  (TR Recommendation)

• The Relation between Bug Fix Change Patterns and Change Impact Analysis

  Ekincan Ufuktepe, Tugkan Tuglular, and Kannappan Palaniappan
  (TR Recommendation)

• An Effective Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering Model based on Sentence Embedding

  Hao Chen, Song Huang, Yuchan Liu, Run Luo, and Yifei Xie
  (TR Recommendation)

Best Papers for QRS 2020

Extended versions of the following six papers have been published in the IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

• Have it Your Way: Generating Customized Log Datasets with a Model-Driven Simulation Testbed

  M. Landauer, F. Skopik, M. Wurzenberger, W. Hotwagner, and A. Rauber

• Formal Analysis of Repairable Phased-Mission Systems with Common Cause Failures

  Q. Shao, S. Yang, C. Bian, and X. Gou

• On the Impact of Interlanguage Dependencies in Multilanguage Systems Empirical Case Study on Java Native Interface Applications (JNI)

  M. Grichi, M. Abidi, F. Jaafar, E. E. Eghan, and B. Adams

• Data Evaluation and Enhancement for Quality Improvement of Machine Learning

  H. Chen, J. Chen, and J. Ding

• Simplified Deep Forest Model Based Just-in-Time Defect Prediction for Android Mobile Apps

  K. Zhao, Z. Xu, T. Zhang, Y. Tang, and M. Yan

• RTPDroid: Detecting Implicitly Malicious Behaviors Under Runtime Permission Model

  J. Zhang, C. Tian, Z. Duan, and L. Zhao

Best Paper for QRS 2019

• Method-level Test Selection for Continuous Integration with Static Dependencies and Dynamic Execution Rules

  Yingling Li, Junjie Wang, Qing Wang, and Yun Yang

Best Paper for QRS 2018

• Probabilistic sampling-based testing for accelerated reliability assessment

  Roberto Pietrantuono and Stefano Russo

Best Papers for QRS 2017

• Which Factor Impacts GUI Traversal-Based Test Case Generation Technique Most?

  Bo Jiang, Yaoyue Zhang, W.K. Chan, and Zhenyu Zhang

• Using Off-the-Shelf Exception Support Components in C++ Verification

  Vladimír Štill, Petr Ročkai, and Jiří Barnat

• Investigating the Significance of Bellwether Effect to Improve Software Effort Estimation

  Solomon Mensah, Jacky Keung, Stephen G. MacDonell, Michael F. Bosu, and Kwabena E. Bennin

Best Papers for QRS 2016

• Detecting and Preventing Program Inconsistencies Under Database Schema Evolution

  Loup Meurice, Csaba Nagy, and Anthony Cleve

• Leveraging Static Analysis Tools for Improving Usability of Memory Error Sanitization Compilers

  Rigel Gjomemo, Phu H. Phung, Edmund Ballou, Kedar Namjoshi, V.N. Venkatakrishnan, and Lenore Zuck

• DFL: Dual-service Fault Localization

  C. M. Tang, Jacky Keung, Y. T. Yu, and W. K. Chan