Publications

2025

1. EuroSys’25

   Understanding and Detecting SQL Function Bugs

   Jingzhou Fu, Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, Yanyang Zhao, Shanshan Li, and Yu Jiang

   2025

   To Appear CCF-A
2. ICSE’25

   CONI: Detecting Database Connector Bugs via State-Aware Test Case Generation

   Wenqian Deng, Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, and Yu Jiang

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2025

   To Appear CCF-A
3. ICSE’25

   PUPPY: Finding Performance Degradation Bugs in DBMSs via Limited-Optimization Plan Construction

   Zhiyong Wu, Jie Liang^*, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, and Yu Jiang

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025

   To Appear CCF-A
4. ICSE’25

   THANOS: DBMS Bug Detection via Storage Engine Rotation Based Differential Testing

   Ying Fu, Zhiyong Wu, Yuanliang Zhang, Jie Liang, Jingzhou Fu, Yu Jiang, Shanshan Li, and Xiangke Liao

   In 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025

   To Appear CCF-A

2024

1. FSE-IVR’24

   When Fuzzing Meets LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities

   Yu Jiang, Jie Liang, Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen, Chijin Zhou, Yuheng Shen, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, Shanshan Li, and Quan Zhang

   In Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2024

   paper CCF-A
2. FSE-Industry’24

   Dodrio: Parallelizing Taint Analysis Based Fuzzing via Redundancy-Free Scheduling

   Jie Liang, Mingzhe Wang, Chijin Zhou, Zhiyong Wu, Jianzhong Liu, and Yu Jiang

   In Companion Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2024

   paper CCF-A
3. USENIX Security’24

   Data Coverage for Guided Fuzzing

   Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Zhuo Su, Qing Liao, Bin Gu, Bodong Wu, and Yu Jiang

   In 33th USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

   paper Code CCF-A

   USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award

4. ATC’24

   WingFuzz: Implementing continuous fuzzing for DBMSs

   Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Yiyuan Bai, Qiang Zhang, and Yu Jiang

   In 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 24), 2024

   To Appear CCF-A
5. ICSE’24

   Mozi: Discovering DBMS Bugs via Configuration-Based Equivalent Transformation

   Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, Chengnian Sun, and Yu Jiang

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

   To Appear CCF-A
6. ICSE’24

   Sedar: Obtaining High-Quality Seeds for DBMS Fuzzing via Cross-DBMS SQL Transfer

   Jingzhou Fu, Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, and Yu Jiang

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

   To Appear CCF-A

2023

1. ICSE-SEIP’23

   Daisy: Effective Fuzz Driver Synthesis with Object Usage Sequence Analysis

   Mingrui Zhang, Chijin Zhou, Jianzhong Liu, Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Juan Zhu, and Yu Jiang

   In 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, 2023

   paper CCF-A
2. ICDE’23

   Sequence-oriented DBMS fuzzing

   Jie Liang, Yaoguang Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Jingzhou Fu, Mingzhe Wang, Yu Jiang, Xiangdong Huang, Ting Chen, Jiashui Wang, and Jiajia Li

   In 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023

   Bib To Appear CCF-A

   @inproceedings{liang2023sequence,
     title = {Sequence-oriented DBMS fuzzing},
     author = {Liang, Jie and Chen, Yaoguang and Wu, Zhiyong and Fu, Jingzhou and Wang, Mingzhe and Jiang, Yu and Huang, Xiangdong and Chen, Ting and Wang, Jiashui and Li, Jiajia},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)},
     pages = {668--681},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2022

1. ASE’22

   Griffin: Grammar-free DBMS fuzzing

   Jingzhou Fu, Jie Liang^*, Zhiyong Wu, Mingzhe Wang, and Yu Jiang

   In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022

   Bib To Appear CCF-A

   @inproceedings{fu2022griffin,
     title = {Griffin: Grammar-free DBMS fuzzing},
     author = {Fu, Jingzhou and Liang, Jie and Wu, Zhiyong and Wang, Mingzhe and Jiang, Yu},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
     pages = {1--12},
     year = {2022},
   }

2. EMSoft’22

   Mercury: Instruction Pipeline Aware Code Generation for Simulink Models

   Zehong Yu, Zhuo Su, Yixiao Yang, Jie Liang, Yu Jiang, Aiguo Cui, Wanli Chang, and Rui Wang

   IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022

   Bib To Appear CCF-A

   @article{yu2022mercury,
     title = {Mercury: Instruction Pipeline Aware Code Generation for Simulink Models},
     author = {Yu, Zehong and Su, Zhuo and Yang, Yixiao and Liang, Jie and Jiang, Yu and Cui, Aiguo and Chang, Wanli and Wang, Rui},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems},
     volume = {41},
     number = {11},
     pages = {4504--4515},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

3. ESEC/FSE’22

   Minerva: browser API fuzzing with dynamic mod-ref analysis

   Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang, Mingzhe Wang, Lihua Guo, Jie Liang^*, Zhe Liu, Mathias Payer, and Yu Jiang

   In 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

   To Appear CCF-A

   ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

4. ISSTA’22

   Unicorn: detect runtime errors in time-series databases with hybrid input synthesis

   Zhiyong Wu, Jie Liang, Mingzhe Wang, Chijin Zhou, and Yu Jiang

   In 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2022

   paper CCF-A
5. PLDI’22

   Odin: on-demand instrumentation with on-the-fly recompilation

   Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang^*, Chijin Zhou, Zhiyong Wu, Xinyi Xu, and Yu Jiang

   In 43rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2022

   paper CCF-A
6. S&P’22

   PATA: Fuzzing with Path Aware Taint Analysis

   Jie Liang, Mingzhe Wang, Chijin Zhou, Zhiyong Wu, Yu Jiang, Jianzhong Liu, Zhe Liu, and Jiaguang Sun

   In 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022

   paper CCF-A
7. FSE-Industry’22

   Group-based corpus scheduling for parallel fuzzing

   Taotao Gu, Xiang Li, Shuaibing Lu, Jianwen Tian, Yuanping Nie, Xiaohui Kuang, Zhechao Lin, Chenyifan Liu, Jie Liang, and Yu Jiang

   In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2022

   To Appear CCF-A

2021

1. ATC’21

   RIFF: Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

   Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang, Rui Wang, Chengnian Sun, and Jiaguang Sun

   In the 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2021

   paper CCF-A
2. ICSE-SEIP’21

   Industry Practice of Coverage-Guided Enterprise-Level DBMS Fuzzing

   Mingzhe Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Xinyi Xu, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Huafeng Zhang, and Yu Jiang

   In 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, 2021

   paper CCF-A
3. ICST’21

   Industrial Oriented Evaluation of Fuzzing Techniques

   Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Chijin Zhou, Yuanliang Chen, Zhiyong Wu, and Yu Jiang

   In 14th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2021

   paper CCF-C

2020

1. ASE’20

   Zeror: Speed Up Fuzzing with Coverage-sensitive Tracing and Scheduling

   Chijin Zhou, Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Zhe Liu, and Yu Jiang

   In 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2020

   paper CCF-A

2019

1. TDSC

   Deepfuzzer: Accelerated deep greybox fuzzing

   Jie Liang, Yu Jiang, Mingzhe Wang, Xun Jiao, Yuanliang Chen, Houbing Song, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019

   To Appear CCF-A
2. ASE’19 Demo

   VisFuzz: Understanding and Intervening Fuzzing with Interactive Visualization

   Chijin Zhou, Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Zhe Liu, Chengnian Sun, and Yu Jiang

   In 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2019

   paper Code CCF-A
3. ISSRE’19

   Engineering a better fuzzer with synergically integrated optimizations

   Jie Liang, Yuanliang Chen, Mingzhe Wang, Yu Jiang, Zijiang Yang, Chengnian Sun, Xun Jiao, and Jiaguang Sun

   In 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2019

   To Appear CCF-B
4. USENIX Security’19

   EnFuzz: Ensemble Fuzzing with Seed Synchronization among Diverse Fuzzers

   Yuanliang Chen, Yu Jiang, Fuchen Ma, Jie Liang, Mingzhe Wang, Chijin Zhou, Xun Jiao, and Zhuo Su

   In 28th USENIX Security Symposium, 2019

   paper CCF-A

2018

1. FSE-Industry’18

   PAFL: extend fuzzing optimizations of single mode to industrial parallel mode

   Jie Liang, Yu Jiang, Yuanliang Chen, Mingzhe Wang, Chijin Zhou, and Jiaguang Sun

   In 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2018

   paper CCF-A
2. SANER’18

   Fuzz testing in practice: Obstacles and solutions

   Jie Liang, Mingzhe Wang, Yuanliang Chen, Yu Jiang, and Renwei Zhang

   In 2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2018

   To Appear CCF-B
3. ICSE-Demo’18

   SAFL: increasing and accelerating testing coverage with symbolic execution and guided fuzzing

   Mingzhe Wang, Jie Liang, Yuanliang Chen, Yu Jiang, Xun Jiao, Han Liu, Xibin Zhao, and Jiaguang Sun

   In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, 2018

   To Appear CCF-A