Xia, Xin

Measuring Program Comprehension: A Large-Scale Field Study with Professionals

Xia, X., Bao, L., Lo, D., Xing, Z., Hassan, A. E., & Li, S. (2018) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 326

A survey on deep learning for software engineering

Yang, Y., Xia, X., Lo, D., & Grundy, J. (2022) · ACM Computing Surveys

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 223

How does Machine Learning Change Software Development Practices?

Wan, Z., Xia, X., Lo, D., & Murphy, G. C. (2020) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering Research

Cited by 181

What do developers search for on the web?

Xia, X., Bao, L., Lo, D., Kochhar, P. S., Hassan, A. E., & Xing, Z. (2017) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 174

Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Bi, T., Xia, X., Lo, D., Grundy, J., Zimmermann, T., & Ford, D. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Digital Accessibility for DisabilitiesSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 109

CCT5: A Code-Change-Oriented Pre-trained Model

Lin, B., Wang, S., Liu, Z., Liu, Y., Xia, X., & Mao, X. (2023) · Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 69

Retrieve and refine: exemplar-based neural comment generation

Wei, B., Li, Y., Li, G., Xia, X., & Jin, Z. (2020) · Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 69

Can LLMs Replace Human Evaluators? An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge in Software Engineering

Wang, R., Guo, J., Gao, C., Fan, G., Chong, C. Y., & Xia, X. (2025) · Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 62

Automating just-in-time comment updating

Liu, Z., Xia, X., Yan, M., & Li, S. (2020) · Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 56

Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code-Change-Related Tasks

Fan, L., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Lo, D., Xia, X., & Li, S. (2025) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 41

Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs for Code Change Related Tasks

Fan, L., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Lo, D., Xia, X., & Li, S. (2024) · arXiv

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 41

An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: Challenges and Opportunities

Yang, Z., Chen, S., Gao, C., Li, Z., Hu, X., Liu, K., & Xia, X. (2025) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 37

Correlating Automated and Human Evaluation of Code Documentation Generation Quality

Hu, X., Chen, Q., Wang, H., Xia, X., Lo, D., & Zimmermann, T. (2022) · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Software Engineering ResearchTopic Modeling

Cited by 33

Software Architecture in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities

Wan, Z., Zhang, Y., Xia, X., Jiang, Y., & Lo, D. (2023) · Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Advanced Software Engineering MethodologiesSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 30

Fight Fire with Fire: How Much Can We Trust ChatGPT on Source Code-Related Tasks?

Yu, X., Liu, L., Hu, X., Keung, J. W., Liu, J., & Xia, X. (2024) · arXiv

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques

Cited by 29

Predictive Comment Updating With Heuristics and AST-Path-Based Neural Learning: A Two-Phase Approach

Lin, B., Wang, S., Liu, Z., Xia, X., & Mao, X. (2023) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques

Cited by 27

Inference of development activities from interaction with uninstrumented applications

Bao, L., Xing, Z., Xia, X., Lo, D., & Hassan, A. E. (2018) · Empirical Software Engineering

Software Engineering ResearchSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices

Cited by 25