CSTAR

Centre of Software Testing, Analysis and Reliability

CSTAR focuses on software quality, architecture, reliability, analysis, testing, and repair and related fields. Our main research targets include understanding the software development process, as well as devising advanced techniques on software analysis, testing and debugging, so as to improve software quality.

CSTAR, founded in May 1st, 2015, is affiliated to the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University. We have published over 100 papers in many top-ranked international journal and conferences, including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, ISSTA, etc. Please feel free to contact us.

The CSTAR research group is recruiting Master's, PhD students for 2024-2026, and Postdoctoral researchers. Scholars from home or abroad are invited for academic exchanges and studies. We are also recruiting Undergraduate students who are interested in research projects. For more information, please feel free to contact us.

News

Recent news about CSTAR, including academic talks, academic visiting, conference attendance, activity organization, awards, and recent advances of members.

Team

The CSTAR group is led by Dr. Xiaoyuan Xie and Dr. Jifeng Xuan. Members include Dr. Jinfu Chen, Dr. Ting Gan, Dr. Xiangyang Jia, Dr. Peng Liang, and Dr. Qi Xin, as well as PhD, Master, and Bachelor students. CSTAR focuses on software quality, architecture, reliability, analysis, testing, and repair and related fields.

Papers

We have published over 100 papers in many top-ranked international journal and conferences, including ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, ISSTA, etc.