Research Artifacts and Software

Major Released Software (Code repository)

Appatch: a neural-symbolic interprocedural vulnerability patching tool
PyRTFuzz: a language runtime fuzzer for Python
PolyFuzz: A greybox fuzzer for multi-language software
PolyFax: A toolkit for characterizing multi-language software
PolyCruise: A cross-language dynamic information flow analysis for multilingual software
FlowDist: A scalable dynamic information flow analyzer for distributed systems
Seads: A self-tuning cost-effective dynamic dependence analysis of distributed systems
DistFax: A toolkit for measuring IPC and quality of distributed systems
Dads: A dynamic program slicer for distributed systems
PCA: A static interprocedural data flow analyzer and memory leak detector for C programs
DistTaint: A dynamic taint analyzer for distributed systems
EvoTaint: An incremental static taint analyzer for Android apps
D2ABS: A framework for dynamic dependence analysis of distributed software
HPC-cruise: scalable whole-system data-flow analysis framework for HPC software
DroidCat: A robust dynamic Android malware detector and classifier
ICC-Inspect: A dynamic Android app understanding tool
DroidFax: A toolkit for systematic characterization of Android apps
DistIA: A simple impact analyzer for distributed systems
DiaPro: A dynamic impact analysis framework with customizable cost-effectiveness
Diver: Hybrid program dependence approximation and trace-based online impact prediction
MDG: A method-level static dependence abstraction
TracerJD: A fine-grained Java program tracer and dynamic dependence analyzer
DEAM: A toolkit for comprehensive study of predictive accuracy of dynamic impact analysis
SensA: Quantitative semantic dependence approximation and prioritized impact analysis
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andro-compat-tools Available Functional Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Ziyi Zhang, Li LI, Xiaoqin Fu. "A Large-Scale Study of Application Incompatibilities in Android." ACM ISSTA, 2019. doi:10.1145/3293882.3330564
Ziyi Zhang, Haipeng Cai. "A Look Into Developer Intentions for App Compatibility in Android." MobileSoft, 2019. doi:10.1109/MOBILESoft.2019.00016
Andro-Longitudinal-Study N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "A Longitudinal Study of Application Structure and Behaviors in Android." IEEE TSE, 2020. doi:10.1109/TSE.2020.2975176
AndroCompatStudy N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Jiawei Guo, Xiaoqin Fu, Li LI, Tao Zhang, Mattia Fazzini, Haipeng Cai. "Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware." ACM TOSEM, 2025. doi:10.1145/3725810
AndroCT N/A Zenodo N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Wen Li, Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "AndroCT: Ten Years of App Call Traces in Android." MSR, 2021. doi:10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00076
Appatch Available Functional Zenodo 1473 1028 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Haoran Yang, Long Cheng, Honxin Hu, Haipeng Cai. "Appatch: Automated Adaptive Prompting Large Language Models for Real-World Software Vulnerability Patching." USENIX Security, 2025.
ARPDroid N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Malinda Dilhara, Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Automated Detection and Repair of Incompatible Uses of Runtime Permissions in Android Apps." MobileSoft, 2018. doi:10.1145/3197231.3197255
cross-lang-bug-study Available Functional Docker Hub, Zenodo, anonymous.4open.science 181 992 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haoran Yang, Haipeng Cai. "Dissecting Real-World Cross-Language Bugs." ACM FSE, 2025. doi:10.1145/3715777
cross-lang-vul-proneness Available Functional Reusable Figshare, Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Wen Li, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "On the Vulnerability Proneness of Multilingual Code." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3549173
D2Abs N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Haipeng Cai, Xiaoqin Fu. "D2ABS: A Framework for Dynamic Dependence Analysis of Distributed Programs." IEEE TSE, 2021. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3124795
Dads-tool N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai, Li LI. "Dads: Dynamic Slicing Continuously-Running Distributed Programs with Budget Constraints." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417920
Deam N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "A Comprehensive Study of the Predictive Accuracy of Dynamic Change-Impact Analysis." JSS, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2015.02.018
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Tianyu Xu. "Estimating the Accuracy of Dynamic Change-Impact Analysis using Sensitivity Analysis." SERE, 2014. doi:10.1109/SERE.2014.18
DistFax N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Xiaoqin Fu, Boxiang Lin, Haipeng Cai. "DistFax: A Toolkit for Measuring Interprocess Communications and Quality of Distributed Systems." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3510454.3516859
DistIA N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Douglas Thain. "DistIA: A Cost-Effective Dynamic Impact Analysis for Distributed Programs." ASE, 2016. doi:10.1145/2970276.2970352
DistMeasure N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Xiaoqin Fu, Asif Zaman, Haipeng Cai. "DistMeasure: A Framework for Run-Time Characterization and Quality Assessment of Distributed Software via Interprocess Communications." ACM TOSEM, 2024. doi:10.1145/3708476
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Measuring Interprocess Communications in Distributed Systems." ICPC, 2019. doi:10.1109/ICPC.2019.00051
DistODD N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Chandan Dhal, Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "A Control-Theoretic Approach to Auto-Tuning Dynamic Analysis for Distributed Services." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00092
DistTaint N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Scaling Application-Level Dynamic Taint Analysis to Enterprise-Scale Distributed Systems." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3377812.3390910
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "A Dynamic Taint Analyzer for Distributed Systems." ACM FSE, 2019. doi:10.1145/3338906.3341179
Diver N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai. "Hybrid Program Dependence Approximation for Effective Dynamic Impact Prediction." IEEE TSE, 2018. doi:10.1109/TSE.2017.2692783
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Douglas Thain. "DiaPro: Unifying Dynamic Impact Analyses for Improved and Variable Cost-Effectiveness." ACM TOSEM, 2016. doi:10.1145/2894751
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "A Framework for Cost-effective Dependence-based Dynamic Impact Analysis." SANER, 2015. doi:10.1109/SANER.2015.7081833
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Diver: Precise Dynamic Impact Analysis Using Dependence-based Trace Pruning." ASE, 2014. doi:10.1145/2642937.2642950
DroidCat N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Na Meng, Barbara Ryder, Danfeng Yao. "DroidCat: Effective Android Malware Detection and Categorization via App-Level Profiling." IEEE TIFS, 2019. doi:10.1109/TIFS.2018.2879302
DroidFax N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "Artifacts for Dynamic Analysis of Android Apps." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.36
Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "DroidFax: A Toolkit for Systematic Characterization of Android Applications." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.35
Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "Understanding Android Application Programming and Security: A Dynamic Study." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.31
DroidSpan N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai. "Assessing and Improving Malware Detection Sustainability through App Evolution Studies." ACM TOSEM, 2020. doi:10.1145/3371924
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "On the Deterioration of Learning-Based Malware Detectors for Android." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2019. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00110
Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Towards Sustainable Android Malware Detection." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2018. doi:10.1145/3183440.3195004
DTI-display N/A sourceforge.net, sourceforge.net N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Alexander P. Auchus, David H. Laidlaw. "Effects of Stereo and Screen Size on the Legibility of Three-dimensional Streamtube Visualizations." IEEE TVCG, 2012. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.216
dyn-crosslang-study N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haoran Yang, Wen Li, Haipeng Cai. "Language-Agnostic Dynamic Analysis of Multilingual Code: Promises, Pitfalls, and Prospects." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3560880
EvoTaint N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Jiawei Guo, Haipeng Cai. "EvoTaint: Incremental Static Taint Analysis of Evolving Android Apps." ACM TOSEM, 2025. doi:10.1145/3743132
FlowDist N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "FlowDist: Multi-Staged Refinement-Based Dynamic Information Flow Analysis for Distributed Software Systems." USENIX Security, 2021.
FreeLens N/A Bitbucket, Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Jiawei Guo, Yu Nong, Zhiqiang Lin, Haipeng Cai. "Code Speaks Louder: Exploring Security and Privacy Relevant Regional Variations in Mobile Applications." IEEE S&P, 2025. doi:10.1109/SP61157.2025.00225
GDist N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Two-Level Adaptation for Budget-Constrained Continuous Dynamic Dependence Analysis." ACM FSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3808167
ICC-Inspect N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
John Jenkins, Haipeng Cai. "ICC-Inspect: Supporting Runtime Inspection of Android Inter-Component Communications." MobileSoft, 2018. doi:10.1145/3197231.3197233
ICC-Visualizer N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
John Jenkins, Haipeng Cai. "Dissecting Android Inter-Component Communications via Interactive Visual Explorations." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.74
InShape N/A sourceforge.net, sourceforge.net N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Jian Chen, Alexander P. Auchus, David H. Laidlaw. "InShape: In-Situ Shape-Based Interactive Multiple-View Exploration of Diffusion MRI Visualizations." ISVC, 2012. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_70
Iterative-taint-analysis N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 0
Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Leveraging Historical Versions of Android Apps for Efficient and Precise Taint Analysis." MSR, 2018. doi:10.1145/3196398.3196433
MDG N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Method-Level Program Dependence Abstraction and Its Application to Impact Analysis." JSS, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.09.048
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Abstracting Program Dependencies using the Method Dependence Graph." QRS, 2015. doi:10.1109/QRS.2015.18
mem-vul-detector-study N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 3 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Haipeng Cai, Pengfei Ye, Li LI, Feng Chen. "Evaluating and Comparing Memory Error Vulnerability Detectors." IST, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106614
multi-lang-github-study N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 2 0 0
Wen Li, Austin Marino, Haoran Yang, Na Meng, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "How are Multilingual Systems Constructed: Characterizing Language Use and Selection in Open-Source Multilingual Software." ACM TOSEM, 2023. doi:10.1145/3631967
Wen Li, Na Meng, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "Understanding Language Selection in Multi-Language Software Projects on GitHub." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2021. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00119
multi-lang-SO-study Available Functional Reusable Bitbucket, Figshare, Zenodo, Zenodo 1419 1392 1 0 3 0 0
Haoran Yang, Yu Nong, Shaowei Wang, Haipeng Cai. "Multi-Language Software Development: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions." IEEE TSE, 2024. doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3358258
Haoran Yang, Weile Lian, Shaowei Wang, Haipeng Cai. "Demystifying Issues, Challenges, and Solutions for Multilingual Software Development." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00157
NeuralCodeEditing-Study Available Functional Figshare, Zenodo 1081 468 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "Generating Realistic Vulnerabilities via Neural Code Editing: An Empirical Study." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3549128
OpenScienceStudy N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Rainy Sharma, Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "Open Science in Software Engineering: A Study on Deep Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection." IEEE TSE, 2022. doi:10.1109/TSE.2022.3207149
Parallel-Rendering N/A Google Sites, sourceforge.net N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai. "Parallel Rendering for Legible Illustrative Visualizations of Dense Geometries on Commodity CPUs." IJIG, 2016. doi:10.1142/S0219467816500029
PCA-tool N/A GitHub N/A 0 21 7 2 1 0
Wen Li, Haipeng Cai, Yulei Sui, David Manz. "PCA: Memory Leak Detection using Partial Call-Path Analysis." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417923
PolyCruise Available Functional Bitbucket, Bitbucket, GitHub N/A 0 31 5 5 0 2
Wen Li, Jiang Ming, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "PolyCruise: A Cross-Language Dynamic Information Flow Analysis." USENIX Security, 2022.
PolyFax N/A Bitbucket, GitHub N/A 0 2 0 4 0 0
Wen Li, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "PolyFax: A Toolkit for Characterizing Multi-Language Software." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3558925
PolyFuzz Available Bitbucket, GitHub N/A 0 28 3 6 1 0
Wen Li, Jinyang Ruan, Guangbei Yi, Long Cheng, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "PolyFuzz: Holistic Greybox Fuzzing of Multi-Language Systems." USENIX Security, 2023.
PyRTFuzz Available Functional Reproduced Bitbucket, DOI, GitHub, GitHub N/A 0 21 2 9 0 0
Wen Li, Haipeng Cai. "A Practical Fuzzer for the Python Runtime System." ACM FSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3803437.3806417
Wen Li, Haoran Yang, Xiapu Luo, Long Cheng, Haipeng Cai. "PyRTFuzz: Detecting Bugs in Python Runtimes via Two-Level Collaborative Fuzzing." ACM CCS, 2023. doi:10.1145/3576915.3623166
Seads N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai, Wen Li, Li LI. "Seads: Scalable and Cost-Effective Dynamic Dependence Analysis of Distributed Systems via Reinforcement Learning." ACM TOSEM, 2020. doi:10.1145/3379345
SenSA N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Siyuan Jiang. "Prioritizing Change Impacts via Semantic Dependence Quantification." IEEE TR, 2016. doi:10.1109/TR.2015.2481000
Haipeng Cai, Siyuan Jiang, Raul Santelices, Yingjie Zhang, Yiji Zhang. "SensA: Sensitivity Analysis for Quantitative Change-impact Prediction." SCAM, 2014. doi:10.1109/SCAM.2014.25
TracerJD N/A Project page N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "TracerJD: Generic Trace-based Dynamic Dependence Analysis with Fine-grained Logging." SANER, 2015. doi:10.1109/SANER.2015.7081862
VerLog Available Functional Reusable Docker Hub, Zenodo 101 124 1 0 1 0 N/A
Jiawei Guo, Haoran Yang, Haipeng Cai. "VerLog: Enhancing Release Note Generation for Android Apps using Large Language Models." ACM ISSTA, 2025. doi:10.1145/3728961
VGX Available Reusable Figshare, Zenodo 893 1473 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Richard Fang, Guangbei Yi, Kunsong Zhao, Xiapu Luo, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VGX: Large-Scale Sample Generation for Boosting Learning-Based Software Vulnerability Analyses." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3597503.3639116
VICS-LLM-VulGen Available Functional Figshare, Zenodo 13 4 1 0 1 0 N/A
Guangbei Yi, Yu Nong, Minzhang Li, Haipeng Cai. "Exploring and Improving Real-World Vulnerability Data Generation via Prompting Large Language Models." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3744916.3773176
VinJ N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Haoran Yang, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VinJ: An Automated Tool for Large-Scale Software Vulnerability Data Generation." ACM FSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3663529.3663800
visual-semantics N/A Bitbucket N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haipeng Cai, Shiv Raj Pant, Wen Li. "Towards Learning Visual Semantics." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417040
VulGen Available Functional Reusable Figshare, Zenodo 1769 3025 1 0 1 0 N/A
Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VulGen: Realistic Vulnerable Sample Generation via Pattern Mining and Deep Learning." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00211
xLoc N/A Figshare N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Haoran Yang, Yu Nong, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "Learning to Detect and Localize Multilingual Bugs." ACM FSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3660804
Zifazah N/A Google Sites, sourceforge.net N/A 0 1 0 1 0 N/A
Chen, Jian, Cai, Haipeng, Auchus, AlexanderP., Laidlaw, DavidH.. "Gryphon: A Little Domain-Specific Programming Language for Diffusion MRI Visualizations." Handbook of Human Centric Visualization, 2014. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_2
All artifacts Total All alternative artifacts 6930 8506 151 17 91 2 2 All associated papers


andro-compat-tools	Available Functional	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Ziyi Zhang, Li LI, Xiaoqin Fu. "A Large-Scale Study of Application Incompatibilities in Android." ACM ISSTA, 2019. doi:10.1145/3293882.3330564 Ziyi Zhang, Haipeng Cai. "A Look Into Developer Intentions for App Compatibility in Android." MobileSoft, 2019. doi:10.1109/MOBILESoft.2019.00016
Andro-Longitudinal-Study	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "A Longitudinal Study of Application Structure and Behaviors in Android." IEEE TSE, 2020. doi:10.1109/TSE.2020.2975176
AndroCompatStudy	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Jiawei Guo, Xiaoqin Fu, Li LI, Tao Zhang, Mattia Fazzini, Haipeng Cai. "Characterizing Installation- and Run-Time Compatibility Issues in Android Benign Apps and Malware." ACM TOSEM, 2025. doi:10.1145/3725810
AndroCT	N/A	Zenodo	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Wen Li, Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "AndroCT: Ten Years of App Call Traces in Android." MSR, 2021. doi:10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00076
Appatch	Available Functional	Zenodo	1473	1028	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Haoran Yang, Long Cheng, Honxin Hu, Haipeng Cai. "Appatch: Automated Adaptive Prompting Large Language Models for Real-World Software Vulnerability Patching." USENIX Security, 2025.
ARPDroid	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Malinda Dilhara, Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Automated Detection and Repair of Incompatible Uses of Runtime Permissions in Android Apps." MobileSoft, 2018. doi:10.1145/3197231.3197255
cross-lang-bug-study	Available Functional	Docker Hub, Zenodo, anonymous.4open.science	181	992	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haoran Yang, Haipeng Cai. "Dissecting Real-World Cross-Language Bugs." ACM FSE, 2025. doi:10.1145/3715777
cross-lang-vul-proneness	Available Functional Reusable	Figshare, Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Wen Li, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "On the Vulnerability Proneness of Multilingual Code." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3549173
D2Abs	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Haipeng Cai, Xiaoqin Fu. "D2ABS: A Framework for Dynamic Dependence Analysis of Distributed Programs." IEEE TSE, 2021. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3124795
Dads-tool	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai, Li LI. "Dads: Dynamic Slicing Continuously-Running Distributed Programs with Budget Constraints." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417920
Deam	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "A Comprehensive Study of the Predictive Accuracy of Dynamic Change-Impact Analysis." JSS, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2015.02.018 Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Tianyu Xu. "Estimating the Accuracy of Dynamic Change-Impact Analysis using Sensitivity Analysis." SERE, 2014. doi:10.1109/SERE.2014.18
DistFax	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Xiaoqin Fu, Boxiang Lin, Haipeng Cai. "DistFax: A Toolkit for Measuring Interprocess Communications and Quality of Distributed Systems." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3510454.3516859
DistIA	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Douglas Thain. "DistIA: A Cost-Effective Dynamic Impact Analysis for Distributed Programs." ASE, 2016. doi:10.1145/2970276.2970352
DistMeasure	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Xiaoqin Fu, Asif Zaman, Haipeng Cai. "DistMeasure: A Framework for Run-Time Characterization and Quality Assessment of Distributed Software via Interprocess Communications." ACM TOSEM, 2024. doi:10.1145/3708476 Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Measuring Interprocess Communications in Distributed Systems." ICPC, 2019. doi:10.1109/ICPC.2019.00051
DistODD	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Chandan Dhal, Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "A Control-Theoretic Approach to Auto-Tuning Dynamic Analysis for Distributed Services." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00092
DistTaint	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Scaling Application-Level Dynamic Taint Analysis to Enterprise-Scale Distributed Systems." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3377812.3390910 Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "A Dynamic Taint Analyzer for Distributed Systems." ACM FSE, 2019. doi:10.1145/3338906.3341179
Diver	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai. "Hybrid Program Dependence Approximation for Effective Dynamic Impact Prediction." IEEE TSE, 2018. doi:10.1109/TSE.2017.2692783 Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Douglas Thain. "DiaPro: Unifying Dynamic Impact Analyses for Improved and Variable Cost-Effectiveness." ACM TOSEM, 2016. doi:10.1145/2894751 Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "A Framework for Cost-effective Dependence-based Dynamic Impact Analysis." SANER, 2015. doi:10.1109/SANER.2015.7081833 Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Diver: Precise Dynamic Impact Analysis Using Dependence-based Trace Pruning." ASE, 2014. doi:10.1145/2642937.2642950
DroidCat	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Na Meng, Barbara Ryder, Danfeng Yao. "DroidCat: Effective Android Malware Detection and Categorization via App-Level Profiling." IEEE TIFS, 2019. doi:10.1109/TIFS.2018.2879302
DroidFax	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "Artifacts for Dynamic Analysis of Android Apps." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.36 Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "DroidFax: A Toolkit for Systematic Characterization of Android Applications." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.35 Haipeng Cai, Barbara Ryder. "Understanding Android Application Programming and Security: A Dynamic Study." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.31
DroidSpan	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai. "Assessing and Improving Malware Detection Sustainability through App Evolution Studies." ACM TOSEM, 2020. doi:10.1145/3371924 Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "On the Deterioration of Learning-Based Malware Detectors for Android." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2019. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00110 Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Towards Sustainable Android Malware Detection." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2018. doi:10.1145/3183440.3195004
DTI-display	N/A	sourceforge.net, sourceforge.net	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Jian Chen, Haipeng Cai, Alexander P. Auchus, David H. Laidlaw. "Effects of Stereo and Screen Size on the Legibility of Three-dimensional Streamtube Visualizations." IEEE TVCG, 2012. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.216
dyn-crosslang-study	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haoran Yang, Wen Li, Haipeng Cai. "Language-Agnostic Dynamic Analysis of Multilingual Code: Promises, Pitfalls, and Prospects." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3560880
EvoTaint	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Jiawei Guo, Haipeng Cai. "EvoTaint: Incremental Static Taint Analysis of Evolving Android Apps." ACM TOSEM, 2025. doi:10.1145/3743132
FlowDist	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "FlowDist: Multi-Staged Refinement-Based Dynamic Information Flow Analysis for Distributed Software Systems." USENIX Security, 2021.
FreeLens	N/A	Bitbucket, Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Jiawei Guo, Yu Nong, Zhiqiang Lin, Haipeng Cai. "Code Speaks Louder: Exploring Security and Privacy Relevant Regional Variations in Mobile Applications." IEEE S&P, 2025. doi:10.1109/SP61157.2025.00225
GDist	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai. "Two-Level Adaptation for Budget-Constrained Continuous Dynamic Dependence Analysis." ACM FSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3808167
ICC-Inspect	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	John Jenkins, Haipeng Cai. "ICC-Inspect: Supporting Runtime Inspection of Android Inter-Component Communications." MobileSoft, 2018. doi:10.1145/3197231.3197233
ICC-Visualizer	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	John Jenkins, Haipeng Cai. "Dissecting Android Inter-Component Communications via Interactive Visual Explorations." ICSME, 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.74
InShape	N/A	sourceforge.net, sourceforge.net	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Jian Chen, Alexander P. Auchus, David H. Laidlaw. "InShape: In-Situ Shape-Based Interactive Multiple-View Exploration of Diffusion MRI Visualizations." ISVC, 2012. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_70
Iterative-taint-analysis	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	0	Haipeng Cai, John Jenkins. "Leveraging Historical Versions of Android Apps for Efficient and Precise Taint Analysis." MSR, 2018. doi:10.1145/3196398.3196433
MDG	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Method-Level Program Dependence Abstraction and Its Application to Impact Analysis." JSS, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2016.09.048 Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "Abstracting Program Dependencies using the Method Dependence Graph." QRS, 2015. doi:10.1109/QRS.2015.18
mem-vul-detector-study	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	3	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Haipeng Cai, Pengfei Ye, Li LI, Feng Chen. "Evaluating and Comparing Memory Error Vulnerability Detectors." IST, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106614
multi-lang-github-study	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	2	0	0	Wen Li, Austin Marino, Haoran Yang, Na Meng, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "How are Multilingual Systems Constructed: Characterizing Language Use and Selection in Open-Source Multilingual Software." ACM TOSEM, 2023. doi:10.1145/3631967 Wen Li, Na Meng, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "Understanding Language Selection in Multi-Language Software Projects on GitHub." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2021. doi:10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00119
multi-lang-SO-study	Available Functional Reusable	Bitbucket, Figshare, Zenodo, Zenodo	1419	1392	1	0	3	0	0	Haoran Yang, Yu Nong, Shaowei Wang, Haipeng Cai. "Multi-Language Software Development: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions." IEEE TSE, 2024. doi:10.1109/TSE.2024.3358258 Haoran Yang, Weile Lian, Shaowei Wang, Haipeng Cai. "Demystifying Issues, Challenges, and Solutions for Multilingual Software Development." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00157
NeuralCodeEditing-Study	Available Functional	Figshare, Zenodo	1081	468	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "Generating Realistic Vulnerabilities via Neural Code Editing: An Empirical Study." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3549128
OpenScienceStudy	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Rainy Sharma, Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "Open Science in Software Engineering: A Study on Deep Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection." IEEE TSE, 2022. doi:10.1109/TSE.2022.3207149
Parallel-Rendering	N/A	Google Sites, sourceforge.net	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai. "Parallel Rendering for Legible Illustrative Visualizations of Dense Geometries on Commodity CPUs." IJIG, 2016. doi:10.1142/S0219467816500029
PCA-tool	N/A	GitHub	N/A	0	21	7	2	1	0	Wen Li, Haipeng Cai, Yulei Sui, David Manz. "PCA: Memory Leak Detection using Partial Call-Path Analysis." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417923
PolyCruise	Available Functional	Bitbucket, Bitbucket, GitHub	N/A	0	31	5	5	0	2	Wen Li, Jiang Ming, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "PolyCruise: A Cross-Language Dynamic Information Flow Analysis." USENIX Security, 2022.
PolyFax	N/A	Bitbucket, GitHub	N/A	0	2	0	4	0	0	Wen Li, Li LI, Haipeng Cai. "PolyFax: A Toolkit for Characterizing Multi-Language Software." ACM FSE, 2022. doi:10.1145/3540250.3558925
PolyFuzz	Available	Bitbucket, GitHub	N/A	0	28	3	6	1	0	Wen Li, Jinyang Ruan, Guangbei Yi, Long Cheng, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "PolyFuzz: Holistic Greybox Fuzzing of Multi-Language Systems." USENIX Security, 2023.
PyRTFuzz	Available Functional Reproduced	Bitbucket, DOI, GitHub, GitHub	N/A	0	21	2	9	0	0	Wen Li, Haipeng Cai. "A Practical Fuzzer for the Python Runtime System." ACM FSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3803437.3806417 Wen Li, Haoran Yang, Xiapu Luo, Long Cheng, Haipeng Cai. "PyRTFuzz: Detecting Bugs in Python Runtimes via Two-Level Collaborative Fuzzing." ACM CCS, 2023. doi:10.1145/3576915.3623166
Seads	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Xiaoqin Fu, Haipeng Cai, Wen Li, Li LI. "Seads: Scalable and Cost-Effective Dynamic Dependence Analysis of Distributed Systems via Reinforcement Learning." ACM TOSEM, 2020. doi:10.1145/3379345
SenSA	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices, Siyuan Jiang. "Prioritizing Change Impacts via Semantic Dependence Quantification." IEEE TR, 2016. doi:10.1109/TR.2015.2481000 Haipeng Cai, Siyuan Jiang, Raul Santelices, Yingjie Zhang, Yiji Zhang. "SensA: Sensitivity Analysis for Quantitative Change-impact Prediction." SCAM, 2014. doi:10.1109/SCAM.2014.25
TracerJD	N/A	Project page	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Raul Santelices. "TracerJD: Generic Trace-based Dynamic Dependence Analysis with Fine-grained Logging." SANER, 2015. doi:10.1109/SANER.2015.7081862
VerLog	Available Functional Reusable	Docker Hub, Zenodo	101	124	1	0	1	0	N/A	Jiawei Guo, Haoran Yang, Haipeng Cai. "VerLog: Enhancing Release Note Generation for Android Apps using Large Language Models." ACM ISSTA, 2025. doi:10.1145/3728961
VGX	Available Reusable	Figshare, Zenodo	893	1473	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Richard Fang, Guangbei Yi, Kunsong Zhao, Xiapu Luo, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VGX: Large-Scale Sample Generation for Boosting Learning-Based Software Vulnerability Analyses." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3597503.3639116
VICS-LLM-VulGen	Available Functional	Figshare, Zenodo	13	4	1	0	1	0	N/A	Guangbei Yi, Yu Nong, Minzhang Li, Haipeng Cai. "Exploring and Improving Real-World Vulnerability Data Generation via Prompting Large Language Models." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2026. doi:10.1145/3744916.3773176
VinJ	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Haoran Yang, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VinJ: An Automated Tool for Large-Scale Software Vulnerability Data Generation." ACM FSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3663529.3663800
visual-semantics	N/A	Bitbucket	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haipeng Cai, Shiv Raj Pant, Wen Li. "Towards Learning Visual Semantics." ACM FSE, 2020. doi:10.1145/3368089.3417040
VulGen	Available Functional Reusable	Figshare, Zenodo	1769	3025	1	0	1	0	N/A	Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen, Haipeng Cai. "VulGen: Realistic Vulnerable Sample Generation via Pattern Mining and Deep Learning." IEEE/ACM ICSE, 2023. doi:10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00211
xLoc	N/A	Figshare	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Haoran Yang, Yu Nong, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai. "Learning to Detect and Localize Multilingual Bugs." ACM FSE, 2024. doi:10.1145/3660804
Zifazah	N/A	Google Sites, sourceforge.net	N/A	0	1	0	1	0	N/A	Chen, Jian, Cai, Haipeng, Auchus, AlexanderP., Laidlaw, DavidH.. "Gryphon: A Little Domain-Specific Programming Language for Diffusion MRI Visualizations." Handbook of Human Centric Visualization, 2014. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_2
All artifacts	Total	All alternative artifacts	6930	8506	151	17	91	2	2	All associated papers