Research Interest
- App Design
- App Development
- App Testing
- LLM-relevant works
About
I am a PhD student in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, working with Prof. Chunyang Chen, Prof. Aldeida Aleti, Prof. Yuan-Fang Li, and Prof. Bohan Zhuang. My research interests lie at the intersection of Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and Large Language Models. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from the Australian National University in Australia, advised by Prof. Zhenchang Xing. My current research focus is software testing and human-AI interaction including the following four directions.
News
- [Jun 2025] Our paper "Breaking Single-Tester Limits: Multi-Agent LLMs for Multi-User Feature Testing" is accepted to ICSE 2026!
- [Jun 2025] Invited as Program Committee for ASE 2025
- [Apr 2025] Release the first GUI Agent framework Autonomous GUI Automation Levels
- [Feb 2025] Invited as reviewer for Nature Communications
- [Feb 2025] I was awarded Monash FIT Supplementary Funding Scheme
- [Jan 2025] I was awarded Google Conference Scholarship!
- [Dec 2024] Our paper "Agent for User: Testing Multi-User Interactive Features in TikTok" is accepted to ICSE Industry 2025!
- [Dec 2024] Our paper "An Empirical Study on Leveraging Images in Automated Bug Report Reproduction" is accepted to MSR 2025!
Awards
- [2025] Monash FIT Supplementary Funding Scheme
- [2025] Google Conference Scholarship
- [2023] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in ICSE 2023.
- [2021] Highlight of IUI 2021.
- [2021] Monash HDR Full Scholarship
- [2021] Selected PhD for ISAAC (Fully Funded)
- [2021] Selected Engineers Australia (EA) for graduates from ANU
- [2020] Selected Alibaba Global Talent Development Program
- [2016] Top 1 graduation from Blue Mountains Grammar High School, Australia
Research
24. [ICSE'26] Breaking Single-Tester Limits: Multi-Agent LLMs for Multi-User Feature Testing
Sidong Feng, Changhao Du, Huaxiao Liu, Qingnan Wang, Zhengwei Lv, Mengfei Wang, Chunyang Chen
Acceptance rate: 9.2% (60/646)
23. [Blog] How Smart Is Your GUI Agent? A Framework for the Future of Software Interaction
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen, Mulong Xie
22. [ICSE'25 Industry] Agent for User: Testing Multi-User Interactive Features in TikTok
Sidong Feng, Changhao Du, Huaxiao Liu, Qingnan Wang, Zhengwei Lv, Gang Huo, Xu Yang, Chunyang Chen
21. [MSR'25] An Empirical Study on Leveraging Images in Automated Bug Report Reproduction
Dingbang Wang, Zhaoxu Zhang, Sidong Feng, William G.J. Halfond, Tingting Yu
20. [ASE'24 Industry] Enabling Cost-Effective UI Automation Testing with Retrieval-Based LLMs: A Case Study in WeChat
Sidong Feng, Haochuan Lu, Jianqin Jiang, Ting Xiong, Likun Huang, Yinglin Liang, Xiaoqin Li, Yuetang Deng, Aldeida Aleti
19. [ISSTA'24] Feedback-Driven Automated Whole Bug Report Reproduction for Android Apps
Dingbang Wang, Yu Zhao, Sidong Feng, Zhaoxu Zhang, William GJ Halfond, Chunyang Chen, Xiaoxia Sun, Jiangfan Shi, Tingting Yu
18. [CHI'24] MUD: Towards a Large-Scale and Noise-Filtered UI Dataset for Modern Style UI Modeling
Sidong Feng, Suyu Ma, Han Wang, David Kong, Chunyang Chen
17. [CHI'24] UI Workshop Designing with Language: Wireframing UI Design Intent with Generative Large Language Models
Sidong Feng, Mingyue Yuan, Jieshan Chen, Zhenchang Xing, Chunyang Chen
16. [ICSE'24] Prompting Is All You Need: Automated Android Bug Replay with Large Language Models
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen
Acceptance rate: 6.6%
15. [ESEC/FSE'23 Industry] Towards Efficient Record and Replay: A Case Study in WeChat
Sidong Feng, Haochuan Lu, Ting Xiong, Yuetang Deng, Chunyang Chen
14. [UIST'23a] Video2Action: Reducing Human Interactions in Action Annotation of App Tutorial Videos
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen, Zhenchang Xing
13. [UIST'23b] Unveiling the tricks: Automated Detection of Dark Pattern in Mobile Applications
Jieshan Chen, Jiamou Sun, Sidong Feng, Zhenchang Xing, Qinghua Lu, Chunyang Chen
12. [ICSE'23a] Efficiency Matters: Speeding Up Automated Testing with GUI Rendering Inference
Sidong Feng, Mulong Xie, Chunyang Chen
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (10/796)
11. [ICSE'23b] Read It, Don't Watch It: Captioning Bug Recordings Automatically
Sidong Feng, Mulong Xie, Yinxing Xue, Chunyang Chen
10. [ESEC/FSE'22] Psychologically-Inspired, Unsupervised Inference of Perceptual Groups of GUI Widgets from GUI Images
Mulong Xie, Zhenchang Xing, Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen, Liming Zhu, Xiwei Xu
9. [ICSE'22] GIFdroid: Automated Replay of Visual Bug Reports for Android Apps
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen
8. [ICSE-C'22a] GIFdroid: An Automated Light-weight Tool for Replaying Visual Bug Reports
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen
7. [ICSE-C'22b] Gallery D.C.: Auto-created GUI Component Gallery for Design Search and Knowledge Discovery
Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen, Zhenchang Xing
6. [TIIS'22] Auto-Icon+: An Automated End-to-End Code Generation Tool for Icon Designs in UI Development
Sidong Feng, Minmin Jiang, TingTing Zhou, Yankun Zhen, Chunyang Chen
5. [IUI'21] Auto-icon: An automated code generation tool for icon designs assisting in ui development
Sidong Feng, Suyu Ma, Jinzhong Yu, Chunyang Chen, TingTing Zhou, Yankun Zhen
Highlight of IUI 2021 (11/241)
4. [CSCW'20] From lost to found: Discover missing ui design semantics through recovering missing tags
Chunyang Chen, Sidong Feng, Zhengyang Liu, Zhenchang Xing, Shengdong Zhao
3. [ESEC/FSE'20] UIED: a hybrid tool for GUI element detection
Mulong Xie, Sidong Feng, Zhenchang Xing, Jieshan Chen, Chunyang Chen
2. [CSCW'19] Gallery D.C.: Design Search and Knowledge Discovery through Auto-created GUI Component Gallery
Chunyang Chen, Sidong Feng, Zhenchang Xing, Linda Liu, Shendong Zhao, Jinshui Wang
1. [ICONIP'19] Dynamic facial stress recognition in temporal convolutional network
Sidong Feng
Services
Program Committee and Associate Chair
- International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Shadow’25, Artifact’25)
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE Industry'24, Research'25)
- ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA Artifact’24, Artifact’25)
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW Poster’24)
- Mining Software Repositories (MSR Senior PC'24)
- IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST'25)
- International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft'24)
- International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'23)
- Workshop on EXPlainable and REliable Software Systems (EXPRESS 2025 co-located in ISSTA)
- Workshop on Human-Centric Software Engineering and Cyber Security (HCSE-CS 2023 co-located in ASE)
Reviewer
- Nature Communications
- Elsevier Book
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
- ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'23, CHI'24, CHI'25)
- ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'23)
- ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'23, IUI'24, IUI'25)
- IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'24)
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI'22)
Workshop/Discussion
- Computational User Interface Workshop (CHI'24)
- Foundation/Large Models on Software Engineering (FM+SE Vision 2030)
- Inclusive Software Documentation Workshop
- Session: ML in Practice, Session: Testing (ESEC/FSE'20)