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Conference Papers

An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries

Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, 2025

An empirical analysis of bug characteristics and failure patterns in data visualization libraries.

Recommended citation: Weiqi Lu, Yongqiang Tian, Xiaohan Zhong, Haoyang Ma, Zhenyang Xu, Shing-Chi Cheung, and Chengnian Sun. 2025. An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries. Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. 2, FSE, Article FSE093 (July 2025), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3729363
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Journal Articles

Detecting Rendering Bugs in Imperative Data Visualization Libraries via Equivalent Mutations

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12363, 2026

A mutation-based approach for detecting rendering bugs in imperative visualization libraries.

Recommended citation: Weiqi Lu and Yongqiang Tian. 2026. Detecting Rendering Bugs in Imperative Data Visualization Libraries via Equivalent Mutations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12363.
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Is ChatGPT the Ultimate Programming Assistant–How Far Is It?

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11938, 2023

A study examining the current capability boundary of ChatGPT as a programming assistant.

Recommended citation: Haoye Tian, Weiqi Lu, Tsz On Li, Xunzhu Tang, Shing-Chi Cheung, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé. 2023. Is ChatGPT the Ultimate Programming Assistant--How Far Is It? arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11938.
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