Xiang Chen received the B.Sc. degree in the school of management from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 2002. Then he received his M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer software and theory from Nanjing University, China in 2008 and 2011 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Nantong University. He has authored or co-authored more than 170 papers in refereed journals or conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Empirical Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Automated Software Engineering, Software - Practice and Experience, Science of Computer Programming, Computer \& Security, Knowledge-based Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), International Conference Automated Software Engineering (ASE), International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) and International Conference on Software