What's New 
- The 4th International Workshop on Service-Oriented
Applications, Integration and Collaboration
(SOAIC 2008),
which is co-located with
the 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business
Engineering
(ICEBE 2008),
is to be held in Xi'an, China, on 22-24 October 2008.
- The 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC 2008)
is to be held in Beijing, China, on 3-5 December 2008.
- The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement
(SSIRI 2009)
is to be held in Shanghai, China, on 8-10 July 2009.
- The 33rd Annual International Computer
Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2009)
is to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, on 20-24 July 2009.
Beginning 2006,
COMPSAC is designated as
the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software
Technology and Applications.
- The 9th International Conference on Quality Conference
(QSIC 2009)
is to be held in Jeju, Korea, on 24-25 August 2009.
Research Interests
- Software Engineering, Software Testing,
Computers in Education, E-Commerce
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Profile
Dr. Y T Yu received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics
with First Class Honours,
and the Certificate in Education from
The University of Hong Kong.
Later, he received the Graduate Diploma and obtained First Class Honours
and First in Class in a M.Sc.(Prelim) Course before receiving
the Ph.D. degree from
The University of Melbourne,
Australia.
Prior to joining the
Department of Computer Science
of City University of Hong Kong,
Dr. Yu has taught computer courses in
The University of Melbourne,
The University of Hong Kong,
and
The Hong Kong Institute of Education.
He has substantial experience in secondary computer and mathematics
education in Hong Kong.
He has led the implementation of strategic computerisation project
of a secondary school, including in-house development of various
essential school administration software systems.
He was also the author of two textbooks for Computer Studies.
Dr Yu has been actively involved in research work.
His publications have appeared in
many scholarly journals, including the most prestigious journals
in the field of software engineering, such as
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
and
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
To date, his research projects have been funded by
more than 10 strategic and competitive earmarked research grants,
and development projects supported by
teaching development grants.
In addition, he has also participated in
a research and development project,
which is supported by a fund from the
Innovation and Technology Commission.
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Professional Activities
Dr Yu is an Editorial Board Member of the
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
(IJWET).
Besides, he has reviewed papers for various
international academic journals, including:
-
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology
- The Computer Journal
- Empirical Software Engineering
- IEE Proceedings -- Software
- IEEE Software
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Information and Software Technology
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of General Systems
- International Journal of Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering
- International Journal of Web Services Research
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
- Software Quality Journal
- Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
Dr Yu has actively participated in professional activities
in the research community. He is/has been a/the:
- Program Co-Chair of the
Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
(APAQS 2001)
- Publicity Chair of the
- 28th Annual International Computer
Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2004)
- 29th Annual International
Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2005)
- Program Committee Member of the
- Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference, designated as the
IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on
Software Technology and Applications since 2006
(COMPSAC 2001,
COMPSAC 2002,
COMPSAC 2003,
COMPSAC 2004,
COMPSAC 2005,
COMPSAC 2006,
COMPSAC 2007,
COMPSAC 2008
and
COMPSAC 2009)
- Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC'99
and
APSEC 2008)
- First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
(APAQS 2000)
- International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations
(KMO'2006)
- International Conference on Quality Software
(QSIC 2003,
QSIC 2004,
QSIC 2005,
QSIC 2006,
QSIC 2007,
QSIC 2008
and
QSIC 2009)
- International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement
(SSIRI 2008
and
SSIRI 2009)
- International Symposium on Quality Engineering for Embedded Systems
(QEES 2008)
- International Workshop on Education and Training
for Quality Software Engineering
(ETQSE 2005)
- International Workshop on Services Engineering
(SEIW 2005)
- International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration
(SOAIC 2008)
- International Workshop on Service Oriented Software Engineering
(IW-SOSE'06)
- International Workshop on Service-Oriented System Engineering
(SOSE 2007)
In addition, he has been the reviewers of many international
conferences, including:
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
- ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT/FSE)
- Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)
- Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC)
- International Conference on Automated Software
Engineering (ASE)
- International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
- International Symposium on Software Engineering
for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE)
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau,
"A comparison of MC/DC, MUMCUT and several other
coverage criteria for logical decisions",
Journal of Systems and Software,
volume 79, number 5, pages 577-590, May 2006.
- M. F. Lau and Y. T. Yu,
"An extended fault class hierarchy for
specification-based testing",
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology,
volume 14, number 3, pages 247-276, July 2005.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"A decision-theoretic approach to the test allocation
problem in partition testing",
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics --
Part A: Systems and Humans,
volume 32, number 6, pages 733-745, November 2002.
- Y. T. Yu, P. L. Poon, S. F. Tang and T. Y. Chen,
"A study on a path-based strategy for selecting
black-box generated test cases",
International Journal of Software Engineering
and Knowledge Engineering,
volume 11, number 2, pages 113-138, April 2001.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"On the maximin algorithms for test allocations in
partition testing",
Information and Software Technology,
volume 43, number 2, pages 97-107, January 2001.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"The universal safeness of test allocation strategies for
partition testing",
Information Sciences,
volume 129, number 1-4, pages 105-118, November 2000.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"Optimal improvement of the lower bound performance of
partition testing strategies",
IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering,
volume 144, number 5-6, pages 271-278, October-December 1997.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"Constraints for safe partition testing strategies",
The Computer Journal,
volume 39, number 7, pages 619-625, 1996.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"On the expected number of failures detected by
subdomain testing and random testing",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
volume 22, number 2, pages 109-119, February 1996.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"On the relationship between partition testing and
random testing",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
volume 20, number 12, pages 977-980, December 1994.
Conference Papers
- T. H. Ng, S. C. Cheung, W. K. Chan and Y. T. Yu,
"Do maintainers utilize deployed design patterns
effectively?",
in Proceedings of the 29th International
Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2007),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 168-177, May 2007.
- T. H. Ng, S. C. Cheung, W. K. Chan and Y. T. Yu,
"Work experience versus refactoring into design
patterns: A controlled experiment",
in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT
Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
(ACM
SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14),
ACM Press, pages 12-22, November 2006.
- M. F. Lau, Y. Liu and Y. T. Yu,
"On detection conditions of double faults related
to terms in Boolean expressions",
in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International
Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC
2006),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 403-410, September 2006.
- P.-L. Poon and Y. T. Yu,
"Procurement of enterprise resource planning systems:
Experiences with some Hong Kong companies",
in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference
on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2006),
ACM Press, pages 561-568, May 2006.
- Y. T. Yu and P.-L. Poon,
"Designing activities for learning software quality
practices",
in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference
on Quality Software
(QSIC 2005),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 333-338, September 2005.
- Y. T. Yu,
"Information technology support to the promotion of
reading -- Towards building a school-based reading sharing
community",
in Proceedings of International Conference
on Computers in Education (ICCE 2004),
pages 499-508, November-December 2004.
- Y. T. Yu, S. P. Ng and E. Y. K. Chan,
"Generating, selecting and prioritizing test cases
from specifications with tool support",
in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference
on Quality Software (QSIC 2003),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 83-90, November 2003.
- B. C. Chiu and Y. T. Yu,
"Promoting the use of information technology in
education via lightweight authoring tools",
(winner of
Best Paper Award),
in Proceedings of International Conference
on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 501-505, December 2002.
- Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau,
"Prioritization of test cases in MUMCUT test sets:
an empirical study",
in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2002),
LNCS no. 2361,
Springer, pages 245-256, June 2002.
- Y. T. Yu and B. C. Chiu,
"Empowering secondary school teachers to effectively exploit
Internet resources for the enhancement of teaching and learning",
in Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in
Education and International Conference on Computer Assisted
Instruction (ICCE/ICCAI 2000),
pages 840-848, November 2000.
Books
- Y. T. Yu,
Elements of Computer Studies
(with Teachers' Handbook),
Modern Educational Research Society Ltd.,
Hong Kong. (Second edition: 1997; revised edition: 1993;
first edition: 1989)
- Y. T. Yu,
Elements of Basic Programming:
A Problem Solving Approach
(with Teachers' Handbook),
Modern Educational Research Society Ltd.,
Hong Kong. (1989)
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Project Supervision
- BSCS Final Year Project
- BSCCS Final Year Project
- BSCED Guided Study
- BSCED Final Year Project
- MSC Dissertation
- MSCS Guided Study
- MSCS Dissertation
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Past Student Projects
Some titles of past student projects under my supervision are:
- Fault-based Analysis for Conformance Testing of TCP/IP Implementation
- An Exercise System for Primary School
- An Online Grading System
- Web Publishing of Z Specifications
- CASE Tools for MPF Systems
- A Training Program for Bidding in Contract Bridge
- A Tool for Generating Tests for Boolean Expressions
- Tool Support for Basis Path Testing
- Checking Pre-conditions of Specifications
- An Input Domain Visualisation Tool
Last updated on 21 Oct 2008
