Dr. YU Yuen Tak (余遠德博士)

BSc CertEd HKU, GradDip PhD Melbourne, MACM, MIEEE

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Office:	Y6416 YEUNG
Phone:	34429831
Fax:	34420503
Email:	csytyu@cityu.edu.hk
Web:	Personal Homepage

Research Interests

Software Engineering
Software Testing
Software Specification
Computer in Education

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 engaged 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, he has completed more than 10 research projects that were funded by strategic and competitive earmarked research grants, one research and development project supported by a fund from the Innovation and Technology Commission, and several development projects supported by teaching development grants.

Journal Articles

P.-L. Poon and Y. T. Yu, "Degree of Internet corporate reporting: A research framework", Information Research, volume 17, number 1, paper 509, March 2012. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/17-1/paper509.html]
Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau, "Fault-based test suite prioritization for specification-based testing", Information and Software Technology, volume 54, number 2, pages 179-202, February 2012.
K. M. Y. Law, V. C. S. Lee and Y. T. Yu, "Learning motivation in e-learning facilitated computer programming courses", Computers and Education, volume 55, number 1, pages 218-228, August 2010.
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.
Y. T. Yu, S. P. Ng, P.-L. Poon and T. Y. Chen, "On the testing methods used by beginning software testers", Information and Software Technology, volume 46, number 5, pages 329-335, April 2004.
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 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

Y. T. Yu, E. Y. K. Chan and P.-L. Poon, "On the coverage of program code byspecification-based tests", in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2009), IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 24-25, August 2009.
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.
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 / Book Chapter

M. F. Lau, Y. T. Yu and P.-L. Poon, "Test Case Generation: Specification-Based", Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, volume 1, number 1, pages 1200-1210, November 2010. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, New York. (DOI: 10.1081/E-ESE-120044233)
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)

Last update date : 04 Mar 2021