| 2025 | APSEC | Exploring Developer Departure in Open-Source Software Projects: Prevalence, Reason Taxonomy, and Influencing Factors. | Yangyang Zhao, Bingzheng Zhao, Zanxiang He, Liming Nie |
| 2025 | ICECCS | Leveraging Large Language Models for Feature Envy Detection: A Context-Aware and Reasoning-Driven Approach. | Jiamin Guo, Yangyang Zhao, Zhifei Chen, Liming Nie |
| 2025 | QRS | Refactoring Revisited: An Expanded Study on Refactoring Practices. | Yangyang Zhao, Xinyang Li, Jiaming Guo, Chenglin Li, Liming Nie |
| 2024 | IUI | SoK: An Exhaustive Taxonomy of Display Issues for Mobile Applications. | Liming Nie, Kabir Sulaiman Said, Ming Hu |
| 2023 | ESEM | Investigating the Impact of Bug Dependencies on Bug-Fixing Time Prediction. | Chenglin Li, Yangyang Zhao, Yibiao Yang, Yuming Zhou, Liming Nie, Zuohua Ding |
| 2023 | ISSTA | A Comprehensive Study on Quality Assurance Tools for Java. | Han Liu, Sen Chen, Ruitao Feng, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li, Zhengzi Xu, Liming Nie, Yang Liu, Yixiang Chen |
| 2022 | QRS | An Exploratory Study for GUI Posts on Stack Overflow. | Jing Ding, Liming Nie, Yang Liu, Zuohua Ding, Jifeng Xuan |
| 2022 | QRS | An Empirical Study of the Impact of COVID-19 on OSS Development. | Lingfei Ma, Liming Nie, Chenxi Mao, Yaowen Zheng, Yang Liu |