Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar

SEER Radar

A living academic map of software engineering research, with an emphasis on testing, debugging, programming, recent venue trends, topic signals, datasets, scholars, and paper trails.

WatchFollow Focused Research DirectionsRead source-verified work across fault localization, production boundaries, latency evidence, shared memory, event-time trading, and verification. VenuesBrowse ICSE / FSE / ASE / ISSTANavigate recent major software-engineering venues by year and paper topic. CalendarTrack CCF Venue DatesReview CCF A/B/C SE, systems, and PL venue windows, official dates, and forecasted next editions. TopicsMap Testing, Debugging, AI for SEFollow hot research families and jump into topic-specific paper lists. PDFsRead Papers on MobileOpen source-attributed PDFs and individual paper pages directly in the browser. BenchmarksTrack Datasets and Local AvailabilitySee which common SE datasets are present locally as data, papers, notes, or not yet collected. IndexSearchable Structure NextStart from a broad paper index; database-backed search is now ready underneath.

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3694papers in snapshot
19topic labels
2021-2026recent major-venue window

Venue Coverage

Venues: ASE: 1258, CAV: 1, COMPSAC-SETA: 1, FM: 1, FSE: 835, FSE-IVR: 1, ICSE: 1031, ICSE-SEIP: 1, ICST: 1, ISSTA: 549, Information Sciences: 1, International Review of Economics & Finance: 1, International Review of Financial Analysis: 1, JSS: 1, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences: 1, NSDI: 2, Performance Evaluation: 1, TOSEM: 1, TSE / ASE Journal First: 1, USENIX ATC: 1, USENIX Security: 1, VMCAI: 1, arXiv: 2

Years: 2019: 1, 2021: 551, 2022: 685, 2023: 763, 2024: 798, 2025: 881, 2026: 15

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Study Notes

Quiet catch-up notes for AI-native software engineering and program repair. These are reading guides and experiment checklists, not the main front page of the radar.

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Research Focus

Software Testing

Test generation, prioritization, selection, flaky tests, regression testing, and CI testing.

Debugging and Diagnosis

Fault localization, failure diagnosis, repair signals, logs, spectra, and change-aware triage.

Programming Research

Program analysis, developer tools, code intelligence, maintenance, and AI-assisted workflows.

Research Infrastructure

Benchmarks, datasets, metrics, venues, scholars, and reproducible reading trails.

Top Topic Families

TopicPapersVenue Breakdown
Other1070ASE: 366, FSE: 264, ICSE: 307, ISSTA: 133
Testing / QA866ASE: 295, FSE: 140, ICSE: 219, ICST: 1, ISSTA: 208, JSS: 1, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences: 1, TSE / ASE Journal First: 1
AI / LLM for SE584ASE: 202, COMPSAC-SETA: 1, FSE: 116, ICSE: 177, ICSE-SEIP: 1, ICST: 1, ISSTA: 80, Information Sciences: 1, International Review of Financial Analysis: 1, TOSEM: 1, TSE / ASE Journal First: 1, arXiv: 2
Human / Empirical / Socio-technical391ASE: 100, FSE: 107, ICSE: 143, ISSTA: 41
Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair357ASE: 112, COMPSAC-SETA: 1, FSE: 79, FSE-IVR: 1, ICSE: 103, ICSE-SEIP: 1, ICST: 1, ISSTA: 53, JSS: 1, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences: 1, TOSEM: 1, TSE / ASE Journal First: 1, arXiv: 2
Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods306ASE: 106, CAV: 1, COMPSAC-SETA: 1, FM: 1, FSE: 63, ICSE: 79, ISSTA: 50, JSS: 1, USENIX ATC: 1, USENIX Security: 1, VMCAI: 1, arXiv: 1
Mobile / Web / GUI / Android304ASE: 116, FSE: 54, ICSE: 82, ISSTA: 52
Security / Privacy / Vulnerability209ASE: 73, FSE: 43, ICSE: 54, ISSTA: 39
DevOps / CI / Build / Release198ASE: 70, FSE: 51, ICSE: 54, ISSTA: 23
Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review190ASE: 60, FSE: 57, ICSE: 48, ISSTA: 25

Hot-Term Map

code testing learning analysis models detection automated generation systems language test deep program fuzzing large detecting neural android model repair framework empirical bugs approach data vulnerability static smart

Recent Paper Index

This public preview lists metadata only. PDFs and local notes are tracked privately; when public links are later shown, each source will be attributed.

PaperVenueTopics
Revealing Regressions: A Comparative Study of State-Capture Strategies in Validating Program Behavior
Hang Du, Vijay Krishna Palepu, James Jones		FSE 2026Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair
Efficient Black-Box Fault Localization for System-Level Test Code Using Large Language Models
Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi, Golnaz Gharachorlu, Sakina Fatima, Lionel Briand		TSE / ASE Journal First 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Testing / QA
Measure Twice, Locate Once: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLM-based Agents for Repository-Scale Fault Localization
Feiyue Chen, Guowei Yang, Cheryl Lee, Zhanming Jie		TOSEM 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Software Agents
Rethinking Performance Debugging: From Optimization to Collaborative Reasoning
Mahsa Panahandeh, Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj		FSE-IVR 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Industrial Software Engineering; Program Comprehension
GVFL: Variable Level Fault Localization Using Graph Representation Learning
Xia Song, Xiaojie Fan, Ruishi Huang, Hengyuan Liu		COMPSAC-SETA 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods
GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization
Wei Liu, Chao Peng, Pengfei Gao, Aofan Liu		FSE 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods
Towards the Localization of Multi-Root-Cause Failures in Microservice Systems: An Active Intervention Framework
Yazhuo Gao, Lin Yang, Lianxiao Meng, Ran Zhu		FSE 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Distributed / Service Computing; AI / LLM for SE
Iterative self-organizing clustering for software multiple-fault localisation
Heling Cao, Ruidong Jia, Fangchao Tian, Yue Xie		Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Testing / QA
LLM Agents Can See Code Repositories
Dongjian Ma, Silin Chen, Yufei Yang, Yulin Shi		arXiv 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Comprehension
Assessing the Impact of Code Changes on the Fault Localizability of Large Language Models
Sabaat Haroon, Ahmand Faraz Khan, Ahmad Humayun, Waris Gill		ICST 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Testing / QA
Reasoning over Relaxed Shared Memory Models: A Tutorial
Brijesh Dongol		FM 2026Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods
ARISE: A Repository-level Graph Representation and Toolset for Agentic Fault Localization and Program Repair
Shahd Seddik, Fatemeh Fard		arXiv 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; AI / LLM for SE
CoReX: Context-Aware Refinement-Based Slicing for Debugging Regression Failures
Sahar Badihi, Julia Rubin		ICSE 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Program Comprehension
Finding the Needle in the Crash Stack: Industrial-Scale Crash Root Cause Localization with AutoCrashFL
Sungmin Kang, Sumi Yun, Jingun Hong, Shin Yoo		ICSE-SEIP 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Industrial Software Engineering
GraMuS: Boosting statement-level fault localization via graph representation and multimodal information
Ruishi Huang, Binbin Yang, Shumei Wu, Zheng Li		JSS 2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Testing / QA
The effect of NYSE American's latency delay on informed trading
Jeremy Morris, Ke Xu		International Review of Financial Analysis 2025AI / LLM for SE; Industrial Software Engineering

Benchmark and Dataset Signals

TermMentions in Titles
ci597
android129
java76
python64
benchmark49
fault localization42
github32
dataset31
javascript22
flaky19

Scholar Signals

ScholarPapers in SnapshotVenue Breakdown
Yang Liu 000375ASE: 33, ICSE: 27, ISSTA: 9, FSE: 6
Xin Xia 000168ICSE: 27, ASE: 21, FSE: 16, ISSTA: 4
David Lo 000167ICSE: 24, ASE: 21, FSE: 16, ISSTA: 6
Hongyu Zhang 000258ICSE: 29, FSE: 12, ASE: 11, ISSTA: 6
Xin Peng 000144ASE: 14, ICSE: 11, FSE: 11, ISSTA: 8
Junjie Chen 000343ASE: 14, ICSE: 13, FSE: 8, ISSTA: 8
Michael R. Lyu42ICSE: 17, ASE: 17, ISSTA: 5, FSE: 3
Xiapu Luo41ICSE: 13, ISSTA: 13, ASE: 9, FSE: 6
Zibin Zheng41ICSE: 14, ASE: 13, ISSTA: 13, FSE: 1
Haoyu Wang 000138ASE: 19, ICSE: 9, ISSTA: 8, FSE: 2
Xing Hu 000833ICSE: 15, ASE: 12, ISSTA: 4, FSE: 2
Yu Jiang 000133ICSE: 10, ASE: 10, ISSTA: 8, FSE: 5