Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
ASE 2025 Papers
ASE 2025 paper list with topic labels.
| Paper | Venue | Year | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| "My productivity is boosted, but ..." Demystifying Users' Perception on AI Coding Assistants. Yunbo Lyu, Zhou Yang 0003, Jieke Shi, Jianming Chang, Yue Liu 0011 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Characterization Study of Bugs in LLM Agent Workflow Orchestration Frameworks. Ziluo Xue, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Shenao Wang 0001, Kai Chen 0012, Haoyu Wang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Large Scale Study of AI-based Binary Function Similarity Detection Techniques for Security Researchers and Practitioners. Jingyi Shi, Yufeng Chen, Yang Xiao 0011, Yuekang Li, Zhengzi Xu | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Large-Scale Evolvable Dataset for Model Context Protocol Ecosystem and Security Analysis. Zhiwei Lin, Bonan Ruan, Jiahao Liu 0005, Weibo Zhao | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| A Multi-Modality Evaluation of the Reality Gap in Autonomous Driving Systems. Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi, Mirena Flores Valdez, Andrea Stocco 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| A Secure Mocking Approach towards Software Supply Chain Security. Daisuke Yamaguchi, Shinobu Saito, Takuya Iwatsuka, Nariyoshi Chida, Tachio Terauchi | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| ACTaint: Agent-Based Taint Analysis for Access Control Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts. Huarui Lin, Zhipeng Gao 0002, Jiachi Chen, Xiang Chen 0005, Xiaohu Yang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| ADPerf: Investigating and Testing Performance in Autonomous Driving Systems. Tri Minh-Triet Pham, Diego Elias Costa, Weiyi Shang, Jinqiu Yang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| AMPLE: Fine-grained File Access Policies for Server Applications. Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Julien Vanegue | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| APIDA-Chat: Structured Synthesis of API Search Dialogues to Bootstrap Conversational Agents. Zachary Eberhart, Collin McMillan | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| APKARMOR: Low-Cost Lightweight Anti-Decompilation Techniques for Android Apps. Jiayang Liu, Yanjie Zhao, Pengcheng Xia, Haoyu Wang | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| ARG: Testing Query Rewriters via Abstract Rule Guided Fuzzing. Dawei Li, Yuxiao Guo, Qifan Liu, Jie Liang 0006, Zhiyong Wu 0010 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Acceleration of Automotive Software Development by Retrieval Augmented Integration Test Script Generation. Masashi Mizoguchi, Kentaro Yoshimura, Keita Nakazawa, Yasuomi Sato, Takahiro Iida | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| AdaptEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Code Snippet Adaptation. Tanghaoran Zhang, Xinjun Mao, Shangwen Wang, Yuxin Zhao, Yao Lu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Adaptive Performance Regression Detection Using A Semi-Supervised Siamese Network. Yongqian Sun, Mengyao Li, Xiao Xiong, Lei Tao, Yimin Zuo | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| AdaptiveGuard: Towards Adaptive Runtime Safety for LLM-Powered Software. Rui Yang, Michael Fu, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Chetan Arora 0002, Gunel Gulmammadova | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Advancing Automated Ethical Profiling in SE: a Zero-Shot Evaluation of LLM Reasoning. Patrizio Migliarini, Mashal Afzal Memon, Marco Autili, Paola Inverardi | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Advancing Binary Code Similarity Detection via Context-Content Fusion and LLM Verification. Chaopeng Dong, Jingdong Guo, Shouguo Yang, Yi Li, Dongliang Fang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| AgentDroid: A Multi-Agent Tool for Detecting Fraudulent Android Applications. Ruwei Pan, Hongyu Zhang, Zhonghao Jiang, Ran Hou | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Agentic Specification Generator for Move Programs. Yu-Fu Fu, Meng Xu, Taesoo Kim | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Agents in the Sandbox: End-to-End Crash Bug Reproduction for Minecraft. Eray Yapagci, Yavuz Alp Sencer Öztürk, Eray Tüzün | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| AlertGuardian: Intelligent Alert Life-Cycle Management for Large-scale Cloud Systems. Guangba Yu, Genting Mai, Rui Wang, Ruipeng Li, Pengfei Chen 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Algernon: A Flag-Guided Hybrid Fuzzer for Unlocking Hidden Program Paths. Peng Deng, Lei Zhang 0006, Jingqi Long, Wenzheng Hong, Zhemin Yang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| AlignCoder: Aligning Retrieval with Target Intent for Repository-Level Code Completion. Tianyue Jiang, Yanlin Wang 0001, Yanli Wang 0001, Daya Guo, Ensheng Shi | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Aligning LLMs to Fully Utilize the Cross-file Context in Repository-level Code Completion. Jia Li 0012, Hao Zhu, Huanyu Liu 0001, Xianjie Shi, He Zong | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Altered Histories in Version Control System Repositories: Evidence from the Trenches. Solal Rapaport, Laurent Pautet, Samuel Tardieu, Stefano Zacchiroli | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Amur: Fixing Multi-Resource Leaks Guided by Resource Flow Analysis. Jinyoung Kim, Eunseok Lee | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| An Agent-based Evaluation Framework for Complex Code Generation. Xinchen Wang, Ruida Hu, Pengfei Gao, Chao Peng 0002, Cuiyun Gao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| An Empirical Study of Knowledge Transfer in AI Pair Programming. Alisa Welter, Niklas Schneider, Tobias Dick, Kallistos Weis, Christof Tinnes | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An Empirical Study of Python Library Migration Using Large Language Models. Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, May Mahmoud, Ildar Akhmetov, Sarah Nadi | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An Empirical Study on UI Overlap in OpenHarmony Applications. Farong Liu, Mingyi Zhou, Li Li 0029 | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| An LLM-based multi-agent framework for agile effort estimation. Thanh-Long Bui, Hoa Khanh Dam, Rashina Hoda | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| AndroFL: Evolutionary-Driven Fault Localization for Android Apps. Vishal Singh, Ravi Shankar Das, Prajwal H. G, Subhajit Roy 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| AppBDS: LLM-Powered Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps. Zichen Liu, Xusheng Xiao | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Are We SOLID Yet? An Empirical Study on Prompting LLMs to Detect Design Principle Violations. Fatih Pehlivan, Arçin Ülkü Ergüzen, Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh, Mayasah Lami, Anil Koyuncu | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Argus: Resilience-Oriented Safety Assurance Framework for End-to-End ADSs. Dingji Wang, You Lu 0005, Bihuan Chen 0001, Shuo Hao, Haowen Jiang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| AutoFid: Adaptive and Noise-Aware Fidelity Measurement for Quantum Programs via Circuit Graph Analysis. Tingting Li 0004, Ziming Zhao 0008, Jianwei Yin | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| AutoPLC: Generating Vendor-Aware Structured Text for Programmable Logic Controllers. Donghao Yang, Aolang Wu, Tianyi Zhang, Li Zhang 0029, Xiaoli Lian | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Automated Combinatorial Test Generation for Alloy. Agustín Borda, Germán Regis, Nazareno Aguirre, Marcelo F. Frias, Pablo Ponzio | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Automated Detection of Web Application Navigation Barriers for Screen Reader Users. Shubhi Jain, Syed Fatiul Huq, Ziyao He, Sam Malek | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automated Generation of Issue-Reproducing Tests by Combining LLMs and Search-Based Testing. Konstantinos Kitsios, Marco Castelluccio, Alberto Bacchelli | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Automated Inline Comment Smell Detection and Repair with Large Language Models. Hatice Kübra Çaglar, Semih Çaglar, Eray Tüzün | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Automated Insertion of Flushes and Fences for Persistency. Yutong Guo, Weiyu Luo, Brian Demsky | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Automated Proactive Logging Quality Improvement for Large-Scale Codebases. Yichen Li 0003, Jinyang Liu 0002, Junsong Pu, Zhihan Jiang, Zhuangbin Chen | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Automated Prompt Generation for Code Intelligence: An Empirical study and Experience in WeChat. Kexing Ji, Shiyun Fu, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Yujia Chen, Zezhou Yang | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Automated Repair of Ambiguous Problem Descriptions for LLM-Based Code Generation. Haoxiang Jia, Robbie Morris, He Ye, Federica Sarro, Sergey Mechtaev | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Automated Repair of OpenID Connect Programs. Tamjid Al Rahat, Yanju Chen, Yu Feng 0001, Yuan Tian 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Automatic Fixing of Missing Dependency Errors. Jun Lyu, He Zhang 0001, Lanxin Yang, Yue Li 0047, Chenxing Zhong | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Autonomous Agents for Accessibility: Simulating Visual Impairments in Web Interfaces. Juan Diego Yepes-Parra, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| BASHIRI: Learning Failure Oracles from Execution Features. Marius Smytzek, Martin Eberlein, Tural Mammadov, Lars Grunske, Andreas Zeller | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| BCFuzz: Bytecode-Driven Fuzzing for JavaScript Engines. Jiming Wang, Chenggang Wu 0002, Jikai Ren, Yuhao Hu, Yan Kang 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Backdoors in Code Summarizers: How Bad Is It? Chenyu Wang 0005, Zhou Yang 0003, Yaniv Harel, David Lo 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Belief Propagation with Local Structure and Its Applications in Program Analysis. Yiqian Wu, Yifan Chen, Yingfei Xiong 0001, Xin Zhang 0035 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| BenGQL: An Extensible Benchmarking Framework for Automated GraphQL Testing. Abenezer Angamo, Marcello Maugeri | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Better Safe than Sorry: Preventing Policy Violations through Predictive Root-Cause-Analysis for IoT Systems. Michael Norris, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Gang Tan | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Beyond Static GUI Agent: Evolving LLM-based GUI Testing via Dynamic Memory. Mengzhuo Chen, Zhe Liu 0025, Chunyang Chen 0001, Junjie Wang 0001, Yangguang Xue | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| BinStruct: Binary Structure Recovery Combining Static Analysis and Semantics. Yiran Zhang, Zhengzi Xu, Zhe Lang, Chengyue Liu, Yuqiang Sun 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| BitsAI-Fix: LLM-Driven Approach for Automated Lint Error Resolution in Practice. Yuanpeng Li, Qi Long, Zhiyuan Yao, Jian Xu, Lintao Xie | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Breaking the Traffic Barrier: Unveiling Multi-Format of Protocols via Autonomous Program Exploration. Dingzhao Xue, Yibo Qu, Bowen Jiang, Xin Chen, Shuaizong Si | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Bridging Natural Language and Formal Specification-Automated Translation of Software Requirements to LTL via Hierarchical Semantics Decomposition Using LLMs. Zhi Ma, Cheng Wen 0002, Zhexin Su, Xiao Liang, Cong Tian 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Bridging Research and Practice in Simulation-based Testing of Industrial Robot Navigation Systems. Sajad Mazraeh Khatiri, Francisco Eli Vina Barrientos, Maximilian Wulf, Paolo Tonella, Sebastiano Panichella | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| BuilDroid: A Self-Correcting LLM Agent for Automated Android Builds. Jaehyeon Kim, Rui Rua, Karim Ali 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Can Mamba Be Better? An Experimental Evaluation of Mamba in Code Intelligence. Shuo Liu 0020, Jacky Keung, Zhen Yang 0022, Zhenyu Mao, Yicheng Sun | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Characterizing Multi-Hunk Patches: Divergence, Proximity, and LLM Repair Challenges. Noor Nashid, Daniel Ding, Keheliya Gallaba, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ali Mesbah 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Characterizing and Repairing Color-Related Accessibility Issues in Android Apps. Jiahao Gu, Huaxun Huang | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Chrysalis: A Lightweight Logging and Replay Framework for Metamorphic Testing in Python. Jai Parera, Nathan Huey, Ben Limpanukorn, Miryung Kim | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Clara: A Developer's Companion for Code Comprehension and Analysis. Ahmed Adnan, Mushfiqur Rahman, Saad Sakib Noor, Kazi Sakib | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension |
| Clarifying Semantics of In-Context Examples for Unit Test Generation. Chen Yang, Lin Yang 0030, Ziqi Wang, Dong Wang 0044, Jianyi Zhou | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning. Gangda Xiong, Tao Chen | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Code-DiTing: Automatic Evaluation of Code Generation without References or Test Cases. Guang Yang 0019, Yu Zhou 0010, Xiang Chen 0005, Wei Zheng 0006, Xing Hu 0008 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| CodeACT-R: A Cognitive Simulation Framework for Human Attention in Code Reading. Yueke Zhang, Zihan Fang, Greg Trafton, Daniel Levin, Kevin Leach | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code. Daniele Bifolco, Guido Annicchiarico, Pierluigi Barbiero, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fiorella Zampetti | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Coding-Fuse: Efficient Fusion of Code Pre-Trained Models for Classification Tasks. Yu Zhao, Lina Gong, Zhiqiu Huang, Yuchen Jin, Mingqiang Wei | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Comprehend, Imitate, and then Update: Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Test Suite Evolution. Tangzhi Xu, Jianhan Liu, Yuan Yao 0001, Cong Li 0003, Feng Xu 0007 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| ConfuseTaint: Exploiting Vulnerabilities to Bypass Dynamic Taint Analysis. Yufei Wu, Alexandre Bartel | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Context-Aware CodeLLM Eviction for AI-assisted Coding. Kishanthan Thangarajah, Boyuan Chen 0002, Shi Chang, Ahmed E. Hassan | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Context-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for ArkTS. Yizhuo Yang 0005, Lingyun Xu, Mingyi Zhou, Li Li 0029 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| CoorLog: Efficient-Generalizable Log Anomaly Detection via Adaptive Coordinator in Software Evolution. Pei Xiao 0007, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Tong Jia, Yifan Wu 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Coverage-Based Harmfulness Testing for LLM Code Transformation. Honghao Tan, Haibo Wang, Diany Pressato, Yisen Xu, Shin Hwei Tan | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Cross2OH: Enabling Seamless Porting of C/C++ Software Libraries to OpenHarmony. Qian Zhang, Tsz-On Li, Ying Wang 0038, Li Li 0029, Shing-Chi Cheung | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Cryptbara: Dependency-Guided Detection of Python Cryptographic API Misuses. Seogyeong Cho, Seungeun Yu, Seunghoon Woo | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| DALEQ - Explainable Equivalence for Java Bytecode. Jens Dietrich 0001, Behnaz Hassanshahi | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| DESIGNATOR: a Toolset for Automated GAN-enhanced Search-based Testing and Retraining of DNNs in Martian Environments. Mohammed Oualid Attaoui, Fabrizio Pastore | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| DLBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SQL Translation with Large Language Models. Li Lin, Hongqiao Chen, Qinglin Zhu, Liehang Chen, Linlong Tang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| DNAFuzz: Descriptor-Aware Fuzzing for USB Drivers. Zhengshu Wang, Peng He, Fuchen Ma, Yuanliang Chen, Shuoshuo Duan | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| DRIFT: Debug-based Trace Inference for Firmware Testing. Changming Liu, Alejandro Mera, Meng Xu, Engin Kirda | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| DSBox: A Data Selection Framework for Efficient Deep Code Learning. Xinyang Liu, Lili Quan, Qiang Hu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Data Dependency-Aware Code Generation from Enhanced UML Sequence Diagrams. Wenxin Mao, Zhitao Wang, Long Wang, Sirong Chen, Cuiyun Gao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| DebCovDiff: Differential Testing of Coverage Measurement Tools on Real-World Projects. Wentao Zhang, Jinghao Jia, Erkai Yu, Darko Marinov, Tianyin Xu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Debugging the Undebuggable: Why Multi-Fault Programs Break Debugging and Repair Tools. Omar I. Al-Bataineh | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Debun: Detecting Bundled JavaScript Libraries on Web using Property-Order Graphs. Seojin Kim, Sungmin Park, Jihyeok Park | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| DeepExploitor: LLM-Enhanced Automated Exploitation of DeepLink Attack in Hybrid Apps. Zhangyue Zhang, Lei Zhang 0096, Zhibo Zhang 0006, Yongheng Liu, Zhemin Yang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| DeepTx: Real-Time Transaction Risk Analysis via Multi-Modal Features and LLM Reasoning. Yixuan Liu, Xinlei Li, Yi Li | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Defects4C: Benchmarking Large Language Model Repair Capability with C/C++ Bugs. Jian Wang 0067, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu, Shangqing Liu, Jiongchi Yu | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Defects4Log: Benchmarking LLMs for Logging Code Defect Detection and Reasoning. Xin Wang, Zhenhao Li, Zishuo Ding | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Democratizing the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem by Just-In-Time Transformation of Mining Programs. Wei Liu 0148, Zhenhua Li 0001, Feng Qian 0001, Feiyu Jin, Hao Lin 0005 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Demystifying Cookie Sharing Risks in WebView-based Mobile App-in-app Ecosystems. Miao Zhang 0011, Shenao Wang 0001, Guilin Zheng, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Haoyu Wang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Demystifying Cross-Language C/C++ Binaries: A Robust Software Component Analysis Approach. Meiqiu Xu, Ying Wang 0038, Wei Tang, Xian Zhan, Shing-Chi Cheung | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Demystifying OpenZeppelin's Own Vulnerabilities and Analyzing Their Propagation in Smart Contracts. Han Liu 0012, Daoyuan Wu, Yuqiang Sun 0001, Shuai Wang, Yang Liu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Demystifying the Evolution of Neural Networks with BOM Analysis: Insights from a Large-Scale Study of 55,997 GitHub Repositories. Xiaoning Ren, Yuhang Ye 0004, Xiongfei Wu, Yueming Wu 0001, Yinxing Xue | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Destabilizing Neurons to Generate Challenging Neural Network Verification Benchmarks. Linhan Li, ThanhVu Nguyen | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Detecting Semantic Clones of Unseen Functionality. Konstantinos Kitsios, Francesco Sovrano, Earl T. Barr, Alberto Bacchelli | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Detecting Various DeFi Price Manipulations with LLM Reasoning. Juantao Zhong, Daoyuan Wu, Ye Liu 0012, Maoyi Xie, Yang Liu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Detecting Vulnerabilities from Issue Reports for Internet-of-Things. Sogol Masoumzadeh | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Detecting and Mitigating Inconsistencies Between Code, Documentation and Tests. Tobias Kiecker | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Detecting and Repairing Incomplete Software Requirements with Multi-LLM Ensembles. Mohamad Kassab, Marwan AbdElhameed | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Diagnosing Performance Differences in Model Checkers via Runtime-Guided Problem Generation. Yibo Dong 0001, Yicong Xu, Wenjing Deng, Yu Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| DiffFix: Incrementally Fixing AST Diffs via Context and Type Information. Guofeng Zeng, Chang-Ai Sun, Kai Gao 0008, Huai Liu | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Diplomatist: What Do Cross-language Dependencies Reflect Software Ecosystem Health? Fanyi Meng 0003, Ying Wang 0038, Chun Yong Chong, Hai Yu 0001, Zhiliang Zhu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Do LLMs Generate Useful Test Oracles? An Empirical Study with an Unbiased Dataset. Davide Molinelli, Luca Di Grazia, Alberto Martin-Lopez, Michael D. Ernst, Mauro Pezzè | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Don't Mess with Bro's Cheese! An Empirical Study of Resource Conflict in Android Multi-window. Chenkai Guo, Huimin Zhao, Tianhong Wang 0010, Naipeng Dong, Qingqing Dong | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| DrainCode: Stealthy Energy Consumption Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation via Context Poisoning. Yanli Wang 0001, Jiadong Wu, Tianyue Jiang, Mingwei Liu 0002, Jiachi Chen | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| DualFuzz: Detecting Vulnerability in Wi-Fi NICs through Dual-Directional Fuzzing. Yuanliang Chen, Fuchen Ma, Yanyang Zhao, Yuanyi Li, Yu Jiang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Dynamic Testing of GUI Exercises in Headless Environments. Benjamin Schmitz | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| EPSO: A Caching-Based Efficient Superoptimizer for BPF Bytecode. Qian Zhu, Yuxuan Liu, Ziyuan Zhu, Shangqing Liu, Lei Bu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| EditFusion: Resolving Code Merge Conflicts via Edit Selection. Changxin Wang, Lei Xu, Rundong Wang, Yiming Ma, Weifeng Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Effective Code Membership Inference for Code Completion Models via Adversarial Prompts. Yuan Jiang, Zehao Li, Shan Huang, Christoph Treude, Xiaohong Su | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Efficient Understanding of Machine Learning Model Mispredictions. Martin Eberlein, Jürgen Cito, Lars Grunske | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Efficient and Verifiable Proof Logging for MaxSAT Solving. Raoul Van Doren, Timos Antonopoulos, Ruzica Piskac | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| EfficientEdit: Accelerating Code Editing via Edit-Oriented Speculative Decoding. Peiding Wang, Li Zhang, Fang Liu, Yinghao Zhu, Wang Xu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Element-Aware Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Cost-Efficient GUI Testing in an Industrial Setting. Mengzhou Wu, Yuzhe Guo, Yuan Cao, Haochuan Lu, Hengyu Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Enhancing LLM to Decompile Optimized PTX to Readable CUDA for Tensor Programs. Xinyu Sun, Fugen Tang, Yu Zhang, Han Shen, Chengru Song | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Enhancing LLM's Ability to Generate More Repository-Aware Unit Tests Through Precise Context Injection. Xin Yin, Chao Ni 0001, Xinrui Li, Liushan Chen, Guojun Ma | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Enhancing LLMs with Staged Grouping and Dehallucination for Header File Decomposition. Yue Wang, Jiaxuan Sun, Yanzhen Zou, Bing Xie | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Envisioning Intelligent Requirements Engineering via Knowledge-Guided Multi-Agent Collaboration. Jiangping Huang, Dongming Jin, Weisong Sun, Yang Liu 0003, Zhi Jin 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| ErrorPrism: Reconstructing Error Propagation Paths in Cloud Service Systems. Junsong Pu, Yichen Li 0003, Zhuangbin Chen, Jinyang Liu 0002, Zhihan Jiang | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Evaluating Large Language Models for Functional and Maintainable Code in Industrial Settings: A Case Study at ASML. Yash Mundhra, Max Valk, Maliheh Izadi | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Evaluating Large Language Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection in Aerospace Software. Yang Liu, Yixing Luo, Xiaofeng Li, Xiaogang Dong, Bin Gu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Evaluating Program Coverage for Code-Model Training. Nandakishore Menon, Diptikalyan Saha | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Evaluating and Improving Framework-based Parallel Code Completion with Large Language Models. Ke Liu, Qinglin Wang, Xiang Chen, Guang Yang, Yigui Feng | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Evolution-Aware Heuristics for GR(1) Realizability Checking. Dor Ma'ayan, Shahar Maoz, Jan Oliver Ringert | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Exact Inference for Quantum Circuits: A Testing Oracle for Quantum Software Stacks. Kanguk Lee, Jaemin Hong, Sukyoung Ryu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Execution-Aware Program Reduction for WebAssembly via Record and Replay. Doehyun Baek, Daniel Lehmann 0002, Ben L. Titzer, Sukyoung Ryu, Michael Pradel | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Explainable Fault Localization for Programming Assignments via LLM-Guided Annotation. Fang Liu, Tianze Wang, Li Zhang, Zheyu Yang, Jing Jiang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks. Ruofan Lu, Yichen Li 0003, Yintong Huo | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Exploring Static Taint Analysis in LLMs: A Dynamic Benchmarking Framework for Measurement and Enhancement. Haoran Zhao, Lei Zhang 0006, Keke Lian, Fute Sun, Bofei Chen | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| EyeNav: Accessible Webpage Interaction and Testing using Eye-tracking and NLP. Juan Diego Yepes-Parra, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| FETT: Fault Injection as an Educational and Training Tool in Cybersecurity. Anaé De Baets, Guillaume Nguyen, Xavier Devroey, Fabian Gilson | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| FGit: Fault-Guided Fine-Tuning for Code Generation. Lishui Fan, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Haoye Wang, Lingfeng Bao, Xin Xia 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Fact-Aligned and Template-Constrained Static Analyzer Rule Enhancement with LLMs. Zongze Jiang, Ming Wen 0001, Ge Wen, Hai Jin 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| FailMapper: Automated Generation of Unit Tests Guided by Failure Scenarios. Ruiqi Dong, Zehang Deng, Xiaogang Zhu 0001, Xiaoning Du 0001, Huai Liu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| FastCoder: Accelerating Repository-level Code Generation via Efficient Retrieval and Verification. Qianhui Zhao, Li Zhang, Fang Liu, Xiaoli Lian, Qiaoyuanhe Meng | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Faster Runtime Verification during Testing via Feedback-Guided Selective Monitoring. Shinhae Kim, Saikat Dutta 0001, Owolabi Legunsen | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Fault Injection for Simulink-based CPS Models: Insights and Future Directions. Drishti Yadav, Claudio Mandrioli, Ezio Bartocci, Domenico Bianculli | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Faultseeker: LLM-Empowered Framework for Blockchain Transaction Fault Localization. Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Kaixuan Li 0002, Lyuye Zhang, Yuqiang Sun 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Finding Bugs in MLIR Compiler Infrastructure via Lowering Space Exploration. Jingjing Liang, Shan Huang, Ting Su 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Finding Bugs in WebAssembly Interface Type Binding Generators. Ethan Stanley, Eric Eide | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Finding Insecure State Dependency in DApps via Multi-Source Tracing and Semantic Enrichment. Jingwen Zhang, Yuhong Nan, Wei Li 0121, Kaiwen Ning, Zewei Lin | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| FirmProj: Detecting Firmware Leakage in IoT Update Processes via Companion App Analysis. Wenzhi Li, Jialong Guo, Jiongyi Chen, Fan Li, Yujie Xing | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| First-Order Quantified Separator in Alloy Analyzer. One An | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Fixing Broken Graphs: LLM-Powered Automatic Code Optimization for DNN Programs. Haotian Wang, Yicheng Sui, Yudong Xie, Yicong Liu, Yufei Sun | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| FlakyGuard: Automatically Fixing Flaky Tests at Industry Scale. Chengpeng Li 0002, Farnaz Behrang, August Shi, Peng Liu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| FlowStrider: Low-Friction Continuous Threat Modeling. Bernd Gruner, Noah Erthel, Clemens-Alexander Brust | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Forcrat: Automatic I/O API Translation from C to Rust via Origin and Capability Analysis. Jaemin Hong, Sukyoung Ryu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| From Characters to Structure: Rethinking Real-Time Collaborative Programming Models. Leon Freudenthaler, Bernhard Taufner, Karl Michael Göschka | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| From Modules to Marketplaces: A Vision for Composable Capability Sharing Across Organizations. Wei-Ji Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| From Redundancy to Efficiency: Exploiting Shared UI Interactions towards Efficient LLM-Based Testing. Xuan Wang, Yingchuan Wang, Yongxiang Hu 0003, Yu Zhang 0165, Hailiang Jin | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| From Sparse to Structured: A Diffusion-Enhanced and Feature-Aligned Framework for Coincidental Correctness Detection. Huan Xie 0002, Chunyan Liu, Yan Lei, Zhenyu Wu, Jinping Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| From Technical Excellence to Practical Adoption: Lessons Learned Building an ML-Enhanced Trace Analysis Tool. Kaveh Shahedi, Matthew Khouzam, Heng Li 0007, Maxime Lamothe, Foutse Khomh | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Function Clustering-Based Fuzzing Termination: Toward Smarter Early Stopping. Liang Ding, Wenzhang Yang, Yinxing Xue | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| GUI-ReRank: Enhancing GUI Retrieval with Multi-Modal LLM-based Reranking. Kristian Kolthoff, Felix Kretzer, Alexander Maedche, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Christian Bartelt | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| GUIFuzz++: Unleashing Grey-box Fuzzing on Desktop Graphical User Interfacing Applications. Dillon Otto, Tanner Rowlett, Stefan Nagy | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Generating Failure-Based Oracles to Support Testing of Reported Bugs in Android Apps. Jack Johnson, Junayed Mahmud, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran, Mattia Fazzini | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| GlassWing: A Tailored Static Analysis Approach for Flutter Android Apps. Xiangyu Zhang, Yucheng Su, Lingling Fan 0003, Miaoying Cai, Sen Chen 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| HFuzzer: Testing Large Language Models for Package Hallucinations via Phrase-based Fuzzing. Yukai Zhao, Menghan Wu, Xing Hu 0008, Xin Xia 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| HarmoBridge: Bridging ArkTS and C/C++ for Cross-Language Static Analysis on HarmonyOS. Jiale Wu, Jiapeng Deng, Yanjie Zhao, Li Li, Haoyu Wang | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Have We Solved Access Control Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts? A Benchmark Study. Han Liu 0012, Daoyuan Wu, Yuqiang Sun 0001, Shuai Wang 0011, Yang Liu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Hierarchical Knowledge Injection for Improving LLM-based Program Repair. Ramtin Ehsani, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Hit The Bullseye On The First Shot: Improving LLMs Using Multi-Sample Self-Reward Feedback for Vulnerability Repair. Rui Jiao, Yue Zhang, Jinku Li, Jianfeng Ma | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| How Big is the Automaton? Certified Lower Bounds on the Size of Presburger DFAs. Nicolas Amat, Pierre Ganty, Alessio Mansutti | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| How Can Infrastructure as Code Accelerate Data Center Bring-ups? A Case Study at ByteDance. Xianhao Jin, Yifei Feng, Yufei Gao, Yongning Hu, Jie Huang | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| How Does ChatGPT Make Assumptions When Creating Erroneous Programs? Sadia Jahan, Xiaoyin Wang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Human-Centered Evaluation of REST API Fuzzing Tools: Bridging Academia and Industry. Fanny Febriani Susilo | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Human-In-The-Loop Oracle Learning for Simulation-Based Testing. Ben-Hau Chia, Eunsuk Kang, Christopher S. Timperley | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| HybridSIMD: A Super C++ SIMD Library with Integrated Auto-tuning Capabilities. Haolin Pan, Xulin Zhou, Mingjie Xing, Yanjun Wu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Hypergraph Neural Network-based Multi-Granular Root Cause Localization for Microservice Systems. Yaxiao Li, Lu Wang 0014, Chenxi Zhang 0003, Qingshan Li, Siming Rong | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| IDBFuzz: Web Storage DataBase Fuzzing with Controllable Semantics. Jingyi Chen, Jinfu Chen 0001, Saihua Cai, Shengran Wang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| IMUFuzzer: Resilience-based Discovery of Signal Injection Attacks on Robotic Aerial Vehicles. Sudharssan Mohan, Kyeongseok Yang, Zelun Kong, Yonghwi Kwon 0001, Junghwan Rhee | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Improving LLM-based Log Parsing by Learning from Errors in Reasoning Traces. Jialai Wang, Juncheng Lu, Jie Yang, Junjie Wang 0001, Zeyu Gao | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Improving NLSAT for Nonlinear Real Arithmetic. Zhonghan Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Improving Quality of LLM Code Generation in Low-Resource Programming Languages via Uncertainty Estimation. Georgii Andriushchenko | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Incremental Program Analysis in the Wild: An Empirical Study on Real-World Program Changes. Xizao Wang, Xiangrong Bin, Lanxin Huang, Shangqing Liu, Jianhua Zhao | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Industry Practice of LLM-Assisted Protocol Fuzzing for Commercial Communication Modules. Qiang Fu, Changjian Liu, Yuan Ding, Chao Fan, Yulai Fu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| IntelliTopo: An IaC Generation Service for Industrial Network Topology Construction. Mingyu Shao, Zhao Liu, Weihong Han, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Jiachen Liu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Interaction-Aware Patch Assessment for Multi-Fault Automated Program Repair. Omar I. Al-Bataineh | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Interaction2Code: Benchmarking MLLM-based Interactive Webpage Code Generation from Interactive Prototyping. Jingyu Xiao, Yuxuan Wan, Yintong Huo, Zixin Wang, Xinyi Xu | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR. Zeyu Sun 0004, Jingjing Liang, Weiyi Wang, Chenyao Suo, Junjie Chen 0003 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Interpretable Vulnerability Detection Reports. Cláudia Mamede, José Campos 0001, Claire Le Goues, Rui Abreu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Is Measurement Enough? Rethinking Output Validation in Quantum Program Testing. Jiaming Ye, Xiongfei Wu, Shangzhou Xia, Fuyuan Zhang, Jianjun Zhao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Issue Localization via LLM-Driven Iterative Code Graph Searching. Zhonghao Jiang, Xiaoxue Ren, Meng Yan 0001, Wei Jiang 0041, Yong Li 0004 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages. Nicolas van Kempen, Hyuk-Je Kwon, Dung Tuan Nguyen, Emery D. Berger | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| JSidentify-V2: Leveraging Dynamic Memory Fingerprinting for Mini-Game Plagiarism Detection. Zhihao Li, Chaozheng Wang, Zongjie Li, Xinyong Peng, Qun Xia | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| KAIOPS: A Platform Solution of End-to-End Multi-Modal AIOps for AI Training at Scale. Zeying Wang, Junhong Liu, Penghao Zhang, Xiaoyang Sun, Xu Wang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Kair: A Statistical and Causal Approach to Pinpointing Stragglers in Distributed Model Training. Yitang Yang, Junhong Liu, Jiapeng Chen, Xiaoyang Sun, Tianyu Wo | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| LAURA: Enhancing Code Review Generation with Context-Enriched Retrieval-Augmented LLM. Yuxin Zhang, Yuxia Zhang, Zeyu Sun 0004, Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| LLM-Assisted Synthesis of High-Assurance C Programs. Prasita Mukherjee, Minghai Lu, Benjamin Delaware | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| LLM-Based Identification of Null Pointer Exception Patches. Tahir Ullah, Waseem Akram 0005, Fiza Khaliq, Hui Liu | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution. Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Alina Geiger, Carol Hanna, Justyna Petke | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| LLM-Powered Fully Automated Chaos Engineering: Towards Enabling Anyone to Build Resilient Software Systems at Low Cost. Daisuke Kikuta, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Kengo Tajiri | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Collaboration for Intelligent Industrial On-Call Automation. Ruowei Fu, Yang Zhang, Zeyu Che, Xin Wu, Zhenyu Zhong | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| LLM-assisted Industrial-Scale Differential Testing of Package Incompatibilities in Linux Distributions. Yuhao Yang, Chijin Zhou, Runzhe Wang, Weibo Zhang, Yuheng Shen | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| LLM-based Dynamic Differential Testing for Database Connectors with Reinforcement Learning-Guided Prompt Selection. Ce Lyu, Yanhao Wang 0001, Jie Liang, Minghao Zhao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| LLMPort: Cross-file Patch Porting via Task Decomposition and Self-correction. Bofei Chen, Lei Zhang, Peng Deng, Nan Wang, Haoyu Xu | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| LLMorph: Automated Metamorphic Testing of Large Language Models. Steven Cho, Stefano Ruberto, Valerio Terragni | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| LLMs for Automated Unit Test Generation and Assessment in Java: The AgoneTest Framework. Andrea Lops, Fedelucio Narducci, Azzurra Ragone, Michelantonio Trizio, Claudio Bartolini | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| LOSVER: Line-Level Modifiability Signal-Guided Vulnerability Detection and Classification. Doha Nam, Jongmoon Baik | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Lares: LLM-driven Code Slice Semantic Search for Patch Presence Testing. Siyuan Li 0014, Yaowen Zheng, Hong Li 0004, Jingdong Guo, Chaopeng Dong | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Latra: A Template-Based Language-Agnostic Transformation Framework for Effective Program Reduction. Zhenyang Xu, Yiran Wang, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Mengxiao Zhang, Chengnian Sun | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Learning Project-wise Subsequent Code Edits via Interleaving Neural-based Induction and Tool-based Deduction. Chenyan Liu, Yun Lin 0001, Yuhuan Huang, Jiaxin Chang, Binhang Qi | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Learning from the Past: Real-World Exploit Migration for Smart Contract PoC Generation. Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Kaixuan Li 0002, Lyuye Zhang, Yebo Feng | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Let the Code Speak: Incorporating Program Dynamic State for Better Method-Level Fault Localization. Yihao Qin, Shangwen Wang, Bo Lin 0011, Xin Peng 0010, Sheng Ouyang | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Leveraging Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Smart Contract Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Model. Hang Yuan, Xizhi Hou, Lei Yu, Li Yang 0015, Jiayue Tang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| LineBreaker: Finding Token-Inconsistency Bugs with Large Language Models. Hongbo Chen, Yifan Zhang 0010, Xing Han, Tianhao Mao, Huanyao Rong | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Linguistic Theories Coincide with Misformalization in Temporal Logic. Colin S. Gordon | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| LitterBox Benedikt Fein, Florian Obermüller, Gordon Fraser 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| LogAction: Consistent Cross-system Anomaly Detection through Logs via Active Domain Adaptation. Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Pei Xiao 0007, Tong Jia, Xin Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| LogMoE: Lightweight Expert Mixture for Cross-System Log Anomaly Detection. Jiaxing Qi, Zhongzhi Luan, Shaohan Huang, Carol J. Fung, Yuchen Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| LogPilot: Intent-aware and Scalable Alert Diagnosis for Large-scale Online Service Systems. Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu 0002, Yichen Li 0003, Haiyu Huang 0008, Xiao He 0008 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| LogSage: An LLM-Based Framework for CI/CD Failure Detection and Remediation with Industrial Validation. Weiyuan Xu, Juntao Luo, Tao Huang, Kaixin Sui, Jie Geng | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| LongCodeZip: Compress Long Context for Code Language Models. Yuling Shi, Yichun Qian, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Beijun Shen, Xiaodong Gu 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Loupe: End-to-End Learning of Loop Unrolling Heuristics for Abstract Interpretation. Maykel Mattar, Michele Alberti, Valentin Perrelle, Salah Sadou | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| LspFuzz: Hunting Bugs in Language Servers. Hengcheng Zhu 0001, Songqiang Chen, Valerio Terragni, Lili Wei 0001, Yepang Liu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| M2QCode: A Model-Driven Framework for Generating Multi-Platform Quantum Programs. Xiaoyu Guo 0007, Shinobu Saito, Jianjun Zhao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| MCTS-Refined CoT: High-Quality Fine-Tuning Data for LLM-Based Repository Issue Resolution. Yibo Wang 0008, Zhihao Peng 0009, Ying Wang 0038, Zhao Wei, Hai Yu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| MIMIC: Integrating Diverse Personality Traits for Better Game Testing Using Large Language Model. Yifei Chen, Sarra Habchi, Lili Wei | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Measuring LLM Code Generation Stability via Structural Entropy. Yewei Song, Tiezhu Sun, Xunzhu Tang, Prateek Rajput, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Measuring Software Resilience Using Socially Aware Truck Factor Estimation. Alexis Butler, Daniel O'Keeffe, Santanu Kumar Dash 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Metamorphic Testing for Audio Content Moderation Software. Wenxuan Wang 0001, Yongjiang Wu, Junyuan Zhang, Shuqing Li 0001, Yun Peng 0003 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Metamorphic Testing of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents with MDPMorph. Jiapeng Li, Zheng Zheng, Yuning Xing, Daixu Ren, Steven Cho | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Metrics Driven Reengineering and Continuous Code Improvement at Meta. Audris Mockus, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu 0001, Anatoly Akkerman, Yogesh Bhootada | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Minuku: Detecting Diverse Display Issues in Mobile Apps with Small-scale Dataset. Yongxiang Hu 0003, Ke Liu, Hailiang Jin, Shiyu Guo, Juxing Yuan | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Mixture-of-Experts Low-Rank Adaptation for Multilingual Code Summarization. Tianchen Yu, Li Yuan, Hailing Huang, Jiexin Wang, Yi Cai | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| MobileUPReg: Identifying User-Perceived Performance Regressions in Mobile OS Versions. Wei Liu 0155, Yi Wen Heng, Feng Lin, Tse-Hsun Peter Chen, Ahmed E. Hassan | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Mockingbird: Efficient Excessive Data Exposures Detection via Dynamic Code Instrumentation. Chenxiao Xia, Jiazheng Sun, Jun Zheng, Yu-an Tan, Hongyi Su | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Multi-Modal Requirements Data-based Acceptance Criteria Generation using LLMs. Fanyu Wang, Chetan Arora 0001, Yonghui Liu 0001, Kaicheng Huang, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Multi-dimensional Assessment of Crowdsourced Testing Reports via LLMs. Yue Wang, Yuan Zhang, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Multiple Schema-Conformant Declarative Code Generation. Mehant Kammakomati, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| NATE: A Network-Aware Testing Enhancer for Network-Related Fault Detection in Android Apps. Yuanhong Lan, Shaoheng Cao, Yifei Lu, Minxue Pan, Xuandong Li | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Navigating the Labyrinth: Path-Sensitive Unit Test Generation with Large Language Models. Dianshu Liao, Xin Yin, Shidong Pan, Chao Ni 0001, Zhenchang Xing | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Non-termination Witnesses and Their Validation. Zsófia Ádám, Paulína Ayaziová, Levente Bajczi, Dirk Beyer 0001, Marek Jankola | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Not Every Patch is an Island: LLM-Enhanced Identification of Multiple Vulnerability Patches. Yi Song, Dongchen Xie, Lin Xu, He Zhang, Chunying Zhou | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| NovaQ: Improving Quantum Program Testing through Diversity-Guided Test Case Generation. Tiancheng Jin, Shangzhou Xia, Jianjun Zhao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| ORFuzz: Fuzzing the "Other Side" of LLM Safety - Testing Over-Refusal. Haonan Zhang 0007, Dongxia Wang 0002, Yi Liu, Kexin Chen, Jiashui Wang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| ORMorpher: An Interactive Framework for ORM Translation and Optimization. Milan Abrahám, Pavel Koupil | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| OSSPREY: AI-Driven Forecasting and Intervention for OSS Project Sustainability. Nafiz Imtiaz Khan, Priyal Soni, Arjun Ashok, Vladimir Filkov | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| On Automating Configuration Dependency Validation via Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Sebastian Simon, Alina Mailach, Johannes Dorn, Norbert Siegmund | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| On the (In)Security of Non-resettable Device Identifiers in Custom Android Systems. Zikan Dong, Liu Wang 0002, Guoai Xu, Haoyu Wang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| On the Correctness of Software Merge. Akira Mori, Masatomo Hashimoto | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| On the Robustness Evaluation of 3D Obstacle Detection Against Specifications in Autonomous Driving. Tri Minh-Triet Pham, Bo Yang 0058, Jinqiu Yang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Out of Distribution Detection in Self-adaptive Robots with AI-powered Digital Twins. Erblin Isaku, Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali 0001, Beatriz Sanguino, Tongtong Wang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| PALM: Synergizing Program Analysis and LLMs to Enhance Rust Unit Test Coverage. Bei Chu, Yang Feng 0003, Kui Liu 0001, Hange Shi, Zifan Nan | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| PAT-Agent: Autoformalization for Model Checking. Xinyue Zuo, Yifan Zhang 0019, Hongshu Wang, Yufan Cai 0001, Zhe Hou | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| PEACE: Towards Efficient Project-Level Efficiency Optimization via Hybrid Code Editing. Xiaoxue Ren, Jun Wan, Yun Peng, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Ming Liang | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| PROXiFY: A Bytecode Analysis Tool for Detecting and Classifying Proxy Contracts in Ethereum Smart Contracts. Ilham A. Qasse, Mohammad Hamdaqa, Björn Þór Jónsson 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| PoliCond: Condition-Aware Ontology-Driven LLMs for Privacy Policy Contradiction Analysis. Yalin Feng, Yifei Lu, Minxue Pan | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Polyglot: An Extensible Framework to Benchmark Code Translation with LLMs. Marco Vieira, Priyam Ashish Shah, Bhavain Shah, Rrezarta Krasniqi | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Practical Escape of Exploration Tarpits for Mini-Game Testing in an Industrial Setting. Yuan Cao, Dezhi Ran, Haochuan Lu, Chao Guo, Xuran Hao | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| PrefGen: A Preference-Driven Methodology for Secure Yet Gas-Efficient Smart Contract Generation. Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin, Zijie Zhou 0001, Chenhao Ying 0001, Chao Ni 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| PrioTestCI: Efficient Test Case Prioritization in GitHub Workflows for CI Optimization. Shubham Vasudeo Desai, Shonil Bhide, Souhaila Serbout, Luciano Marchezan, Wesley K. G. Assunção | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| ProfMal: Detecting Malicious NPM Packages by the Synergy between Static and Dynamic Analysis. Yiheng Huang, Wen Zheng, Susheng Wu, Bihuan Chen 0001, You Lu 0005 | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Profile Coverage: Using Android Compilation Profiles to Evaluate Dynamic Testing. Jakob Bleier, Felix Kehrer, Jürgen Cito, Martina Lindorfer | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Programmers' Visual Attention on Function Call Graphs During Code Summarization. Samantha McLoughlin, Zachary Karas, Robert Wallace, Aakash Bansal, Collin McMillan | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| PromFuzz: Leveraging LLM-Driven and Bug-Oriented Composite Analysis for Detecting Functional Bugs in Smart Contracts. Xingshuang Lin, Qinge Xie, Binbin Zhao, Yuan Tian 0001, Saman A. Zonouz | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Prompt-with-Me: in-IDE Structured Prompt Management for LLM-Driven Software Engineering. Ziyou Li, Agnia Sergeyuk, Maliheh Izadi | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Propagation-Based Vulnerability Impact Assessment for Software Supply Chains. Bonan Ruan, Zhiwei Lin, Jiahao Liu 0005, Chuqi Zhang, Kaihang Ji | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Protecting Source Code Privacy When Hunting Memory Bugs. Jielun Wu, Bing Shui, Hongcheng Fan, Shengxin Wu, Rongxin Wu | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Provable Fairness Repair for Deep Neural Networks. Jianan Ma, Jingyi Wang, Qi Xuan, Zhen Wang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| PseudoFix: Refactoring Distorted Structures in Decompiled C Pseudocode. Gangyang Li, Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng, Junqi Zhang, Li Hu | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| PyGress: Tool for Analyzing the Progression of Code Proficiency in Python OSS Projects. Rujiphart Charatvaraphan, Bunradar Chatchaiyadech, Thitirat Sukijprasert, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Morakot Choetkiertikul | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| PyTrim: A Practical Tool for Reducing Python Dependency Bloat. Konstantinos Karakatsanis, Georgios Alexopoulos, Ioannis Karyotakis, Foivos Timotheos Proestakis, Evangelos Talos | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| QuanBench: Benchmarking Quantum Code Generation with Large Language Models. Xiaoyu Guo 0007, Minggu Wang, Jianjun Zhao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Quantum Machine Learning-based Test Oracle for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Xinyi Wang 0004, Qinghua Xu, Paolo Arcaini, Shaukat Ali 0001, Thomas Peyrucain | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Quirx: A Mutation-Based Framework for Evaluating Prompt Robustness in LLM-based Software. Souhaila Serbout | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| R Muzhi Yu, Zhengran Zeng, Wei Ye 0004, Jinan Sun, Xiaolong Bai | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| RAML: Toward Retrieval-Augmented Localization of Malicious Payloads in Android Apps. Tiezhu Sun, Marco Alecci, Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Kisub Kim | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| RFCAudit: AI Agent for Auditing Protocol Implementations Against RFC Specifications. Mingwei Zheng, Chengpeng Wang 0001, Xuwei Liu, Jinyao Guo, Shiwei Feng 0002 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| RFCScope: Detecting Logical Ambiguities in Internet Protocol Specifications. Mrigank Pawagi, Lize Shao, Hyeonmin Lee, Yixin Sun, Wenxi Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| RPG: Linux Kernel Fuzzing Guided by Distribution-Specific Runtime Parameter Interfaces. Yuhan Chen, Yuheng Shen, Guoyu Yin, Fan Ding, Runzhe Wang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| RSFuzz: A Robustness-Guided Swarm Fuzzing Framework Based on Behavioral Constraints. Ruoyu Zhou, Zhiwei Zhang 0004, Haocheng Han, Xiaodong Zhang 0014, Zehan Chen | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| ReFuzzer: Feedback-Driven Approach to Enhance Validity of LLM-Generated Test Programs. Iti Shree, Karine Even-Mendoza, Tomasz Radzik | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| RealisticCodeBench: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code Generation. Xiao Yu 0008, Haoxuan Chen, Lei Liu 0062, Xing Hu 0008, Jacky Wai Keung | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Rechecking Recheck Requests in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of OpenStack. Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Earl T. Barr, Shane McIntosh | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Reflective Unit Test Generation for Precise Type Error Detection with Large Language Models. Chen Yang, Ziqi Wang, Yanjie Jiang, Lin Yang 0030, Yuteng Zheng | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Relia: Accelerating the Analysis of Cloud Access Control Policies. Dan Wang, Peng Zhang 0011, Zhenrong Gu, Weibo Lin, Shibiao Jiang | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Repairing Leaks in Resource Wrappers. Sanjay Malakar, Michael D. Ernst, Martin Kellogg, Manu Sridharan | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| RepoMasterEval: Evaluating Code Completion via Real-World Repositories. Qinyun Wu, Chao Peng 0002, Pengfei Gao, Ruida Hu, Haoyu Gan | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Requirements Development and Formalization for Reliable Code Generation: A Multi-Agent Vision. Xu Lu 0003, Weisong Sun, Yiran Zhang, Ming Hu 0003, Cong Tian 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Risk Estimation in Differential Fuzzing via Extreme Value Theory. Rafael Baez, Alejandro Olivas, Nathan K. Diamond, Marcelo F. Frias, Yannic Noller | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Root Cause Analysis of RISC-V Build Failures via LLM and MCTS Reasoning. Weipeng Shuai, Jie Liu 0008, Zhirou Ma, Liangyi Kang, Zehua Wang | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| RustAssure: Differential Symbolic Testing for LLM-Transpiled C-to-Rust Code. Yubo Bai, Tapti Palit | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| RustRepoTrans: Repository-level Context Code Translation Benchmark Targeting Rust. Guangsheng Ou, Mingwei Liu 0002, Yuxuan Chen, Yanlin Wang 0001, Xin Peng 0001 | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| SATORI: Static Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs. Juan C. Alonso, Alberto Martin-Lopez, Sergio Segura, Gabriele Bavota, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| SCOPE: Evaluating and Enhancing Permission Explanation Transparency in Mobile Apps. Liu Wang, Tianshu Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Xiyuan Liu, Yi Wang | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| SE-Jury: An LLM-as-Ensemble-Judge Metric for Narrowing the Gap with Human Evaluation in SE. Xin Zhou 0014, Kisub Kim, Ting Zhang 0011, Martin Weyssow, Luís F. Gomes | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| SGCR: A Specification-Grounded Framework for Trustworthy LLM Code Review. Kai Wang, Bingcheng Mao, Shuai Jia, Yujie Ding, Dongming Han | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| SMTgazer: Learning to Schedule SMT Algorithms via Bayesian Optimization. Chuan Luo 0002, Shaoke Cui, Jianping Song, Xindi Zhang, Wei Wu 0011 | ASE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| SPICE: An Automated SWE-Bench Labeling Pipeline for Issue Clarity, Test Coverage, and Effort Estimation. Gustavo Ansaldi Oliva, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Aaditya Bhatia, Haoxiang Zhang 0001, Yihao Chen | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| SSR: Safeguarding Staking Rewards by Defining and Detecting Logical Defects in DeFi Staking. Zewei Lin, Jiachi Chen, Jingwen Zhang, Zexu Wang, Yuming Feng 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| STaint: Detecting Second-Order Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications with LLM-Assisted Bi-Directional Static Taint Analysis. Yuchen Ji, Hongchen Cao, Jingzhu He | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| SateLight: A Satellite Application Update Framework for Satellite Computing. Jinfeng Wen, Jianshu Zhao, Zixi Zhu, Xiaomin Zhang, Qi Liang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| ScaleCirc: Scaling the Analysis over Circom Circuits. Jinan Jiang, Haoran Qin, Xiapu Luo | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Secure Transaction Semantics: Analysis, Vulnerability Detection, and Attack Modeling. Yixuan Liu | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Securing Millions of Decentralized Identities in Alipay Super App with End-to-End Formal Verification. Ziyu Mao, Xiaolin Ma, Lin Huang 0005, Huan Yang, Wu Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Securing Self-Managed Third-Party Libraries. Xin Zhou 0016, Jinwei Xu, He Zhang 0001, Yanjing Yang, Lanxin Yang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Security Debt in LLM Agent Applications: A Measurement Study of Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Trade-offs. Zhuoxiang Shen, Jiarun Dai, Yuan Zhang 0009, Min Yang 0002 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair. Kai Huang, Jian Zhang 0087, Xiaofei Xie, Chunyang Chen 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| SemGuard: Real-Time Semantic Evaluator for Correcting LLM-Generated Code. Qinglin Wang, Zhihong Sun, Ruyun Wang, Tao Huang, Zhi Jin 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Should We Evaluate LLM Based Security Analysis Approaches on Open Source Systems? Kohei Dozono, Jonas Engesser, Benjamin Hummel, Tobias Roehm, Alexander Pretschner | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Shrunk, Yet Complete: Code Shrinking-Resilient Android Third-Party Library Detection. Jingkun Zhang, Jingzheng Wu, Xiang Ling 0001, Tianyue Luo, Bolin Zhou | ASE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Sifting Truth from Coincidences: A Two-Stage Positive and Unlabeled Learning Model for Coincidental Correctness Detection. Chunyan Liu, Huan Xie 0002, Yan Lei, Zhenyu Wu, Jinping Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Simulated Interactive Debugging. Yannic Noller, Erick Chandra 0002, Srinidhi Chandrashekar, Kenny T. W. Choo, Cyrille Jégourel | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| SolContractEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Contract-Level Solidity Code Generation. Zhifan Ye, Jiachi Chen, Zhenzhe Shao, Lingfeng Bao, Xiaohu Yang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Soleker: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Solana Smart Contracts. Kunsong Zhao, Yunpeng Tian, Zuchao Ma, Xiapu Luo | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Spec2Code: Mapping Protocol Specification to Function-Level Code Implementation. Yuekun Wang, Lili Quan, Xiaofei Xie, Junjie Wang, Jianjun Chen | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Speculative Automated Refactoring of Imperative Deep Learning Programs to Graph Execution. Raffi Khatchadourian, Tatiana Castro Vélez, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Nan Jia, Anita Raja | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Spinner: Detecting Locking Violations in the eBPF Runtime. Priya Govindasamy, Joseph Bursey, Hsin-Wei Hung, Ardalan Amiri Sani | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| StackPlagger: A System for Identifying AI-Code Plagiarism on Stack Overflow. Aman Swaraj, Harsh Goyal, Sumit Chadgal, Sandeep Kumar 0004 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality. Facundo Molina, Nazareno Aguirre, Alessandra Gorla | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Streamlining Acceptance Test Generation for Mobile Applications Through Large Language Models: An Industrial Case Study. Pedro Luís Fonseca, Bruno Lima, João Pascoal Faria | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Taming Uncertainty via Automation: Observing, Analyzing, and Optimizing Agentic AI Systems. Dany Moshkovich, Sergey Zeltyn | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| TensorGuard: Gradient-Based Model Fingerprinting for LLM Similarity Detection and Family Classification. Zehao Wu, Yanjie Zhao 0001, Haoyu Wang 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Tephra: Principled Discovery of Fuzzer Limitations. Vasil Sarafov, David Markvica, Stefan Brunthaler 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Terminator: Enabling Efficient Fuzzing of Closed-Source GUI Programs by Automatic Coverage-Guided Termination. Jonas Zabel, Philip Kolvenbach, Steven Arzt | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Testing Autonomous Driving Systems Through Blind-Spot Guided Fuzzing. Sali Moussa | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Tether: A Personalized Support Assistant for Software Engineers with ADHD. Aarsh Shah, Cleyton V. C. de Magalhães, Kiev Gama, Ronnie de Souza Santos | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| The Cost of Downgrading Build Systems : A Case Study of Kubernetes. Gareema Ranjan, Mahmoud Alfadel, Gengyi Sun, Shane McIntosh | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| The Fault in our Stats. Alexi Turcotte, Neev Nirav Mehta | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| The Future of Software Transparency: Bridging Understanding, Measurement, and Practice. Gregorio Dalia, Annibale Panichella, Andrea Di Sorbo, Gerardo Canfora, Corrado Aaron Visaggio | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| The Gold Digger in the Dark Forest: Industrial-Scale MEV Analysis in Ethereum. Ningyu He, Tianyang Chi, Xiaohui Hu, Haoyu Wang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Thinking Longer, Not Larger: Enhancing Software Engineering Agents via Scaling Test-Time Compute. Yingwei Ma, Yongbin Li, Yihong Dong, Xue Jiang, Yanhao Li | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Token Sugar: Making Source Code Sweeter for LLMs through Token-Efficient Shorthand. Zhensu Sun, Chengran Yang, Xiaoning Du 0001, Zhou Yang 0003, Li Li 0029 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Towards Automated Governance: A DSL for Human-Agent Collaboration in Software Projects. Adem Ait, Gwendal Jouneaux, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Towards Context-aware Mobile Privacy Notice: Implementation of A Deployable Contextual Privacy Policies Generator. Haochen Gong, Zhen Tao, Shidong Pan, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Towards Generalizable Instruction Vulnerability Prediction via LLM-Enhanced Code Representation. Bao Wen, Jingjing Gu, Jingxuan Zhang, Yang Liu 0390, Pengfei Yu 0002 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Towards More Accurate Static Analysis for Taint-Style Bug Detection in Linux Kernel. Haonan Li 0009, Hang Zhang 0012, Kexin Pei, Zhiyun Qian | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Towards Reliable LLM-based Exam Generation Lessons Learned and Open Challenges in an Industrial Project. Renzo Degiovanni, Jordi Cabot | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Training-Control-as-Code: Towards a declarative solution to control training. Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Harikrishnan Balagopal, Mehant Kammakomati, Ashok Pon Kumar, Dushyant Behl | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| TreeRanker: Fast and Model-Agnostic Ranking System for Code Suggestions in IDEs. Daniele Cipollone, Egor Bogomolov, Arie van Deursen, Maliheh Izadi | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Triangle: Empowering Incident Triage with Multi-Agent. Zhaoyang Yu 0002, Aoyang Fang, Minghua Ma, Jaskaran Singh Walia, Chaoyun Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| TrioXpert: An Automated Incident Management Framework for Microservice System. Yongqian Sun, Yu Luo, Xidao Wen, Yuan Yuan 0034, Xiaohui Nie | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Tron: Fuzzing Linux Network Stack via Protocol-System Call Payload Synthesis. Qiang Zhang, Yifei Chu, Yuheng Shen, Jianzhong Liu, Heyuan Shi | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| TrustVis: A Multi-Dimensional Trustworthiness Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models. Ruoyu Sun 0011, Da Song, Jiayang Song, Yuheng Huang 0004, Lei Ma 0003 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Tuning LLM-based Code Optimization via Meta-Prompting: An Industrial Perspective. Jingzhi Gong, Rafail Giavrimis, Paul Brookes, Vardan Voskanyan, Fan Wu 0009 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Uncovering Discrimination Clusters: Quantifying and Explaining Systematic Fairness Violations. Ranit Debnath Akash, Ashish Kumar, Verya Monjezi, Ashutosh Trivedi 0001, Gang Tan | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Uncovering Prompt Elements: Cloning System Prompts from Behavioral Traces. Yi Qian, Fei Peng, Hao Wu 0067, Ligeng Chen, Bing Mao 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Uncovering Systematic Failures of LLMs in Verifying Code Against Natural Language Specifications. Haolin Jin, Huaming Chen | ASE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Understanding Feature Request Practice on GitHub via a Large-Scale Empirical Study. Jiajun Li, Wenhua Yang, Minxue Pan, Yu Zhou | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Understanding Resource Injection Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Ecosystems. Defang Bo, Jie Lu 0009, Feng Li 0045, Jingting Chen, Jinchen Wang | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Understanding Software Engineering Agents: A Study of Thought-Action-Result Trajectories. Islem Bouzenia, Michael Pradel | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Understanding Uncertainty In LLMs. Chandan Kumar Sah | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement. Yuanhe Zhang, Zhiquan Yang, Shengyi Pan, Zhongxin Liu 0002 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| United We Stand: Towards End-to-End Log-based Fault Diagnosis via Interactive Multi-Task Learning. Minghua He, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao 0007, Tong Jia, Siyu Yu | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Unlocking Reproducibility: Automating re-Build Process for Open-Source Software. Behnaz Hassanshahi, Trong Nhan Mai, Benjamin Selwyn-Smith, Nicholas Allen | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Unseen Data Detection using Routing Entropy in Mixture-of-Experts for Autonomous Vehicles. Sang In Lee, Donghwan Shin, Jihun Park | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Using Active Learning to Train Predictive Mutation Testing with Minimal Data. Miklos Borsi | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Using Fourier Analysis and Mutant Clustering to Accelerate DNN Mutation Testing. Ali Ghanbari 0001, Sasan Tavakkol | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| VERT: Polyglot Verified Equivalent Rust Transpilation with Large Language Models. Aidan Z. H. Yang, Yoshiki Takashima, Brandon Paulsen, Josiah Dodds, Daniel Kroening | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| VRExplorer: A Model-based Approach for Semi-Automated Testing of Virtual Reality Scenes. Zhengyang Zhu, Hong-Ning Dai, Hanyang Guo, Zeqin Liao, Zibin Zheng | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| VRTestSniffer: Test Smell Detector for Virtual Reality (VR) Software Projects. Faraz Gurramkonda, Avishak Chakroborty, Bruce Maxim, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Foyzul Hassan | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| VUSC: An Extensible Research Platform for Java-Based Static Analysis. Marc Miltenberger, Steven Arzt | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| VeriExploit: Automatic Bug Reproduction in Smart Contracts via LLMs and Formal Methods. Chenfeng Wei, Shiyu Cai, Yiannis Charalambous, Tong Wu 0028, Sangharatna Godboley | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Verification and Classification of Exploits for Node.js Vulnerabilities. Sungmin Park | ASE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Vessel: A Taxonomy of Reproducibility Issues for Container Images. Kevin Pitstick, Alex Derr, Lihan Zhan, Sebastián Echeverría | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Vul-R2: A Reasoning LLM for Automated Vulnerability Repair. Xin-Cheng Wen, Zirui Lin, Yijun Yang, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Deheng Ye | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Vulnerability-Affected Versions Identification: How Far Are We? Xingchu Chen, Chengwei Liu, Jialun Cao, Yang Xiao 0011, Xinyue Cai | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| WEST: Specification-Based Test Generation for WebAssembly. Dongjun Youn, Wonho Shin, Sukyoung Ryu | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| WIBE: Watermarks for generated Images - Benchmarking & Evaluation. Aleksey Yakushev, Aleksandr Akimenkov, Khaled Abud, Dmitry Obydenkov, Irina Serzhenko | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Walk the Talk: Is Your Log-based Software Reliability Maintenance System Really Reliable? Minghua He, Tong Jia, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao 0007, Lingzhe Zhang | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Watson: A Cognitive Observability Framework for the Reasoning of LLM-Powered Agents. Benjamin Rombaut 0002, Sogol Masoumzadeh, Kirill Vasilevski, Dayi Lin, Ahmed E. Hassan | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| What Types of Code Review Comments Do Developers Most Frequently Resolve? Saul Goldman, Hong Yi Lin, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| What's DAT Smell? Untangling and Weaving the Disjoint Assertion Tangle Test Smell. Monil Narang, Hang Du, James A. Jones | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| When Abstraction Breaks Physics: Rethinking Modular Design in Quantum Software. Jianjun Zhao | ASE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| When AllClose Fails: Round-Off Error Estimation for Deep Learning Programs. Qi Zhan, Xing Hu 0008, Yuanyi Lin, Tongtong Xu, Xin Xia 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| When Autonomous Vehicle Meets V2X Cooperative Perception: How Far Are We? An Guo 0002, Shuoxiao Zhang, Enyi Tang, Xinyu Gao, Haomin Pang | ASE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| When Control Flows Deviate: Directed Grey-box Fuzzing with Probabilistic Reachability Analysis. Peihong Lin, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou 0004, Wei Xie 0007, Xin Ren | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| When Does Wasm Malware Detection Fail? A Systematic Analysis of Their Robustness to Evasion. Taeyoung Kim, Sanghak Oh, Kiho Lee, Weihang Wang 0001, Yonghwi Kwon 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| When Faster Isn't Greener: The Hidden Costs of LLM-Based Code Optimization. Tristan Coignion, Clément Quinton, Romain Rouvoy | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Which Is Better For Reducing Outdated and Vulnerable Dependencies: Pinning or Floatingƒ. Imranur Rahman, Jill Marley, William Enck, Laurie A. Williams | ASE | 2025 | Other |
| Who's to Blame? Rethinking the Brittleness of Automated Web GUI Testing from a Pragmatic Perspective. Haonan Zhang 0006, Kundi Yao, Zishuo Ding, Lizhi Liao, Weiyi Shang | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Why AI Agents Still Need You: Findings from Developer-Agent Collaborations in the Wild. Aayush Kumar, Yasharth Bajpai, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Why Is My Transaction Risky? Understanding Smart Contract Semantics and Interactions in the NFT Ecosystem. Yujing Chen, Xuanming Liu, Zhiyuan Wan, Zuobin Wang, David Lo 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| WingMuzz: Blackbox Testing of IoT Protocols via Two-dimensional Fuzzing Schedule. Xiaogang Zhu 0001, Enze Dai, Xiaotao Feng, Shaohua Wang 0002, Xin Xia 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Wired for Reuse: Automating Context-Aware Code Adaptation in IDEs via LLM-Based Agent. Taiming Wang, Yanjie Jiang, Chunhao Dong, Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu 0003 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| XRintTest: An Automated Framework for User Interaction Testing in Extended Reality Applications. Ruizhen Gu, José Miguel Rojas, Donghwan Shin 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Your Build Scripts Stink: The State of Code Smells in Build Scripts. Mahzabin Tamanna, Yash Chandrani, Matthew Burrows, Brandon Wroblewski, Laurie A. Williams | ASE | 2025 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| ZendDiff: Differential Testing of PHP Interpreter. Yuancheng Jiang, Jianing Wang, Qiange Liu, Yeqi Fu, Jian Mao | ASE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| evalSmarT: An LLM-Based Framework for Evaluating Smart Contract Generated Comments. Fatou Ndiaye Mbodji, Mame Marieme C. Sougoufara, Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo, Alioune Diallo, Kui Liu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| iCodeReviewer: Improving Secure Code Review with Mixture of Prompts. Yun Peng, Kisub Kim, Linghan Meng, Kui Liu 0001 | ASE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| iKnow: an Intent-Guided Chatbot for Cloud Operations with Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Junjie Huang 0008, Yuedong Zhong, Guangba Yu, Zhihan Jiang, Minzhi Yan | ASE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |