Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
FSE 2023 Papers
FSE 2023 paper list with topic labels.
| Paper | Venue | Year | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| "We Feel Like We're Winging It: " A Study on Navigating Open-Source Dependency Abandonment. Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Case Study of Developer Bots: Motivations, Perceptions, and Challenges. Sumit Asthana, Hitesh Sajnani, Elena Voyloshnikova, Birendra Acharya, Kim Herzig | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Data Set of Extracted Rationale from Linux Kernel Commit Messages. Mouna Dhaouadi | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| A Four-Year Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention. Zihan Fang, Madeline Endres, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford, Westley Weimer | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension |
| A Generative and Mutational Approach for Synthesizing Bug-Exposing Test Cases to Guide Compiler Fuzzing. Guixin Ye, Tianmin Hu, Zhanyong Tang, Zhenye Fan, Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| A Highly Scalable, Hybrid, Cross-Platform Timing Analysis Framework Providing Accurate Differential Throughput Estimation via Instruction-Level Tracing. Min-Yih Hsu, Felicitas Hetzelt, David Gens, Michael Maitland, Michael Franz | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| A Language Model of Java Methods with Train/Test Deduplication. Chia-Yi Su, Aakash Bansal, Vijayanta Jain, Sepideh Ghanavati, Collin McMillan | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| A Large-Scale Empirical Review of Patch Correctness Checking Approaches. Jun Yang 0062, Yuehan Wang, Yiling Lou, Ming Wen 0001, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Multidimensional Analysis of Bug Density in SAP HANA. Julian Reck, Thomas Bach 0001, Jan Stoess | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| A Practical Human Labeling Method for Online Just-in-Time Software Defect Prediction. Liyan Song, Leandro L. Minku, Cong Teng, Xin Yao 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Unified Framework for Mini-game Testing: Experience on WeChat. Chaozheng Wang, Haochuan Lu, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Zongjie Li, Ting Xiong | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| A Vision on Intentions in Software Engineering. Jacob Krüger, Yi Li 0008, Chenguang Zhu 0002, Marsha Chechik, Thorsten Berger | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| AG3: Automated Game GUI Text Glitch Detection Based on Computer Vision. Xiaoyun Liang 0006, Jiayi Qi, Yongqiang Gao, Chao Peng 0002, Ping Yang | FSE | 2023 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| API-Knowledge Aware Search-Based Software Testing: Where, What, and How. Xiaoxue Ren, Xinyuan Ye, Yun Lin 0001, Zhenchang Xing, Shuqing Li 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Accelerating Continuous Integration with Parallel Batch Testing. Emad Fallahzadeh, Amir Hossein Bavand, Peter C. Rigby | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Ad Hoc Syntax-Guided Program Reduction. Jia Le Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Yiwen Dong 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Adapting Performance Analytic Techniques in a Real-World Database-Centric System: An Industrial Experience Report. Lizhi Liao, Heng Li 0007, Weiyi Shang, Catalin Sporea, Andrei Toma | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| AdaptivePaste: Intelligent Copy-Paste in IDE. Xiaoyu Liu, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Miltiadis Allamanis, Alexey Svyatkovskiy | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| An Automated Approach to Extracting Local Variables. Xiaye Chi, Hui Liu 0003, Guangjie Li, Weixiao Wang, Yunni Xia | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| An Extensive Study on Adversarial Attack against Pre-trained Models of Code. Xiaohu Du, Ming Wen 0001, Zichao Wei, Shangwen Wang, Hai Jin 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Analyzing Microservice Connectivity with Kubesonde. Jacopo Bufalino, Mario Di Francesco, Tuomas Aura | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Appaction: Automatic GUI Interaction for Mobile Apps via Holistic Widget Perception. Yongxiang Hu 0003, Jiazhen Gu, Shuqing Hu, Yu Zhang 0165, Wenjie Tian | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models. Pengxiang Jin, Shenglin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Haozhe Li, Yu Kang 0006 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Assisting Static Analysis with Large Language Models: A ChatGPT Experiment. Haonan Li 0009, Yu Hao 0006, Yizhuo Zhai, Zhiyun Qian | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Automata-Based Trace Analysis for Aiding Diagnosing GUI Testing Tools for Android. Enze Ma, Shan Huang, Weigang He, Ting Su 0001, Jue Wang | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automated Test Generation for Medical Rules Web Services: A Case Study at the Cancer Registry of Norway. Christoph Laaber, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Thomas Schwitalla, Jan Nygård | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automated Testing and Improvement of Named Entity Recognition Systems. Boxi Yu, Yiyan Hu, Qiuyang Mang, Wenhan Hu, Pinjia He | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Automated and Context-Aware Repair of Color-Related Accessibility Issues for Android Apps. Yuxin Zhang, Sen Chen 0001, Lingling Fan 0003, Chunyang Chen 0001, Xiaohong Li 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automatically Resolving Dependency-Conflict Building Failures via Behavior-Consistent Loosening of Library Version Constraints. Huiyan Wang 0001, Shuguan Liu, Lingyu Zhang 0005, Chang Xu 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| BFSig: Leveraging File Significance in Bus Factor Estimation. Vahid Haratian, Mikhail Evtikhiev, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Eray Tüzün, Vladimir Kovalenko | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Baldur: Whole-Proof Generation and Repair with Large Language Models. Emily First, Markus N. Rabe, Talia Ringer, Yuriy Brun | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Benchmarking Robustness of AI-Enabled Multi-sensor Fusion Systems: Challenges and Opportunities. Xinyu Gao, Zhijie Wang 0014, Yang Feng 0003, Lei Ma 0003, Zhenyu Chen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Beyond Sharing: Conflict-Aware Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection. Haotian Si, Changhua Pei, Zhihan Li, Yadong Zhao, Jingjing Li | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| BiasAsker: Measuring the Bias in Conversational AI System. Yuxuan Wan, Wenxuan Wang 0001, Pinjia He, Jiazhen Gu, Haonan Bai | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| BigDataflow: A Distributed Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis Framework. Zewen Sun, Duanchen Xu, Yiyu Zhang, Yun Qi, Yueyang Wang | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Building and Sustaining Ethnically, Racially, and Gender Diverse Software Engineering Teams: A Study at Google. Ella Dagan, Anita Sarma, Alison Chang, Sarah D'Angelo, Jill Dicker | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| CAmpactor: A Novel and Effective Local Search Algorithm for Optimizing Pairwise Covering Arrays. Qiyuan Zhao, Chuan Luo 0002, Shaowei Cai 0001, Wei Wu 0011, Jinkun Lin | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| CCT5: A Code-Change-Oriented Pre-trained Model. Bo Lin 0011, Shangwen Wang, Zhongxin Liu 0002, Yepang Liu 0001, Xin Xia 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CONAN: Statically Detecting Connectivity Issues in Android Applications. Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez, Juan Espitia-Acero, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota | FSE | 2023 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Can Machine Learning Pipelines Be Better Configured? Yibo Wang 0008, Ying Wang 0038, Tingwei Zhang, Yue Yu 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Co-dependence Aware Fuzzing for Dataflow-Based Big Data Analytics. Ahmad Humayun, Miryung Kim, Muhammad Ali Gulzar | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Code Coverage Criteria for Asynchronous Programs. Mohammad Ganji, Saba Alimadadi, Frank Tip | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| CodeMark: Imperceptible Watermarking for Code Datasets against Neural Code Completion Models. Zhensu Sun, Xiaoning Du 0001, Fu Song, Li Li 0029 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Commit-Level, Neural Vulnerability Detection and Assessment. Yi Li 0048, Aashish Yadavally, Jiaxing Zhang 0002, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Comparison and Evaluation on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Java. Kaixuan Li 0002, Sen Chen 0001, Lingling Fan 0003, Ruitao Feng, Han Liu 0012 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Compatibility Issues in Deep Learning Systems: Problems and Opportunities. Jun Wang 0167, Guanping Xiao, Shuai Zhang 0046, Huashan Lei, Yepang Liu 0001 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Compositional Taint Analysis for Enforcing Security Policies at Scale. Subarno Banerjee, Siwei Cui, Michael Emmi, Antonio Filieri, Liana Hadarean | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Contextual Predictive Mutation Testing. Kush Jain, Uri Alon 0002, Alex Groce, Claire Le Goues | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Contribution-Based Firing of Developers? Vincenzo Orrei, Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy 0001, Michele Lanza 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Copiloting the Copilots: Fusing Large Language Models with Completion Engines for Automated Program Repair. Yuxiang Wei 0003, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Crystallizer: A Hybrid Path Analysis Framework to Aid in Uncovering Deserialization Vulnerabilities. Prashast Srivastava, Flavio Toffalini, Kostyantyn Vorobyov, François Gauthier 0001, Antonio Bianchi | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| C³: Code Clone-Based Identification of Duplicated Components. Yanming Yang, Ying Zou 0001, Xing Hu 0008, David Lo 0001, Chao Ni 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| D2S2: Drag 'n' Drop Mobile App Screen Search. Soumik Mohian, Tony Tang, Tuan Trinh, Don Dang, Christoph Csallner | FSE | 2023 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| DENT: A Tool for Tagging Stack Overflow Posts with Deep Learning Energy Patterns. Shriram Shanbhag, Sridhar Chimalakonda, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| DeMinify: Neural Variable Name Recovery and Type Inference. Yi Li 0048, Aashish Yadavally, Jiaxing Zhang 0002, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data. Will Shackleton, Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu 0001, James Gill | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| DecompoVision: Reliability Analysis of Machine Vision Components through Decomposition and Reuse. Boyue Caroline Hu, Lina Marsso, Nikita Dvornik, Huakun Shen, Marsha Chechik | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Deep Learning Based Feature Envy Detection Boosted by Real-World Examples. Bo Liu 0094, Hui Liu 0003, Guangjie Li, Nan Niu, Zimao Xu | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| DeepDebugger: An Interactive Time-Travelling Debugging Approach for Deep Classifiers. Xianglin Yang, Yun Lin 0001, Yifan Zhang 0019, Linpeng Huang, Jin Song Dong 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| DeepInfer: Deep Type Inference from Smart Contract Bytecode. Kunsong Zhao, Zihao Li 0001, Jianfeng Li 0006, He Ye, Xiapu Luo | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| DeepRover: A Query-Efficient Blackbox Attack for Deep Neural Networks. Fuyuan Zhang, Xinwen Hu, Lei Ma 0003, Jianjun Zhao 0001 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Deeper Notions of Correctness in Image-Based DNNs: Lifting Properties from Pixel to Entities. Felipe Toledo, David Shriver, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Matthew B. Dwyer | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Demystifying Dependency Bugs in Deep Learning Stack. Kaifeng Huang 0001, Bihuan Chen 0001, Susheng Wu, Junming Cao, Lei Ma 0003 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Demystifying the Composition and Code Reuse in Solidity Smart Contracts. Kairan Sun, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Kaixuan Li 0002, Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Design by Contract for Deep Learning APIs. Shibbir Ahmed, Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz, Syeda Khairunnesa Samantha, Breno Dantas Cruz, Hridesh Rajan | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Detecting Atomicity Violations in Interrupt-Driven Programs via Interruption Points Selecting and Delayed ISR-Triggering. Bin Yu 0008, Cong Tian 0001, Hengrui Xing, Zuchao Yang, Jie Su 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Detecting Overfitting of Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Vulnerability Detection. Niklas Risse | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective. Vaibhav Ganatra, Anjaly Parayil, Supriyo Ghosh, Yu Kang 0006, Minghua Ma | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Detection of Optimizations Missed by the Compiler. Yi Zhang 0153 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| DiagConfig: Configuration Diagnosis of Performance Violations in Configurable Software Systems. Zhiming Chen, Pengfei Chen 0002, Peipei Wang, Guangba Yu, Zilong He | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Diffusion-Based Time Series Data Imputation for Cloud Failure Prediction at Microsoft 365. Fangkai Yang, Wenjie Yin, Lu Wang 0029, Tianci Li, Pu Zhao 0004 | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Discovering Parallelisms in Python Programs. Siwei Wei, Guyang Song, Senlin Zhu, Ruoyi Ruan, Shihao Zhu | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| DistXplore: Distribution-Guided Testing for Evaluating and Enhancing Deep Learning Systems. Longtian Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Xiaoning Du 0001, Meng Tian, Qing Guo 0005 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Distinguishing Look-Alike Innocent and Vulnerable Code by Subtle Semantic Representation Learning and Explanation. Chao Ni 0001, Xin Yin, Kaiwen Yang, Dehai Zhao, Zhenchang Xing | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage. Emily Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Do CONTRIBUTING Files Provide Information about OSS Newcomers' Onboarding Barriers? Felipe Fronchetti, David C. Shepherd, Igor Wiese, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Dynamic Data Fault Localization for Deep Neural Networks. Yining Yin, Yang Feng 0003, Shihao Weng, Zixi Liu, Yuan Yao 0001 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Dynamic Prediction of Delays in Software Projects using Delay Patterns and Bayesian Modeling. Elvan Kula, Eric Greuter, Arie van Deursen, Georgios Gousios | FSE | 2023 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Efficient Text-to-Code Retrieval with Cascaded Fast and Slow Transformer Models. Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare, Junnan Li 0001, Shafiq Joty, Steven C. H. Hoi | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Engineering a Formally Verified Automated Bug Finder. Arthur Correnson, Dominic Steinhöfel | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Enhancing Coverage-Guided Fuzzing via Phantom Program. Mingyuan Wu, Kunqiu Chen, Qi Luo, Jiahong Xiang, Ji Qi 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| EtherDiffer: Differential Testing on RPC Services of Ethereum Nodes. Shinhae Kim, Sungjae Hwang | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| EvaCRC: Evaluating Code Review Comments. Lanxin Yang, Jinwei Xu, Yifan Zhang, He Zhang 0001, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs. Haoyu Gao, Christoph Treude, Mansooreh Zahedi | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| EvoCLINICAL: Evolving Cyber-Cyber Digital Twin with Active Transfer Learning for Automated Cancer Registry System. Chengjie Lu, Qinghua Xu, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Thomas Schwitalla | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Exploring Moral Principles Exhibited in OSS: A Case Study on GitHub Heated Issues. Ramtin Ehsani, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Preetha Chatterjee | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Fix Fairness, Don't Ruin Accuracy: Performance Aware Fairness Repair using AutoML. Giang Nguyen, Sumon Biswas, Hridesh Rajan | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Flow Experience in Software Engineering. Saima Ritonummi, Valtteri Siitonen, Markus Salo, Henri Pirkkalainen, Anu Sivunen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| From Leaks to Fixes: Automated Repairs for Resource Leak Warnings. Akshay Utture, Jens Palsberg | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| From Point-wise to Group-wise: A Fast and Accurate Microservice Trace Anomaly Detection Approach. Zhe Xie, Changhua Pei, Wanxue Li, Huai Jiang, Liangfei Su | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| FunProbe: Probing Functions from Binary Code through Probabilistic Analysis. Soomin Kim 0002, Hyungseok Kim 0002, Sang Kil Cha | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Getting Outside the Bug Boxes (Keynote). Margaret Burnett | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Getting pwn'd by AI: Penetration Testing with Large Language Models. Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Gitor: Scalable Code Clone Detection by Building Global Sample Graph. Junjie Shan, Shihan Dou, Yueming Wu 0001, Hairu Wu, Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Grace: Language Models Meet Code Edits. Priyanshu Gupta, Avishree Khare, Yasharth Bajpai, Saikat Chakraborty 0001, Sumit Gulwani | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes. Prianka Mandal, Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Heterogeneous Testing for Coverage Profilers Empowered with Debugging Support. Yibiao Yang, Maolin Sun, Yang Wang 0165, Qingyang Li 0006, Ming Wen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects? Wenxin Xiao, Hao He 0012, Weiwei Xu 0001, Yuxia Zhang, Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| How Practitioners Expect Code Completion? Chaozheng Wang, Junhao Hu, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Yu Jin, Tao Xie 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Hue: A User-Adaptive Parser for Hybrid Logs. Junjielong Xu, Qiuai Fu, Zhouruixing Zhu, Yutong Cheng, Zhijing Li 0007 | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| HyperDiff: Computing Source Code Diffs at Scale. Quentin Le Dilavrec, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Arnaud Blouin, Jean-Marc Jézéquel | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Incrementalizing Production CodeQL Analyses. Tamás Szabó | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| InferFix: End-to-End Program Repair with LLMs. Matthew Jin, Syed Shahriar, Michele Tufano, Xin Shi, Shuai Lu | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Inferring Complexity Bounds from Recurrence Relations. Didier Ishimwe | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Input-Driven Dynamic Program Debloating for Code-Reuse Attack Mitigation. Xiaoke Wang, Tao Hui, Lei Zhao 0012, Yueqiang Cheng | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| IoPV: On Inconsistent Option Performance Variations. Jinfu Chen 0002, Zishuo Ding, Yiming Tang 0002, Mohammed Sayagh, Heng Li 0007 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Issue Report Validation in an Industrial Context. Ethem Utku Aktas, Ebru Cakmak, Mete Inan, Cemal Yilmaz 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| KDDT: Knowledge Distillation-Empowered Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection. Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Zaimovic Nedim, Inderjeet Singh | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| KG4CraSolver: Recommending Crash Solutions via Knowledge Graph. Xueying Du, Yiling Lou, Mingwei Liu 0002, Xin Peng 0001, Tianyong Yang | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Keeping Mutation Test Suites Consistent and Relevant with Long-Standing Mutants. Milos Ojdanic, Mike Papadakis, Mark Harman | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Knowledge-Based Version Incompatibility Detection for Deep Learning. Zhongkai Zhao, Bonan Kou, Mohamed Yilmaz Ibrahim, Muhao Chen 0001, Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| LExecutor: Learning-Guided Execution. Beatriz Souza, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| LLM-Based Code Generation Method for Golang Compiler Testing. Qiuhan Gu | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Last Diff Analyzer: Multi-language Automated Approver for Behavior-Preserving Code Revisions. Yuxin Wang 0004, Adam Welc, Lazaro Clapp, Lingchao Chen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| LazyCow: A Lightweight Crowdsourced Testing Tool for Taming Android Fragmentation. Xiaoyu Sun 0002, Xiao Chen 0002, Yonghui Liu 0001, John C. Grundy, Li Li 0029 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Learning Program Semantics for Vulnerability Detection via Vulnerability-Specific Inter-procedural Slicing. Bozhi Wu, Shangqing Liu, Yang Xiao 0011, Zhiming Li, Jun Sun 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Lessons from the Long Tail: Analysing Unsafe Dependency Updates across Software Ecosystems. Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Leveraging Hardware Probes and Optimizations for Accelerating Fuzz Testing of Heterogeneous Applications. Jiyuan Wang, Qian Zhang 0020, Hongbo Rong, Guoqing Harry Xu, Miryung Kim | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps. Daniel Domínguez-Álvarez, Alejandro de la Cruz, Alessandra Gorla, Juan Caballero | FSE | 2023 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| LightF3: A Lightweight Fully-Process Formal Framework for Automated Verifying Railway Interlocking Systems. Yibo Dong 0001, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yicong Xu, Chang Cai, Yu Chen | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Log Parsing with Generalization Ability under New Log Types. Siyu Yu, Yifan Wu 0002, Zhijing Li 0007, Pinjia He, Ningjiang Chen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| MASC: A Tool for Mutation-Based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors. Amit Seal Ami, Syed Yusuf Ahmed, Radowan Mahmud Redoy, Nathan Cooper, Kaushal Kafle | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Matching Skills, Past Collaboration, and Limited Competition: Modeling When Open-Source Projects Attract Contributors. Hongbo Fang, James D. Herbsleb, Bogdan Vasilescu | FSE | 2023 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Mate! Are You Really Aware? An Explainability-Guided Testing Framework for Robustness of Malware Detectors. Ruoxi Sun 0001, Minhui Xue 0001, Gareth Tyson, Tian Dong, Shaofeng Li 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Metamong: Detecting Render-Update Bugs in Web Browsers through Fuzzing. Suhwan Song, Byoungyoung Lee | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Mining Resource-Operation Knowledge to Support Resource Leak Detection. Chong Wang 0013, Yiling Lou, Xin Peng 0001, Jianan Liu, Baihan Zou | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Modeling the Centrality of Developer Output with Software Supply Chains. Audris Mockus, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu 0001, Parth Suresh, Yifen Chen | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| MuRS: Mutant Ranking and Suppression using Identifier Templates. Zimin Chen, Malgorzata Salawa, Manushree Vijayvergiya, Goran Petrovic, Marko Ivankovic | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Multilingual Code Co-evolution using Large Language Models. Jiyang Zhang 0003, Pengyu Nie 0001, Junyi Jessy Li, Milos Gligoric 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| NaNofuzz: A Usable Tool for Automatic Test Generation. Matthew C. Davis, Sangheon Choi, Sam Estep, Brad A. Myers, Joshua Sunshine | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Natural Language to Code: How Far Are We? Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin 0011, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| NeuRI: Diversifying DNN Generation via Inductive Rule Inference. Jiawei Liu 0004, Jinjun Peng, Yuyao Wang, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Neural-Based Test Oracle Generation: A Large-Scale Evaluation and Lessons Learned. Soneya Binta Hossain, Antonio Filieri, Matthew B. Dwyer, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Willem Visser | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Nezha: Interpretable Fine-Grained Root Causes Analysis for Microservices on Multi-modal Observability Data. Guangba Yu, Pengfei Chen 0002, Yufeng Li, Hongyang Chen 0002, Xiaoyun Li | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| OOM-Guard: Towards Improving the Ergonomics of Rust OOM Handling via a Reservation-Based Approach. Chengjun Chen, Zhicong Zhang, Hongliang Tian, Shoumeng Yan, Hui Xu 0009 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| On Using Information Retrieval to Recommend Machine Learning Good Practices for Software Engineers. Laura Cabra-Acela, Anamaria Mojica-Hanke, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Steffen Herbold | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| On the Dual Nature of Necessity in Use of Rust Unsafe Code. Yuchen Zhang 0006, Ashish Kundu, Georgios Portokalidis, Jun Xu 0024 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| On the Relationship between Code Verifiability and Understandability. Kobi Feldman, Martin Kellogg, Oscar Chaparro | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| On the Usage of Continual Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Pre-trained Language Models of Code. Martin Weyssow, Xin Zhou 0014, Kisub Kim, David Lo 0001, Houari A. Sahraoui | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| On-Premise AIOps Infrastructure for a Software Editor SME: An Experience Report. Anes Bendimerad, Youcef Remil, Romain Mathonat, Mehdi Kaytoue | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Outage-Watch: Early Prediction of Outages using Extreme Event Regularizer. Shubham Agarwal 0007, Sarthak Chakraborty, Shaddy Garg, Sumit Bisht, Chahat Jain | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Ownership in the Hands of Accountability at Brightsquid: A Case Study and a Developer Survey. Umme Ayman Koana, Francis Chew, Chris Carlson, Maleknaz Nayebi | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| P4b: A Translator from P4 Programs to Boogie. Chong Ye, Fei He 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| PEM: Representing Binary Program Semantics for Similarity Analysis via a Probabilistic Execution Model. Xiangzhe Xu, Zhou Xuan, Shiwei Feng 0002, Siyuan Cheng 0005, Yapeng Ye | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| PPR: Pairwise Program Reduction. Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Yu Jiang 0001, Chengnian Sun | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Pitfalls in Experiments with DNN4SE: An Analysis of the State of the Practice. Sira Vegas, Sebastian G. Elbaum | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Practical Inference of Nullability Types. Nima Karimipour, Justin Pham, Lazaro Clapp, Manu Sridharan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Pre-training Code Representation with Semantic Flow Graph for Effective Bug Localization. Yali Du 0002, Zhongxing Yu | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Predicting Software Performance with Divide-and-Learn. Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Prioritizing Natural Language Test Cases Based on Highly-Used Game Features. Markos Viggiato, Dale Paas, Cor-Paul Bezemer | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Privacy-Centric Log Parsing for Timely, Proactive Personal Data Protection. Issam Sedki | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Program Repair Guided by Datalog-Defined Static Analysis. Yu Liu 0130, Sergey Mechtaev, Pavle Subotic, Abhik Roychoudhury | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| PropProof: Free Model-Checking Harnesses from PBT. Yoshiki Takashima | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Property-Based Fuzzing for Finding Data Manipulation Errors in Android Apps. Jingling Sun, Ting Su 0001, Jiayi Jiang, Jue Wang, Geguang Pu | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| RAP-Gen: Retrieval-Augmented Patch Generation with CodeT5 for Automatic Program Repair. Weishi Wang, Yue Wang 0034, Shafiq Joty, Steven C. H. Hoi | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Recommending Analogical APIs via Knowledge Graph Embedding. Mingwei Liu 0002, Yanjun Yang, Yiling Lou, Xin Peng 0001, Zhong Zhou | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Reflecting on the Use of the Policy-Process-Product Theory in Empirical Software Engineering. Kelechi G. Kalu, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Sophie Chen, Kyle A. Robinson, Erik Kocinare | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing. Maria-Irina Nicolae, Max Eisele, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Rotten Green Tests in Google Test. Paul Robinson | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| SJFuzz: Seed and Mutator Scheduling for JVM Fuzzing. Mingyuan Wu, Yicheng Ouyang, Minghai Lu, Junjie Chen 0003, Yingquan Zhao | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| STEAM: Observability-Preserving Trace Sampling. Shilin He, Botao Feng, Liqun Li, Xu Zhang 0024, Yu Kang 0006 | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| STraceBERT: Source Code Retrieval using Semantic Application Traces. Claudio Spiess | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Scalable Program Clone Search through Spectral Analysis. Tristan Benoit, Jean-Yves Marion, Sébastien Bardin | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Self-Supervised Query Reformulation for Code Search. Yuetian Mao, Chengcheng Wan 0001, Yuze Jiang, Xiaodong Gu 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Semantic Debugging. Martin Eberlein, Marius Smytzek, Dominic Steinhöfel, Lars Grunske, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Semantic Test Repair for Web Applications. Xiaofang Qi, Xiang Qian, Yanhui Li | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| SmartFix: Fixing Vulnerable Smart Contracts by Accelerating Generate-and-Verify Repair using Statistical Models. Sunbeom So, Hakjoo Oh | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Software Architecture Recovery with Information Fusion. Yiran Zhang, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Hongxu Chen 0001, Jianwen Sun | FSE | 2023 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Software Architecture in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities. Zhiyuan Wan, Yun Zhang 0011, Xin Xia 0001, Yi Jiang, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Software Composition Analysis for Vulnerability Detection: An Empirical Study on Java Projects. Lida Zhao, Sen Chen 0001, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Lyuye Zhang | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Speeding up SMT Solving via Compiler Optimization. Benjamin Mikek, Qirun Zhang | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| State Merging with Quantifiers in Symbolic Execution. David Trabish, Noam Rinetzky, Sharon Shoham, Vaibhav Sharma 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Statfier: Automated Testing of Static Analyzers via Semantic-Preserving Program Transformations. Huaien Zhang, Yu Pei 0001, Junjie Chen 0003, Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Statistical Reachability Analysis. Seongmin Lee 0001, Marcel Böhme | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Statistical Type Inference for Incomplete Programs. Yaohui Peng, Jing Xie, Qiongling Yang, Hanwen Guo, Qingan Li | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Test Case Generation for Drivability Requirements of an Automotive Cruise Controller: An Experience with an Industrial Simulator. Federico Formica, Nicholas Petrunti, Lucas Bruck, Vera Pantelic, Mark Lawford | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Testing Coreference Resolution Systems without Labeled Test Sets. Jialun Cao, Yaojie Lu 0001, Ming Wen 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Testing Real-World Healthcare IoT Application: Experiences and Lessons Learned. Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Kjetil Moberg | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| The Call Graph Chronicles: Unleashing the Power Within. Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| The EarlyBIRD Catches the Bug: On Exploiting Early Layers of Encoder Models for More Efficient Code Classification. Anastasiia Grishina, Max Hort, Leon Moonen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| The Most Agile Teams Are the Most Disciplined: On Scaling out Agile Development. Zheng Li 0001, Austen Rainer | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| The State of Survival in OSS: The Impact of Diversity. Zixuan Feng | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Towards AI-Driven Software Development: Challenges and Lessons from the Field (Keynote). Eran Yahav | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Towards Automated Detection of Unethical Behavior in Open-Source Software Projects. Hsu Myat Win, Haibo Wang, Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Towards Efficient Record and Replay: A Case Study in WeChat. Sidong Feng, Haochuan Lu, Ting Xiong, Yuetang Deng, Chunyang Chen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Towards Feature-Based Analysis of the Machine Learning Development Lifecycle. Boyue Caroline Hu, Marsha Chechik | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Towards Greener Yet Powerful Code Generation via Quantization: An Empirical Study. Xiaokai Wei, Sujan Kumar Gonugondla, Shiqi Wang 0002, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Baishakhi Ray | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Towards Strengthening Formal Specifications with Mutation Model Checking. Maxime Cordy, Sami Lazreg, Axel Legay, Pierre-Yves Schobbens | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Towards Top-Down Automated Development in Limited Scopes: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework from Expressibles to Executables. Jian Gu 0001, Harald C. Gall | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Towards Understanding Emotions in Informal Developer Interactions: A Gitter Chat Study. Amirali Sajadi, Kostadin Damevski, Preetha Chatterjee | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| TraceDiag: Adaptive, Interpretable, and Efficient Root Cause Analysis on Large-Scale Microservice Systems. Ruomeng Ding, Chaoyun Zhang, Lu Wang 0029, Yong Xu 0010, Minghua Ma | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| TransMap: Pinpointing Mistakes in Neural Code Translation. Bo Wang 0146, Ruishi Li, Mingkai Li, Prateek Saxena | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| TransRacer: Function Dependence-Guided Transaction Race Detection for Smart Contracts. Chenyang Ma, Wei Song 0003, Jeff Huang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Triggering Modes in Spectrum-Based Multi-location Fault Localization. Tung Dao, Na Meng 0001, ThanhVu Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Tritor: Detecting Semantic Code Clones by Building Social Network-Based Triads Model. Deqing Zou, Siyue Feng, Yueming Wu 0001, Wenqi Suo, Hai Jin 0001 | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Understanding Hackers' Work: An Empirical Study of Offensive Security Practitioners. Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Understanding Solidity Event Logging Practices in the Wild. Lantian Li, Yejian Liang, Zhihao Liu, Zhongxing Yu | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Understanding the Bug Characteristics and Fix Strategies of Federated Learning Systems. Xiaohu Du, Xiao Chen 0026, Jialun Cao, Ming Wen 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Understanding the Topics and Challenges of GPU Programming by Classifying and Analyzing Stack Overflow Posts. Wenhua Yang 0001, Chong Zhang, Minxue Pan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| ViaLin: Path-Aware Dynamic Taint Analysis for Android. Khaled Ahmed 0004, Yingying Wang, Mieszko Lis, Julia Rubin | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| When Function Inlining Meets WebAssembly: Counterintuitive Impacts on Runtime Performance. Alan Romano, Weihang Wang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| llvm2CryptoLine: Verifying Arithmetic in Cryptographic C Programs. Ruiling Chen, Jiaxiang Liu 0001, Xiaomu Shi, Ming-Hsien Tsai 0001, Bow-Yaw Wang | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| npm-follower: A Complete Dataset Tracking the NPM Ecosystem. Donald Pinckney, Federico Cassano, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| xASTNN: Improved Code Representations for Industrial Practice. Zhiwei Xu, Min Zhou 0001, Xibin Zhao, Yang Chen 0001, Xi Cheng | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| µAkka: Mutation Testing for Actor Concurrency in Akka using Real-World Bugs. Mohsen Moradi-Moghadam, Mehdi Bagherzadeh 0001, Raffi Khatchadourian, Hamid Bagheri | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |