Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
FSE 2025 Papers
FSE 2025 paper list with topic labels.
| Paper | Venue | Year | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Years Later: Revisiting How Developers Search for Code. Kathryn T. Stolee; Tobias Welp; Caitlin Sadowski; Sebastian G. Elbaum | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Causal Learning Framework for Enhancing Robustness of Source Code Models. Junyao Ye; Zhen Li 0027; Xi Tang; Deqing Zou; Shouhuai Xu; Weizhong Qiang; Hai Jin 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| A Comprehensive Study of Bug-Fix Patterns in Autonomous Driving Systems. Yuntianyi Chen; Yuqi Huai; Yirui He; Shilong Li 0002; Changnam Hong; Qi Alfred Chen; Joshua Garcia | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Knowledge Enhanced Large Language Model for Bug Localization. Yue Li 0047; Bohan Liu 0003; Ting Zhang 0011; Zhiqi Wang; David Lo 0001; Lanxin Yang; Jun Lyu; He Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| A Mixed-Methods Study of Model-Based GUI Testing in Real-World Industrial Settings. Shaoheng Cao; Renyi Chen; Wenhua Yang 0001; Minxue Pan; Xuandong Li | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| A New Approach to Evaluating Nullability Inference Tools. Nima Karimipour; Erfan Arvan; Martin Kellogg; Manu Sridharan | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Adaptive Random Testing with Q-grams: The Illusion Comes True. Matteo Biagiola; Robert Feldt; Paolo Tonella | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Alert Summarization for Online Service Systems by Validating Propagation Paths of Faults. Jia Chen 0037; Yuang He; Peng Wang 0027; Xiaolei Chen 0001; Jie Shi 0010; Wei Wang 0009 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| AlphaTrans: A Neuro-Symbolic Compositional Approach for Repository-Level Code Translation and Validation. Ali Reza Ibrahimzada; Kaiyao Ke; Mrigank Pawagi; Muhammad Salman Abid; Rangeet Pan; Saurabh Sinha 0003; Reyhaneh Jabbarvand | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| An Adaptive Language-Agnostic Pruning Method for Greener Language Models for Code. Mootez Saad; José Antonio Hernández López; Boqi Chen; Dániel Varró; Tushar Sharma 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| An Empirical Study of Bugs in Data Visualization Libraries. Weiqi Lu; Yongqiang Tian 0001; Xiaohan Zhong; Haoyang Ma; Zhenyang Xu; Shing-Chi Cheung; Chengnian Sun | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An Empirical Study of Code Clones from Commercial AI Code Generators. Weibin Wu 0002; Haoxuan Hu; Zhaoji Fan; Yitong Qiao; Yizhan Huang; Yichen Li 0003; Zibin Zheng; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An Empirical Study of Suppressed Static Analysis Warnings. Huimin Hu; Yingying Wang; Julia Rubin; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An Empirical Study on Release-Wise Refactoring Patterns. Shayan Noei; Heng Li 0007; Ying Zou 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer's Rationale in Open Source Software. Mouna Dhaouadi; Bentley Oakes; Michalis Famelis | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Automated Recognition of Buggy Behaviors from Mobile Bug Reports. Zhaoxu Zhang; Komei Ryu; Tingting Yu 0001; William G. J. Halfond | FSE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automated Soap Opera Testing Directed by LLMs and Scenario Knowledge: Feasibility, Challenges, and Road Ahead. Yanqi Su; Zhenchang Xing; Chong Wang 0013; Chunyang Chen 0001; Xiwei Xu 0001; Qinghua Lu 0001; Liming Zhu 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Automated Trustworthiness Oracle Generation for Machine Learning Text Classifiers. Lam Nguyen Tung; Steven Cho; Xiaoning Du 0001; Neelofar; Valerio Terragni; Stefano Ruberto; Aldeida Aleti | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Automated Unit Test Refactoring. Yi Gao; Xing Hu 0008; Xiaohu Yang 0001; Xin Xia 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automated and Accurate Token Transfer Identification and Its Applications in Cryptocurrency Security. Shuwei Song; Ting Chen 0002; Ao Qiao; Xiapu Luo; Leqing Wang; Zheyuan He; Ting Wang 0006; Xiaodong Lin 0001; Peng He; Wensheng Zhang; Xiaosong Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Automatically Detecting Numerical Instability in Machine Learning Applications via Soft Assertions. Shaila Sharmin; Anwar Hossain Zahid; Subhankar Bhattacharjee; Chiamaka Igwilo; Miryung Kim; Wei Le | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Automatically Fixing Dependency Breaking Changes. Lukas Fruntke; Jens Krinke | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Beyond Functional Correctness: Investigating Coding Style Inconsistencies in Large Language Models. Yanlin Wang 0001; Tianyue Jiang; Mingwei Liu 0002; Jiachi Chen; Mingzhi Mao; Xilin Liu 0001; Yuchi Ma; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Beyond PEFT: Layer-Wise Optimization for More Effective and Efficient Large Code Model Tuning. Chaozheng Wang; Jia Feng; Shuzheng Gao; Cuiyun Gao 0001; Zongjie Li; Ting Peng; Hailiang Huang 0004; Yuetang Deng; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Blended Analysis for Predictive Execution. Yi Li 0048; Hridya Dhulipala; Aashish Yadavally; Xiaokai Rong; Shaohua Wang 0002; Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Bridging Operator Semantic Inconsistencies: A Source-Level Cross-Framework Model Conversion Approach. Xingpei Li; Yan Lei; Zhouyang Jia; Yuanliang Zhang; Haoran Liu; Liqian Chen; Wei Dong 0006; Shan-shan Li 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| CAShift: Benchmarking Log-Based Cloud Attack Detection under Normality Shift. Jiongchi Yu; Xiaofei Xie; Qiang Hu; Bowen Zhang; Ziming Zhao 0008; Yun Lin 0001; Lei Ma 0003; Ruitao Feng; Frank Liauw | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| CKTyper: Enhancing Type Inference for Java Code Snippets by Leveraging Crowdsourcing Knowledge in Stack Overflow. Anji Li 0001; Neng Zhang 0001; Ying Zou 0001; Zhixiang Chen 0016; Jian Wang 0018; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| COFFE: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Generation. Yun Peng 0003; Jun Wan; Yichen Li 0003; Xiaoxue Ren | FSE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| CRISPE: Semantic-Guided Execution Planning and Dynamic Reasoning for Enhancing Code Coverage Prediction. Hridya Dhulipala; Aashish Yadavally; Smit Soneshbhai Patel; Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| CXXCrafter: An LLM-Based Agent for Automated C/C++ Open Source Software Building. Zhengmin Yu; Yuan Zhang 0009; Ming Wen 0001; Yinan Nie; Wenhui Zhang; Min Yang 0002 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Calibration of Large Language Models on Code Summarization. Yuvraj Virk; Premkumar T. Devanbu; Toufique Ahmed | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| ChangeGuard: Validating Code Changes via Pairwise Learning-Guided Execution. Lars Gröninger; Beatriz Souza; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| ChatDBG: Augmenting Debugging with Large Language Models. Kyla Levin; Nicolas van Kempen; Emery D. Berger; Stephen N. Freund | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Clone Detection for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We? Zuobin Wang; Zhiyuan Wan; Yujing Chen; Yun Zhang 0011; David Lo 0001; Difan Xie; Xiaohu Yang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Code Change Intention, Development Artifact, and History Vulnerability: Putting Them Together for Vulnerability Fix Detection by LLM. Xu Yang; Wenhan Zhu; Michael Pacheco; Jiayuan Zhou; Shaowei Wang 0002; Xing Hu 0008; Kui Liu 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Code Red! On the Harmfulness of Applying Off-the-Shelf Large Language Models to Programming Tasks. Ali Al-Kaswan; Sebastian Deatc; Begüm Koç; Arie van Deursen; Maliheh Izadi | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Core Developer Turnover in the Rust Package Ecosystem: Prevalence, Impact, and Awareness. Meng Fan; Yuxia Zhang; Klaas-Jan Stol; Hui Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| CoverUp: Effective High Coverage Test Generation for Python. Juan Altmayer Pizzorno; Emery D. Berger | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Cross-System Categorization of Abnormal Traces in Microservice-Based Systems via Meta-Learning. Yuqing Wang 0002; Mika V. Mäntylä; Serge Demeyer; Mutlu Beyazit; Joanna Kisaakye; Jesse Nyyssölä | FSE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| De-duplicating Silent Compiler Bugs via Deep Semantic Representation. Junjie Chen 0003; Xingyu Fan; Chen Yang; Shuang Liu 0007; Jun Sun 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| DeclarUI: Bridging Design and Development with Automated Declarative UI Code Generation. Ting Zhou; Yanjie Zhao 0001; Xinyi Hou; Xiaoyu Sun 0002; Kai Chen 0030; Haoyu Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Demystifying LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents. Chunqiu Steven Xia; Yinlin Deng; Soren Dunn; Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Demystifying Memorization in LLM-Based Program Repair via a General Hypothesis Testing Framework. Jiaolong Kong; Xiaofei Xie; Shangqing Liu | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Detecting Metadata-Related Bugs in Enterprise Applications. Md Mahir Asef Kabir; Xiaoyin Wang; Na Meng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Detecting Smart Contract State-Inconsistency Bugs via Flow Divergence and Multiplex Symbolic Execution. Yinxi Liu; Wei Meng 0001; Yinqian Zhang | FSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Detecting and Handling WoT Violations by Learning Physical Interactions from Device Logs. Bingkun Sun; Shiqi Sun; Jialin Ren; Mingming Hu; Kun Hu 0001; Liwei Shen; Xin Peng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Detecting and Reducing the Factual Hallucinations of Large Language Models with Metamorphic Testing. Weibin Wu 0002; Yuhang Cao; Ning Yi; Rongyi Ou; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| DiSCo: Towards Decompiling EVM Bytecode to Source Code using Large Language Models. Xing Su; Hanzhong Liang; Hao Wu 0067; Ben Niu 0001; Fengyuan Xu; Sheng Zhong 0002 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Directed Testing in MLIR: Unleashing Its Potential by Overcoming the Limitations of Random Fuzzing. Weiyuan Tong; Zixu Wang; Zhanyong Tang; Jianbin Fang; Yuqun Zhang; Guixin Ye | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Dissecting Real-World Cross-Language Bugs. Haoran Yang 0002; Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Divide-and-Conquer: Generating UI Code from Screenshots. Yuxuan Wan; Chaozheng Wang; Yi Dong; Wenxuan Wang 0001; Shuqing Li 0001; Yintong Huo; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2025 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Doc2OracLL: Investigating the Impact of Documentation on LLM-Based Test Oracle Generation. Soneya Binta Hossain; Raygan Taylor; Matthew B. Dwyer | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| DuoReduce: Bug Isolation for Multi-layer Extensible Compilation. Jiyuan Wang; Yuxin Qiu; Ben Limpanukorn; Hong Jin Kang; Qian Zhang 0020; Miryung Kim | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| DyLin: A Dynamic Linter for Python. Aryaz Eghbali; Felix Burk; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Dynamic Taint Tracking for Modern Java Virtual Machines. Katherine Hough; Jonathan Bell 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Element-Based Automated DNN Repair with Fine-Tuned Masked Language Model. Xu Wang 0007; Mingming Zhang; Xiangxin Meng; Jian Zhang 0087; Yang Liu 0003; Chunming Hu | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Eliminating Backdoors in Neural Code Models for Secure Code Understanding. Weisong Sun; Yuchen Chen; Chunrong Fang; Yebo Feng; Yuan Xiao 0003; An Guo 0002; Quanjun Zhang; Zhenyu Chen 0001; Baowen Xu; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Empirically Evaluating the Impact of Object-Centric Breakpoints on the Debugging of Object-Oriented Programs. Valentin Bourcier; Pooja Rani 0001; Maximilian Ignacio Willembrinck Santander; Alberto Bacchelli; Steven Costiou | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Enhancing Web Accessibility: Automated Detection of Issues with Generative AI. Ziyao He; Syed Fatiul Huq; Sam Malek | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Error Delayed Is Not Error Handled: Understanding and Fixing Propagated Error-Handling Bugs. Haoran Liu; Shan-shan Li 0001; Zhouyang Jia; Yuanliang Zhang; Linxiao Bai; Si Zheng 0003; Xiaoguang Mao; Xiangke Liao | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Expressing and Checking Statistical Assumptions. Alexi Turcotte; Zheyuan Wu | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Gleipner: A Benchmark for Gadget Chain Detection in Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities. Bruno Kreyssig; Alexandre Bartel | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations. Borui Yang; Md Afif Al Mamun; Jie M. Zhang; Gias Uddin 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Has My Code Been Stolen for Model Training? A Naturalness Based Approach to Code Contamination Detection. Haris Ali Khan; Yanjie Jiang; Qasim Umer; Yuxia Zhang; Waseem Akram 0007; Hui Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| HornBro: Homotopy-Like Method for Automated Quantum Program Repair. Siwei Tan; Liqiang Lu; Debin Xiang; Tianyao Chu; Congliang Lang; Jintao Chen 0001; Xing Hu 0008; Jianwei Yin | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| How Do Programming Students Use Generative AI? Christian Rahe; Walid Maalej | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| IRepair: An Intent-Aware Approach to Repair Data-Driven Errors in Large Language Models. Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz; Astha Singh; Fraol Batole; Hridesh Rajan | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Impact of Request Formats on Effort Estimation: Are LLMs Different Than Humans? Gül Çalikli; Mohammed Alhamed | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Incorporating Verification Standards for Security Requirements Generation from Functional Specifications. Xiaoli Lian; Shuaisong Wang; Hanyu Zou; Fang Liu 0032; Jiajun Wu 0024; Li Zhang 0029 | FSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Integrating Large Language Models and Reinforcement Learning for Non-linear Reasoning. Yoav Alon; Cristina David | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| It's Acting Odd! Exploring Equivocal Behaviors of Goodware. Gregorio Dalia; Andrea Di Sorbo; Corrado Aaron Visaggio; Gerardo Canfora | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| LLM-Based Method Name Suggestion with Automatically Generated Context-Rich Prompts. Waseem Akram 0007; Yanjie Jiang; Yuxia Zhang; Haris Ali Khan; Hui Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| LLMDroid: Enhancing Automated Mobile App GUI Testing Coverage with Large Language Model Guidance. Chenxu Wang 0011; Tianming Liu 0002; Yanjie Zhao 0001; Minghui Yang; Haoyu Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Large Language Models for In-File Vulnerability Localization Can Be "Lost in the End". Francesco Sovrano; Adam Bauer; Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Less Is More: On the Importance of Data Quality for Unit Test Generation. Junwei Zhang; Xing Hu 0008; Shan Gao 0009; Xin Xia 0001; David Lo 0001; Shanping Li | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Liberating Libraries through Automated Fuzz Driver Generation: Striking a Balance without Consumer Code. Flavio Toffalini; Nicolas Badoux; Zurab Tsinadze; Mathias Payer | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| LlamaRestTest: Effective REST API Testing with Small Language Models. Myeongsoo Kim; Saurabh Sinha 0003; Alessandro Orso | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| LookAhead: Preventing DeFi Attacks via Unveiling Adversarial Contracts. Shoupeng Ren; Lipeng He; Tianyu Tu; Di Wu; Jian Liu 0012; Kui Ren 0001; Chun Chen 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Medusa: A Framework for Collaborative Development of Foundation Models with Automated Parameter Ownership Assignment. Dezhi Ran; Yuan Cao; Yuzhe Guo; Yuetong Li; Mengzhou Wu; Simin Chen; Wei Yang 0013; Tao Xie 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| MendelFuzz: The Return of the Deterministic Stage. Han Zheng 0006; Flavio Toffalini; Marcel Böhme; Mathias Payer | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| MiSum: Multi-modality Heterogeneous Code Graph Learning for Multi-intent Binary Code Summarization. Kangchen Zhu; Zhiliang Tian; Shangwen Wang; Weiguo Chen; Zixuan Dong; Mingyue Leng; Xiaoguang Mao | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Mitigating Emergent Malware Label Noise in DNN-Based Android Malware Detection. Haodong Li; Xiao Cheng 0002; Guohan Zhang; Guosheng Xu 0001; Guoai Xu; Haoyu Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Multi-modal Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing. Zhi Tu; Liangkun Niu; Wei Fan; Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Mystique: Automated Vulnerability Patch Porting with Semantic and Syntactic-Enhanced LLM. Susheng Wu; Ruisi Wang; Yiheng Cao; Bihuan Chen 0001; Zhuotong Zhou; Yiheng Huang; Junpeng Zhao; Xin Peng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| NLP Libraries, Energy Consumption and Runtime: An Empirical Study. Rajrupa Chattaraj; Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| No More Labelled Examples? An Unsupervised Log Parser with LLMs. Junjie Huang 0008; Zhihan Jiang; Zhuangbin Chen; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| On the Characteristics and Impacts of Protestware Libraries. Tanner Finken; Jesse Chen; Sazzadur Rahaman | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| On the Unnecessary Complexity of Names in X.509 and Their Impact on Implementations. Yuteng Sun; Joyanta Debnath; Wenzheng Hong; Omar Chowdhury; Sze Yiu Chau | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| On-Demand Scenario Generation for Testing Automated Driving Systems. Songyang Yan; Xiaodong Zhang 0014; Kunkun Hao; Haojie Xin; Yonggang Luo; Jucheng Yang 0001; Ming Fan 0002; Chao Yang 0025; Jun Sun 0001; Zijiang Yang 0006 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| One-for-All Does Not Work! Enhancing Vulnerability Detection by Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Xu Yang; Shaowei Wang 0002; Jiayuan Zhou; Wenhan Zhu | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| PDCAT: Preference-Driven Compiler Auto-tuning. Mingxuan Zhu; Zeyu Sun 0004; Dan Hao 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Pinning Is Futile: You Need More Than Local Dependency Versioning to Defend against Supply Chain Attacks. Hao He 0012; Bogdan Vasilescu; Christian Kästner | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Prompts Are Programs Too! Understanding How Developers Build Software Containing Prompts. Jenny T. Liang; Melissa Lin; Nikitha Rao; Brad A. Myers | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| QSF: Multi-objective Optimization Based Efficient Solving for Floating-Point Constraints. Xu Yang; Zhenbang Chen 0001; Wei Dong 0006; Ji Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| ROSCallBaX: Statically Detecting Inconsistencies in Callback Function Setup of Robotic Systems. Sayali Kate; Yifei Gao; Shiwei Feng 0002; Xiangyu Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Ransomware Detection through Temporal Correlation between Encryption and I/O Behavior. Lihua Guo; Yiwei Hou; Chijin Zhou; Quan Zhang 0003; Yu Jiang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| RePurr: Automated Repair of Block-Based Learners' Programs. Sebastian Schweikl; Gordon Fraser 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Recasting Type Hints from WebAssembly Contracts. Kunsong Zhao; Zihao Li 0001; Weimin Chen; Xiapu Luo; Ting Chen 0002; Guozhu Meng; Yajin Zhou | FSE | 2025 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| RegTrieve: Reducing System-Level Regression Errors for Machine Learning Systems via Retrieval-Enhanced Ensemble. Junming Cao; Xuwen Xiang; Mingfei Cheng; Bihuan Chen 0001; Xinyan Wang; You Lu 0005; Chaofeng Sha; Xiaofei Xie; Xin Peng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| ReproCopilot: LLM-Driven Failure Reproduction with Dynamic Refinement. Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa; Fazle Elahi Faisal; Suman Nath | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Revisiting Optimization-Resilience Claims in Binary Diffing Tools: Insights from LLVM Peephole Optimization Analysis. Xiaolei Ren 0001; Mengfei Ren 0001; Yu Lei 0001; Jiang Ming 0002 | FSE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Revolutionizing Newcomers' Onboarding Process in OSS Communities: The Future AI Mentor. Xin Tan 0003; Xiao Long; Yinghao Zhu; Lin Shi 0006; Xiaoli Lian; Li Zhang 0029 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Scene Flow Specifications: Encoding and Monitoring Rich Temporal Safety Properties of Autonomous Systems. Trey Woodlief; Felipe Toledo; Matthew B. Dwyer; Sebastian G. Elbaum | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software. Addi Malviya-Thakur; Reed Milewicz; Mahmoud Jahanshahi; Lavínia Paganini; Bogdan Vasilescu; Audris Mockus | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| SemBIC: Semantic-Aware Identification of Bug-Inducing Commits. Xiao Chen 0026; Hengcheng Zhu 0001; Jialun Cao; Ming Wen 0001; Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Smaller but Better: Self-Paced Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight yet Effective LCMs. Yujia Chen 0004; Yang Ye; Zhongqi Li; Yuchi Ma; Cuiyun Gao 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Smart Contract Fuzzing Towards Profitable Vulnerabilities. Ziqiao Kong; Cen Zhang; Maoyi Xie; Ming Hu 0003; Yue Xue; Ye Liu 0012; Haijun Wang 0002; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| SmartNote: An LLM-Powered, Personalised Release Note Generator That Just Works. Farbod Daneshyan; Runzhi He; Jianyu Wu; Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| SmartShot: Hunt Hidden Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts using Mutable Snapshots. Ruichao Liang; Jing Chen 0003; Ruochen Cao; Kun He 0008; Ruiying Du; Shuhua Li; Zheng Lin 0001; Cong Wu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Software Fairness Dilemma: Is Bias Mitigation a Zero-Sum Game? Zhenpeng Chen 0001; Xinyue Li; Jie M. Zhang; Weisong Sun; Ying Xiao; Tianlin Li; Yiling Lou; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Bug-Aware Automated GUI Testing via Retrieval Augmentation. Mengzhuo Chen; Zhe Liu 0025; Chunyang Chen 0001; Junjie Wang 0001; Boyu Wu; Jun Hu 0015; Qing Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Statement-Level Adversarial Attack on Vulnerability Detection Models via Out-of-Distribution Features. Xiaohu Du; Ming Wen 0001; Haoyu Wang; Zichao Wei; Hai Jin 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Teaching AI the 'Why' and 'How' of Software Vulnerability Fixes. Amiao Gao; Zenong Zhang; Simin Wang; Liguo Huang; Shiyi Wei; Vincent Ng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| The Landscape of Toxicity: An Empirical Investigation of Toxicity on GitHub. Jaydeb Sarker; Asif Kamal Turzo; Amiangshu Bosu | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| The Struggles of LLMs in Cross-Lingual Code Clone Detection. Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula; Abdoul Kader Kaboré; Jacques Klein; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Today's Cat Is Tomorrow's Dog: Accounting for Time-Based Changes in the Labels of ML Vulnerability Detection Approaches. Ranindya Paramitha; Yuan Feng; Fabio Massacci | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Towards Diverse Program Transformations for Program Simplification. Haibo Wang; Zezhong Xing; Chengnian Sun; Zheng Wang 0001; Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Towards Understanding Docker Build Faults in Practice: Symptoms, Root Causes, and Fix Patterns. Yiwen Wu 0001; Yang Zhang 0026; Tao Wang 0006; Bo Ding 0007; Huaimin Wang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Towards Understanding Fine-Grained Programming Mistakes and Fixing Patterns in Data Science. Wei-Hao Chen; Jia Lin Cheoh; Manthan Keim; Sabine Brunswicker; Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Towards Understanding Performance Bugs in Popular Data Science Libraries. Haowen Yang; Zhengda Li; Zhiqing Zhong; Xiaoying Tang 0002; Pinjia He | FSE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| TracePicker: Optimization-Based Trace Sampling for Microservice-Based Systems. Shuaiyu Xie; Jian Wang 0018; Maodong Li 0006; Peiran Chen; Jifeng Xuan; Bing Li 0010 | FSE | 2025 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Understanding Debugging as Episodes: A Case Study on Performance Bugs in Configurable Software Systems. Max Weber; Alina Mailach; Sven Apel; Janet Siegmund; Raimund Dachselt; Norbert Siegmund | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Evaluation. Yuan Li; Peisen Yao; Kan Yu; Chengpeng Wang 0001; Yaoyang Ye; Song Li 0006; Meng Luo 0002; Yepang Liu 0001; Kui Ren 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Understanding and Characterizing Mock Assertions in Unit Tests. Hengcheng Zhu 0001; Valerio Terragni; Lili Wei 0001; Shing-Chi Cheung; Jiarong Wu; Yepang Liu 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| UnitCon: Synthesizing Targeted Unit Tests for Java Runtime Exceptions. Sujin Jang; Yeonhee Ryou; Heewon Lee; Kihong Heo | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| Unlocking Optimal ORM Database Designs: Accelerated Tradeoff Analysis with Transformers. Md Rashedul Hasan; Mohammad Rashedul Hasan; Hamid Bagheri | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| VLATest: Testing and Evaluating Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation. Zhijie Wang 0014; Zhehua Zhou; Jiayang Song; Yuheng Huang 0004; Zhan Shu 0001; Lei Ma 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| VulPA: Detecting Semantically Recurring Vulnerabilities with Multi-object Typestate Analysis. Liqing Cao; Haofeng Li; Chenghang Shi; Jie Lu 0009; Haining Meng; Lian Li 0002; Jingling Xue | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Who Will Stop Contributing to OSS Projects? Predicting Company Turnover Based on Initial Behavior. Mian Qin; Yuxia Zhang; Klaas-Jan Stol; Hui Liu 0003 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Why the Proof Fails in Different Versions of Theorem Provers: An Empirical Study of Compatibility Issues in Isabelle. Xiaokun Luan; David Sanán; Zhe Hou; Qiyuan Xu; Chengwei Liu; Yufan Cai 0001; Yang Liu 0003; Meng Sun 0002 | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Code Search without Fine-Tuning. Keyu Liang; Zhongxin Liu 0002; Chao Liu 0014; Zhiyuan Wan; David Lo 0001; Xiaohu Yang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |