Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar
FSE Papers
Recent FSE papers in the SEER Radar snapshot.
| Paper | Venue | Year | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Unlocking Optimal ORM Database Designs: Accelerated Tradeoff Analysis with Transformers. Md Rashedul Hasan; Mohammad Rashedul Hasan; Hamid Bagheri | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| UnitCon: Synthesizing Targeted Unit Tests for Java Runtime Exceptions. Sujin Jang; Yeonhee Ryou; Heewon Lee; Kihong Heo | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 Diverse Program Transformations for Program Simplification. Haibo Wang; Zezhong Xing; Chengnian Sun; Zheng Wang 0001; Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Landscape of Toxicity: An Empirical Investigation of Toxicity on GitHub. Jaydeb Sarker; Asif Kamal Turzo; Amiangshu Bosu | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| RePurr: Automated Repair of Block-Based Learners' Programs. Sebastian Schweikl; Gordon Fraser 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| 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 |
| ROSCallBaX: Statically Detecting Inconsistencies in Callback Function Setup of Robotic Systems. Sayali Kate; Yifei Gao; Shiwei Feng 0002; Xiangyu Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| PDCAT: Preference-Driven Compiler Auto-tuning. Mingxuan Zhu; Zeyu Sun 0004; Dan Hao 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 the Characteristics and Impacts of Protestware Libraries. Tanner Finken; Jesse Chen; Sazzadur Rahaman | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| No More Labelled Examples? An Unsupervised Log Parser with LLMs. Junjie Huang 0008; Zhihan Jiang; Zhuangbin Chen; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| NLP Libraries, Energy Consumption and Runtime: An Empirical Study. Rajrupa Chattaraj; Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2025 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| 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 |
| Multi-modal Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing. Zhi Tu; Liangkun Niu; Wei Fan; Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MendelFuzz: The Return of the Deterministic Stage. Han Zheng 0006; Flavio Toffalini; Marcel Böhme; Mathias Payer | 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 |
| 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 |
| LlamaRestTest: Effective REST API Testing with Small Language Models. Myeongsoo Kim; Saurabh Sinha 0003; Alessandro Orso | 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 |
| 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 |
| Large Language Models for In-File Vulnerability Localization Can Be "Lost in the End". Francesco Sovrano; Adam Bauer; Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| It's Acting Odd! Exploring Equivocal Behaviors of Goodware. Gregorio Dalia; Andrea Di Sorbo; Corrado Aaron Visaggio; Gerardo Canfora | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Integrating Large Language Models and Reinforcement Learning for Non-linear Reasoning. Yoav Alon; Cristina David | 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 |
| Impact of Request Formats on Effort Estimation: Are LLMs Different Than Humans? Gül Çalikli; Mohammed Alhamed | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| How Do Programming Students Use Generative AI? Christian Rahe; Walid Maalej | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models with Metamorphic Relations. Borui Yang; Md Afif Al Mamun; Jie M. Zhang; Gias Uddin 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Gleipner: A Benchmark for Gadget Chain Detection in Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities. Bruno Kreyssig; Alexandre Bartel | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| Expressing and Checking Statistical Assumptions. Alexi Turcotte; Zheyuan Wu | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dynamic Taint Tracking for Modern Java Virtual Machines. Katherine Hough; Jonathan Bell 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| DyLin: A Dynamic Linter for Python. Aryaz Eghbali; Felix Burk; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dissecting Real-World Cross-Language Bugs. Haoran Yang 0002; Haipeng Cai | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 Metadata-Related Bugs in Enterprise Applications. Md Mahir Asef Kabir; Xiaoyin Wang; Na Meng 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| Demystifying LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents. Chunqiu Steven Xia; Yinlin Deng; Soren Dunn; Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2025 | AI / LLM for SE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| CoverUp: Effective High Coverage Test Generation for Python. Juan Altmayer Pizzorno; Emery D. Berger | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ChangeGuard: Validating Code Changes via Pairwise Learning-Guided Execution. Lars Gröninger; Beatriz Souza; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Calibration of Large Language Models on Code Summarization. Yuvraj Virk; Premkumar T. Devanbu; Toufique Ahmed | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| COFFE: A Code Efficiency Benchmark for Code Generation. Yun Peng 0003; Jun Wan; Yichen Li 0003; Xiaoxue Ren | FSE | 2025 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Blended Analysis for Predictive Execution. Yi Li 0048; Hridya Dhulipala; Aashish Yadavally; Xiaokai Rong; Shaohua Wang 0002; Tien N. Nguyen | 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 |
| 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 |
| Automatically Fixing Dependency Breaking Changes. Lukas Fruntke; Jens Krinke | FSE | 2025 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Automated Unit Test Refactoring. Yi Gao; Xing Hu 0008; Xiaohu Yang 0001; Xin Xia 0001 | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| 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 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 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 Extraction and Analysis of Developer's Rationale in Open Source Software. Mouna Dhaouadi; Bentley Oakes; Michalis Famelis | FSE | 2025 | 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 |
| 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adaptive Random Testing with Q-grams: The Illusion Comes True. Matteo Biagiola; Robert Feldt; Paolo Tonella | FSE | 2025 | Testing / QA |
| A New Approach to Evaluating Nullability Inference Tools. Nima Karimipour; Erfan Arvan; Martin Kellogg; Manu Sridharan | FSE | 2025 | Other |
| 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Your Code Secret Belongs to Me: Neural Code Completion Tools Can Memorize Hard-Coded Credentials. Yizhan Huang; Yichen Li 0003; Weibin Wu 0002; Jianping Zhang 0002; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Unprecedented Code Change Automation: The Fusion of LLMs and Transformation by Example. Malinda Dilhara; Abhiram Bellur; Timofey Bryksin; Danny Dig | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding the Impact of APIs Behavioral Breaking Changes on Client Applications. Dhanushka Jayasuriya; Valerio Terragni; Jens Dietrich 0001; Kelly Blincoe | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding and Detecting Annotation-Induced Faults of Static Analyzers. Huaien Zhang; Yu Pei 0001; Shuyun Liang; Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Understanding Developers' Discussions and Perceptions on Non-functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem. Anderson Oliveira; João Lucas Correia; Wesley K. G. Assunção; Juliana Alves Pereira; Rafael Maiani de Mello; Daniel Coutinho; Caio Barbosa; Paulo Vítor C. F. Libório; Alessandro Garcia 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| TraStrainer: Adaptive Sampling for Distributed Traces with System Runtime State. Haiyu Huang 0002; Xiaoyu Zhang; Pengfei Chen 0002; Zilong He; Zhiming Chen; Guangba Yu; Hongyang Chen 0002; Chen Sun 0005 | FSE | 2024 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Towards Efficient Verification of Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations. Luwei Cai; Fu Song; Taolue Chen 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Towards Efficient Build Ordering for Incremental Builds with Multiple Configurations. Jun Lyu; Shanshan Li 0002; He Zhang 0001; Lanxin Yang; Bohan Liu 0003; Manuel Rigger | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Towards Better Graph Neural Network-Based Fault Localization through Enhanced Code Representation. Md Nakhla Rafi; Dong Jae Kim; An Ran Chen; Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen; Shaowei Wang 0002 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Towards AI-Assisted Synthesis of Verified Dafny Methods. Md Rakib Hossain Misu; Cristina V. Lopes; Iris Ma; James Noble 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| TIPS: Tracking Integer-Pointer Value Flows for C++ Member Function Pointers. Changwei Zou; Dongjie He; Yulei Sui; Jingling Xue | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Syntax Is All You Need: A Universal-Language Approach to Mutant Generation. Sourav Deb; Kush Jain; Rijnard van Tonder; Claire Le Goues; Alex Groce | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools for Smart Contracts: How Far Are We? Kaixuan Li 0002; Yue Xue; Sen Chen 0001; Han Liu 0012; Kairan Sun; Ming Hu 0003; Haijun Wang 0002; Yang Liu 0003; Yixiang Chen 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| State Reconciliation Defects in Infrastructure as Code. Md. Mahadi Hassan; John Salvador; Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu; Akond Rahman | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis. Zeqin Liao; Yuhong Nan; Henglong Liang; Sicheng Hao 0001; Juan Zhai; Jiajing Wu; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| SimLLM: Calculating Semantic Similarity in Code Summaries using a Large Language Model-Based Approach. Xin Jin; Zhiqiang Lin 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Sharing Software-Evolution Datasets: Practices, Challenges, and Recommendations. David Broneske; Sebastian Kittan; Jacob Krüger | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Shadows in the Interface: A Comprehensive Study on Dark Patterns. Liming Nie; Yangyang Zhao; Chenglin Li; Xuqiong Luo; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Semi-supervised Crowdsourced Test Report Clustering via Screenshot-Text Binding Rules. Shengcheng Yu; Chunrong Fang; Quanjun Zhang; Mingzhe Du; Jia Liu 0015; Zhenyu Chen 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| Rocks Coding, Not Development: A Human-Centric, Experimental Evaluation of LLM-Supported SE Tasks. Wei Wang 0353; Huilong Ning; Gaowei Zhang; Libo Liu; Yi Wang 0013 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Revealing Software Development Work Patterns with PR-Issue Graph Topologies. Cleidson R. B. de Souza; Emilie Ma; Jesse Wong; Dongwook Yoon; Ivan Beschastnikh | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Refactoring to Pythonic Idioms: A Hybrid Knowledge-Driven Approach Leveraging Large Language Models. Zejun Zhang 0006; Zhenchang Xing; Xiaoxue Ren; Qinghua Lu 0001; Xiwei Xu 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| RavenBuild: Context, Relevance, and Dependency Aware Build Outcome Prediction. Gengyi Sun; Sarra Habchi; Shane McIntosh | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| R2I: A Relative Readability Metric for Decompiled Code. Haeun Eom; Dohee Kim; Sori Lim; Hyungjoon Koo; Sungjae Hwang | FSE | 2024 | Education / Program Comprehension |
| PyRadar: Towards Automatically Retrieving and Validating Source Code Repository Information for PyPI Packages. Kai Gao 0008; Weiwei Xu 0001; Wenhao Yang; Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| ProveNFix: Temporal Property-Guided Program Repair. Yahui Song; Xiang Gao 0012; Wenhua Li; Wei-Ngan Chin; Abhik Roychoudhury | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Predictive Program Slicing via Execution Knowledge-Guided Dynamic Dependence Learning. Aashish Yadavally; Yi Li 0048; Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Predicting Failures of Autoscaling Distributed Applications. Giovanni Denaro; Noura El Moussa; Rahim Heydarov; Francesco Lomio; Mauro Pezzè; Ketai Qiu | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Predicting Configuration Performance in Multiple Environments with Sequential Meta-Learning. Jingzhi Gong; Tao Chen 0001 | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Predicting Code Comprehension: A Novel Approach to Align Human Gaze with Code using Deep Neural Networks. Tarek Alakmeh; David R. Reich; Lena A. Jäger; Thomas Fritz 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Education / Program Comprehension |
| Partial Solution Based Constraint Solving Cache in Symbolic Execution. Ziqi Shuai; Zhenbang Chen 0001; Kelin Ma; Kunlin Liu; Yufeng Zhang 0001; Jun Sun 0001; Ji Wang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| PPM: Automated Generation of Diverse Programming Problems for Benchmarking Code Generation Models. Simin Chen; Xiaoning Feng; Xiaohong Han; Cong Liu 0005; Wei Yang 0013 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| PBE-Based Selective Abstraction and Refinement for Efficient Property Falsification of Embedded Software. Yoel Kim; Yunja Choi | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Only diff Is Not Enough: Generating Commit Messages Leveraging Reasoning and Action of Large Language Model. Jiawei Li 0013; David Faragó; Christian Petrov; Iftekhar Ahmed 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| On the Contents and Utility of IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines. Jesse Chen; Dharun Anandayuvaraj; James C. Davis 0001; Sazzadur Rahaman | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| On Reducing Undesirable Behavior in Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Software. Ophir M. Carmel; Guy Katz | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Natural Symbolic Execution-Based Testing for Big Data Analytics. Yaoxuan Wu; Ahmad Humayun; Muhammad Ali Gulzar; Miryung Kim | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Natural Is the Best: Model-Agnostic Code Simplification for Pre-trained Large Language Models. Yan Wang 0014; Xiaoning Li; Tien N. Nguyen; Shaohua Wang 0002; Chao Ni 0001; Ling Ding | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Mobile Bug Report Reproduction via Global Search on the App UI Model. Zhaoxu Zhang; Fazle Mohammed Tawsif; Komei Ryu; Tingting Yu 0001; William G. J. Halfond | FSE | 2024 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Misconfiguration Software Testing for Failure Emergence in Autonomous Driving Systems. Yuntianyi Chen; Yuqi Huai; Shilong Li 0002; Changnam Hong; Joshua Garcia | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| MirrorFair: Fixing Fairness Bugs in Machine Learning Software via Counterfactual Predictions. Ying Xiao; Jie M. Zhang; Yepang Liu 0001; Mohammad Reza Mousavi 0001; Sicen Liu; Dingyuan Xue | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Mining Action Rules for Defect Reduction Planning. Khouloud Oueslati; Gabriel Laberge; Maxime Lamothe; Foutse Khomh | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Metamorphic Testing of Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) Compilers. Yichen Li 0004; Dongwei Xiao; Zhibo Liu 0001; Qi Pang; Shuai Wang 0011 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| Maximizing Patch Coverage for Testing of Highly-Configurable Software without Exploding Build Times. Necip Fazil Yildiran; Jeho Oh; Julia Lawall; Paul Gazzillo | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| MTAS: A Reference-Free Approach for Evaluating Abstractive Summarization Systems. Xiaoyan Zhu; Mingyue Jiang; Xiao-Yi Zhang 0005; Liming Nie; Zuohua Ding | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| LogSD: Detecting Anomalies from System Logs through Self-Supervised Learning and Frequency-Based Masking. Yongzheng Xie; Hongyu Zhang 0002; Muhammad Ali Babar 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Less Cybersickness, Please: Demystifying and Detecting Stereoscopic Visual Inconsistencies in Virtual Reality Apps. Shuqing Li 0001; Cuiyun Gao 0001; Jianping Zhang 0002; Yujia Zhang 0018; Yepang Liu 0001; Jiazhen Gu; Yun Peng 0003; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2024 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Learning to Detect and Localize Multilingual Bugs. Haoran Yang 0002; Yu Nong; Tao Zhang 0001; Xiapu Luo; Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache. Zhihan Jiang; Jinyang Liu 0002; Zhuangbin Chen; Yichen Li 0003; Junjie Huang 0008; Yintong Huo; Pinjia He; Jiazhen Gu; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Java JIT Testing with Template Extraction. Zhiqiang Zang; Fu-Yao Yu; Aditya Thimmaiah; August Shi; Milos Gligoric 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| JIT-Smart: A Multi-task Learning Framework for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction and Localization. Xiangping Chen; Furen Xu; Yuan Huang 0002; Neng Zhang 0001; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Investigating Documented Privacy Changes in Android OS. Chuan Yan; Mark Huasong Meng; Fuman Xie; Guangdong Bai | FSE | 2024 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Improving the Learning of Code Review Successive Tasks with Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation. Oussama Ben Sghaier; Houari A. Sahraoui | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| IRCoCo: Immediate Rewards-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Code Completion. Bolun Li; Zhihong Sun; Tao Huang; Hongyu Zhang 0002; Yao Wan 0001; Ge Li 0001; Zhi Jin 0001; Chen Lyu 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities? Xin Tan 0003; Yan Gong 0001; Geyu Huang; Haohua Wu; Li Zhang 0029 | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| How Does Simulation-Based Testing for Self-Driving Cars Match Human Perception? Christian Birchler; Tanzil Kombarabettu Mohammed; Pooja Rani 0001; Teodora Nechita; Timo Kehrer; Sebastiano Panichella | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Harnessing Neuron Stability to Improve DNN Verification. Hai Duong; Dong Xu 0021; ThanhVu Nguyen; Matthew B. Dwyer | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Go Static: Contextualized Logging Statement Generation. Yichen Li 0003; Yintong Huo; Renyi Zhong; Zhihan Jiang; Jinyang Liu 0002; Junjie Huang 0008; Jiazhen Gu; Pinjia He; Michael R. Lyu | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Glitch Tokens in Large Language Models: Categorization Taxonomy and Effective Detection. Yuxi Li 0010; Yi Liu 0069; Gelei Deng; Ying Zhang 0066; Wenjia Song; Ling Shi 0002; Kailong Wang 0001; Yuekang Li; Yang Liu 0003; Haoyu Wang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions. Tao Xiao 0001; Hideaki Hata; Christoph Treude; Kenichi Matsumoto | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Finding and Understanding Defects in Static Analyzers by Constructing Automated Oracles. Weigang He; Peng Di; Mengli Ming; Chengyu Zhang 0001; Ting Su 0001; Shijie Li; Yulei Sui | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| FeatMaker: Automated Feature Engineering for Search Strategy of Symbolic Execution. Jaehan Yoon; Sooyoung Cha | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Fast Graph Simplification for Path-Sensitive Typestate Analysis through Tempo-Spatial Multi-Point Slicing. Xiao Cheng 0002; Jiawei Ren 0003; Yulei Sui | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization. Yifan Zhang 0013; Jiliang Li; Zachary Karas; Aakash Bansal; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan; Kevin Leach; Yu Huang 0015 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Exploring and Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models in Automated Code Translation. Zhen Yang 0022; Fang Liu 0032; Zhongxing Yu; Jacky Wai Keung; Jia Li 0011; Shuo Liu 0020; Yifan Hong; Xiaoxue Ma; Zhi Jin 0001; Ge Li 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization for Contextual Adversarial Example Generation. Shasha Zhou; Mingyu Huang; Yanan Sun 0001; Ke Li 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Evaluating and Improving ChatGPT for Unit Test Generation. Zhiqiang Yuan; Mingwei Liu 0002; Shiji Ding; Kaixin Wang; Yixuan Chen 0012; Xin Peng 0001; Yiling Lou | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Evaluating Directed Fuzzers: Are We Heading in the Right Direction? Tae Eun Kim; Jaeseung Choi 0002; Seongjae Im; Kihong Heo; Sang Kil Cha | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Enhancing Function Name Prediction using Votes-Based Name Tokenization and Multi-task Learning. Xiaoling Zhang 0009; Zhengzi Xu; Shouguo Yang; Zhi Li 0018; Zhiqiang Shi; Limin Sun 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Enhancing Code Understanding for Impact Analysis by Combining Transformers and Program Dependence Graphs. Yanfu Yan; Nathan Cooper; Kevin Moran; Gabriele Bavota; Denys Poshyvanyk; Steve Rich | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Efficiently Detecting Reentrancy Vulnerabilities in Complex Smart Contracts. Zexu Wang; Jiachi Chen; Yanlin Wang 0001; Yu Zhang 0036; Weizhe Zhang; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Effective Teaching through Code Reviews: Patterns and Anti-patterns. Anita Sarma; Nina Chen | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| DyPyBench: A Benchmark of Executable Python Software. Islem Bouzenia; Bajaj Piyush Krishan; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Do Words Have Power? Understanding and Fostering Civility in Code Review Discussion. Md Shamimur Rahman; Zadia Codabux; Chanchal K. Roy | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Do Large Language Models Pay Similar Attention Like Human Programmers When Generating Code? Bonan Kou; Shengmai Chen; Zhijie Wang 0014; Lei Ma 0003; Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| DiffCoder: Enhancing Large Language Model on API Invocation via Analogical Code Exercises. Daoguang Zan; Ailun Yu; Bo Shen; Bei Chen 0008; Wei Li 0326; Yongshun Gong; Xiaolin Chen; Yafen Yao; Weihua Luo; Bei Guan; Yan Liu; Yongji Wang 0002; Qianxiang Wang; Lizhen Cui 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Detecting, Creating, Repairing, and Understanding Indivisible Multi-Hunk Bugs. Qi Xin 0001; Haojun Wu; Jinran Tang; Xinyu Liu; Steven P. Reiss; Jifeng Xuan | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Dependency-Induced Waste in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Unused Dependencies in the npm Ecosystem. Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana; Mahmoud Alfadel; Shane McIntosh | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Demystifying Invariant Effectiveness for Securing Smart Contracts. Zhiyang Chen 0004; Ye Liu 0012; Sidi Mohamed Beillahi; Yi Li 0008; Fan Long | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Decomposing Software Verification using Distributed Summary Synthesis. Dirk Beyer 0001; Matthias Kettl; Thomas Lemberger 0002 | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| DeciX: Explain Deep Learning Based Code Generation Applications. Simin Chen; Zexin Li 0001; Wei Yang 0013; Cong Liu 0005 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| DeSQL: Interactive Debugging of SQL in Data-Intensive Scalable Computing. Sabaat Haroon; Chris Brown 0001; Muhammad Ali Gulzar | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| DTD: Comprehensive and Scalable Testing for Debuggers. Hongyi Lu; Zhibo Liu 0001; Shuai Wang 0011; Fengwei Zhang | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| DAInfer: Inferring API Aliasing Specifications from Library Documentation via Neurosymbolic Optimization. Chengpeng Wang 0001; Jipeng Zhang; Rongxin Wu; Charles Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Cut to the Chase: An Error-Oriented Approach to Detect Error-Handling Bugs. Haoran Liu; Zhouyang Jia; Shanshan Li 0001; Yan Lei; Yue Yu 0001; Yu Jiang 0001; Xiaoguang Mao; Xiangke Liao | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| CrossCert: A Cross-Checking Detection Approach to Patch Robustness Certification for Deep Learning Models. Qilin Zhou; Zhengyuan Wei; Haipeng Wang 0005; Bo Jiang 0001; Wing-Kwong Chan | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Component Security Ten Years Later: An Empirical Study of Cross-Layer Threats in Real-World Mobile Applications. Keke Lian; Lei Zhang 0096; Guangliang Yang 0001; Shuo Mao; Xinjie Wang; Yuan Zhang 0009; Min Yang 0002 | FSE | 2024 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| CodePlan: Repository-Level Coding using LLMs and Planning. Ramakrishna Bairi; Atharv Sonwane; Aditya Kanade 0001; Vageesh D. C.; Arun Iyer; Suresh Parthasarathy; Sriram K. Rajamani; Balasubramanyan Ashok; Shashank Shet | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| CodeArt: Better Code Models by Attention Regularization When Symbols Are Lacking. Zian Su; Xiangzhe Xu; Ziyang Huang 0004; Zhuo Zhang 0002; Yapeng Ye; Jianjun Huang 0001; Xiangyu Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Code-Aware Prompting: A Study of Coverage-Guided Test Generation in Regression Setting using LLM. Gabriel Ryan; Siddhartha Jain 0001; Mingyue Shang; Shiqi Wang 0002; Xiaofei Ma 0001; Murali Krishna Ramanathan; Baishakhi Ray | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| ClarifyGPT: A Framework for Enhancing LLM-Based Code Generation via Requirements Clarification. Fangwen Mu; Lin Shi 0006; Song Wang 0009; Zhuohao Yu 0002; Binquan Zhang; Chenxue Wang; Shichao Liu; Qing Wang 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Characterizing Python Library Migrations. Mohayeminul Islam; Ajay Kumar Jha; Ildar Akhmetov; Sarah Nadi | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| ChangeRCA: Finding Root Causes from Software Changes in Large Online Systems. Guangba Yu; Pengfei Chen 0002; Zilong He; Qiuyu Yan; Yu Luo; Fangyuan Li; Zibin Zheng | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Can Large Language Models Transform Natural Language Intent into Formal Method Postconditions? Madeline Endres; Sarah Fakhoury; Saikat Chakraborty 0001; Shuvendu K. Lahiri | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research? Jenny T. Liang; Carmen Badea; Christian Bird; Robert DeLine; Denae Ford; Nicole Forsgren; Thomas Zimmermann 0001 | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| COSTELLO: Contrastive Testing for Embedding-Based Large Language Model as a Service Embeddings. Weipeng Jiang; Juan Zhai; Shiqing Ma; Xiaoyu Zhang 0013; Chao Shen 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| CORE: Resolving Code Quality Issues using LLMs. Nalin Wadhwa; Jui Pradhan; Atharv Sonwane; Surya Prakash Sahu; Nagarajan Natarajan; Aditya Kanade 0001; Suresh Parthasarathy; Sriram K. Rajamani | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| CC2Vec: Combining Typed Tokens with Contrastive Learning for Effective Code Clone Detection. Shihan Dou; Yueming Wu 0001; Haoxiang Jia; Yuhao Zhou 0005; Yan Liu 0012; Yang Liu 0003 | FSE | 2024 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Bounding Random Test Set Size with Computational Learning Theory. Neil Walkinshaw; Michael Foster 0001; José Miguel Rojas; Robert M. Hierons | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| Bloat beneath Python's Scales: A Fine-Grained Inter-Project Dependency Analysis. Georgios-Petros Drosos; Thodoris Sotiropoulos; Diomidis Spinellis; Dimitris Mitropoulos | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Bin2Summary: Beyond Function Name Prediction in Stripped Binaries with Functionality-Specific Code Embeddings. Zirui Song; Jiongyi Chen; Kehuan Zhang | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Beyond Code Generation: An Observational Study of ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice. Ranim Khojah; Mazen Mohamad; Philipp Leitner 0001; Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| BRF: Fuzzing the eBPF Runtime. Hsin-Wei Hung; Ardalan Amiri Sani | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA |
| BARO: Robust Root Cause Analysis for Microservices via Multivariate Bayesian Online Change Point Detection. Luan Pham; Huong Ha 0001; Hongyu Zhang 0002 | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Are Human Rules Necessary? Generating Reusable APIs with CoT Reasoning and In-Context Learning. Yubo Mai; Zhipeng Gao 0002; Xing Hu 0008; Lingfeng Bao; Yu Liu 0146; Jianling Sun | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Analyzing Quantum Programs with LintQ: A Static Analysis Framework for Qiskit. Matteo Paltenghi; Michael Pradel | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| An Empirical Study on Focal Methods in Deep-Learning-Based Approaches for Assertion Generation. Yibo He; Jiaming Huang; Hao Yu 0016; Tao Xie 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An Empirical Study on Code Review Activity Prediction and Its Impact in Practice. Doriane Olewicki; Sarra Habchi; Bram Adams | FSE | 2024 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Autocomplete in IDEs. Shaokang Jiang; Michael Coblenz | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Adapting Multi-objectivized Software Configuration Tuning. Tao Chen 0001; Miqing Li | FSE | 2024 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Active Monitoring Mechanism for Control-Based Self-Adaptive Systems. Yi Qin 0002; Yanxiang Tong; Yifei Xu; Chun Cao; Xiaoxing Ma | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| Abstraction-Aware Inference of Metamorphic Relations. Agustín Nolasco; Facundo Molina; Renzo Degiovanni; Alessandra Gorla; Diego Garbervetsky; Mike Papadakis; Sebastián Uchitel; Nazareno Aguirre; Marcelo F. Frias | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| AROMA: Automatic Reproduction of Maven Artifacts. Mehdi Keshani; Tudor-Gabriel Velican; Gideon Bot; Sebastian Proksch 0001 | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| AI-Assisted Code Authoring at Scale: Fine-Tuning, Deploying, and Mixed Methods Evaluation. Vijayaraghavan Murali; Chandra Shekhar Maddila; Imad Ahmad; Michael Bolin; Daniel Cheng; Negar Ghorbani; Renuka Fernandez; Nachiappan Nagappan; Peter C. Rigby | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE |
| A Weak Supervision-Based Approach to Improve Chatbots for Code Repositories. Farbod Farhour; Ahmad Abdellatif; Essam Mansour 0001; Emad Shihab | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| A Transferability Study of Interpolation-Based Hardware Model Checking for Software Verification. Dirk Beyer 0001; Po-Chun Chien; Marek Jankola; Nian-Ze Lee | FSE | 2024 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of LLM-Based Explainable Fault Localization. Sungmin Kang; Gabin An; Shin Yoo | FSE | 2024 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| A Miss Is as Good as A Mile: Metamorphic Testing for Deep Learning Operators. Jinyin Chen; Chengyu Jia 0001; Yunjie Yan; Jie Ge; Haibin Zheng; Yao Cheng 0002 | FSE | 2024 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| A Deep Dive into Large Language Models for Automated Bug Localization and Repair. Soneya Binta Hossain; Nan Jiang 0012; Qiang Zhou 0009; Xiaopeng Li 0002; Wen-Hao Chiang; Yingjun Lyu; Hoan Anh Nguyen; Omer Tripp | FSE | 2024 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| A Critical Review of Common Log Data Sets Used for Evaluation of Sequence-Based Anomaly Detection Techniques. Max Landauer; Florian Skopik; Markus Wurzenberger | FSE | 2024 | Other |
| "The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners. Nathan Wintersgill; Trevor Stalnaker; Laura A. Heymann; Oscar Chaparro; Denys Poshyvanyk | FSE | 2024 | 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 |
| xASTNN: Improved Code Representations for Industrial Practice. Zhiwei Xu, Min Zhou 0001, Xibin Zhao, Yang Chen 0001, Xi Cheng | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| npm-follower: A Complete Dataset Tracking the NPM Ecosystem. Donald Pinckney, Federico Cassano, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| When Function Inlining Meets WebAssembly: Counterintuitive Impacts on Runtime Performance. Alan Romano, Weihang Wang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Solidity Event Logging Practices in the Wild. Lantian Li, Yejian Liang, Zhihao Liu, Zhongxing Yu | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Understanding Hackers' Work: An Empirical Study of Offensive Security Practitioners. Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| 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 |
| Triggering Modes in Spectrum-Based Multi-location Fault Localization. Tung Dao, Na Meng 0001, ThanhVu Nguyen | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| TransRacer: Function Dependence-Guided Transaction Race Detection for Smart Contracts. Chenyang Ma, Wei Song 0003, Jeff Huang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| TransMap: Pinpointing Mistakes in Neural Code Translation. Bo Wang 0146, Ruishi Li, Mingkai Li, Prateek Saxena | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| 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 |
| Towards Understanding Emotions in Informal Developer Interactions: A Gitter Chat Study. Amirali Sajadi, Kostadin Damevski, Preetha Chatterjee | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| 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 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 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 Feature-Based Analysis of the Machine Learning Development Lifecycle. Boyue Caroline Hu, Marsha Chechik | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| 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 Automated Detection of Unethical Behavior in Open-Source Software Projects. Hsu Myat Win, Haibo Wang, Shin Hwei Tan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Towards AI-Driven Software Development: Challenges and Lessons from the Field (Keynote). Eran Yahav | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| The State of Survival in OSS: The Impact of Diversity. Zixuan Feng | 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 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 Call Graph Chronicles: Unleashing the Power Within. Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Testing Real-World Healthcare IoT Application: Experiences and Lessons Learned. Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Kjetil Moberg | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Testing Coreference Resolution Systems without Labeled Test Sets. Jialun Cao, Yaojie Lu 0001, Ming Wen 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| Statistical Type Inference for Incomplete Programs. Yaohui Peng, Jing Xie, Qiongling Yang, Hanwen Guo, Qingan Li | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Statistical Reachability Analysis. Seongmin Lee 0001, Marcel Böhme | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| State Merging with Quantifiers in Symbolic Execution. David Trabish, Noam Rinetzky, Sharon Shoham, Vaibhav Sharma 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Speeding up SMT Solving via Compiler Optimization. Benjamin Mikek, Qirun Zhang | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| 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 |
| 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 Architecture Recovery with Information Fusion. Yiran Zhang, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu, Hongxu Chen 0001, Jianwen Sun | FSE | 2023 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Semantic Debugging. Martin Eberlein, Marius Smytzek, Dominic Steinhöfel, Lars Grunske, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Self-Supervised Query Reformulation for Code Search. Yuetian Mao, Chengcheng Wan 0001, Yuze Jiang, Xiaodong Gu 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Scalable Program Clone Search through Spectral Analysis. Tristan Benoit, Jean-Yves Marion, Sébastien Bardin | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| STraceBERT: Source Code Retrieval using Semantic Application Traces. Claudio Spiess | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| STEAM: Observability-Preserving Trace Sampling. Shilin He, Botao Feng, Liqun Li, Xu Zhang 0024, Yu Kang 0006 | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| SJFuzz: Seed and Mutator Scheduling for JVM Fuzzing. Mingyuan Wu, Yicheng Ouyang, Minghai Lu, Junjie Chen 0003, Yingquan Zhao | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Rotten Green Tests in Google Test. Paul Robinson | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing. Maria-Irina Nicolae, Max Eisele, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| PropProof: Free Model-Checking Harnesses from PBT. Yoshiki Takashima | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| Privacy-Centric Log Parsing for Timely, Proactive Personal Data Protection. Issam Sedki | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Prioritizing Natural Language Test Cases Based on Highly-Used Game Features. Markos Viggiato, Dale Paas, Cor-Paul Bezemer | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Predicting Software Performance with Divide-and-Learn. Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Pre-training Code Representation with Semantic Flow Graph for Effective Bug Localization. Yali Du 0002, Zhongxing Yu | FSE | 2023 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Practical Inference of Nullability Types. Nima Karimipour, Justin Pham, Lazaro Clapp, Manu Sridharan | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Pitfalls in Experiments with DNN4SE: An Analysis of the State of the Practice. Sira Vegas, Sebastian G. Elbaum | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| PPR: Pairwise Program Reduction. Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Yu Jiang 0001, Chengnian Sun | 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 |
| P4b: A Translator from P4 Programs to Boogie. Chong Ye, Fei He 0001 | 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 |
| Outage-Watch: Early Prediction of Outages using Extreme Event Regularizer. Shubham Agarwal 0007, Sarthak Chakraborty, Shaddy Garg, Sumit Bisht, Chahat Jain | 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 |
| 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 the Relationship between Code Verifiability and Understandability. Kobi Feldman, Martin Kellogg, Oscar Chaparro | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| NeuRI: Diversifying DNN Generation via Inductive Rule Inference. Jiawei Liu 0004, Jinjun Peng, Yuyao Wang, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Natural Language to Code: How Far Are We? Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin 0011, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| NaNofuzz: A Usable Tool for Automatic Test Generation. Matthew C. Davis, Sangheon Choi, Sam Estep, Brad A. Myers, Joshua Sunshine | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| MuRS: Mutant Ranking and Suppression using Identifier Templates. Zimin Chen, Malgorzata Salawa, Manushree Vijayvergiya, Goran Petrovic, Marko Ivankovic | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Metamong: Detecting Render-Update Bugs in Web Browsers through Fuzzing. Suhwan Song, Byoungyoung Lee | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Log Parsing with Generalization Ability under New Log Types. Siyu Yu, Yifan Wu 0002, Zhijing Li 0007, Pinjia He, Ningjiang Chen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lessons from the Long Tail: Analysing Unsafe Dependency Updates across Software Ecosystems. Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Kenichi Matsumoto | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Last Diff Analyzer: Multi-language Automated Approver for Behavior-Preserving Code Revisions. Yuxin Wang 0004, Adam Welc, Lazaro Clapp, Lingchao Chen | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| LLM-Based Code Generation Method for Golang Compiler Testing. Qiuhan Gu | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| LExecutor: Learning-Guided Execution. Beatriz Souza, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| Keeping Mutation Test Suites Consistent and Relevant with Long-Standing Mutants. Milos Ojdanic, Mike Papadakis, Mark Harman | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| KDDT: Knowledge Distillation-Empowered Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection. Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Zaimovic Nedim, Inderjeet Singh | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Issue Report Validation in an Industrial Context. Ethem Utku Aktas, Ebru Cakmak, Mete Inan, Cemal Yilmaz 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| IoPV: On Inconsistent Option Performance Variations. Jinfu Chen 0002, Zishuo Ding, Yiming Tang 0002, Mohammed Sayagh, Heng Li 0007 | FSE | 2023 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Input-Driven Dynamic Program Debloating for Code-Reuse Attack Mitigation. Xiaoke Wang, Tao Hui, Lei Zhao 0012, Yueqiang Cheng | FSE | 2023 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Inferring Complexity Bounds from Recurrence Relations. Didier Ishimwe | 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 |
| Incrementalizing Production CodeQL Analyses. Tamás Szabó | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| HyperDiff: Computing Source Code Diffs at Scale. Quentin Le Dilavrec, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Arnaud Blouin, Jean-Marc Jézéquel | 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 |
| How Practitioners Expect Code Completion? Chaozheng Wang, Junhao Hu, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Yu Jin, Tao Xie 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes. Prianka Mandal, Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Grace: Language Models Meet Code Edits. Priyanshu Gupta, Avishree Khare, Yasharth Bajpai, Saikat Chakraborty 0001, Sumit Gulwani | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| Getting pwn'd by AI: Penetration Testing with Large Language Models. Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Getting Outside the Bug Boxes (Keynote). Margaret Burnett | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| FunProbe: Probing Functions from Binary Code through Probabilistic Analysis. Soomin Kim 0002, Hyungseok Kim 0002, Sang Kil Cha | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| From Leaks to Fixes: Automated Repairs for Resource Leak Warnings. Akshay Utture, Jens Palsberg | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Evaluating Transfer Learning for Simplifying GitHub READMEs. Haoyu Gao, Christoph Treude, Mansooreh Zahedi | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| EvaCRC: Evaluating Code Review Comments. Lanxin Yang, Jinwei Xu, Yifan Zhang, He Zhang 0001, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2023 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| EtherDiffer: Differential Testing on RPC Services of Ethereum Nodes. Shinhae Kim, Sungjae Hwang | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Enhancing Coverage-Guided Fuzzing via Phantom Program. Mingyuan Wu, Kunqiu Chen, Qi Luo, Jiahong Xiang, Ji Qi 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Engineering a Formally Verified Automated Bug Finder. Arthur Correnson, Dominic Steinhöfel | FSE | 2023 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Discovering Parallelisms in Python Programs. Siwei Wei, Guyang Song, Senlin Zhu, Ruoyi Ruan, Shihao Zhu | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Detection of Optimizations Missed by the Compiler. Yi Zhang 0153 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| Detecting Overfitting of Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Vulnerability Detection. Niklas Risse | FSE | 2023 | AI / LLM for SE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| D2S2: Drag 'n' Drop Mobile App Screen Search. Soumik Mohian, Tony Tang, Tuan Trinh, Don Dang, Christoph Csallner | FSE | 2023 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Contribution-Based Firing of Developers? Vincenzo Orrei, Marco Raglianti, Csaba Nagy 0001, Michele Lanza 0001 | FSE | 2023 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Contextual Predictive Mutation Testing. Kush Jain, Uri Alon 0002, Alex Groce, Claire Le Goues | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| Compositional Taint Analysis for Enforcing Security Policies at Scale. Subarno Banerjee, Siwei Cui, Michael Emmi, Antonio Filieri, Liana Hadarean | FSE | 2023 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Code Coverage Criteria for Asynchronous Programs. Mohammad Ganji, Saba Alimadadi, Frank Tip | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Beyond Sharing: Conflict-Aware Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection. Haotian Si, Changhua Pei, Zhihan Li, Yadong Zhao, Jingjing Li | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BFSig: Leveraging File Significance in Bus Factor Estimation. Vahid Haratian, Mikhail Evtikhiev, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Eray Tüzün, Vladimir Kovalenko | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Automated Testing and Improvement of Named Entity Recognition Systems. Boxi Yu, Yiyan Hu, Qiuyang Mang, Wenhan Hu, Pinjia He | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Assess and Summarize: Improve Outage Understanding with Large Language Models. Pengxiang Jin, Shenglin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Haozhe Li, Yu Kang 0006 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 |
| Analyzing Microservice Connectivity with Kubesonde. Jacopo Bufalino, Mario Di Francesco, Tuomas Aura | FSE | 2023 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| 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 |
| An Automated Approach to Extracting Local Variables. Xiaye Chi, Hui Liu 0003, Guangjie Li, Weixiao Wang, Yunni Xia | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| AdaptivePaste: Intelligent Copy-Paste in IDE. Xiaoyu Liu, Jinu Jang, Neel Sundaresan, Miltiadis Allamanis, Alexey Svyatkovskiy | 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 |
| Ad Hoc Syntax-Guided Program Reduction. Jia Le Tian, Mengxiao Zhang, Zhenyang Xu, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Yiwen Dong 0002 | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| Accelerating Continuous Integration with Parallel Batch Testing. Emad Fallahzadeh, Amir Hossein Bavand, Peter C. Rigby | FSE | 2023 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A Vision on Intentions in Software Engineering. Jacob Krüger, Yi Li 0008, Chenguang Zhu 0002, Marsha Chechik, Thorsten Berger | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 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 Multidimensional Analysis of Bug Density in SAP HANA. Julian Reck, Thomas Bach 0001, Jan Stoess | FSE | 2023 | Other |
| 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 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 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 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 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 Data Set of Extracted Rationale from Linux Kernel Commit Messages. Mouna Dhaouadi | FSE | 2023 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| iTiger: an automatic issue title generation tool. Ting Zhang 0011, Ivana Clairine Irsan, Ferdian Thung, DongGyun Han, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| eGEN: an energy-saving modeling language and code generator for location-sensing of mobile apps. Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Marimuthu Chinnakali, Sridhar Chimalakonda, K. Chandrasekaran 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| You see what I want you to see: poisoning vulnerabilities in neural code search. Yao Wan 0001, Shijie Zhang, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Yulei Sui, Guandong Xu | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Workgraph: personal focus vs. interruption for engineers at Meta. Yifen Chen, Peter C. Rigby, Yulin Chen, Kun Jiang, Nader Dehghani | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| WikiDoMiner: wikipedia domain-specific miner. Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| What motivates software practitioners to contribute to inner source? Zhiyuan Wan, Xin Xia 0001, Yun Zhang 0011, David Lo 0001, Daibing Zhou | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| What improves developer productivity at google? code quality. Lan Cheng, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Mark Canning, Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| What did you pack in my app? a systematic analysis of commercial Android packers. Zikan Dong, Hongxuan Liu, Liu Wang 0002, Xiapu Luo, Yao Guo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| VulRepair: a T5-based automated software vulnerability repair. Michael Fu, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Trung Le 0001, Van Nguyen 0002, Dinh Q. Phung | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| VulCurator: a vulnerability-fixing commit detector. Truong Giang Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Xuan-Bach Dinh Le 0001, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Using nudges to accelerate code reviews at scale. Qianhua Shan, David Sukhdeo, Qianying Huang, Seth Rogers, Lawrence Chen 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Using graph neural networks for program termination. Yoav Alon, Cristina David | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Unite: an adapter for transforming analysis tools to web services via OSLC. Ondrej Vasícek, Jan Fiedor, Tomas Kratochvila, Bohuslav Krena, Ales Smrcka | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Understanding why we cannot model how long a code review will take: an industrial case study. Lawrence Chen 0002, Peter C. Rigby, Nachiappan Nagappan | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Understanding skills for OSS communities on GitHub. Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Understanding performance problems in deep learning systems. Junming Cao, Bihuan Chen 0001, Chao Sun, Longjie Hu, Shuaihong Wu | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Understanding automated code review process and developer experience in industry. Hyungjin Kim, Yonghwi Kwon 0003, Sangwoo Joh, Hyukin Kwon, Yeonhee Ryou | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Uncertainty-aware transfer learning to evolve digital twins for industrial elevators. Qinghua Xu, Shaukat Ali 0001, Tao Yue 0002, Maite Arratibel | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| UTANGO: untangling commits with context-aware, graph-based, code change clustering learning model. Yi Li 0048, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Tracking patches for open source software vulnerabilities. Congying Xu, Bihuan Chen 0001, Chenhao Lu, Kaifeng Huang 0001, Xin Peng 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| TraceCRL: contrastive representation learning for microservice trace analysis. Chenxi Zhang 0003, Xin Peng 0001, Tong Zhou, Chaofeng Sha, Zhenghui Yan | FSE | 2022 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Trace analysis based microservice architecture measurement. Xin Peng 0001, Chenxi Zhang 0003, Zhongyuan Zhao, Akasaka Isami, Xiaofeng Guo | FSE | 2022 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Towards developer-centered automatic program repair: findings from Bloomberg. Emily Rowan Winter, Vesna Nowack, David Bowes, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Toward interactive bug reporting for (android app) end-users. Yang Song, Junayed Mahmud, Ying Zhou, Oscar Chaparro, Kevin Moran | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| This is your cue! assisting search behaviour with resource style properties. Deeksha M. Arya | FSE | 2022 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| The evolution of type annotations in python: an empirical study. Luca Di Grazia, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| The best of both worlds: integrating semantic features with expert features for defect prediction and localization. Chao Ni 0001, Wei Wang 0087, Kaiwen Yang, Xin Xia 0001, Kui Liu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Testing of machine learning models with limited samples: an industrial vacuum pumping application. Ayan Chatterjee, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Erik Hallin, Anton Engman | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Testing of autonomous driving systems: where are we and where should we go? Guannan Lou, Yao Deng, Xi Zheng 0001, Mengshi Zhang, Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Task modularity and the emergence of software value streams (impact award paper keynote). Gail C. Murphy, Mik Kersten | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| TSA: a tool to detect and quantify network side-channels. Ismet Burak Kadron, Tevfik Bultan | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| TAPHSIR: towards AnaPHoric ambiguity detection and ReSolution in requirements. Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora 0002, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh | FSE | 2022 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| SymMC: approximate model enumeration and counting using symmetry information for Alloy specifications. Wenxi Wang, Yang Hu, Kenneth L. McMillan, Sarfraz Khurshid | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Static executes-before analysis for event driven programs. Rekha R. Pai, Abhishek Uppar, Akshatha Shenoy 0001, Pranshul Kushwaha, Deepak D'Souza | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Sometimes you have to treat the symptoms: tackling model drift in an industrial clone-and-own software product line. Christof Tinnes, Wolfgang Rössler, Uwe Hohenstein, Torsten Kühn, Andreas Biesdorf | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| SolSEE: a source-level symbolic execution engine for solidity. Shang-Wei Lin 0001, Palina Tolmach, Ye Liu 0012, Yi Li 0008 | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Software security during modern code review: the developer's perspective. Larissa Braz, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Sentiment in software engineering: detection and application. Nathan Cassee | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Semi-supervised pre-processing for learning-based traceability framework on real-world software projects. Liming Dong 0001, He Zhang 0001, Wei Liu, Zhiluo Weng, Hongyu Kuang | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| SemCluster: a semi-supervised clustering tool for crowdsourced test reports with deep image understanding. Mingzhe Du, Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Tongyu Li, Heyuan Zhang | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Security code smells in apps: are we getting better? Steven Arzt | FSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Scenario-based test reduction and prioritization for multi-module autonomous driving systems. Yao Deng, Xi Zheng 0001, Mengshi Zhang, Guannan Lou, Tianyi Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| SamplingCA: effective and efficient sampling-based pairwise testing for highly configurable software systems. Chuan Luo 0002, Qiyuan Zhao, Shaowei Cai 0001, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Chunming Hu | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| SPINE: a scalable log parser with feedback guidance. Xuheng Wang, Xu Zhang 0024, Liqun Li, Shilin He, Hongyu Zhang 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| SFLKit: a workbench for statistical fault localization. Marius Smytzek, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| SEDiff: scope-aware differential fuzzing to test internal function models in symbolic execution. Penghui Li 0001, Wei Meng 0001, Kangjie Lu | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| RoboFuzz: fuzzing robotic systems over robot operating system (ROS) for finding correctness bugs. Seulbae Kim, Taesoo Kim | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| RegMiner: mining replicable regression dataset from code repositories. Xuezhi Song, Yun Lin 0001, Yijian Wu, Yifan Zhang 0019, Siang Hwee Ng | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Reflections on software failure analysis. Paschal C. Amusuo, Aishwarya Sharma, Siddharth R. Rao, Abbey Vincent, James C. Davis 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| RecipeGen++: an automated trigger action programs generator. Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Diyanah Binte Abdul Jamal, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| RULER: discriminative and iterative adversarial training for deep neural network fairness. Guanhong Tao 0001, Weisong Sun, Tingxu Han, Chunrong Fang, Xiangyu Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| RESTInfer: automated inferring parameter constraints from natural language RESTful API descriptions. Yi Liu 0069 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Quantitative relational modelling with QAlloy. Pedro Silva, José N. Oliveira, Nuno Macedo 0001, Alcino Cunha | FSE | 2022 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Quantifying community evolution in developer social networks. Liang Wang 0006, Ying Li 0114, Jierui Zhang, Xianping Tao | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Python-by-contract dataset. Jiyang Zhang 0003, Marko Ristin, Phillip Schanely, Hans Wernher van de Venn, Milos Gligoric 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| PyTER: effective program repair for Python type errors. Wonseok Oh, Hakjoo Oh | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Putting them under microscope: a fine-grained approach for detecting redundant test cases in natural language. Zhiyuan Chang, Mingyang Li 0005, Junjie Wang 0001, Qing Wang 0001, Shoubin Li | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Psychologically-inspired, unsupervised inference of perceptual groups of GUI widgets from GUI images. Mulong Xie, Zhenchang Xing, Sidong Feng, Xiwei Xu 0001, Liming Zhu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Program merge conflict resolution via neural transformers. Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Sarah Fakhoury, Negar Ghorbani, Todd Mytkowicz, Elizabeth Dinella | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Program analysis using WALA (tutorial). Joanna C. S. Santos, Julian Dolby | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| PolyFax: a toolkit for characterizing multi-language software. Wen Li 0007, Li Li 0029, Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Performing large-scale mining studies: from start to finish (tutorial). Robert Dyer 0001, Samuel W. Flint | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Perfect is the enemy of test oracle. Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Yigit Varli, Dilara Tekinoglu, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Peahen: fast and precise static deadlock detection via context reduction. Yuandao Cai, Chengfeng Ye, Qingkai Shi, Charles Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Paving the way for mature secondary research: the seven types of literature review. Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Parasol: efficient parallel synthesis of large model spaces. Clay Stevens, Hamid Bagheri | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Pair programming conversations with agents vs. developers: challenges and opportunities for SE community. Peter Robe, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Jake AuBuchon, Jacob C. Hart | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| PaReco: patched clones and missed patches among the divergent variants of a software family. Poedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen, John Businge, Brent van Bladel, Alexandre Decan, Serge Demeyer | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Online testing of RESTful APIs: promises and challenges. Alberto Martin-Lopez, Sergio Segura, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| On-the-fly syntax highlighting using neural networks. Marco Edoardo Palma, Pasquale Salza, Harald C. Gall | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| On the vulnerability proneness of multilingual code. Wen Li 0007, Li Li 0029, Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| On safety, assurance, and reliability: a software engineering perspective (keynote). Marsha Chechik | FSE | 2022 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| No more fine-tuning? an experimental evaluation of prompt tuning in code intelligence. Chaozheng Wang, Yuanhang Yang, Cuiyun Gao 0001, Yun Peng 0003, Hongyu Zhang 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Neural termination analysis. Mirco Giacobbe, Daniel Kroening, Julian Parsert | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| NeuDep: neural binary memory dependence analysis. Kexin Pei, Dongdong She, Michael Wang, Scott Geng, Zhou Xuan | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| NatGen: generative pre-training by "naturalizing" source code. Saikat Chakraborty 0001, Toufique Ahmed, Yangruibo Ding, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Baishakhi Ray | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Nalanda: a socio-technical graph platform for building software analytics tools at enterprise scale. Chandra Shekhar Maddila, Suhas Shanbhogue, Apoorva Agrawal, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Chetan Bansal | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| NMTSloth: understanding and testing efficiency degradation of neural machine translation systems. Simin Chen, Cong Liu 0005, Mirazul Haque, Zihe Song, Wei Yang 0013 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| NL2Viz: natural language to visualization via constrained syntax-guided synthesis. Zhengkai Wu, Vu Le 0002, Ashish Tiwari 0001, Sumit Gulwani, Arjun Radhakrishna | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Multi-phase invariant synthesis. Daniel Riley, Grigory Fedyukovich | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Multi-perspective representation learning for source code analytics (invited tutorial). Zhi Jin | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| MultIPAs: applying program transformations to introductory programming assignments for data augmentation. Pedro Orvalho, Mikolás Janota, Vasco Manquinho | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| MpBP: verifying robustness of neural networks with multi-path bound propagation. Ye Zheng, Jiaxiang Liu 0001, Xiaomu Shi | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Modus: a Datalog dialect for building container images. Chris Tomy, Tingmao Wang, Earl T. Barr, Sergey Mechtaev | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Minerva: browser API fuzzing with dynamic mod-ref analysis. Chijin Zhou, Quan Zhang 0003, Mingzhe Wang, Lihua Guo, Jie Liang 0006 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Metadata-based retrieval for resolution recommendation in AIOps. Harshit Kumar, Ruchi Mahindru, Debanjana Kar | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Making Python code idiomatic by automatic refactoring non-idiomatic Python code with pythonic idioms. Zejun Zhang 0006, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia 0001, Xiwei Xu 0001, Liming Zhu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Machine learning and natural language processing for automating software testing (tutorial). Mauro Pezzè | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| MOSAT: finding safety violations of autonomous driving systems using multi-objective genetic algorithm. Haoxiang Tian 0001, Yan Jiang, Guoquan Wu, Jiren Yan, Jun Wei 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| MANDO-GURU: vulnerability detection for smart contract source code by heterogeneous graph embeddings. Hoang H. Nguyen, Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Hong-Phuc Doan, Zahra Ahmadi, Thanh-Nam Doan | FSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| MAAT: a novel ensemble approach to addressing fairness and performance bugs for machine learning software. Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Lighting up supervised learning in user review-based code localization: dataset and benchmark. Xinwen Hu, Yu Guo, Jianjie Lu, Zheling Zhu, Chuanyi Li | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Leveraging test plan quality to improve code review efficacy. Lawrence Chen 0002, Rui Abreu 0001, Tobi Akomolede, Peter C. Rigby, Satish Chandra 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Less training, more repairing please: revisiting automated program repair via zero-shot learning. Chunqiu Steven Xia, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Large-scale analysis of non-termination bugs in real-world OSS projects. Xiuhan Shi, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li 0008, Yao Zhang 0019, Sen Chen 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Language-agnostic dynamic analysis of multilingual code: promises, pitfalls, and prospects. Haoran Yang 0002, Wen Li 0007, Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| KVS: a tool for knowledge-driven vulnerability searching. Xingqi Cheng, Xiaobing Sun 0001, Lili Bo, Ying Wei 0012 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| JSIMutate: understanding performance results through mutations. Thomas Laurent 0003, Paolo Arcaini, Catia Trubiani, Anthony Ventresque | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Investigating and improving log parsing in practice. Ying Fu, Meng Yan 0001, Jian Xu, Jianguo Li, Zhongxin Liu 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Input splitting for cloud-based static application security testing platforms. Maria Christakis, Thomas Cottenier, Antonio Filieri, Linghui Luo, Muhammad Numair Mansur | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Input invariants. Dominic Steinhöfel, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Infrastructure as code for dynamic deployments. Daniel Sokolowski | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Industry practice of configuration auto-tuning for cloud applications and services. Runzhe Wang, Qinglong Wang 0003, Yuxi Hu, Heyuan Shi, Yuheng Shen | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Industry experiences with large-scale refactoring. James Ivers, Robert L. Nord, Ipek Ozkaya, Chris Seifried, Christopher Steven Timperley | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Incorporating domain knowledge through task augmentation for front-end JavaScript code generation. Sijie Shen, Xiang Zhu, Yihong Dong, Qizhi Guo, Yankun Zhen | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| In war and peace: the impact of world politics on software ecosystems. Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Improving ML-based information retrieval software with user-driven functional testing and defect class analysis. Junjie Zhu, Teng Long 0003, Wei Wang, Atif M. Memon | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Improving IDE code inspections with tree automata. Yunjeong Lee | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| How to formulate specific how-to questions in software development? Mingwei Liu 0002, Xin Peng 0001, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Jiazhan Xie | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| How to better utilize code graphs in semantic code search? Yucen Shi, Ying Yin 0001, Zhengkui Wang, David Lo 0001, Tao Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Hierarchical Bayesian multi-kernel learning for integrated classification and summarization of app reviews. Moayad Alshangiti, Weishi Shi, Eduardo Lima, Xumin Liu, Qi Yu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Group-based corpus scheduling for parallel fuzzing. Taotao Gu, Xiang Li 0078, Shuaibing Lu, Jianwen Tian, Yuanping Nie | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Generic sensitivity: customizing context-sensitive pointer analysis for generics. Haofeng Li, Jie Lu 0009, Haining Meng, Liqing Cao, Yongheng Huang | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Generating realistic vulnerabilities via neural code editing: an empirical study. Yu Nong, Yuzhe Ou, Michael Pradel, Feng Chen 0001, Haipeng Cai | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| GFI-bot: automated good first issue recommendation on GitHub. Hao He 0012, Haonan Su, Wenxin Xiao, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Fuzzing deep-learning libraries via automated relational API inference. Yinlin Deng, Chenyuan Yang, Anjiang Wei, Lingming Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| FlakeRepro: automated and efficient reproduction of concurrency-related flaky tests. Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Xiang Ren 0003, Suman Nath | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| First come first served: the impact of file position on code review. Enrico Fregnan, Larissa Braz, Marco D'Ambros, Gül Çalikli, Alberto Bacchelli | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Fault localization to detect co-change fixing locations. Yi Li 0048, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| FastKLEE: faster symbolic execution via reducing redundant bound checking of type-safe pointers. Haoxin Tu, Lingxiao Jiang, Xuhua Ding, He Jiang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| FIM: fault injection and mutation for Simulink. Ezio Bartocci, Leonardo Mariani, Dejan Nickovic, Drishti Yadav | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Exploring the under-explored terrain of non-open source data for software engineering through the lens of federated learning. Shriram Shanbhag, Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Exploring and evaluating personalized models for code generation. Andrei Zlotchevski, Dawn Drain, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Colin B. Clement, Neel Sundaresan | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Explaining and debugging pathological program behavior. Martin Eberlein | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Effective and scalable fault injection using bug reports and generative language models. Ahmed Khanfir | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Dynamic data race prediction: fundamentals, theory, and practice (tutorial). Umang Mathur 0001, Andreas Pavlogiannis | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| DynaPyt: a dynamic analysis framework for Python. Aryaz Eghbali, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Do bugs lead to unnaturalness of source code? Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu 0003, Yuxia Zhang, Weixing Ji, Hao Zhong 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Discrepancies among pre-trained deep neural networks: a new threat to model zoo reliability. Diego Montes, Pongpatapee Peerapatanapokin, Jeff Schultz, Chengjun Guo, Wenxin Jiang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Discovering feature flag interdependencies in Microsoft office. Michael Schröder 0005, Katja Kevic, Dan Gopstein, Brendan Murphy, Jennifer Beckmann | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Diet code is healthy: simplifying programs for pre-trained models of code. Zhaowei Zhang, Hongyu Zhang 0002, Beijun Shen, Xiaodong Gu 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Detecting non-crashing functional bugs in Android apps via deep-state differential analysis. Jue Wang, Yanyan Jiang 0001, Ting Su 0001, Shaohua Li 0002, Chang Xu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Detecting Simulink compiler bugs via controllable zombie blocks mutation. Shikai Guo, He Jiang 0001, Zhihao Xu, Xiaochen Li, Zhilei Ren | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Demystifying the underground ecosystem of account registration bots. Yuhao Gao, Guoai Xu, Li Li 0029, Xiapu Luo, Chenyu Wang 0002 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Demystifying "removed reviews" in iOS app store. Liu Wang 0002, Haoyu Wang 0001, Xiapu Luo, Tao Zhang 0001, Shangguang Wang | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| DeepDev-PERF: a deep learning-based approach for improving software performance. Spandan Garg, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam, Colin B. Clement, Neel Sundaresan, Chen Wu | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Declarative smart contracts. Haoxian Chen 0001, Gerald Whitters, Mohammad Javad Amiri, Yuepeng Wang 0001, Boon Thau Loo | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| DeJITLeak: eliminating JIT-induced timing side-channel leaks. Qi Qin, JulianAndres JiYang, Fu Song, Taolue Chen 0001, Xinyu Xing 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Cross-language Android permission specification. Chaoran Li, Xiao Chen 0002, Ruoxi Sun 0001, Minhui Xue 0001, Sheng Wen | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Cross-device record and replay for Android apps. Cong Li 0003, Yanyan Jiang 0001, Chang Xu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Correlates of programmer efficacy and their link to experience: a combined EEG and eye-tracking study. Norman Peitek, Annabelle Bergum, Maurice Rekrut, Jonas Mucke, Matthias Nadig | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Corporate dominance in open source ecosystems: a case study of OpenStack. Yuxia Zhang, Klaas-Jan Stol, Hui Liu 0003, Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Context-aware code recommendation in Intellij IDEA. Shamsa Abid, Hamid Abdul Basit, Shafay Shamail | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| CommentFinder: a simpler, faster, more accurate code review comments recommendation. Yang Hong 0004, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Aldeida Aleti | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CodeMatcher: a tool for large-scale code search based on query semantics matching. Chao Liu 0014, Xuanlin Bao, Xin Xia 0001, Meng Yan 0001, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Code, quality, and process metrics in graduated and retired ASFI projects. Stefan Stanciulescu, Likang Yin, Vladimir Filkov | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Classifying edits to variability in source code. Paul Maximilian Bittner, Christof Tinnes, Alexander Schultheiß, Sören Viegener, Timo Kehrer | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Clang __usercall: towards native support for user defined calling conventions. Jared Q. Widberg, Sashank Narain, Yimin Chen 0004 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| CheapET-3: cost-efficient use of remote DNN models. Michael Weiss 0004 | FSE | 2022 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Change-aware mutation testing for evolving systems. Milos Ojdanic | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CORMS: a GitHub and Gerrit based hybrid code reviewer recommendation approach for modern code review. Prahar Pandya, Saurabh Tiwari 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| COREQQA: a COmpliance REQuirements understanding using question answering tool. Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora 0002, Lionel C. Briand | FSE | 2022 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| CLIFuzzer: mining grammars for command-line invocations. Abhilash Gupta, Rahul Gopinath, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Blackbox adversarial attacks and explanations for automatic speech recognition. Xiaoliang Wu | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Avgust: automating usage-based test generation from videos of app executions. Yixue Zhao, Saghar Talebipour, Kesina Baral, Hyojae Park, Leon Yee | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automating code review activities by large-scale pre-training. Zhiyu Li, Shuai Lu, Daya Guo, Nan Duan 0001, Shailesh Jannu | FSE | 2022 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Automatically deriving JavaScript static analyzers from specifications using Meta-level static analysis. Jihyeok Park, Seungmin An, Sukyoung Ryu | FSE | 2022 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Automated unearthing of dangerous issue reports. Shengyi Pan, Jiayuan Zhou, Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Xin Xia 0001, Lingfeng Bao | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Automated generation of test oracles for RESTful APIs. Juan C. Alonso | FSE | 2022 | Testing / QA |
| Automated capacity analysis of limitation-aware microservices architectures. Rafael Fresno-Aranda | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| AutoTSG: learning and synthesis for incident troubleshooting. Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Sai Pramod Upadhyayula, Arjun Radhakrishna, Anurag Gupta | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| AutoPruner: transformer-based call graph pruning. Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Truong Giang Nguyen, Stefanus Agus Haryono, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Asynchronous technical interviews: reducing the effect of supervised think-aloud on communication ability. Mahnaz Behroozi, Chris Parnin, Chris Brown 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Are we building on the rock? on the importance of data preprocessing for code summarization. Lin Shi 0006, Fangwen Mu, Xiao Chen 0015, Song Wang 0009, Junjie Wang 0001 | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Are elevator software robust against uncertainties? results and experiences from an industrial case study. Liping Han, Tao Yue 0002, Shaukat Ali 0001, Aitor Arrieta, Maite Arratibel | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| An exploratory study on the predominant programming paradigms in Python code. Robert Dyer 0001, Jigyasa Chauhan | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An empirical study of log analysis at Microsoft. Shilin He, Xu Zhang 0024, Pinjia He, Yong Xu 0010, Liqun Li | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An empirical study of deep transfer learning-based program repair for Kotlin projects. Misoo Kim, Youngkyoung Kim, Hohyeon Jeong, Jinseok Heo, Sungoh Kim | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An empirical study of blockchain system vulnerabilities: modules, types, and patterns. Xiao Yi, Daoyuan Wu, Lingxiao Jiang, Yuzhou Fang, Kehuan Zhang | FSE | 2022 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An empirical investigation of missing data handling in cloud node failure prediction. Minghua Ma, Yudong Liu, Yuang Tong, Haozhe Li, Pu Zhao 0004 | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| All you need is logs: improving code completion by learning from anonymous IDE usage logs. Vitaliy Bibaev, Alexey Kalina, Vadim Lomshakov, Yaroslav Golubev, Alexander Bezzubov | FSE | 2022 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| AgileCtrl: a self-adaptive framework for configuration tuning. Shu Wang, Henry Hoffmann, Shan Lu 0001 | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Adaptive fairness improvement based on causality analysis. Mengdi Zhang 0003, Jun Sun 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| Actionable and interpretable fault localization for recurring failures in online service systems. Zeyan Li, Nengwen Zhao, Mingjie Li 0005, Xianglin Lu, Lixin Wang | FSE | 2022 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Achievement unlocked: a case study on gamifying DevOps practices in industry. Patrick Ayoup, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Accurate method and variable tracking in commit history. Mehran Jodavi, Nikolaos Tsantalis | FSE | 2022 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| AccessiText: automated detection of text accessibility issues in Android apps. Abdulaziz Alshayban, Sam Malek | FSE | 2022 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Academic prototyping (invited tutorial). Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| AUGER: automatically generating review comments with pre-training models. Lingwei Li, Li Yang 0015, Huaxi Jiang, Jun Yan, Tiejian Luo | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| API recommendation for machine learning libraries: how far are we? Moshi Wei, Yuchao Huang, Junjie Wang 0001, Jiho Shin, Nima Shiri Harzevili | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE |
| AI-assisted programming: applications, user experiences, and neuro-symbolic techniques (keynote). Sumit Gulwani | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| A study on identifying code author from real development. Siyi Gong, Hao Zhong 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A retrospective study of one decade of artifact evaluations. Stefan Winter 0001, Christopher Steven Timperley, Ben Hermann, Jürgen Cito, Jonathan Bell 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A practical call graph construction method for Python. Jiacheng Zhong | FSE | 2022 | Other |
| A case study of implicit mentoring, its prevalence, and impact in Apache. Zixuan Feng, Amreeta Chatterjee, Anita Sarma, Iftekhar Ahmed 0001 | FSE | 2022 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| 23 shades of self-admitted technical debt: an empirical study on machine learning software. David O'Brien, Sumon Biswas, Sayem Imtiaz, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab | FSE | 2022 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| ÐArcher: detecting on-chain-off-chain synchronization bugs in decentralized applications. Wuqi Zhang, Lili Wei 0001, Shuqing Li 0001, Yepang Liu 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| iBatch: saving Ethereum fees via secure and cost-effective batching of smart-contract invocations. Yibo Wang 0006, Qi Zhang 0009, Kai Li 0017, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen | FSE | 2021 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| csDetector: an open source tool for community smells detection. Nuri Almarimi, Ali Ouni 0001, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| XAI tools in the public sector: a case study on predicting combined sewer overflows. Nicholas Maltbie, Nan Niu, Matthew Van Doren, Reese Johnson | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Would you like a quick peek? providing logging support to monitor data processing in big data applications. Zehao Wang, Haoxiang Zhang 0001, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Shaowei Wang 0002 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Which abbreviations should be expanded? Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu 0003, Yuxia Zhang, Nan Niu, Yuhai Zhao | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| When life gives you oranges: detecting and diagnosing intermittent job failures at Mozilla. Johannes Lampel, Sascha Just, Sven Apel, Andreas Zeller | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Vulnerability detection with fine-grained interpretations. Yi Li 0048, Shaohua Wang 0002, Tien N. Nguyen | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Vet: identifying and avoiding UI exploration tarpits. Wenyu Wang, Wei Yang 0013, Tianyin Xu, Tao Xie 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| VarFix: balancing edit expressiveness and search effectiveness in automated program repair. Chu-Pan Wong, Priscila Santiesteban, Christian Kästner, Claire Le Goues | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Validation on machine reading comprehension software without annotated labels: a property-based method. Songqiang Chen, Shuo Jin, Xiaoyuan Xie | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Education / Program Comprehension |
| Unveiling multiple facets of design degradation in modern code review. Anderson G. Uchôa | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Understanding neural code intelligence through program simplification. Md. Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Mohammad Amin Alipour | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Understanding and detecting server-side request races in web applications. Zhengyi Qiu, Shudi Shao, Qi Zhao 0003, Guoliang Jin | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Turnover-induced knowledge loss in practice. Martin P. Robillard | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Towards immersive software archaeology: regaining legacy systems' design knowledge via interactive exploration in virtual reality. Adrian Hoff, Michael Nieke, Christoph Seidl 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| Towards automating code review at scale. Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Jason Tsay, Manisha Mukherjee, Martin Hirzel | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Towards an approach for resource-driven adaptation. Paul A. Akiki | FSE | 2021 | Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Toward efficient interactions between Python and native libraries. Jialiang Tan, Yu Chen 0036, Zhenming Liu, Bin Ren 0002, Shuaiwen Leon Song | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| To read or to rotate? comparing the effects of technical reading training and spatial skills training on novice programming ability. Madeline Endres, Madison Fansher, Priti Shah, Westley Weimer | FSE | 2021 | Education / Program Comprehension |
| Timely and accurate detection of model deviation in self-adaptive software-intensive systems. Yanxiang Tong, Yi Qin 0002, Yanyan Jiang 0001, Chang Xu 0001, Chun Cao | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| The gas triangle and its challenges to the development of blockchain-powered applications. Gustavo Ansaldi Oliva, Ahmed E. Hassan | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| The 4ps: product, process, people, and productivity: a data-driven approach to improve software engineering (keynote). Nachiappan Nagappan | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Term interrelations and trends in software engineering. Janusan Baskararajah, Lei Zhang 0078, Andriy V. Miranskyy | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| TaintStream: fine-grained taint tracking for big data platforms through dynamic code translation. Chengxu Yang, Yuanchun Li 0003, Mengwei Xu 0001, Zhenpeng Chen, Yunxin Liu 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Synthesis of web layouts from examples. Dylan Lukes, John Sarracino, Cora Coleman, Hila Peleg, Sorin Lerner | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| SynGuar: guaranteeing generalization in programming by example. Bo Wang 0146, Teodora Baluta, Aashish Kolluri, Prateek Saxena | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Symbolic parallel adaptive importance sampling for probabilistic program analysis. Yicheng Luo, Antonio Filieri, Yuan Zhou 0028 | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Swarmbug: debugging configuration bugs in swarm robotics. Chijung Jung, Ali Ahad, Jinho Jung 0001, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Yonghwi Kwon 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Sustainability forecasting for Apache incubator projects. Likang Yin, Zhuangzhi Chen, Qi Xuan 0001, Vladimir Filkov | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| StateFormer: fine-grained type recovery from binaries using generative state modeling. Kexin Pei, Jonas Guan, Matthew Broughton, Zhongtian Chen, Songchen Yao | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| StackEmo: towards enhancing user experience by augmenting stack overflow with emojis. Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla, Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Sound and efficient concurrency bug prediction. Yan Cai 0001, Hao Yun, Jinqiu Wang, Lei Qiao, Jens Palsberg | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Software robustness: a survey, a theory, and prospects. Justyna Petke, David Clark 0001, William B. Langdon | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| SmartCommit: a graph-based interactive assistant for activity-oriented commits. Bo Shen, Wei Zhang 0004, Christian Kästner, Haiyan Zhao 0001, Zhao Wei | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Slicer4J: a dynamic slicer for Java. Khaled Ahmed 0004, Mieszko Lis, Julia Rubin | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Skeletal approximation enumeration for SMT solver testing. Peisen Yao, Heqing Huang 0002, Wensheng Tang, Qingkai Shi, Rongxin Wu | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Semantic bug seeding: a learning-based approach for creating realistic bugs. Jibesh Patra, Michael Pradel | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Selecting test inputs for DNNs using differential testing with subspecialized model instances. Yu-Seung Ma, Shin Yoo, Taeho Kim 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Security guarantees for automated software testing. Danushka Liyanage | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Sangrahaka: a tool for annotating and querying knowledge graphs. Hrishikesh Terdalkar, Arnab Bhattacharya 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| SMT solver testing with type and grammar based mutation. Jiwon Park | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Reel life vs. real life: how software developers share their daily life through vlogs. Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann 0001, Denae Ford | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Reducing the search space of bug inducing commits using failure coverage. Gabin An, Shin Yoo | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Reducing cost in continuous integration with a collection of build selection approaches. Xianhao Jin | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Reassessing automatic evaluation metrics for code summarization tasks. Devjeet Roy, Sarah Fakhoury, Venera Arnaoudova | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| RAPID: checking API usage for the cloud in the cloud. Michael Emmi, Liana Hadarean, Ranjit Jhala, Lee Pike, Nicolás Rosner | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Quantifying no-fault-found test failures to prioritize inspection of flaky tests at Ericsson. Maaz Hafeez Ur Rehman, Peter C. Rigby | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Programming and execution models for next generation code intelligence systems (keynote). Mira Mezini | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Probing model signal-awareness via prediction-preserving input minimization. Sahil Suneja, Yunhui Zheng, Yufan Zhuang, Jim Alain Laredo, Alessandro Morari | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Probabilistic Delta debugging. Guancheng Wang 0001, Ruobing Shen, Junjie Chen 0003, Yingfei Xiong 0001, Lu Zhang 0023 | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| PorkFuzz: testing stateful software-defined network applications with property graphs. Chaofan Shou | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Parallel shadow execution to accelerate the debugging of numerical errors. Sangeeta Chowdhary, Santosh Nagarakatte | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| PHYSFRAME: type checking physical frames of reference for robotic systems. Sayali Kate, Michael Chinn, Hongjun Choi, Xiangyu Zhang 0001, Sebastian G. Elbaum | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| OwlEyes-online: a fully automated platform for detecting and localizing UI display issues. Yuhui Su, Zhe Liu 0025, Chunyang Chen 0001, Junjie Wang 0001, Qing Wang 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Overcoming metric diversity in meta-analysis for software engineering: proposed approach and a case study on its usage on the effects of software reuse. Kirill Daniakin | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Organizational implications of agile adoption: a case study from the public sector. Parastoo Mohagheghi, Casper Lassenius | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Onion: identifying incident-indicating logs for cloud systems. Xu Zhang 0024, Yong Xu 0010, Si Qin, Shilin He, Bo Qiao 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| One thousand and one stories: a large-scale survey of software refactoring. Yaroslav Golubev, Zarina Kurbatova, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Timofey Bryksin, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| New visions on metamorphic testing after a quarter of a century of inception. Tsong Yueh Chen, T. H. Tse | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| NIL: large-scale detection of large-variance clones. Tasuku Nakagawa, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Multi-objectivizing software configuration tuning. Tao Chen 0001, Miqing Li | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Multi-location cryptographic code repair with neural-network-based methodologies. Ya Xiao 0002 | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Mono2Micro: a practical and effective tool for decomposing monolithic Java applications to microservices. Anup K. Kalia, Jin Xiao 0005, Rahul Krishna, Saurabh Sinha 0003, Maja Vukovic | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Mitigating security attacks in kubernetes manifests for security best practices violation. Shazibul Islam Shamim | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Metamorphic testing of Datalog engines. Muhammad Numair Mansur, Maria Christakis, Valentin Wüstholz | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Managers hate uncertainty: good and bad experiences with adaptive project management (invited talk). Han Schaminée | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Making smart contract development more secure and easier. Meng Ren, Fuchen Ma, Zijing Yin, Ying Fu, Huizhong Li | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Lightweight verification via specialized typecheckers. Martin Kellogg | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Lightweight global and local contexts guided method name recommendation with prior knowledge. Shangwen Wang, Ming Wen 0001, Bo Lin 0011, Xiaoguang Mao | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Lightweight and modular resource leak verification. Martin Kellogg, Narges Shadab, Manu Sridharan, Michael D. Ernst | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Learning-based extraction of first-order logic representations of API directives. Mingwei Liu 0002, Xin Peng 0001, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Xuefang Bai | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Learning type annotation: is big data enough? Kevin Jesse, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Toufique Ahmed | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| LastPyMile: identifying the discrepancy between sources and packages. Duc-Ly Vu, Fabio Massacci, Ivan Pashchenko, Henrik Plate, Antonino Sabetta | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| LS-sampling: an effective local search based sampling approach for achieving high t-wise coverage. Chuan Luo 0002, Binqi Sun, Bo Qiao 0001, Junjie Chen 0003, Hongyu Zhang 0002 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| LLSC: a parallel symbolic execution compiler for LLVM IR. Guannan Wei 0001, Shangyin Tan, Oliver Bracevac, Tiark Rompf | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| KGAMD: an API-misuse detector driven by fine-grained API-constraint knowledge graph. Xiaoxue Ren, Xinyuan Ye, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia 0001, Xiwei Xu 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| JSISOLATE: lightweight in-browser JavaScript isolation. Mingxue Zhang 0001, Wei Meng 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Investigating documented information for accurate effort estimation in agile software development. Jirat Pasuksmit | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Interactive analysis of large code bases (invited talk). Gerard J. Holzmann | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Intelligent container reallocation at Microsoft 365. Bo Qiao 0001, Fangkai Yang, Chuan Luo 0002, Yanan Wang, Johnny Li | FSE | 2021 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Infiltrating security into development: exploring the world's largest software security study. Charles Weir, Sammy Migues, Mike Ware, Laurie A. Williams | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Industrial best practices for continuous integration (CI) and continuously delivery (CD) (invited talk). John Micco | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Improving the effectiveness of peer code review in identifying security defects. Rajshakhar Paul | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Identifying casualty changes in software patches. Adriana Sejfia, Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Identifying bad software changes via multimodal anomaly detection for online service systems. Nengwen Zhao, Junjie Chen 0003, Zhaoyang Yu 0002, Honglin Wang, Jiesong Li | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| IDE support for cloud-based static analyses. Linghui Luo, Martin Schäf, Daniel Sanchez, Eric Bodden | FSE | 2021 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| ICME: an informed consent management engine for conformance in smart building environments. Chehara Pathmabandu, John C. Grundy, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Zubair A. Baig | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Huawei's practices on trusted software engineering capability improvement (invited talk). Wilson Wang | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| How disabled tests manifest in test maintainability challenges? Dong Jae Kim, Bo Yang 0058, Jinqiu Yang 0001, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| How can manual testing processes be optimized? developer survey, optimization guidelines, and case studies. Roman Haas, Daniel Elsner, Elmar Jürgens, Alexander Pretschner, Sven Apel | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| HeteroFuzz: fuzz testing to detect platform dependent divergence for heterogeneous applications. Qian Zhang 0020, Jiyuan Wang, Miryung Kim | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Health of smart ecosystems. Noura El Moussa, Davide Molinelli, Mauro Pezzè, Martin Tappler | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Hazard analysis for human-on-the-loop interactions in sUAS systems. Michael Vierhauser, Md Nafee Al Islam, Ankit Agrawal 0002, Jane Cleland-Huang, James Mason | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Graph-based seed object synthesis for search-based unit testing. Yun Lin 0001, You Sheng Ong, Jun Sun 0001, Gordon Fraser 0001, Jin Song Dong 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Generating metamorphic relations for cyber-physical systems with genetic programming: an industrial case study. Jon Ayerdi, Valerio Terragni, Aitor Arrieta, Paolo Tonella, Goiuria Sagardui | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Generating efficient solvers from constraint models. Shu Lin 0003, Na Meng 0001, Wenxin Li 0005 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Generalizable and interpretable learning for configuration extrapolation. Yi Ding 0006, Ahsan Pervaiz, Michael Carbin, Henry Hoffmann | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| GenSys: a scalable fixed-point engine for maximal controller synthesis over infinite state spaces. Stanly Samuel, Deepak D'Souza, Raghavan Komondoor | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| GLIB: towards automated test oracle for graphically-rich applications. Ke Chen 0005, Yufei Li 0001, Yingfeng Chen, Changjie Fan, Zhipeng Hu | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| FuzzBench: an open fuzzer benchmarking platform and service. Jonathan Metzman, László Szekeres, Laurent Simon 0001, Read Sprabery, Abhishek Arya | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Frontmatter: mining Android user interfaces at scale. Konstantin Kuznetsov 0001, Chen Fu, Song Gao 0014, David N. Jansen, Lijun Zhang 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Freeing hybrid distributed AI training configuration. Haoran Wang | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Flaky test detection in Android via event order exploration. Zhen Dong, Abhishek Tiwari 0001, Xiao Liang Yu, Abhik Roychoudhury | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Finding broken Linux configuration specifications by statically analyzing the Kconfig language. Jeho Oh, Necip Fazil Yildiran, Julian Braha, Paul Gazzillo | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Feature trace recording. Paul Maximilian Bittner, Alexander Schultheiß, Thomas Thüm, Timo Kehrer, Jeffrey M. Young | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Fairea: a model behaviour mutation approach to benchmarking bias mitigation methods. Max Hort, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Fair preprocessing: towards understanding compositional fairness of data transformers in machine learning pipeline. Sumon Biswas, Hridesh Rajan | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| FLEX: fixing flaky tests in machine learning projects by updating assertion bounds. Saikat Dutta 0001, August Shi, Sasa Misailovic | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Exposing numerical bugs in deep learning via gradient back-propagation. Ming Yan 0010, Junjie Chen 0003, Xiangyu Zhang 0001, Lin Tan 0001, Gan Wang | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Exploit those code reviews! bigger data for deeper learning. Robert Heumüller, Sebastian Nielebock 0001, Frank Ortmeier | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| Explaining mispredictions of machine learning models using rule induction. Jürgen Cito, Isil Dillig, Seohyun Kim 0001, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Satish Chandra 0001 | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Estimating residual risk in greybox fuzzing. Marcel Böhme, Danushka Liyanage, Valentin Wüstholz | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Empirical study of transformers for source code. Nadezhda Chirkova, Sergey Troshin 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Embedding app-library graph for neural third party library recommendation. Bo Li 0103, Qiang He 0001, Feifei Chen 0001, Xin Xia 0001, Li Li 0029 | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Efficient module-level dynamic analysis for dynamic languages with module recontextualization. Nikos Vasilakis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Veit Heller, Martin C. Rinard | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Effective low capacity status prediction for cloud systems. Hang Dong 0004, Si Qin, Yong Xu 0010, Bo Qiao 0001, Shandan Zhou | FSE | 2021 | Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Duplicated code pattern mining in visual programming languages. Miguel Terra-Neves, João Nadkarni, Miguel Ventura, Pedro Resende, Hugo Veiga | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Domain adaptation for an automated classification of deontic modalities in software engineering contracts. Vivek Joshi, Preethu Rose Anish, Smita Ghaisas | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Does reusing pre-trained NLP model propagate bugs? Mohna Chakraborty | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'what is a feature? a qualitative study of features in industrial software product lines'. Kewen Peng, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'on the number of linear regions of deep neural networks'. Rahul Yedida, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'a systematic study of the class imbalance problem in convolutional neural networks'. Rahul Yedida, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'a systematic literature review of techniques and metrics to reduce the cost of mutation testing'. Andre Lustosa, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Performance / Energy / Reliability |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of 'RefactoringMiner 2.0'. Andre Lustosa, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Documenting evidence of a reuse of '"why should I trust you?": explaining the predictions of any classifier'. Kewen Peng, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Documenting evidence of a reproduction of 'is there a "golden" feature set for static warning identification? - an experimental evaluation'. Xueqi Yang, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Documenting evidence of a replication of 'populating a release history database from version control and bug tracking systems'. Xueqi Yang, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Documenting evidence of a replication of 'analyze this! 145 questions for data scientists in software engineering'. Xueqi Yang, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Discovering repetitive code changes in ML systems. Malinda Dilhara | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| Detecting concurrency vulnerabilities based on partial orders of memory and thread events. Kunpeng Yu, Chenxu Wang 0001, Yan Cai 0001, Xiapu Luo, Zijiang Yang 0006 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Detecting and localizing keyboard accessibility failures in web applications. Paul T. Chiou, Ali S. Alotaibi, William G. J. Halfond | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Detecting Node.js prototype pollution vulnerabilities via object lookup analysis. Song Li 0006, Mingqing Kang, Jianwei Hou, Yinzhi Cao | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Deployment coordination for cross-functional DevOps teams. Daniel Sokolowski | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Demystifying "bad" error messages in data science libraries. Yida Tao, Zhihui Chen, Yepang Liu 0001, Jifeng Xuan, Zhiwu Xu 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Data-driven test selection at scale. Sonu Mehta, Farima Farmahinifarahani, Ranjita Bhagwan, Suraj Guptha, Sina Jafari | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Data-driven extract method recommendations: a study at ING. David van der Leij, Jasper Binda, Robbert van Dalen, Pieter Vallen, Yaping Luo | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Data-driven accessibility repair revisited: on the effectiveness of generating labels for icons in Android apps. Forough Mehralian, Navid Salehnamadi, Sam Malek | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| DIFFBASE: a differential factbase for effective software evolution management. Xiuheng Wu, Chenguang Zhu 0002, Yi Li 0008 | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| CrossVul: a cross-language vulnerability dataset with commit data. Georgios Nikitopoulos, Konstantina Dritsa, Panos Louridas, Dimitris Mitropoulos | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| CrossASR++: a modular differential testing framework for automatic speech recognition. Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi, Zhou Yang 0003, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| Cross-language code search using static and dynamic analyses. George Mathew, Kathryn T. Stolee | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Contextualizing toxicity in open source: a qualitative study. Sophie Cohen | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| Context-aware and data-driven feedback generation for programming assignments. Dowon Song, Woosuk Lee, Hakjoo Oh | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Connecting the dots: rethinking the relationship between code and prose writing with functional connectivity. Zachary Karas, Andrew Jahn, Westley Weimer, Yu Huang 0015 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Conditional interpolation: making concurrent program verification more effective. Jie Su 0002, Cong Tian 0001, Zhenhua Duan | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Code2Que: a tool for improving question titles from mined code snippets in stack overflow. Zhipeng Gao 0002, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001, John C. Grundy, Yuan-Fang Li | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Code integrity attestation for PLCs using black box neural network predictions. Yuqi Chen 0001, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; AI / LLM for SE |
| Checking conformance of applications against GUI policies. Zhen Zhang, Yu Feng 0001, Michael D. Ernst, Sebastian Porst, Isil Dillig | FSE | 2021 | Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Checking LTL[F, G, X] on compressed traces in polynomial time. Minjian Zhang 0002, Umang Mathur 0001, Mahesh Viswanathan 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Characterizing search activities on stack overflow. Jiakun Liu, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, David Lo 0001, Yun Zhang 0011 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Boosting static analysis accuracy with instrumented test executions. Tianyi Chen, Kihong Heo, Mukund Raghothaman | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| Boosting coverage-based fault localization via graph-based representation learning. Yiling Lou, Qihao Zhu, Jinhao Dong, Xia Li 0009, Zeyu Sun 0004 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| BiasRV: uncovering biased sentiment predictions at runtime. Zhou Yang 0003, Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi, David Lo 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Bias in machine learning software: why? how? what to do? Joymallya Chakraborty, Suvodeep Majumder, Tim Menzies | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE |
| Benchmarking automated GUI testing for Android against real-world bugs. Ting Su 0001, Jue Wang, Zhendong Su 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| BRAID: an API recommender supporting implicit user feedback. Yu Zhou 0010, Haonan Jin, Xinying Yang, Taolue Chen 0001, Krishna Narasimhan | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| BF-detector: an automated tool for CI build failure detection. Islem Saidani, Ali Ouni 0001, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; DevOps / CI / Build / Release |
| Automating the removal of obsolete TODO comments. Zhipeng Gao 0002, Xin Xia 0001, David Lo 0001, John C. Grundy, Thomas Zimmermann 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Automating serverless deployments for DevOps organizations. Daniel Sokolowski, Pascal Weisenburger, Guido Salvaneschi | FSE | 2021 | DevOps / CI / Build / Release; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| Automated generation of realistic test inputs for web APIs. Juan C. Alonso | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Automated code transformation for context propagation in Go. Adam Welc | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Authorship attribution of source code: a language-agnostic approach and applicability in software engineering. Egor Bogomolov, Vladimir Kovalenko, Yurii Rebryk, Alberto Bacchelli, Timofey Bryksin | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| Analysis of specifications of multiparty sessions with dcj-lint. Erik Horlings, Sung-Shik Jongmans | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| An exploratory study of autopilot software bugs in unmanned aerial vehicles. Dinghua Wang, Shuqing Li 0001, Guanping Xiao, Yepang Liu 0001, Yulei Sui | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An empirical study on challenges of application development in serverless computing. Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Yi Liu 0014, Yiling Lou, Yun Ma 0002 | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Cloud / Microservices / Distributed Systems |
| An empirical study of GUI widget detection for industrial mobile games. Jiaming Ye, Ke Chen, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma 0003, Ruochen Huang | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| An empirical investigation of practical log anomaly detection for online service systems. Nengwen Zhao, Honglin Wang, Zeyan Li, Xiao Peng, Gang Wang | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| An automatic refactoring framework for replacing test-production inheritance by mocking mechanism. Xiao Wang 0030, Lu Xiao 0001, Tingting Yu 0001, Anne Woepse, Sunny Wong 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA; Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| AlloyMax: bringing maximum satisfaction to relational specifications. Changjian Zhang, Ryan Wagner, Pedro Orvalho, David Garlan, Vasco Manquinho | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| AlloyFL: a fault localization framework for Alloy. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Allison Sullivan, Kaiyuan Wang | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Algebraic-datatype taint tracking, with applications to understanding Android identifier leaks. Sydur Rahaman, Iulian Neamtiu, Xin Yin | FSE | 2021 | Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Mobile / Web / GUI / Android |
| Accelerating redundancy-based program repair via code representation learning and adaptive patch filtering. Chen Yang | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| Accelerating JavaScript static analysis via dynamic shortcuts. Joonyoung Park, Jihyeok Park, Dongjun Youn, Sukyoung Ryu | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |
| AC²: towards understanding architectural changes in Python projects. A. Eashaan Rao, Dheeraj Vagavolu, Sridhar Chimalakonda | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review; Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| ACHyb: a hybrid analysis approach to detect kernel access control vulnerabilities. Yang Hu, Wenxi Wang, Casen Hunger, Riley Wood, Sarfraz Khurshid | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| A syntax-guided edit decoder for neural program repair. Qihao Zhu, Zeyu Sun 0004, Yuan-an Xiao, Wenjie Zhang 0007, Kang Yuan | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair |
| A replication of 'DeepBugs: a learning approach to name-based bug detection'. Jordan Winkler, Abhimanyu Agarwal, Caleb Tung, Dario Rios Ugalde, Young Jin Jung | FSE | 2021 | Testing / QA |
| A qualitative study of cleaning in Jupyter notebooks. Helen Dong | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A longitudinal analysis of bloated Java dependencies. César Soto-Valero, Thomas Durieux, Benoit Baudry | FSE | 2021 | Other |
| A live environment for inspection and refactoring of software systems. Sara Fernandes | FSE | 2021 | Maintenance / Evolution / Refactoring / Review |
| A large-scale empirical study on Java library migrations: prevalence, trends, and rationales. Hao He 0012, Runzhi He, Haiqiao Gu, Minghui Zhou 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A grounded theory of the role of coordination in software security patch management. Nesara Dissanayake, Mansooreh Zahedi, Asangi Jayatilaka, Muhammad Ali Babar 0001 | FSE | 2021 | Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability |
| A general approach to modeling Java framework behaviors. Linghui Luo | FSE | 2021 | Requirements / Modeling / Architecture |
| A first look at developers' live chat on Gitter. Lin Shi 0006, Xiao Chen 0015, Ye Yang, Hanzhi Jiang, Ziyou Jiang | FSE | 2021 | Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A comprehensive study on learning-based PE malware family classification methods. Yixuan Ma, Shuang Liu 0007, Jiajun Jiang, Guanhong Chen, Keqiu Li | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Security / Privacy / Vulnerability; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A comprehensive study of deep learning compiler bugs. Qingchao Shen, Haoyang Ma, Junjie Chen 0003, Yongqiang Tian 0001, Shing-Chi Cheung | FSE | 2021 | AI / LLM for SE; Human / Empirical / Socio-technical |
| A bounded symbolic-size model for symbolic execution. David Trabish, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky | FSE | 2021 | Program Analysis / Verification / Formal Methods |