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