Software Engineering Empirical Research Radar

2026 Papers

Major-venue software engineering papers from 2026.

PaperVenueYearTopics
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-SEIP2026Debugging / 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
ICST2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; 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
TOSEM2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Software Agents
ARISE: A Repository-level Graph Representation and Toolset for Agentic Fault Localization and Program Repair
Shahd Seddik, Fatemeh Fard
arXiv2026Debugging / 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
arXiv2026Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; AI / LLM for SE; Program Comprehension