Software Engineering Conference Papers from the 2020s

1. 1

   Ahmed Fawzy, Amjed Tahir, and Kelly Blincoe:
   Vibe Coding in Practice: Motivations, Challenges, and a Future Outlook - a Grey Literature Review.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   67 cites at Semantic Scholar

   4394% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Shanchao Liang, Spandan Garg, and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam:
   The SWE-Bench Illusion: When State-of-the-Art LLMs Remember Instead of Reason.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   48 cites at Semantic Scholar

   3120% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Aarya Doshi, Yining Hong, Congying Xu, Eunsuk Kang, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Christian Kästner:
   Towards Verifiably Safe Tool Use for LLM Agents.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   37 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2382% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Chaofan Wang, Tingrui Yu, Beijun Shen, Jie Wang, Dong Chen, Wenrui Zhang, Yuling Shi, Chen Xie, and Xiaodong Gu:
   EvoC2Rust: A Skeleton-Guided Framework for Project-Level C-to-Rust Translation.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   35 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2248% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Xiaoqi Li, Yingjie Mao, Zexin Lu, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
   SCLA: Automated Smart Contract Summarization via LLMs and Control Flow Prompt.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   17 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1040% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Shan Jiang, Pranoy Kovuri, David Tao, and Zhixun Tan:
   CASCADE: LLM-Powered JavaScript Deobfuscator at Google.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   14 cites at Semantic Scholar

   839% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai, Leyi Pan, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Pei Xiao, and Ying Li:
   Hypothesize-Then-Verify: Speculative Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Pathwise Parallelism.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Xueying Du, Jiayi Feng, Yi Zou, Wei Xu, Jie Ma, Wei Zhang, Sisi Liu, Xin Peng, and Yiling Lou:
   Reducing False Positives in Static Bug Detection with LLMs: An Empirical Study in Industry.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Xiaoqi Li, Zongwei Li, Wenkai Li, Zeng Zhang, and Lei Xie:
   AtomGraph: Tackling Atomicity Violation in Smart Contracts Using Multimodal GCNs.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai, Leyi Pan, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Mengxi Jia, and Ying Li:
    Agentic Memory Enhanced Recursive Reasoning for Root Cause Localization in Microservices.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    9 cites at Semantic Scholar

    504% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Xiaoqi Li, Hailu Kuang, Wenkai Li, Zongwei Li, and Shipeng Ye:
    CKG-LLM: LLM-Assisted Detection of Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities Based on Knowledge Graphs.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    9 cites at Semantic Scholar

    504% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Mara Ulloa, Jenna L. Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur, Courtney Miller, Barrett Amos, Advait Sarkar, and Margaret-Anne D. Storey:
    Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability Must Not Be Delegated to Non-Human Actors".
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Xiaoqi Li, Lei Xie, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
    USCSA: Evolution-Aware Security Analysis for Proxy-Based Upgradeable Smart Contracts.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    David Williams, Maria Kechagia, Max Hort, Aldeida Aleti, Justyna Petke, and Federica Sarro:
    Empirical and Sustainability Aspects of Software Engineering Research in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reflection.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Prithwish Jana, Sam Davidson, Bhavana Bhasker, Andrey Kan, Anoop Deoras, and Laurent Callot:
    TerraFormer: Automated Infrastructure-as-Code with LLMs Fine-Tuned via Policy-Guided Verifier Feedback.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn, Yaotian Zou, Andy Wong, Michael Gupta, Zhe Wang, Mike Buller, Ryan Jiang, Matthew Watson, Minwoo Jeong, Kun Chen, and Ming Wu:
    RovoDev Code Reviewer: A Large-Scale Online Evaluation of LLM-Based Code Review Automation at Atlassian.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Zixuan Feng, Sadia Afroz, and Anita Sarma:
    From Gains to Strains: Modeling Developer Burnout with GenAI Adoption.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Tobias Schimmer, and Bert Arnrich:
    Developers' Experience with Generative AI - First Insights from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Field Study.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Heiko Koziolek, Thilo Braun, Virendra Ashiwal, Sofia Linsbauer, Marthe Ahlgreen Hansen, and Karoline Grotterud:
    Spec2Control: Automating PLC/DCS Control-Logic Engineering from Natural Language Requirements with LLMs - A Multi-Plant Evaluation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Moritz Beller, Amanda Park, Karim Nakad, Akshay Patel, Sarita Mohanty, Ford Garberson, Henri Verroken, Andrew Kennedy, Ian G. Malone, Vaishali Garg, and Pavel Avgustinov:
    What's DAT? Three Case Studies of Measuring Software Development Productivity at Meta With Diff Authoring Time.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) ⌄

1. 1

   Aarya Doshi, Yining Hong, Congying Xu, Eunsuk Kang, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Christian Kästner:
   Towards Verifiably Safe Tool Use for LLM Agents.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   37 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2382% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Xiaoqi Li, Yingjie Mao, Zexin Lu, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
   SCLA: Automated Smart Contract Summarization via LLMs and Control Flow Prompt.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   17 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1040% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai, Leyi Pan, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Pei Xiao, and Ying Li:
   Hypothesize-Then-Verify: Speculative Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Pathwise Parallelism.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Xiaoqi Li, Zongwei Li, Wenkai Li, Zeng Zhang, and Lei Xie:
   AtomGraph: Tackling Atomicity Violation in Smart Contracts Using Multimodal GCNs.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Xiaoqi Li, Hailu Kuang, Wenkai Li, Zongwei Li, and Shipeng Ye:
   CKG-LLM: LLM-Assisted Detection of Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities Based on Knowledge Graphs.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   9 cites at Semantic Scholar

   504% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Xiaoqi Li, Lei Xie, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
   USCSA: Evolution-Aware Security Analysis for Proxy-Based Upgradeable Smart Contracts.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   8 cites at Semantic Scholar

   437% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   David Williams, Maria Kechagia, Max Hort, Aldeida Aleti, Justyna Petke, and Federica Sarro:
   Empirical and Sustainability Aspects of Software Engineering Research in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reflection.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   8 cites at Semantic Scholar

   437% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Anatoly A. Krasnovsky:
   Model Discovery and Graph Simulation: A Lightweight Gateway to Chaos Engineering.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Huihui Huang, Jieke Shi, Junkai Chen, Ting Zhang, Yikun Li, Chengran Yang, Eng Lieh Ouh, Lwin Khin Shar, and David Lo:
   PenForge: On-the-Fly Expert Agent Construction for Automated Penetration Testing.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, and Jacques Klein:
    Replacing Training with Reasoning: Reinterpreting Classic ML Pipelines with LLMs.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Yan Liu, Jun Huang, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, and Zheng Li:
    Redundancy as the Shadow of Explainability: A Trade-Off Principle for AI-Intensive Systems.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Nikolaos Louloudakis and Ajitha Rajan:
    A Selective Quantization Tuner for ONNX Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Brahim Mahmoudi, Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Naouel Moha, Quentin Stiévenart, and Florent Avellaneda:
    Specification and Detection of LLM Code Smells.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at OpenAlex

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Willem Meijer, Kristian Sandahl, and Dániel Varró:
    Data-Aware Static Analysis: Improving Semantic Fault Detection in Machine Learning Code Using Data Characteristics.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Priyavanshi Pathania, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Tiffani Nevels, Sanjay Podder, and Adam P. Burden:
    SEALing the Gap: A Reference Framework for LLM Inference Carbon Estimation via Multi-Benchmark Driven Embodiment.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Ciprian Teodorov, Joeri Exelmans, Salvador Martínez, Sylvain Guérin, and Hans Vangheluwe:
    The Design Multiverse: A Scientific Model for Design Evolution and Co-Evolution.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Max Unterbusch and Andreas Vogelsang:
    Context-Adaptive Requirements Defect Prediction Through Human-LLM Collaboration.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Xinlong Zhao, Tong Jia, Minghua He, and Ying Li:
    Generality Is Not Enough: Zero-Label Cross-System Log-Based Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Level Collaboration.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Jie Zou, Simon Burton, Radu Calinescu, Ioannis Stefanakos, and Roger Rivett:
    Structural Causal World Models: Towards An Assurance Framework for Safety-Critical Systems and Safeguarded AI.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Mariam Guizani, Fatemeh Vares, and Brittany Johnson:
    Towards Bridging Language Gaps in OSS with LLM-Driven Documentation Translation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) ⌄

1. 1

   Qiaolin Qin, Ronnie de Souza Santos, and Rodrigo O. Spínola:
   On the Role and Impact of GenAI Tools in Software Engineering Education.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Elizaveta Artser, Daniil Karol, Anna Potriasaeva, Aleksei Rostovskii, Katsiaryna Dzialets, Ekaterina Koshchenko, Xiaotian Su, April Yi Wang, and Anastasiia Birillo:
   Enhancing Debugging Skills With AI-Powered Assistance: A Real-Time Tool for Debugging Support.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Kiev Gama, Filipe Calegario, Victoria Jackson, Alexander Nolte, Luiz Augusto Morais, and Vinicius Cardoso Garcia:
   "Can You Feel the Vibes?": An Exploration of Novice Programmer Engagement with Vibe Coding.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Alif Al Hasan, Subarna Saha, and Mia Mohammad Imran:
   Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on R/learnprogramming.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Maximilian Sölch and Stephan Krusche:
   Scaling Assessment of Student Models with LLMs: Integrating Feedback into Practice.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Wardah Naeem Awan, Maria Paasivaara, and Peter A. Gloor:
   When Emotions Matter: Speech-Based Emotion Detection in Capstone Project Retrospective Meetings While Working Hybrid.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Maria Clara Ribeiro de Menezes, Pedro Henrique Dias Valle, and Alessandreia Marta de Oliveira:
   Two Decades of Software Architecture Education: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Wardah Naeem Awan, Maria Paasivaara, and Peter A. Gloor:
   From Struggle to Success: Unveiling Students' Emotional Journeys During Capstone Projects.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Ruzanna Chitchyan and Niki Mahmoudi:
   Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser, and Steffen Herbold:
    AI-Driven Software Development: A New Course Concept and Assessment Model for the Era of Large Language Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Matthias Linhuber, Jan Philip Bernius, and Stephan Krusche:
    On-Premise Kubernetes in Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Walid Maalej:
    On Fun for Teaching Large Programming Courses.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Priscila Santiesteban, Emma Shedden, Madeline Endres, and Westley Weimer:
    An Empirical Study of Anonymous, Unmoderated, and Online Peer-to-Peer Programming Tutoring Conversations.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Wajdi Aljedaani, P. D. Parthasarathy, and Ahmed Aljohani:
    Who Teaches AI Ethics? Understanding the Gaps in AI Ethics Education in Computing Programs.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Chetan Arora, Ajanie Kodagoda Bammanna Arachchige, Jinchun Du, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Aster Cosmos, Antonette Shibani, Vasudha Malhotra, Naeem Janjua, and Afaq Shah:
    GenEDIt: A Context-Aware Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Principles Integration Tool for Software Engineering Education.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Tiago Piperno Bonetti, Matheus Molina Dias, Williamson Silva, and Thelma Elita Colanzi:
    EXEMPLIFY-SEE: A Structured Approach and Portal for Example-Based Learning in Software Engineering Education.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Claus Brabrand and Sue Sentance:
    Use-Modify-Create Turned "Upside Down" by AI: Towards Higher-Level Competences via the Scientific Method.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Nathan Cassee, Sankarsh Ravi, Ítalo Santos, Igor Steinmacher, and Alexander Serebrenik:
    What Barriers Do Students Experience When Trying to Contribute to Open Source Software Projects?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Jose Maria Zuzarte Reis Claver, Mahbod Tajdini, and Mauricio Verano Merino:
    The Clash of Codes: From Peer-to-Peer Duplication to AI-Generation in Introductory Programming Assignments.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Robert Alan Clements and Nicolas Thiebaut:
    But Have You Ever Deployed a Model to Production? Experiences with Teaching Machine Learning Operations in a Data Science Curriculum.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) ⌄

1. 1

   Ahmed Fawzy, Amjed Tahir, and Kelly Blincoe:
   Vibe Coding in Practice: Motivations, Challenges, and a Future Outlook - a Grey Literature Review.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   67 cites at Semantic Scholar

   4394% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Shanchao Liang, Spandan Garg, and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam:
   The SWE-Bench Illusion: When State-of-the-Art LLMs Remember Instead of Reason.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   48 cites at Semantic Scholar

   3120% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Chaofan Wang, Tingrui Yu, Beijun Shen, Jie Wang, Dong Chen, Wenrui Zhang, Yuling Shi, Chen Xie, and Xiaodong Gu:
   EvoC2Rust: A Skeleton-Guided Framework for Project-Level C-to-Rust Translation.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   35 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2248% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Shan Jiang, Pranoy Kovuri, David Tao, and Zhixun Tan:
   CASCADE: LLM-Powered JavaScript Deobfuscator at Google.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   14 cites at Semantic Scholar

   839% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Xueying Du, Jiayi Feng, Yi Zou, Wei Xu, Jie Ma, Wei Zhang, Sisi Liu, Xin Peng, and Yiling Lou:
   Reducing False Positives in Static Bug Detection with LLMs: An Empirical Study in Industry.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai, Leyi Pan, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Mengxi Jia, and Ying Li:
   Agentic Memory Enhanced Recursive Reasoning for Root Cause Localization in Microservices.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   9 cites at Semantic Scholar

   504% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Mara Ulloa, Jenna L. Butler, Sankeerti Haniyur, Courtney Miller, Barrett Amos, Advait Sarkar, and Margaret-Anne D. Storey:
   Product Manager Practices for Delegating Work to Generative AI: "Accountability Must Not Be Delegated to Non-Human Actors".
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   8 cites at Semantic Scholar

   437% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Prithwish Jana, Sam Davidson, Bhavana Bhasker, Andrey Kan, Anoop Deoras, and Laurent Callot:
   TerraFormer: Automated Infrastructure-as-Code with LLMs Fine-Tuned via Policy-Guided Verifier Feedback.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn, Yaotian Zou, Andy Wong, Michael Gupta, Zhe Wang, Mike Buller, Ryan Jiang, Matthew Watson, Minwoo Jeong, Kun Chen, and Ming Wu:
   RovoDev Code Reviewer: A Large-Scale Online Evaluation of LLM-Based Code Review Automation at Atlassian.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Tobias Schimmer, and Bert Arnrich:
    Developers' Experience with Generative AI - First Insights from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Field Study.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Heiko Koziolek, Thilo Braun, Virendra Ashiwal, Sofia Linsbauer, Marthe Ahlgreen Hansen, and Karoline Grotterud:
    Spec2Control: Automating PLC/DCS Control-Logic Engineering from Natural Language Requirements with LLMs - A Multi-Plant Evaluation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Moritz Beller, Amanda Park, Karim Nakad, Akshay Patel, Sarita Mohanty, Ford Garberson, Henri Verroken, Andrew Kennedy, Ian G. Malone, Vaishali Garg, and Pavel Avgustinov:
    What's DAT? Three Case Studies of Measuring Software Development Productivity at Meta With Diff Authoring Time.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    José Cambronero, Michele Tufano, Sherry Shi, Renyao Wei, Grant Uy, Runxiang Cheng, Chin-Jung Liu, Shiying Pan, Satish Chandra, and Pat Rondon:
    Abstain and Validate: A Dual-LLM Policy for Reducing Noise in Agentic Program Repair.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Valerie Chen, Jasmyn He, Behnjamin Williams, Jason Valentino, and Ameet Talwalkar:
    Beyond the Commit: Developer Perspectives on Productivity with AI Coding Assistants.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna L. Butler, Robert DeLine, and Brian Houck:
    AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Alexander Berndt, Thomas Bach, Rainer Gemulla, Marcus Kessel, and Sebastian Baltes:
    On the Flakiness of LLM-Generated Tests for Industrial and Open-Source Database Management Systems.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Ke Mao, Timotej Kapus, Cons T. Åhs, Matteo Marescotti, Daniel Ip, Ákos Hajdu, Sopot Cela, and Aparup Banerjee:
    WhatsCode: Large-Scale GenAI Deployment for Developer Efficiency at WhatsApp.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Rangeet Pan, Tyler Stennett, Raju Pavuluri, Nate Levin, Alessandro Orso, and Saurabh Sinha:
    Hamster: A Large-Scale Study and Characterization of Developer-Written Tests.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Jiahui Wu, Chengjie Lu, Aitor Arrieta, Shaukat Ali, and Thomas Peyrucain:
    Vision Language Model-Based Testing of Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Yongxin Zhao, Shenglin Zhang, Yuxin Sun, Wenwei Gu, Yongqian Sun, Luping Wang, Li Shi, Cheng Huang, Guodong Yang, Liping Zhang, and Dan Pei:
    When LLMs Listen to Experts: Accurate Failure Diagnosis in Operating Systems.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Software Engineering in Society (SEIS) ⌄

1. 1

   Zixuan Feng, Sadia Afroz, and Anita Sarma:
   From Gains to Strains: Modeling Developer Burnout with GenAI Adoption.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Dalal Alrajeh, Vesna Nowack, Patrick Benjamin, Katie Thomas, William Hobson, Carolina Gutierrez Muñoz, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Juliane A. Kloess, Jessica Woodhams, Daniel Butler, Mark Law, Ralph Morton, Benjamin Costello, Amy Burrell, Tim D. Grant, Prachiben Shah, Frances Adriana Laureano de Leon, and Mark Lee:
   Data-Dependent Goal Modeling for ML-Enabled Law Enforcement Systems.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti, Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Romina Spalazzese, Emma Söderberg, and Dániel Varró:
   Engineering Future Critical CPSs with Trustworthy GenAI Across the Lifecycle.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer, Ioana Visescu, Kezia Devathasan, Daniela Damian, and Emitzá Guzmán:
   From Inclusion to Action: The Role of Allyship for Women in Software Teams.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Bruno Guindani, Matteo Camilli, Livia Lestingi, and Marcello Maria Bersani:
   Agentic Generation of Structured Clinical Specifications for Digital Healthcare Services.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Zhinuan (Otto) Guo, Chushu Gao, and Justus Bogner:
   On the Effectiveness of Proposed Techniques to Reduce Energy Consumption in RAG Systems: A Controlled Experiment.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Omar Haggag, John C. Grundy, and Mohan Baruwal Chhetri:
   Click, Scroll, Consent: Uncovering Australia's Privacy Knowledge Crisis.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Thayssa Águila da Rocha, Luciano Arruda Teran, Marcelle Pereira Mota, Cleidson Ronald Botelho de Souza, Kiev Santos da Gama, and Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto:
   Challenges and Enablers: Remote Work for People with Disabilities in Software Development Teams.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Giordano d'Aloisio, Max Hort, Rebecca Moussa, and Federica Sarro:
   FairRF: Multi-Objective Search for Single and Intersectional Software Fairness.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Muneera Bano, Rashina Hoda, and Didar Zowghi:
    Exploring Societal Biases in Generative AI Using Social Science Constructs and Theories.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Ann Barcomb, Mariana P. Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis, Sherlock A. Licorish, Cleyton Vanut Cordeiro de Magalhães, Ronnie de Souza Santos, and Mairieli Wessel:
    How Fair Is Software Fairness Testing?
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Isabella Graßl:
    Beyond the Binary: Motivations, Challenges, and Strategies of Transgender and Non-Binary Software Engineering Students.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Amelia Kalecinska, Panagiotis Fotopoulos, and Emitzá Guzmán:
    From Big Tech to Big Politics: Users' Discourse on the Politicization of Technology Companies.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Mohamad Kassab:
    Cyberbullying Safety Engineering by Patent: Trends, Solution Paradigms, and Societal Impacts.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Hans Hassan Katib, Sree Pragnya Kota, and Emitzá Guzmán:
    Scrolling with Caution: Perceptions of Older Adults on Ethical Issues in Social Media.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Yeqian Li and Kousar Aslam:
    Navigating Ethical Issues in Video Game Development: Insights from Practitioners.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Lara Lima, Victor Anthony Alves, Carla I. M. Bezerra, and Diana Braga:
    Connecting Generations Through Code: GABI, A Community-Driven Framework for Engineering Inclusive Financial Software for the Elderly.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Melika Mirzaseyedi, Paula Lago, Laurie Anne Laberge, and Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj:
    Technohealth: A Modular Framework for Reproducible Research in Precision Healthcare with Heterogeneous Wearable Data.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Gianluca De Ninno, Martina De Sanctis, Paola Inverardi, Romina Spalazzese, and Christos Tsigkanos:
    Developers' Blind Spot: Designing Systems to Enable Stakeholders' Understanding of Ethical Qualities.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Lauren Olson, Emitzá Guzmán, and Florian Kunneman:
    PerspectiveCoach: Exploring LLMs for Developer Reflection.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Society (SEIS), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Fangwen Mu, Junjie Wang, Lin Shi, Song Wang, Shoubin Li, and Qing Wang:
   ExpeRepair: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-Based Repository-Level Program Repair.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   43 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2784% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Yuan-An Xiao, Pengfei Gao, Chao Peng, and Yingfei Xiong:
   Reducing Cost of LLM Agents with Trajectory Reduction.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   40 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2583% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Ying Xiao, Tianlin Li, Weisong Sun, Yang Liu, Yiling Lou, and Xuanzhe Liu:
   Fairness Testing of Large Language Models in Role-Playing.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   24 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1510% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Deniz Simsek, Aryaz Eghbali, and Michael Pradel:
   PoCGen: Generating Proof-of-Concept Exploits for Vulnerabilities in Npm Packages.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   24 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1510% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Christoph Bühler, Matteo Biagiola, Luca Di Grazia, and Guido Salvaneschi:
   AgentBound: Securing Execution Boundaries of AI Agents.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   22 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1376% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Jiawei Shen, Chengcheng Wan, Ruoyi Qiao, Jiazhen Zou, Hang Xu, Yuchen Shao, Yueling Zhang, Weikai Miao, and Geguang Pu:
   Understanding, Detecting, and Repairing Real-World In-Context-Learning-Based Text-to-SQL Errors.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   22 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1376% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Chao Hu, Wenhao Zeng, Yuling Shi, Beijun Shen, and Xiaodong Gu:
   In Line with Context: Repository-Level Code Generation via Context Inlining.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   19 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1175% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Zhiqiang Yuan, Weitong Chen, Hanlin Wang, Xin Peng, Zhenpeng Chen, and Yiling Lou:
   TransAgent: Enhancing LLM-Based Code Translation via Fine-Grained Execution Alignment.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Jing Liu, Seongmin Lee, Eleonora Losiouk, and Marcel Böhme:
   Evaluating LLM-Based Regression Test Generation.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Zhengran Zeng, Ruikai Shi, Keke Han, Yixin Li, Kaicheng Sun, Yidong Wang, Zhuohao Yu, Rui Xie, Wei Ye, and Shikun Zhang:
    SWR-Bench: Assessing LLM Performance in Real-World Code Review Comment Generation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    11 cites at Semantic Scholar

    638% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Yi-Hung Chou, Boyuan Jiang, Yi Wen Chen, Mingyue Weng, Victoria Jackson, Thomas Zimmermann, and James A. Jones:
    Building Software by Rolling the Dice: A Qualitative Study of Vibe Coding.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    10 cites at Semantic Scholar

    571% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Wei Liu, Chao Peng, Pengfei Gao, Aofan Liu, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, and Zhi Jin:
    GraphLocator: Graph-Guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    9 cites at Semantic Scholar

    504% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Yang Chen, Toufique Ahmed, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Martin Hirzel:
    Can Old Tests Do New Tricks for Resolving SWE Issues?
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Aoyang Fang, Songhan Zhang, Yifan Yang, Haotong Wu, Junjielong Xu, Xuyang Wang, Rui Wang, Manyi Wang, Qisheng Lu, and Pinjia He:
    Rethinking the Evaluation of Microservice RCA with a Fault Propagation-Aware Benchmark.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Ruida Hu, Xinchen Wang, Xin-Cheng Wen, Zhao Zhang, Bo Jiang, Pengfei Gao, Chao Peng, and Cuiyun Gao:
    Benchmarking LLMs for Fine-Grained Code Review with Enriched Context in Practice.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn, Hong Yi Lin, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Wachiraphan Charoenwet, Minwoo Jeong, and Ming Wu:
    HalluJudge: A Reference-Free Hallucination Detection for Context Misalignment in Code Review Automation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Mingyu Wang, Weijie Hong, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Rongqian Wang, Xi Peng, Meiling Wang, Nicholas Zhang, Renhai Chen, and Ying Li:
    Efficient Failure Management for Multi-Agent Systems with Reasoning Trace Representation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Ruixin Zhang, Wuyang Dai, Hung Viet Pham, Gias Uddin, Jinqiu Yang, and Song Wang:
    Engineering Pitfalls in AI Coding Tools: An Empirical Study of Bugs in Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Zhiyuan Peng, Wei Tao, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying, Yuan Luo, and Yiwen Guo:
    PlayCoder: Making LLM-Generated GUI Code Playable.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Toufique Ahmed, Jatin Ganhotra, Avraham Shinnar, and Martin Hirzel:
    Investigating Test Overfitting on SWE-Bench.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Research/Technical Papers ⌄

1. 1

   Fangwen Mu, Junjie Wang, Lin Shi, Song Wang, Shoubin Li, and Qing Wang:
   ExpeRepair: Dual-Memory Enhanced LLM-Based Repository-Level Program Repair.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   43 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2784% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Yuan-An Xiao, Pengfei Gao, Chao Peng, and Yingfei Xiong:
   Reducing Cost of LLM Agents with Trajectory Reduction.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   40 cites at Semantic Scholar

   2583% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Xinyue Li, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Ying Xiao, Tianlin Li, Weisong Sun, Yang Liu, Yiling Lou, and Xuanzhe Liu:
   Fairness Testing of Large Language Models in Role-Playing.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   24 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1510% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Deniz Simsek, Aryaz Eghbali, and Michael Pradel:
   PoCGen: Generating Proof-of-Concept Exploits for Vulnerabilities in Npm Packages.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   24 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1510% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Christoph Bühler, Matteo Biagiola, Luca Di Grazia, and Guido Salvaneschi:
   AgentBound: Securing Execution Boundaries of AI Agents.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   22 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1376% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Jiawei Shen, Chengcheng Wan, Ruoyi Qiao, Jiazhen Zou, Hang Xu, Yuchen Shao, Yueling Zhang, Weikai Miao, and Geguang Pu:
   Understanding, Detecting, and Repairing Real-World In-Context-Learning-Based Text-to-SQL Errors.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   22 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1376% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Chao Hu, Wenhao Zeng, Yuling Shi, Beijun Shen, and Xiaodong Gu:
   In Line with Context: Repository-Level Code Generation via Context Inlining.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   19 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1175% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Zhiqiang Yuan, Weitong Chen, Hanlin Wang, Xin Peng, Zhenpeng Chen, and Yiling Lou:
   TransAgent: Enhancing LLM-Based Code Translation via Fine-Grained Execution Alignment.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Jing Liu, Seongmin Lee, Eleonora Losiouk, and Marcel Böhme:
   Evaluating LLM-Based Regression Test Generation.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
   

   11 cites at Semantic Scholar

   638% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Zhengran Zeng, Ruikai Shi, Keke Han, Yixin Li, Kaicheng Sun, Yidong Wang, Zhuohao Yu, Rui Xie, Wei Ye, and Shikun Zhang:
    SWR-Bench: Assessing LLM Performance in Real-World Code Review Comment Generation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    11 cites at Semantic Scholar

    638% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Yi-Hung Chou, Boyuan Jiang, Yi Wen Chen, Mingyue Weng, Victoria Jackson, Thomas Zimmermann, and James A. Jones:
    Building Software by Rolling the Dice: A Qualitative Study of Vibe Coding.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    10 cites at Semantic Scholar

    571% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Wei Liu, Chao Peng, Pengfei Gao, Aofan Liu, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, and Zhi Jin:
    GraphLocator: Graph-Guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    9 cites at Semantic Scholar

    504% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Yang Chen, Toufique Ahmed, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Martin Hirzel:
    Can Old Tests Do New Tricks for Resolving SWE Issues?
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Aoyang Fang, Songhan Zhang, Yifan Yang, Haotong Wu, Junjielong Xu, Xuyang Wang, Rui Wang, Manyi Wang, Qisheng Lu, and Pinjia He:
    Rethinking the Evaluation of Microservice RCA with a Fault Propagation-Aware Benchmark.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    8 cites at Semantic Scholar

    437% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Zhiyuan Peng, Wei Tao, Xin Yin, Chenhao Ying, Yuan Luo, and Yiwen Guo:
    PlayCoder: Making LLM-Generated GUI Code Playable.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Kishan Kumar Ganguly and Tim Menzies:
    How Low Can You Go? The Data-Light SE Challenge.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Lianghong Guo, Yanlin Wang, Caihua Li, Wei Tao, Pengyu Yang, Jiachi Chen, Haoyu Song, Duyu Tang, and Zibin Zheng:
    SWE Data Construction, Automatically!
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Minh Le-Anh, Huyen Nguyen, Khanh An Tran, Nam Le Hai, Linh Ngo Van, Nghi D. Q. Bui, and Bach Le:
    Do Not Treat Code as Natural Language: Implications for Repository-Level Code Generation and Beyond.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Junyi Wang, Jialun Cao, and Zhongxin Liu:
    iCoRe: An Iterative Correlation-Aware Retriever for Bug Reproduction Test Generation.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Chengpeng Wang, Yifei Gao, Wuqi Zhang, Xuwei Liu, Jinyao Guo, Mingwei Zheng, Qingkai Shi, and Xiangyu Zhang:
    NESA: Relational Neuro-Symbolic Static Program Analysis.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Companion ⌄

1. 1

   Kivanç Kuzey Dikici, Serdar Kara, Semih Çaglar, Eray Tüzün, and Sinem Sav:
   SERSEM: Selective Entropy-Weighted Scoring for Membership Inference in Code Language Models.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Jonathan Katzy, Ali Al-Kaswan, Razvan Mihai Popescu, and Zhou Yang:
   The Poisoned Chalice of LLM Evaluation Report.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Antony Bartlett, Cynthia C. S. Liem, and Annibale Panichella:
   FSE-AIware Tool Competition 2026 - Agentic Based Python Dependency Resolution.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Samad Alias Nyein Chan and Manar H. Alalfi:
   VirtualHAB: A Simulated openHAB Digital Model for Rules Testing.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Kowshik Chowdhury, Dipayan Banik, and Shazibul Islam Shamim:
   Breaking the Dependency Chaos: A Constraint-Driven Python Dependency Resolution Strategy with Selective LLM Imputation.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Yixin Li, Zhengran Zeng, Rui Xie, Wei Ye, and Shikun Zhang:
   Exp-SWE-Agent: A Memory-Enhanced Coding Agent for Sequential Issue Resolution.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Tran Chi Nguyen, Dao Sy Duy Minh, Trung Kiet Huynh, Pham Phu Hoa, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, and Vu Nguyen:
   MEMRES: A Memory-Augmented Resolver with Confidence Cascade for Agentic Python Dependency Resolution.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Benzhao Wu, Zhiwen Luo, Fangwen Mu, and Lijun Xiang:
   TwinMem-Agent: Episodic and Semantic Memory for Repository-Level Program Repair.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Companion, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI

Tool Demonstrations ⌄

1. 1

   Aleksi Huotala, Miikka Kuutila, Olli-Pekka Turtio, Simo Sipilä, and Mika Mäntylä:
   AISysRev - LLM-Based Tool for Title-Abstract Screening.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Zhuohang Shen, Mohammed Yaseen, Kevin Guan, Denini Silva, Marcelo d'Amorim, and Owolabi Legunsen:
   PyMOP: A Runtime Verification Tool for Python.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Ragib Shahariar Ayon and Shibbir Ahmed:
   SpecPylot: Python Specification Generation with Large Language Models.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Wen Li and Haipeng Cai:
   A Practical Fuzzer for the Python Runtime System.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Md Nafiu Rahman, Sadif Ahmed, Zahin Wahab, Gias Uddin, and Rifat Shahriyar:
   IssueGuard: Real-Time Secret Leak Prevention Tool for GitHub Issue Reports.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Saurabhsingh Rajput and Tushar Sharma:
   CodeGreen: Towards Improving Precision and Portability in Software Energy Measurement.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Shuaiyu Xie, Yang Luo, Yuzhen Tan, Yunqing Yong, Xiaosong Huang, Jian Wang, and Bing Li:
   ScalerEval: Automated and Consistent Evaluation Testbed for Auto-Scalers in Microservices.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Martim Afonso, Nuno Saavedra, Bruno Lourenço, Alexandra Mendes, and João F. Ferreira:
   ProfOlaf: Semi-Automated Tool for Systematic Literature Reviews.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Abhiram Bellur, Mohammed Raihan Ullah, Fraol Batole, Mohit Kansara, Masaharu Morimoto, Kai Ishikawa, Haifeng Chen, Helena Klause, Yaroslav Zharov, Timofey Bryksin, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Danny Dig:
   CoRenameAgent: A Human-In-The-Loop, Multi-Agent Tool for Coordinated Rename Refactoring.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Dirk Beyer, Po-Chun Chien, Bo-Yuan Huang, Nian-Ze Lee, and Thomas Lemberger:
    HarnessForge: Automated Extraction of Verification Tasks from Industry-Scale Software Projects.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Yifei Chen, Sarra Habchi, and Lili Wei:
    MIMIC-Py: An Extensible Tool for Personality-Driven Automated Game Testing with Large Language Models.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Nithin Chepuri, Rajeev Thota, Venkat Kaushal Thippisetty, Sridhar Chimalakonda, and Sumith Shankar:
    ADATracer - Towards A Software Traceability Pipeline for ADA Systems.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Amirreza Esmaeili and Fatemeh Hendijani Fard:
    TokenScope: Token-Level Explainability and Interpretability for Code-Oriented Tasks in Large Language Models.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Yulai Fu, Yuanliang Chen, Fuchen Ma, Changjian Liu, Wanli Chen, Dalong Shi, Qiang Fu, and Heyuan Shi:
    Shark2Pit: Automated Test Template Generation for Protocol Fuzzing Based on Packet Parser.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Mattia Giannaccari, Marco Raglianti, and Michele Lanza:
    ZION: System Exploration With Class Contours.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Alexandra González, Oscar Cerezo, Xavier Franch, and Silverio Martínez-Fernández:
    A Tool for Automatically Cataloguing and Selecting Pre-Trained Models and Datasets for Software Engineering.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Rylan Hiltz and Taher Ahmed Ghaleb:
    Mapping GitHub Sponsorships: A Longitudinal Observatory for Open-Source Sustainability.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Islem Khemissi, Moataz Chouchen, Dong Wang, and Raula Gaikovina Kula:
    SmartPatchLinker: An Open-Source Tool to Linked Changes Detection for Code Review.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Xixian Liang, Cheng Peng, Bo Ma, Xiangchen Shen, Yiheng Xiong, and Ting Su:
    Kea2: Practical Property-Based Testing for Mobile Apps.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Ziheng Liu, Runzhi He, and Minghui Zhou:
    Package Dashboard: A Cross-Ecosystem Framework for Dual-Perspective Analysis of Software Packages.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR) ⌄

1. 1

   Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Mingyu Wang, Weijie Hong, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Rongqian Wang, Xi Peng, Meiling Wang, Nicholas Zhang, Renhai Chen, and Ying Li:
   Efficient Failure Management for Multi-Agent Systems with Reasoning Trace Representation.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Toufique Ahmed, Jatin Ganhotra, Avraham Shinnar, and Martin Hirzel:
   Investigating Test Overfitting on SWE-Bench.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Xiaoqi Li, Xin Wang, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
   PSR²: A Phase-Based Semantic Reasoning Framework for Atomicity Violation Detection via Contract Refinement.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Xiaoqi Li, Shipeng Ye, Wenkai Li, and Zongwei Li:
   SCPatcher: Automated Smart Contract Code Repair via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Quan Zhang, Lianhang Fu, Lvsi Lian, Gwihwan Go, Yujue Wang, Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang, and Geguang Pu:
   Evaluating Privilege Usage of Agents with Real-World Tools.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Runxin Yang, Yuxuan Wan, Shuqing Li, and Michael R. Lyu:
   90% Faster, 100% Code-Free: MLLM-Driven Zero-Code 3D Game Development.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Weijie Hong, Mingyu Wang, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Rongqian Wang, Xi Peng, Meiling Wang, Nicholas Zhang, Renhai Chen, and Ying Li:
   RuntimeSlicer: Towards Generalizable Unified Runtime State Representation for Failure Management.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Mohd Sameen Chishti, Damilare Peter Oyinloye, and Jingyue Li:
   AgentReputation: A Decentralized Agentic AI Reputation Framework.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Shuzhao Feng, Boqi Chen, Brett H. Meyer, and Gunter Mussbacher:
   LLM-Assisted Repository-Level Generation with Structured Spec-Driven Engineering.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Jialiang Gu, Keren Zhou, Daming Li, Hanyuan Shi, and Jialu Zhang:
    Context-Aware Feedback Compression in Online Judge Programming with LLMs.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Nabiha Parvez, Tanvin Sarkar Pallab, Mia Mohammad Imran, and Tarannum Shaila Zaman:
    DePro: Understanding the Role of LLMs in Debugging Competitive Programming Code.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Osamah H. Alaini and Taher Ahmed Ghaleb:
    A Vision for Context-Aware CI Adoption Decisions.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Mariam Guizani, Maduka Subasinghage, Sherlock A. Licorish, and Sofia Ouhbi:
    At What Cost? Software Developers' Well-Being in the Age of GenAI.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Yusaku Kato, Norihiro Yoshida, Erina Makihara, and Katsuro Inoue:
    Software Testing Beyond Closed Worlds: Open-World Games as an Extreme Case.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Weixing Zhang, Mario Herb, Martin Armbruster, Bowen Jiang, Marcel Vielsack, and Anne Koziolek:
    Round-Trip Engineering for Tactical DDD: A Constraint-Based Vision for the Masses.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Jomar Thomas Almonte and Nathalia Moraes do Nascimento:
    Rethinking Software Quality Measurement: A Vision for AI-Assisted Triangulation in the Post-Metrics Era.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Teal Amore, Nathan Berman, and Siyuan Jiang:
    The Impact of Documentation on Test Engagement in Pull Requests in OSS.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

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    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Ninad Anklesaria and Manish Motwani:
    Energy-Aware Test Prioritization for High-Performance Computing: A Multi-Objective Approach.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

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19. 19

    Zohaib Arshid, Daniele Bifolco, Fiorella Zampetti, and Massimiliano Di Penta:
    Machine Learning in the Wild: Early Evidence of Non-Compliant ML-Automation in Open-Source Software.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Bimpe Ayoola, Anielle Andrade, Ronnie de Souza Santos, and Paul Ralph:
    Advancing Evidence-Based Social Sustainability in Software Engineering: A Research Roadmap.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Ideas, Visions, and Reflections (IVR), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Industry ⌄

1. 1

   Ruida Hu, Xinchen Wang, Xin-Cheng Wen, Zhao Zhang, Bo Jiang, Pengfei Gao, Chao Peng, and Cuiyun Gao:
   Benchmarking LLMs for Fine-Grained Code Review with Enriched Context in Practice.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Chakkrit Kla Tantithamthavorn, Hong Yi Lin, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Wachiraphan Charoenwet, Minwoo Jeong, and Ming Wu:
   HalluJudge: A Reference-Free Hallucination Detection for Context Misalignment in Code Review Automation.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Ruixin Zhang, Wuyang Dai, Hung Viet Pham, Gias Uddin, Jinqiu Yang, and Song Wang:
   Engineering Pitfalls in AI Coding Tools: An Empirical Study of Bugs in Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Runxiang Cheng, Michele Tufano, José Cambronero, Renyao Wei, Sherry Shi, Grant Uy, Pat Rondon, and Franjo Ivancic:
   Dynamic Cogeneration of Bug Reproduction Test in Agentic Program Repair.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Yayi Wang, Shenao Wang, Jian Zhao, Shaosen Shi, Ting Li, Yan Cheng, Lizhong Bian, Kan Yu, Yanjie Zhao, and Haoyu Wang:
   YASA: Scalable Multi-Language Taint Analysis on the Unified AST at Ant Group.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Xinfang Chen, Siyang Xiao, Xianying Zhu, Junhong Xie, Ming Liang, Dajun Chen, Wei Jiang, Yong Li, and Peng Di:
   NES: An Instruction-Free, Low-Latency Next Edit Suggestion Framework Powered by Learned Historical Editing Trajectories.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia, Minghua He, Chiming Duan, Zhaoyang Liu, Bolin Ding, and Ying Li:
   E2E-REME: Towards End-to-End Microservices Auto-Remediation via Experience-Simulation Reinforcement Fine-Tuning.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Ludwig Felder, Tobias Eisenreich, Mahsa Fischer, Stefan Wagner, and Chunyang Chen:
   Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the German Software Engineering Industry: An Empirical Study.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Chandra Maddila, Negar Ghorbani, James Saindon, Parth Thakkar, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Rui Abreu, Jingyue Shen, Brian Zhou, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Peter C. Rigby:
   AI-Assisted Fixes to Code Review Comments at Scale.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Sven Peldszus, Jan Rutenkolk, Marcel Heide, Jan Sollmann, Benjamin Klatt, Frank Köhne, and Thorsten Berger:
    Developer Perspectives on REST API Usability: A Study of REST API Guidelines.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Henri Aïdasso, Francis Bordeleau, and Ali Tizghadam:
    Predicting Intermittent Job Failure Categories for Diagnosis Using Few-Shot Fine-Tuned Language Models.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Paschal C. Amusuo, Dongge Liu, Ricardo Andres Calvo Mendez, Jonathan Metzman, Oliver Chang, and James C. Davis:
    Lessons from Mitigating False Positives in Google's OSS-Fuzz-Gen.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Matthew Becker, Yifei Chen, Nicholas Cochran, Pouyan Ghasemi, Abhishek Gulati, Mark Harman, Zachary Haluza, Mehrdad Honarkhah, Hervé Robert, Jiacheng Liu, Weini Liu, Sreeja Thummala, Xiaoning Yang, Rui Xin, and Sophie Zeng:
    Just-in-Time Catching Test Generation at Meta.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Zhihao Li, Chaozheng Wang, Zongjie Li, Xinyong Peng, Zelin Su, Qun Xia, Haochuan Lu, Ting Xiong, Man Ho Lam, Shuzheng Gao, Yuchong Xie, Cuiyun Gao, Shuai Wang, Yuetang Deng, and Huafeng Ma:
    JSProtect: A Scalable Obfuscation Framework for Mini-Games in WeChat.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Martin Mirchev, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Haifeng Ruan, Yuntong Zhang, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
    AutoCodeRover: Agentic Program Repair for SonarQube Issues.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Shubham Ugare, Tarun Suresh, Sasa Misailovic, and Julien Vanegue:
    Fun2spec: Code Contract Synthesis At Scale.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu, Earl T. Barr, and Dhasarathy Parthasarathy:
    LLM-Powered Workflow Optimization for Multidisciplinary Software Development: An Automotive Industry Case Study.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Paul Baker, Blanca Manu, Rebecca Moussa, and Federica Sarro:
    Industrial Deployment of an AI Multi-Agent System for Requirements-Driven Code Verification.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Carlo DePaolis, Raghav Batta, and Anjali Mangal:
    AVDA: Autonomous Vibe Detection Authoring for Cybersecurity.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    0 cites at OpenAlex

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Xiaolei Chen, Fengrui Liu, Xiao He, Tieying Zhang, Peng Wang, and Wei Wang:
    Topic-Wise Summarization of Support Ticket Dialogue via LLM.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Industry, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) ⌄

1. 1

   Ronnie de Souza Santos, Ítalo Santos, Mariana P. Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis, Cleyton Magalhães, and Mairieli Wessel:
   LLM Use, Cheating, and Academic Integrity in Software Engineering Education.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Mohamad Kassab and Sulav G. Shrestha:
   Persona-Conditioned LLM Interaction for Software Engineering Education (Extended Abstract).
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Robin Maisch, Larissa Schmid, Richard Glassey, Dominik Fuchß, Nils Niehues, Haoyu Liu, and Anne Koziolek:
   Criminal Minds: How First-Year CS Students Plagiarize Code.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Eman Abdullah AlOmar, David Van Hise, Stephen Pachucki, Nerissa Lundquist, and Christopher Engelbart:
   Refactoria: A Game-Based Tool for Learning Code Refactoring.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Wardah Naeem Awan and Maria Paasivaara:
   Enabling Emotion-Aware Collaboration in Capstone Projects.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Sahithya Gandu, Anurag Vemula, Satyanarayanachowdary Kadiyala, Marcia Moraes, Sudipto Ghosh, Fabio Santos, and Bianca Trinkenreich:
   How Do Students Perceive Their Teammates? A Qualitative Study of Peer Evaluation in SE Course Projects.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Ke Gong and Jian Zhang:
   Experience Report: Insights from Deploying Educational Static Analysis in Introductory Programming Courses.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at OpenAlex

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Isabella Graßl, Christopher Lazik, Shalini Chakraborty, Grischa Liebel, and Miguel Goulão:
   Domain Diversity, Motivation, Inclusion, and Feedback in Software Modelling Education.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Haolin Jin, Jiawen Wen, Zhaoge Bi, Linghan Huang, and Huaming Chen:
   Deliverables Are Not Understanding in the AI Era: Reforming Full-Stack Development Education with Continuous Interactive Learning.
   ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Mohammed Ammar Karimi, Saurabh Tiwari, and Santosh Singh Rathore:
    An Analysis of Student Perceptions and Learning Impact of Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering Education.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Mohamad Kassab:
    Prompt Engineering in Software Engineering Education: An Empirical Study of Demand, Supply, and Assessment.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Huayu Liang and Chris Brown:
    Beyond Text: Understanding How Multimodal Generative AI Impacts Students Learning Software Development (Extended Abstract).
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Eduardo Miranda, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Pritam Chita:
    A Lightweight Scrum Sprint Simulation to Help Learners Traverse the Empirical Process Control Threshold Concept.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Rumyana Neykova, Cigdem Sengul, Zear Ibrahim, Isabel Sassoon, Giuseppe Destefanis, and Alan Serrano:
    Building Production Software and Professional Competence: A Collaborative Model for AI-Integrated Software Engineering Practice.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Thomas Overklift and Andy Zaidman:
    Pragmatic Use of Generative AI in an Introductory Programming Course (Extended Abstract).
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Pasan Peiris, Matthias Galster, Antonija Mitrovic, Sanna Malinen, Raul Vincent W. Lumapas, and Jay Holland:
    Gamifying Video-Based Training: Comparing Attitudes of Software Engineering Students and Professionals.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Ewoud van Uijthoven and Mazyar Seraj:
    BlocksDeFix: Guided Debugging Hints for Young Learners in Block-Based Programming Environments.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Rafal Wlodarski:
    From Domain Understanding to Design Readiness: A Playbook for GenAI-Supported Learning in Software Engineering.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Marvin Wyrich, Norman Peitek, Kallistos Weis, and Sven Apel:
    Harnessing Hype to Teach Empirical Thinking: An Experience With AI Coding Assistants.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Peng Yang, Yunfeng Zhu, Chao Chang, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen, and Yong Tang:
    Large Language Models for Software Testing Education: An Experience Report.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Hao Li, Haoxiang Zhang, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
   AIDev: Studying AI Coding Agents on GitHub.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   26 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1644% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Hao He, Courtney Miller, Shyam Agarwal, Christian Kästner, and Bogdan Vasilescu:
   Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   26 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1644% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude, and Sebastian Baltes:
   Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   23 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1443% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Shriya Rawal, Abdullah Al Mujahid, Mia Mohammad Imran, and Preetha Chatterjee:
   Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail? An Empirical Study of Failed Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   15 cites at Semantic Scholar

   906% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Romain Robbes, Théo Matricon, Thomas Degueule, Andre Hora, and Stefano Zacchiroli:
   Promises, Perils, and (Timely) Heuristics for Mining Coding Agent Activity.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   15 cites at Semantic Scholar

   906% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Shyam Agarwal, Hao He, and Bogdan Vasilescu:
   AI IDEs or Autonomous Agents? Measuring the Impact of Coding Agents on Software Development.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Tim Menzies, Tao Chen, Yulong Ye, Kishan Kumar Ganguly, Amirali Rayegan, Srinath Srinivasan, and Andre Lustosa:
   MOOT: A Repository of Many Multi-Objective Optimization Tasks.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   12 cites at Semantic Scholar

   705% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Shaokang Jiang and Daye Nam:
   Beyond the Prompt: An Empirical Study of Cursor Rules.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   10 cites at Semantic Scholar

   571% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Daniel Ogenrwot and John Businge:
   How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   9 cites at Semantic Scholar

   504% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Haoyu Gao, Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Hao Guan, Mansooreh Zahedi, and Christoph Treude:
    On Autopilot? An Empirical Study of Human-AI Teaming and Review Practices in Open Source.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Andre Hora and Romain Robbes:
    Are Coding Agents Generating Over-Mocked Tests? An Empirical Study.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    7 cites at Semantic Scholar

    370% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Haoming Huang, Pongchai Jaisri, Shota Shimizu, Lingfeng Chen, Sota Nakashima, and Gema Rodríguez-Pérez:
    More Code, Less Reuse: Investigation on Code Quality and Reviewer Sentiment Towards AI-Generated Pull Requests.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Huiyun Peng, Antonio Zhong Qiu, Ricardo Andrés Calvo Méndez, Kelechi G. Kalu, and James C. Davis:
    How Do Agents Perform Code Optimization? An Empirical Study.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Giovanni Pinna, Jingzhi Gong, David Williams, and Federica Sarro:
    Comparing AI Coding Agents: A Task-Stratified Analysis of Pull Request Acceptance.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    6 cites at Semantic Scholar

    302% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Jingzhi Gong, Giovanni Pinna, Yixin Bian, and Jie M. Zhang:
    Analyzing Message-Code Inconsistency in AI Coding Agent-Authored Pull Requests.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Md. Asif Haider and Thomas Zimmermann:
    Understanding Dominant Themes in Reviewing Agentic AI-Authored Code.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Lukas Ottenhof, Daniel Penner, Abram Hindle, and Thibaud Lutellier:
    How Do Agents Refactor: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Joy Krishan Das, and Banani Roy:
    Are We All Using Agents the Same Way? An Empirical Study of Core and Peripheral Developers' Use of Coding Agents.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Md. Nahidul Islam Opu, Shaowei Wang, and Shaiful Chowdhury:
    LLM-Based Detection of Tangled Code Changes for Higher-Quality Method-Level Bug Datasets.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Razvan Mihai Popescu, David Gros, Andrei Botocan, Rahul Pandita, Prem Devanbu, and Maliheh Izadi:
    Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Research/Technical Papers ⌄

1. 1

   Hao He, Courtney Miller, Shyam Agarwal, Christian Kästner, and Bogdan Vasilescu:
   Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   26 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1644% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude, and Sebastian Baltes:
   Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   23 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1443% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Romain Robbes, Théo Matricon, Thomas Degueule, Andre Hora, and Stefano Zacchiroli:
   Promises, Perils, and (Timely) Heuristics for Mining Coding Agent Activity.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   15 cites at Semantic Scholar

   906% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Shaokang Jiang and Daye Nam:
   Beyond the Prompt: An Empirical Study of Cursor Rules.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   10 cites at Semantic Scholar

   571% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Andre Hora and Romain Robbes:
   Are Coding Agents Generating Over-Mocked Tests? An Empirical Study.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Joy Krishan Das, and Banani Roy:
   Are We All Using Agents the Same Way? An Empirical Study of Core and Peripheral Developers' Use of Coding Agents.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Md. Nahidul Islam Opu, Shaowei Wang, and Shaiful Chowdhury:
   LLM-Based Detection of Tangled Code Changes for Higher-Quality Method-Level Bug Datasets.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Razvan Mihai Popescu, David Gros, Andrei Botocan, Rahul Pandita, Prem Devanbu, and Maliheh Izadi:
   Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Zushuai Zhang, Elliott Wen, and Ewan D. Tempero:
   Analyzing Dependency Distribution Changes Arising from Code Smell Interactions.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Piotr Przymus, Andreas Happe, and Jürgen Cito:
    Adversarial Bug Reports as a Security Risk in Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Haowei Quan, Junjie Wang, Xinzhe Li, Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiao Chen, and Xiaoning Du:
    An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Python Packages and Their Detection.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Xiaoxin Zhou, Taher A. Ghaleb, and Safwat Hassan:
    Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Tamer Abdelaziz, Salma Alsaghir, and Karim Ali:
    Where Do Smart Contract Security Analyzers Fall Short?
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Taher A. Ghaleb, and Safwat Hassan:
    LogSieve: Task-Aware CI Log Reduction for Sustainable LLM-Based Analysis.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Sadif Ahmed, Md Nafiu Rahman, Zahin Wahab, Gias Uddin, and Rifat Shahriyar:
    Secret Leak Detection in Software Issue Reports Using LLMs: A Comprehensive Evaluation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Ali Al-Kaswan, Claudio Spiess, Prem Devanbu, Arie van Deursen, and Maliheh Izadi:
    Model See, Model Do? Exposure-Aware Evaluation of Bug-vs-Fix Preference in Code LLMs.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Khairul Alam and Banani Roy:
    Analyzing GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in Nf-Core Pipelines: Insights into Nf-Core Pipeline Repositories.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Jesse Maarleveld, Giuseppe Destefanis, and Daniel Feitosa:
    Evolving Kubernetes: A Technical Debt Perspective.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Shirin Pirouzkhah, Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves, and Alberto Bacchelli:
    The Value of Effective Pull Request Description.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho, Érico Augusto da Silva, Higor Amario de Souza, and Marcos Lordello Chaim:
    Mining Quantum Software Patterns in Open-Source Projects.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Data Showcase ⌄

1. 1

   Tim Menzies, Tao Chen, Yulong Ye, Kishan Kumar Ganguly, Amirali Rayegan, Srinath Srinivasan, and Andre Lustosa:
   MOOT: A Repository of Many Multi-Objective Optimization Tasks.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   12 cites at Semantic Scholar

   705% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Luciano Belo de Alcântara Júnior and João Eduardo Montandon:
   GivenWhenThen: A Dataset of BDD Test Scenarios Mined from Open Source Projects.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Ke Ping, Hamza Bin Mazhar, Yuqing Wang, Ying Song, and Mika V. Mäntylä:
   AnoMod: A Dataset for Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Microservice System.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Davide Taibi, Rafael Peñaloza, and Valentina Lenarduzzi:
   SQuaD: The Software Quality Dataset.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Giuseppe Destefanis, Silvia Bartolucci, and Daniel Feitosa:
   Mining Kubernetes Repositories: The Cloud Was Not Built in a Day.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Andre Hora:
   GitEvo: Code Evolution Analysis for Git Repositories.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Elena Masserini, Diego Clerissi, Daniela Micucci, and Leonardo Mariani:
   Assessing Task-Based Chatbots: Snapshot and Curated Datasets for Dialogflow.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Maxime André, Marco Raglianti, Souhaila Serbout, Anthony Cleve, and Michele Lanza:
   PoolinGH: Fast, Efficient, and Robust GitHub Repository Mining.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Md. Rakibul Islam, Farha Kamal, Md Humaun Kabir, and Md Murad Sharif:
   DBSecQA: A Curated Dataset of Developer Discussions on Database Security from Stack Exchange.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Zhengjie Ji, Xin Wang, Lingxiang Wang, Geng Li, Fan Yang, and Ying Zhang:
    RustXec: A Vulnerability Reproduction Dataset for Assessing Security Risks in Open-Source Rust Applications.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Faiz Marsad and Nimmi Weeraddana:
    OSSGameBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of Development Activities in Open-Source Video Games.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Benny Toeppe, Amine Barrak, and Emna Ksontini:
    A Large-Scale Dataset of MCP Implementations on GitHub.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Joyce Champie, Karim Elish, and Mahmoud Elish:
    SMELLDroid: A Dataset for Code Smells in Android Apps.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Mashiat Amin Farin, Samer Hassan, and Javier Arroyo:
    Mapping Decentralized Autonomous Organization Governance Across Chains: An Updated, Multi-Platform Dataset.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Heitor Roriz Filho, Nasser Jazdi-Motlagh, and Vicente Ferreira de Lucena Jr.:
    Skyt: Prompt Contracts for Software Repeatability in LLM-Assisted Development.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Matteo Grella, Danil Aliforenko, and Luca Mariot:
    KubeObjects: A Dataset of Real-World Kubernetes Objects.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Sjoerd Halmans, Lavínia Paganini, Alexander Serebrenik, and Alexander Nolte:
    HackRep: A Large-Scale Dataset of GitHub Hackathon Projects.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Kaushal Kahapola, Sharada Galappaththi, Dinith Ranasinghe, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Nisansa de Silva, Srinath Perera, and Sandareka Wickramanayake:
    JavaBackports: A Dataset for Benchmarking Automated Backporting in Java.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Brahim Mahmoudi, Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Houcine Abdelkader Cherief, Quentin Stiévenart, Naouel Moha, and Florent Avellaneda:
    GLiSE: A Prompt-Driven and ML-Powered Tool for Automated Grey Literature Extraction in Software Engineering.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Julien Malka and Arnout Engelen:
    LILA: Decentralized Build Reproducibility Monitoring for the Functional Package Management Model.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Data Showcase, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Industry ⌄

1. 1

   Krzysztof Kaczmarski, Jakub Narebski, and Piotr Przymus:
   Underutilization in Research GPU Clusters: SE Challenges.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Industry, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Gunnar Kudrjavets, Aditya Kumar, and Piotr Przymus:
   Can Data Mining Help to Survive the Annual Compiler Upgrade?
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Industry, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Ailon dos Santos Teixeira, Jaine Brito da Silva da Silva, Nikolas Rocha da Silva de Medeiros, Raimundo da Silva Barreto, José Reginaldo Hughes da Silva Carvalho, and Alex Fernando da Silva Monteiro:
   A Blueprint for Trustworthy Code Annotation at Scale: An LLM-Powered Pipeline for Industrial Software Analytics.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Industry, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI

Mining Challenge ⌄

1. 1

   Hao Li, Haoxiang Zhang, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
   AIDev: Studying AI Coding Agents on GitHub.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   26 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1644% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Shriya Rawal, Abdullah Al Mujahid, Mia Mohammad Imran, and Preetha Chatterjee:
   Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail? An Empirical Study of Failed Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   15 cites at Semantic Scholar

   906% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Shyam Agarwal, Hao He, and Bogdan Vasilescu:
   AI IDEs or Autonomous Agents? Measuring the Impact of Coding Agents on Software Development.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   13 cites at Semantic Scholar

   772% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Daniel Ogenrwot and John Businge:
   How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   9 cites at Semantic Scholar

   504% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Haoyu Gao, Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Hao Guan, Mansooreh Zahedi, and Christoph Treude:
   On Autopilot? An Empirical Study of Human-AI Teaming and Review Practices in Open Source.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Haoming Huang, Pongchai Jaisri, Shota Shimizu, Lingfeng Chen, Sota Nakashima, and Gema Rodríguez-Pérez:
   More Code, Less Reuse: Investigation on Code Quality and Reviewer Sentiment Towards AI-Generated Pull Requests.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Huiyun Peng, Antonio Zhong Qiu, Ricardo Andrés Calvo Méndez, Kelechi G. Kalu, and James C. Davis:
   How Do Agents Perform Code Optimization? An Empirical Study.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Giovanni Pinna, Jingzhi Gong, David Williams, and Federica Sarro:
   Comparing AI Coding Agents: A Task-Stratified Analysis of Pull Request Acceptance.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Jingzhi Gong, Giovanni Pinna, Yixin Bian, and Jie M. Zhang:
   Analyzing Message-Code Inconsistency in AI Coding Agent-Authored Pull Requests.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Md. Asif Haider and Thomas Zimmermann:
    Understanding Dominant Themes in Reviewing Agentic AI-Authored Code.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Lukas Ottenhof, Daniel Penner, Abram Hindle, and Thibaud Lutellier:
    How Do Agents Refactor: An Empirical Study.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    5 cites at Semantic Scholar

    235% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Taher A. Ghaleb:
    Fingerprinting AI Coding Agents on GitHub.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Roberto Milanese, Francesco Salzano, Angelica Spina, Antonio Vitale, Remo Pareschi, Fausto Fasano, and Mattia Fazzini:
    Human-Agent Versus Human Pull Requests: A Testing-Focused Characterization and Comparison.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Dao Sy Duy Minh, Huynh Trung Kiet, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Pham Phu Hoa, Tran Chi Nguyen, Nguyen Dinh Ha Duong, and Truong Bao Tran:
    Early-Stage Prediction of Review Effort in AI-Generated Pull Requests.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Kan Watanabe, Tatsuya Shirai, Yutaro Kashiwa, and Hajimu Iida:
    What to Cut? Predicting Unnecessary Methods in Agentic Code Generation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    4 cites at Semantic Scholar

    168% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Syed Ammar Asdaque, Imran Haider, Muhammad Umar Malik, Maryam Abdul Ghafoor, and Abdul Ali Bangash:
    Novice Developers Produce Larger Review Overhead for Project Maintainers While Vibe Coding.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Kowshik Chowdhury, Dipayan Banik, K. M. Ferdous, and Shazibul Islam Shamim:
    From Industry Claims to Empirical Reality: An Empirical Study of Code Review Agents in Pull Requests.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Taher A. Ghaleb:
    When AI Agents Touch CI/CD Configurations: Frequency and Success.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Sien Reeve Ordonez Peralta, Fumika Hoshi, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Inase Kondo, Yoshiki Higo, Hiroki Mukai, Norihiro Yoshida, Kazuki Kusama, Hidetake Tanaka, and Youmei Fan:
    Why Are Agentic Pull Requests Merged or Rejected? An Empirical Study.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Dung Pham and Taher Ahmed Ghaleb:
    Code Change Characteristics and Description Alignment: A Comparative Study of Agentic Versus Human Pull Requests.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR): Mining Challenge, 2026
    

    3 cites at Semantic Scholar

    101% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Lev Sorokin, Ivan Vasilev, Ken E. Friedl, and Andrea Stocco:
   STELLAR: A Search-Based Testing Framework for Large Language Model Applications.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   10 cites at Semantic Scholar

   571% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Yuqing Niu, Jieke Shi, Ruidong Han, Ye Liu, Chengyan Ma, Yunbo Lyu, and David Lo:
   What You Trust Is Insecure: Demystifying How Developers (Mis)Use Trusted Execution Environments in Practice.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Simin Sun and Miroslaw Staron:
   Agentic Pipelines in Embedded Software Engineering: Emerging Practices and Challenges.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Ehsan Firouzi and Mohammad Ghafari:
   Persistent Human Feedback, LLMs, and Static Analyzers for Secure Code Generation and Vulnerability Detection.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Robert Arntzenius, Xutong Liu, and Andy Zaidman:
   On the Energy Consumption of Continuous Integration in Open-Source Java Projects.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Antonio Della Porta, Gianmario Voria, Andrea Abbate, Raffaele Sulipano, Stefano Lambiase, Gemma Catolino, and Fabio Palomba:
   Toward Measuring Prompt Quality: A Preliminary Investigation on Prompt Smells.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Matteo Vaccargiu, Azmat Ullah, and Pierluigi Gallo:
   A Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering Architecture for Carbon Credit Certification Systems.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Khairul Alam and Banani Roy:
   What Drives Issue Resolution Speed? An Empirical Study of Scientific Workflow Systems on GitHub.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Guillaume Cardoen, Tom Mens, and Alexandre Decan:
   An Empirical Analysis of Code Clones in GitHub Actions Workflows.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Yajia Lin, Jie Su, Cheng Wen, Rong Wang, Cong Tian, Zhenhua Dun, and Shengchao Qin:
    How Well Does Knowledge Injection Enhance LLM-Aided Formal Protocol Modeling?
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula, Serge Lionel Nikiema, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé:
    Programming Language Confusion: When Code LLMs Can't Keep Their Languages Straight.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Qiaolin Qin, Jianchen Zhao, Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, and Ettore Merlo:
    A Story About Cohesion and Separation: Label-Free Metric for Log Parser Evaluation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Chihiro Yoshida, Yuta Ishimoto, Olivier Nourry, Masanari Kondo, Makoto Matsushita, Yasutaka Kamei, and Yoshiki Higo:
    Leveraging Mutation Analysis for LLM-Based Repair of Quantum Programs.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Ehsan Firouzi, Shardul Bhatt, and Mohammad Ghafari:
    Can Developers Rely on LLMs for Secure IaC Development?
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Ioan-Daniel Pop and Bogdan Iudean:
    AI-Assisted Diagnosis of Students' Misconceptions on Memory Allocation and Dynamic Data Structures in C++.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Farnaz Soltaniani, Shoaib Razzaq, and Mohammad Ghafari:
    Evaluating Large Language Models for Security Bug Report Prediction.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Sara Baradaran, Liyan Huang, Mukund Raghothaman, and Weihang Wang:
    Reusing Legacy Code in Wasm: Key Challenges of Compilation and Code Semantics Preservation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Alexander Berndt, Vekil Bekmyradov, Rainer Gemulla, Marcus Kessel, Thomas Bach, and Sebastian Baltes:
    Can We Classify Flaky Tests Using Only Test Code? An LLM-Based Empirical Study.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Elena Bruches, Daniil Grebenkin, Mikhail Klementev, Vadim Alperovich, Roman Derunets, Dari Baturova, Georgy Mkrtchyan, Oleg Sedukhin, Ivan Bondarenko, Nikolay Bushkov, and Stanislav Moiseev:
    RM -RF: Reward Model for Run-Free Unit Test Evaluation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Bethel Hall, Owen Ungaro, and William Eiers:
    CloudFix: Automated Policy Repair for Cloud Access Control Policies Using Large Language Models.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Research/Technical Papers ⌄

1. 1

   Lev Sorokin, Ivan Vasilev, Ken E. Friedl, and Andrea Stocco:
   STELLAR: A Search-Based Testing Framework for Large Language Model Applications.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   10 cites at Semantic Scholar

   571% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Yuqing Niu, Jieke Shi, Ruidong Han, Ye Liu, Chengyan Ma, Yunbo Lyu, and David Lo:
   What You Trust Is Insecure: Demystifying How Developers (Mis)Use Trusted Execution Environments in Practice.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   6 cites at Semantic Scholar

   302% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Simin Sun and Miroslaw Staron:
   Agentic Pipelines in Embedded Software Engineering: Emerging Practices and Challenges.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Khairul Alam and Banani Roy:
   What Drives Issue Resolution Speed? An Empirical Study of Scientific Workflow Systems on GitHub.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Guillaume Cardoen, Tom Mens, and Alexandre Decan:
   An Empirical Analysis of Code Clones in GitHub Actions Workflows.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Yajia Lin, Jie Su, Cheng Wen, Rong Wang, Cong Tian, Zhenhua Dun, and Shengchao Qin:
   How Well Does Knowledge Injection Enhance LLM-Aided Formal Protocol Modeling?
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Micheline Bénédicte Moumoula, Serge Lionel Nikiema, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Jacques Klein, and Tegawendé F. Bissyandé:
   Programming Language Confusion: When Code LLMs Can't Keep Their Languages Straight.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Qiaolin Qin, Jianchen Zhao, Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, and Ettore Merlo:
   A Story About Cohesion and Separation: Label-Free Metric for Log Parser Evaluation.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Chihiro Yoshida, Yuta Ishimoto, Olivier Nourry, Masanari Kondo, Makoto Matsushita, Yasutaka Kamei, and Yoshiki Higo:
   Leveraging Mutation Analysis for LLM-Based Repair of Quantum Programs.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Sara Baradaran, Liyan Huang, Mukund Raghothaman, and Weihang Wang:
    Reusing Legacy Code in Wasm: Key Challenges of Compilation and Code Semantics Preservation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Alexander Berndt, Vekil Bekmyradov, Rainer Gemulla, Marcus Kessel, Thomas Bach, and Sebastian Baltes:
    Can We Classify Flaky Tests Using Only Test Code? An LLM-Based Empirical Study.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Elena Bruches, Daniil Grebenkin, Mikhail Klementev, Vadim Alperovich, Roman Derunets, Dari Baturova, Georgy Mkrtchyan, Oleg Sedukhin, Ivan Bondarenko, Nikolay Bushkov, and Stanislav Moiseev:
    RM -RF: Reward Model for Run-Free Unit Test Evaluation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Bethel Hall, Owen Ungaro, and William Eiers:
    CloudFix: Automated Policy Repair for Cloud Access Control Policies Using Large Language Models.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Junjie Huang, Cheng Wen, Jie Su, Zhiwu Xu, Bin Yu, Shengchao Qin, and Cong Tian:
    Preserving Concurrency-Revealing Seeds in Fuzzing of Concurrent Programs via Tuple-Based Coverage Evaluation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Marcus Kessel:
    Towards Observation Lakehouses: Living, Interactive Archives of Software Behavior.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Parham Khamsepour, Mark Cole, Ish Ashraf, Sandeep Puri, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, and Shiva Nejati:
    Question Answering for Multi-Release Systems: A Case Study at Ciena.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Viktor Kjellberg, Miroslaw Staron, and Farnaz Fotrousi:
    From LLMS to Agents in Programming: The Impact of Providing an LLM with a Compiler.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Christian Macho, Katharina Stengg, and Martin Pinzger:
    Agent-Based Dependency-Related Build Repair.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Hoang Vinh-Phong Nguyen, Anh M. T. Bui, and Phuong T. Nguyen:
    Larger Is Not Always Better: Leveraging Structured Code Diffs for Comment Inconsistency Detection.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Jukka Ruohonen, Krzysztof Sierszecki, and Abhishek Tiwari:
    A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Companion ⌄

1. 1

   Ehsan Firouzi and Mohammad Ghafari:
   Persistent Human Feedback, LLMs, and Static Analyzers for Secure Code Generation and Vulnerability Detection.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Robert Arntzenius, Xutong Liu, and Andy Zaidman:
   On the Energy Consumption of Continuous Integration in Open-Source Java Projects.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Antonio Della Porta, Gianmario Voria, Andrea Abbate, Raffaele Sulipano, Stefano Lambiase, Gemma Catolino, and Fabio Palomba:
   Toward Measuring Prompt Quality: A Preliminary Investigation on Prompt Smells.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Matteo Vaccargiu, Azmat Ullah, and Pierluigi Gallo:
   A Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering Architecture for Carbon Credit Certification Systems.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Ehsan Firouzi, Shardul Bhatt, and Mohammad Ghafari:
   Can Developers Rely on LLMs for Secure IaC Development?
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Ioan-Daniel Pop and Bogdan Iudean:
   AI-Assisted Diagnosis of Students' Misconceptions on Memory Allocation and Dynamic Data Structures in C++.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Farnaz Soltaniani, Shoaib Razzaq, and Mohammad Ghafari:
   Evaluating Large Language Models for Security Bug Report Prediction.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   André Brandão, Diogo Matos, Miguel Guimarães, Simão Cunha, and João Saraiva:
   The Green Side of the Lua.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Alejandra Duque-Torres, Stefan Fischer, and Claus Klammer:
   Metamorphic Testing for Sequential Prediction Models: A Survey of LSTMs and LLMs.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Cal Önal, Indika Kumara, Filippo Scaramuzza, and Marco Tonnarelli:
    Policy-as-Code in the Wild: A Taxonomy and Dataset for Open Policy Agent from Github.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Sanskar Shah, Sangharatna Godboley, and P. Radha Krishna:
    QGMR: A New Quantum Mutation Testing Operator.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Alessandro Aneggi, Xiaozhou Li, and Andrea Janes:
    PPTAMη: Energy Aware CI/CD Pipeline for Container Based Applications.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Rima Ayusinta, Rodi Jolak, and Raja Khurram Shahzad:
    Broken Access Control Risks in Open Source Javascript Projects: A Security Analysis.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Elena Ballesteros-Morallón, Félix García, María Gutiérrez, María Ángeles Moraga, and Coral Calero:
    GREENN: Granular Evaluation of Energy Efficiency in Neural Networks.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Sara Baradaran and Mukund Raghothaman:
    Effective Minimization of Failure-Inducing Tests Using Convention-Aware Slicing.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Elena Bruches, Vadim Alperovich, Dari Baturova, Roman Derunets, Daniil Grebenkin, Georgy Mkrtchyan, Oleg Sedukhin, Mikhail Klementev, Ivan Bondarenko, Nikolay Bushkov, and Stanislav Moiseev:
    TAM-Eval: Evaluating LLMs for Automated Unit Test Maintenance.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Selin Çoban, Miguel Perez, Çagatay Akpinar, Baran Tanriverdi, and Horst Lichter:
    An LLM-Based Approach for Automatic ML Prototype Review.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Faith Culas, Priyanka Dhopade, and Kelly Blincoe:
    Designing Think-Aloud Studies to Identify Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering Tools: An Experience Report.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Carmelo Felicetti, Fulvia Michela Caligiuri, Erika De Francesco, and Domenico Saccà:
    A DLT-Based Framework for Traceability and Certification in Sustainable Agri-Tourism: A Case Study in a Southern Italy Region.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Paolo Ferragina and Francesco Tosoni:
    The Energy-Throughput Trade-Off in Lossless-Compressed Source Code Storage.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER): Companion, 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Sabaat Haroon, Ahmad Faraz Khan, Ahmad Humayun, Waris Gill, Abdul Haddi Amjad, Ali Raza Butt, Mohammad Taha Khan, and Muhammad Ali Gulzar:
   Assessing the Impact of Code Changes on the Fault Localizability of Large Language Models.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   7 cites at Semantic Scholar

   370% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Kasun Kanaththage, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Matteo Biagiola, Paolo Tonella, and Andrea Stocco:
   Neural Embeddings for Web Testing.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Kuangxiangzi Liu, Alexander Liggesmeyer, Dhiman Chakraborty, and Andreas Zeller:
   Synthesizing Precise Protocol Specs from Natural Language for Effective Test Generation.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Michael Konstantinou, Renzo Degiovanni, and Mike Papadakis:
   How Well LLM-Based Test Generation Techniques Perform with Newer LLM Versions?
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Pablo Valle, Sergio Segura, Shaukat Ali, and Aitor Arrieta:
   Metamorphic Testing of Vision-Language Action-Enabled Robots.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   4 cites at Semantic Scholar

   168% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Prakash Aryan, Christian Birchler, Tommaso Fulcini, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, and Sebastiano Panichella:
   ICST Tool Competition 2026 - SDC Testing Track.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Mojtaba Eshghie, Melissa Mazura, and Alexandre Bartel:
   RAVEN: Mining Defensive Patterns in Ethereum via Semantic Transaction Revert Invariants Categories.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Hamed Taherkhani, Alireza DaghighFarsoodeh, Mohammad Chowdhury, Hung Viet Pham, and Hadi Hemmati:
   Consistency Meets Verification: Enhancing Test Generation Quality in Large Language Models Without Ground-Truth Solutions.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Erdem Uysal, Gregory Loubet-Bonino, Ali Javadi, Prakash Aryan, Aren A. Babikian, Dmytro Humeniuk, Sajad Khatiri, and Sebastiano Panichella:
   ICST Tool Competition 2026 - UAV Testing Track.
   IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Betupsilonl Karagöz, Filippo Ricca, Matteo Biagiola, and Andrea Stocco:
    Towards Automated Page Object Generation for Web Testing Using Large Language Models.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Maryam, Matteo Biagiola, Paolo Tonella, and Vincenzo Riccio:
    DeepNaqqal: Human-Aligned Automated Validation of Test Inputs for Deep Learning.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    2 cites at Semantic Scholar

    34% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Agustín Balestra, Agustín Nolasco, Facundo Molina, Diego Garbervetsky, Renzo Degiovanni, and Nazareno Aguirre:
    Improving Dynamic Specification Inference with LLM-Generated Counterexamples.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Avner Bensoussan, Elena Chachkarova, Karine Even-Mendoza, Sophie Fortz, Vasileios Klimis, and Mohammad Reza Mousavi:
    Toward Live Noise Fingerprinting for Discrepancy Analysis in Quantum Software Engineering.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Lucas Berg, Lukas Krodinger, Stephan Lukasczyk, Annibale Panichella, Gordon Fraser, Wim Vanhoof, and Xavier Devroey:
    Real-World Fault Detection for C-Extended Python Projects with Automated Unit Test Generation.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Leon Bettscheider, Marius Smytzek, and Andreas Zeller:
    Combining Input Constraints with Execution Goals.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Davide Corradini, Seung Yeob Shin, and Domenico Bianculli:
    Automated REST API Black-Box Test Generation in Practice: An Experience Report from Industry.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Islam T. Elgendy, Robert M. Hierons, and Phil McMinn:
    How Effective Are Coverage- and Diversity-Based Test Selection at Killing Stubborn Mutants?
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Zaid Ghazal, Hadiza Umar Yusuf, and Khouloud Gaaloul:
    Towards Counterfactual Explanation and Assertion Inference for CPS Debugging.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Dmytro Humeniuk, Mohammad Hamdaqa, Houssem Ben Braiek, Amel Bennaceur, and Foutse Khomh:
    Dynasto: Validity-Aware Dynamic-Static Parameter Optimization for Autonomous Driving Testing.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Maximilian Jungwirth, Martin Gruber, and Gordon Fraser:
    Predictive Pull Request Batching to Accelerate Merge Pipelines in Continuous Integration at Scale.
    IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Alessandro Giagnorio, Antonio Mastropaolo, Saima Afrin, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gabriele Bavota:
   Evaluating the Impact of Post-Training Quantization on Large Language Models for Code Generation.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Alessandro Midolo, Alessandro Giagnorio, Fiorella Zampetti, Rosalia Tufano, Gabriele Bavota, and Massimiliano Di Penta:
   Guidelines to Prompt Large Language Models for Code Generation: An Empirical Characterization.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Yaoxuan Wu, Xiaojie Zhou, Ahmad Humayun, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, and Miryung Kim:
   PALM: Path-Aware LLM-Based Test Generation with Comprehension.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Shivadharshan S, Akilesh P, Rajrupa Chattaraj, and Sridhar Chimalakonda:
   CPPJoules: An Energy Measurement Tool for C++.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Alex Chudic and Gül Çalikli:
   Automated Test Suite Enhancement Using Large Language Models with Few-Shot Prompting.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Sára Juhosová, Andy Zaidman, and Jesper Cockx:
   The Way of Types: A Report on Developer Experience with Type-Driven Development.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Kyle D. Chin and Reid Holmes:
   Put The "Code" Back in "Code Comprehension Study".
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Asif Mohammed Samir and Mohammad Masudur Rahman:
   Improved Bug Localization with AI Agents Leveraging Hypothesis and Dynamic Cognition.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Huan Zhang, Wei Cheng, and Wei Hu:
   Self-Improving Code Generation via Semantic Entropy and Behavioral Consensus.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Tarek Alakmeh, Norman Anderson, Victoria Jackson, Guilherme Vaz Pereira, Umit Akirmak, Anthony Estey, Rafael Prikladnicki, André van der Hoek, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, and Thomas Fritz:
    Grasping AI Reliance in Program Comprehension and Coding Through the AIRELI Persona Taxonomy.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Siyi Chen, Tianhan Luo, Shijian Wu, Xiangyu Liu, Yilin Zhou, Qi Li, and Wenyuan Xu:
    A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Exploit Generation with Constraint-Guided Comprehension and Reflection.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Jie Gao, Yue Xue, Xiaofei Xie, Junming Cao, SoeMin Thant, Erika Lee, and Bowen Xu:
    Understanding Codebase Like a Professional! Human-AI Collaboration for Code Comprehension.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Yunkun Wang, Xuanhe Zhang, Junxiao Han, Chen Zhi, and Shuiguang Deng:
    CodeGlance: Understanding Code Reasoning Challenges in LLMs Through Multi-Dimensional Feature Analysis.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Lei Yu, Peng Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xin Wang, Jia Xu, Li Yang, Changzhi Deng, Jiajia Ma, and Fengjun Zhang:
    SQL-Commenter: Aligning Large Language Models for SQL Comment Generation with Direct Preference Optimization.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Louay Khrouf, Anas Shatnawi, and Romain Rouvoy:
    Can We Spot Energy Regressions Using Developers' Tests? An Industrial Replication.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Larisa Safina:
    Hyalinos: From Type Inference to Community Knowledge.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Thiago Roberto Magalhães and João Eduardo Montandon:
    Understanding Type Hints in Python Libraries and Frameworks: Early Insights.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Nils Alznauer, Norman Peitek, Youssef Abdelsalam, Annabelle Bergum, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel:
    Eye-Tracking Insights into the Effects of Type Annotations and Identifier Naming.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Ali Aman, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, and Shaowei Wang:
    Typify: A Lightweight Usage-Driven Static Analyzer for Precise Python Type Inference.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Liuwen Cao, Jiaxi Liang, Jiexin Wang, and Yi Cai:
    A Code Ranking Framework with Human-Inspired Agent-Based Tests Generation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Research/Technical Papers ⌄

1. 1

   Alessandro Giagnorio, Antonio Mastropaolo, Saima Afrin, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Gabriele Bavota:
   Evaluating the Impact of Post-Training Quantization on Large Language Models for Code Generation.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Alessandro Midolo, Alessandro Giagnorio, Fiorella Zampetti, Rosalia Tufano, Gabriele Bavota, and Massimiliano Di Penta:
   Guidelines to Prompt Large Language Models for Code Generation: An Empirical Characterization.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Yaoxuan Wu, Xiaojie Zhou, Ahmad Humayun, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, and Miryung Kim:
   PALM: Path-Aware LLM-Based Test Generation with Comprehension.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Alex Chudic and Gül Çalikli:
   Automated Test Suite Enhancement Using Large Language Models with Few-Shot Prompting.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Sára Juhosová, Andy Zaidman, and Jesper Cockx:
   The Way of Types: A Report on Developer Experience with Type-Driven Development.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   3 cites at Semantic Scholar

   101% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Kyle D. Chin and Reid Holmes:
   Put The "Code" Back in "Code Comprehension Study".
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Asif Mohammed Samir and Mohammad Masudur Rahman:
   Improved Bug Localization with AI Agents Leveraging Hypothesis and Dynamic Cognition.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Huan Zhang, Wei Cheng, and Wei Hu:
   Self-Improving Code Generation via Semantic Entropy and Behavioral Consensus.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   2 cites at Semantic Scholar

   34% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Tarek Alakmeh, Norman Anderson, Victoria Jackson, Guilherme Vaz Pereira, Umit Akirmak, Anthony Estey, Rafael Prikladnicki, André van der Hoek, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, and Thomas Fritz:
   Grasping AI Reliance in Program Comprehension and Coding Through the AIRELI Persona Taxonomy.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
10. 10

    Siyi Chen, Tianhan Luo, Shijian Wu, Xiangyu Liu, Yilin Zhou, Qi Li, and Wenyuan Xu:
    A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Exploit Generation with Constraint-Guided Comprehension and Reflection.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
11. 11

    Jie Gao, Yue Xue, Xiaofei Xie, Junming Cao, SoeMin Thant, Erika Lee, and Bowen Xu:
    Understanding Codebase Like a Professional! Human-AI Collaboration for Code Comprehension.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
12. 12

    Yunkun Wang, Xuanhe Zhang, Junxiao Han, Chen Zhi, and Shuiguang Deng:
    CodeGlance: Understanding Code Reasoning Challenges in LLMs Through Multi-Dimensional Feature Analysis.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
13. 13

    Lei Yu, Peng Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xin Wang, Jia Xu, Li Yang, Changzhi Deng, Jiajia Ma, and Fengjun Zhang:
    SQL-Commenter: Aligning Large Language Models for SQL Comment Generation with Direct Preference Optimization.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    1 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -33% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
14. 14

    Nils Alznauer, Norman Peitek, Youssef Abdelsalam, Annabelle Bergum, Marvin Wyrich, and Sven Apel:
    Eye-Tracking Insights into the Effects of Type Annotations and Identifier Naming.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
15. 15

    Ali Aman, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, and Shaowei Wang:
    Typify: A Lightweight Usage-Driven Static Analyzer for Precise Python Type Inference.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
16. 16

    Liuwen Cao, Jiaxi Liang, Jiexin Wang, and Yi Cai:
    A Code Ranking Framework with Human-Inspired Agent-Based Tests Generation.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
17. 17

    Giuseppe Crupi, Rosalia Tufano, and Gabriele Bavota:
    Studying Quality Improvements Recommended via Manual and Automated Code Review.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
18. 18

    Shahriar Rumi Dipto, Saikat Mondal, and Chanchal K. Roy:
    Algorithm-Based Pipeline for Reliable and Intent-Preserving Code Translation with LLMs.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
19. 19

    Steffen Enders, Eva-Maria C. Behner, and Elmar Padilla:
    To GOTO or Not to GOTO: Measuring Structural Complexity of (Decompiled) Code.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI
20. 20

    Dongyi Fan, Suqiong Zhang, Lili He, Ming Liu, and Yifan Huo:
    SCOPE: Tree-Based Self-Correcting Online Log Parsing via Syntactic-Semantic Collaboration.
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2026
    

    0 cites at Semantic Scholar

    -100% above average of year

    Visited: Sep-2026

    Paper: DOI

Tool Demonstrations ⌄

1. 1

   Shivadharshan S, Akilesh P, Rajrupa Chattaraj, and Sridhar Chimalakonda:
   CPPJoules: An Energy Measurement Tool for C++.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   5 cites at Semantic Scholar

   235% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Larisa Safina:
   Hyalinos: From Type Inference to Community Knowledge.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Roman Bögli, Jonas Spieler, and Timo Kehrer:
   BF-CBOM: Uncovering Cryptographic Assets Through Comparative CBOM Analysis at Scale.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Satish Pati, Raghavendra Pappu, Rahul Krishna Gaddam, and Sridhar Chimalakonda:
   COBMaker - An Interactive Block-Based Programming Environment for COBOL.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Ajinkya Sawarkar, Anirudh Arrepu, and Sridhar Chimalakonda:
   CrossLink: A Tool for Cross-Language (Java-C/C++) Code Comprehension.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Chia-Yi Su and Collin McMillan:
   CMind: An AI Agent for Localizing C Memory Bugs.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Tool Demonstrations, 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI

Early Research Achievements (ERA) ⌄

1. 1

   Thiago Roberto Magalhães and João Eduardo Montandon:
   Understanding Type Hints in Python Libraries and Frameworks: Early Insights.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Andre Hora and Andy Zaidman:
   Test Behaviors, Not Methods! Detecting Tests Obsessed by Methods.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Yahya Lafhal, Zohreh Sharafi, and Mahta Amini:
   Attention to Innovation: Linking Developer Gaze and Coding Approaches.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Taythir G. Martin, Rodion Podorozhny, and Shibbir Ahmed:
   Precise LLM-Based Semantic Slicing for Deadlock Detection in Concurrent Java Programs.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo, Timo Kehrer, and Sebastiano Panichella:
   Understanding CI/CD Workflow Runs Through Interactive and Animated Visualizations.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Early Research Achievements (ERA), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI

Replications and Negative Results (RENE) ⌄

1. 1

   Louay Khrouf, Anas Shatnawi, and Romain Rouvoy:
   Can We Spot Energy Regressions Using Developers' Tests? An Industrial Replication.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   1 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -33% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Dussan Freire-Pozo, Tiara Rojas-Stambuk, Alison Fernandez-Blanco, and Leonel Merino:
   Evaluating the Use of Augmented Reality for Dependency Graph Analysis: A Controlled Experiment.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Maria Camporese, Fabio Massacci, and Yuanjun Gong:
   LLMs for Qualitative Data Analysis Fail on Security-Specific Comments in Human Experiments.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Nicolas Hrubec and Jürgen Cito:
   Reducing Token Usage of State-in-Context Agents Using Minification.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Lamyea Maha, Tajmilur Rahman, and Chanchal Roy:
   Agile Story-Point Estimation: Is RAG a Better Way to Go?
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Hilal Taha, Mike Papadakis, and Joel Muller:
   Industrial Replication of COLOR: Locator Repair in Continuous Integration and Failure Patterns Under UI/DOM Evolution.
   IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): Replications and Negative Results (RENE), 2026
   

   0 cites at Semantic Scholar

   -100% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI

1. 1

   Islem Bouzenia, Premkumar T. Devanbu, and Michael Pradel:
   RepairAgent: An Autonomous, LLM-Based Agent for Program Repair.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   438 cites at Semantic Scholar

   6386% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
2. 2

   Yangruibo Ding, Yanjun Fu, Omniyyah Ibrahim, Chawin Sitawarin, Xinyun Chen, Basel Alomair, David A. Wagner, Baishakhi Ray, and Yizheng Chen:
   Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We?
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   313 cites at Semantic Scholar

   4535% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
3. 3

   Wei Ma, Daoyuan Wu, Yuqiang Sun, Tianwen Wang, Shangqing Liu, Jian Zhang, Yue Xue, and Yang Liu:
   Combining Fine-Tuning and LLM-Based Agents for Intuitive Smart Contract Auditing with Justifications.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   126 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1766% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
4. 4

   Haifeng Ruan, Yuntong Zhang, and Abhik Roychoudhury:
   SpecRover: Code Intent Extraction via LLMs.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   126 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1766% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
5. 5

   Lezhi Ma, Shangqing Liu, Yi Li, Xiaofei Xie, and Lei Bu:
   SpecGen: Automated Generation of Formal Program Specifications via Large Language Models.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   102 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1410% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
6. 6

   Junkai Chen, Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Zhenhao Li, Ge Li, and Xin Xia:
   Reasoning Runtime Behavior of a Program with LLM: How Far Are We?
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   89 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1218% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
7. 7

   Claudio Spiess, David Gros, Kunal Suresh Pai, Michael Pradel, Md. Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Amin Alipour, Susmit Jha, Prem Devanbu, and Toufique Ahmed:
   Calibration and Correctness of Language Models for Code.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   89 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1218% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
8. 8

   Soneya Binta Hossain and Matthew B. Dwyer:
   TOGLL: Correct and Strong Test Oracle Generation with LLMS.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
   

   78 cites at Semantic Scholar

   1055% above average of year

   Visited: Sep-2026

   Paper: DOI
9. 9

   Wannita Takerngsaksiri, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Ruixiong Zhang, Fan Jiang, Jing Li, Evan Cook, Kun Chen, and Ming Wu:
   Human-In-The-Loop Software Development Agents.
   International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2025
   

   77 cites at Semantic Scholar

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10. 10

    Shuzheng Gao, Cuiyun Gao, Wenchao Gu, and Michael R. Lyu:
    Search-Based LLMs for Code Optimization.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    73 cites at Semantic Scholar

    981% above average of year

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11. 11

    Yanlin Wang, Yanli Wang, Daya Guo, Jiachi Chen, Ruikai Zhang, Yuchi Ma, and Zibin Zheng:
    RLCoder: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Completion.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    66 cites at Semantic Scholar

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12. 12

    Umut Cihan, Vahid Haratian, Arda Içöz, Mert Kaan Gül, Ömercan Devran, Emircan Furkan Bayendur, Baykal Mehmet Uçar, and Eray Tüzün:
    Automated Code Review in Practice.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2025
    

    59 cites at Semantic Scholar

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13. 13

    Pat Rondon, Renyao Wei, José Cambronero, Jürgen Cito, Aaron Sun, Siddhant Sanyam, Michele Tufano, and Satish Chandra:
    Evaluating Agent-Based Program Repair at Google.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), 2025
    

    56 cites at Semantic Scholar

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14. 14

    Yuling Shi, Hongyu Zhang, Chengcheng Wan, and Xiaodong Gu:
    Between Lines of Code: Unraveling the Distinct Patterns of Machine and Human Programmers.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    55 cites at Semantic Scholar

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15. 15

    Chong Wang, Kaifeng Huang, Jian Zhang, Yebo Feng, Lyuye Zhang, Yang Liu, and Xin Peng:
    LLMs Meet Library Evolution: Evaluating Deprecated API Usage in LLM-Based Code Completion.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    54 cites at Semantic Scholar

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16. 16

    Feng Lin, Dong Jae Kim, and Tse-Hsun Chen:
    SOEN-101: Code Generation by Emulating Software Process Models Using Large Language Model Agents.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    52 cites at Semantic Scholar

    670% above average of year

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17. 17

    Kyle Thompson, Nuno Saavedra, Pedro Carrott, Kevin Fisher, Alex Sanchez-Stern, Yuriy Brun, João F. Ferreira, Sorin Lerner, and Emily First:
    Rango: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Proving for Automated Software Verification.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    🏆 Distinguished Paper
    

    48 cites at Semantic Scholar

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18. 18

    Zifan Nan, Zhaoqiang Guo, Kui Liu, and Xin Xia:
    Test Intention Guided LLM-Based Unit Test Generation.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    47 cites at Semantic Scholar

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19. 19

    Rodrigo Pedro, Miguel E. Coimbra, Daniel Castro, Paulo Carreira, and Nuno Santos:
    Prompt-to-SQL Injections in LLM-Integrated Web Applications: Risks and Defenses.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    47 cites at Semantic Scholar

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20. 20

    Weisong Sun, Yun Miao, Yuekang Li, Hongyu Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Yang Liu, and Zhenyu Chen:
    Source Code Summarization in the Era of Large Language Models.
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    

    45 cites at OpenAlex

    566% above average of year

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