Keynotes - CHASE 2026

Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

co-located with ICSE 2026

Dr. Tayana Conte - The Component We Do Not Factor In: How Human Behavior and Judgment Shape Everyday Decisions, Practices, and Collaboration in Software Teams
Abstract: Humans, software engineers as well as other stakeholders, play a pivotal role in shaping project outcomes and success in Software Engineering (SE). Yet, many SE practices still rely on assumptions of rationality that overlook how human behavior and judgment influence everyday decisions, collaboration, and coordination within software teams. Similar to the way Behavioral Economics has become integral to Economics, Behavioral Software Engineering offers a lens to better understand phenomena such as heuristics and biases, nudges, and choice architecture in SE contexts. While these concepts are increasingly recognized in the literature, they remain difficult to systematically account for in practice. Even when approaches explicitly aim to support decision-making, such as techniques to improve negotiation or estimation practices, we often dismiss them in favor of purely technical methods, assuming that established technical solutions are sufficient. The recurring mismatch between technical estimates and actual project outcomes suggests otherwise. In this keynote, I argue that, while Behavioral Software Engineering is not an entirely new idea, it is time to more fully embrace it as a core perspective for understanding, improving, and effectively changing software development practices. By acknowledging how human behavior and judgment shape everyday work, we can better explain persistent challenges in software projects and open new opportunities for more effective, human-centered interventions in software teams.
	Dr. Tayana Conte is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil, where she leads the USES (UX and Software Engineering) Research Group. Her research focuses on user experience, human factors in software development, software quality, and empirical software engineering. She has authored over 300 publications and supervised more than 45 graduate theses and dissertations. Tayana serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD) and as Associate Editor of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Science of Computer Programming (SCP), and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). In 2023, she became the first Latin American recipient of the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Education Award.

Dr. Markus Borg - Behavioral Code Analysis in the Wake of Agentic AI
Abstract: Just like yesteryear, AI is on everyone’s minds in the software industry. From my vantage point at CodeScene, I encounter a wide range of human reactions in discussions with our customers. All feelings are valid, and the Gibson quote “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” is in full swing – especially from the perspective of AI agents. Few developers are entirely leaving out LLM assistance these days, but the use of coding agents varies widely. What happens to collaboration, learning, and responsibility as teams shift to hybrid human-AI development? In this keynote, I argue that behavioral code analysis becomes even more important as AI gets agency. By focusing on social signals such as knowledge distribution, ownership, and coordination, we can mitigate challenges related to provenance, deskilling, and maintainability. I share a personal perspective with elements of industry-academia collaboration, reflections from a tool vendor, research highlights, and new case study results with our partner loveholidays.
	Dr. Markus Borg is a leading figure in the confluence of software engineering and applied artificial intelligence. With dual roles as a principal researcher at CodeScene and an adjunct associate professor at Lund University, his work primarily focuses on enhancing the engineering of software and data-intensive systems through innovative research. He is especially passionate about the maintainability of software, striving to improve code health and sustainability over its lifecycle. Dr. Borg serves on the editorial board of Empirical Software Engineering and is a department editor for IEEE Software. He is a faculty member of Empirical Software Engineering and is a department editor for WASP.