ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Nov 2025 11:40 - 11:50 at Grand Hall 3 - Maintenance & Evolution 2

\textit{Copy-paste-modify} is a widespread and pragmatic practice in software development, where developers adapt reused code snippets—sourced from platforms such as Stack Overflow, GitHub, or LLM outputs—into their local codebase. A critical yet underexplored aspect of this adaptation is \textit{code wiring}, which involves substituting unresolved variables in the pasted code with suitable ones from the surrounding context. Existing solutions either rely on heuristic rules or historical templates, often failing to effectively utilize contextual information, despite studies showing that over half of adaptation cases are context-dependent. In this paper, we introduce \emph{WIRL}, an LLM-based agent for code wiring framed as a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) infilling task. \emph{WIRL} combines an LLM, a customized toolkit, and an orchestration module to identify unresolved variables, retrieve context, and perform context-aware substitutions. To balance efficiency and autonomy, the agent adopts a mixed strategy: deterministic rule-based steps for common patterns, and a state-machine-guided decision process for intelligent exploration. We evaluate \emph{WIRL} on a carefully curated, high-quality dataset consisting of real-world code adaptation scenarios. Our approach achieves an exact match precision of 91.7% and a recall of 90.0%, outperforming advanced LLMs by 22.6 and 13.7 percentage points in precision and recall, respectively, and surpassing IntelliJ IDEA by 54.3 and 49.9 percentage points. These results underscore its practical utility, particularly in contexts with complex variable dependencies or multiple unresolved variables. We believe \emph{WIRL} paves the way for more intelligent and context-aware developer assistance in modern IDEs.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Nov

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11:00 - 12:30
Maintenance & Evolution 2Research Papers / Journal-First Track at Grand Hall 3
11:00
10m
Talk
Automated Inline Comment Smell Detection and Repair with Large Language Models
Research Papers
Hatice Kübra Çağlar Bilkent University, Semih Çağlar Bilkent University, Eray Tüzün Bilkent University
Pre-print
11:10
10m
Talk
What’s DAT Smell? Untangling and Weaving the Disjoint Assertion Tangle Test Smell
Research Papers
Monil Narang University of California, Irvine, Hang Du University of California at Irvine, James Jones University of California at Irvine
Pre-print
11:20
10m
Talk
Your Build Scripts Stink: The State of Code Smells in Build Scripts
Research Papers
Mahzabin Tamanna North Carolina State University, Yash Chandrani North Carolina State University, Matthew Burrows North Carolina State University, Brandon Wroblewski North Carolina State University, Dominik Wermke North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
11:30
10m
Talk
Do Experts Agree About Smelly Infrastructure?
Journal-First Track
Sogol Masoumzadeh Mcgill University, Nuno Saavedra INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Rungroj Maipradit University of Waterloo, Lili Wei McGill University, João F. Ferreira INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
11:40
10m
Talk
Wired for Reuse: Automating Context-Aware Code Adaptation in IDEs via LLM-Based Agent
Research Papers
Taiming Wang Beijing Institute of Technology, Yanjie Jiang Peking University, Chunhao Dong Beijing Institute of Technology, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
11:50
10m
Talk
BinStruct: Binary Structure Recovery Combining Static Analysis and Semantics
Research Papers
Yiran Zhang , Zhengzi Xu Imperial Global Singapore, Zhe Lang Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, CHENGYUE LIU , Yuqiang Sun Nanyang Technological University, Wenbo Guo School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Weisong Sun Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
12:00
10m
Talk
SateLight: A Satellite Application Update Framework for Satellite Computing
Research Papers
Jinfeng Wen Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Jianshu Zhao Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Zixi Zhu Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xiaomin Zhang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Qi Liang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ao Zhou Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Shangguang Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
12:10
10m
Talk
ComCat: Expertise-Guided Context Generation to Enhance Code Comprehension
Journal-First Track
Skyler Grandel Vanderbilt University, Scott Andersen National Autonomous University of Mexico, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University, Kevin Leach Vanderbilt University
12:20
10m
Talk
AdaptEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Code Snippet Adaptation
Research Papers
Tanghaoran Zhang National University of Defense Technology, Xinjun Mao National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Yuxin Zhao Key Laboratory of Software Engineering for Complex Systems, National University of Defense Technology, Yao Lu National University of Defense Technology, Jin Zhang Hunan Normal University, Zhang Zhang Key Laboratory of Software Engineering for Complex Systems, National University of Defense Technology, Kang Yang National University of Defense Technology, Yue Yu PengCheng Lab