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

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov 2025 15:10 - 15:20 at Grand Hall 5 - Software Process

Effort estimation is a crucial activity in agile software development, where teams collaboratively review, discuss, and estimate the effort required to complete user stories in a product backlog. Current practices in agile effort estimation heavily rely on subjective assessments, leading to inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the estimates. While recent machine learning-based methods show promising accuracy, they cannot explain or justify their estimates and lack the capability to interact with human team members. Our paper fills this significant gap by leveraging the powerful capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). We propose a novel LLM-based multi-agent framework for agile estimation that not only can produce estimates, but also can coordinate, communicate and discuss with human developers and other agents to reach a consensus. Evaluation results on a real-life dataset show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art techniques across all evaluation metrics in the majority of the cases. Our human study with software development practitioners also demonstrates an overwhelmingly positive experience in collaborating with our agents in agile effort estimation.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov

Displayed time zone: Seoul change

14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
LAURA: Enhancing Code Review Generation with Context-Enriched Retrieval-Augmented LLM
Research Papers
Yuxin Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Zeyu Sun Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanjie Jiang Peking University, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
14:10
10m
Talk
AlertGuardian: Intelligent Alert Life-Cycle Management for Large-scale Cloud Systems
Research Papers
Guangba  Yu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Genting Mai Sun Yat-sen University, Rui Wang Tencent, Ruipeng Li Tencent, Pengfei Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Long Pan Tencent, Ruijie Xu Tencent
14:20
10m
Talk
SPICE : An Automated SWE-Bench Labeling Pipeline for Issue Clarity, Test Coverage, and Effort Estimation
Research Papers
Aaditya Bhatia Queen's University, Gustavo Oliva Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei, Canada, Haoxiang Zhang Huawei, Yihao Chen Center for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Zhilong Chen Center for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Arthur Leung Center for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Dayi Lin Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Boyuan Chen Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:30
10m
Talk
Managing the variability of a logistics robotic system
Journal-First Track
Kentaro Yoshimura Hitachi, Ltd., Yuta Yamauchi Hitachi, Ltd., Hideo Takahashi Hitachi, Ltd.
14:40
10m
Talk
Sprint2Vec: A Deep Characterization of Sprints in Iterative Software Development
Journal-First Track
Morakot Choetkiertikul Mahidol University, Thailand, Peerachai Banyongrakkul Mahidol University, Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand, Suppawong Tuarob Mahidol University, Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Thanwadee Sunetnanta Mahidol University
14:50
10m
Talk
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes
Journal-First Track
Kashumi Madampe Monash University, Australia, Rashina Hoda Monash University, John Grundy Monash University
15:00
10m
Talk
Rechecking Recheck Requests in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of OpenStack
Research Papers
Yelizaveta Brus University of Waterloo, Rungroj Maipradit University of Waterloo, Earl T. Barr University College London, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
15:10
10m
Talk
An LLM-based multi-agent framework for agile effort estimation
Research Papers
Long Bui University of Wollongong, Hoa Khanh Dam University of Wollongong, Rashina Hoda Monash University
15:20
10m
Talk
From Characters to Structure: Rethinking Real-Time Collaborative Programming Models
Research Papers
Leon Freudenthaler FH Campus Wien, Bernhard Taufner FH Campus Wien, Karl M. Göschka TU Wien