ASE 2026
Mon 12 - Fri 16 October 2026 Munich, Germany

Thu 15 Oct

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10:30 - 12:30
Maintenance and Evolution: Debugging and Fault LocalizationIndustry Showcase / Journal First / Research Papers at Forum 6
10:30
15m
Talk
Efficient Black-Box Fault Localization for System-Level Test Code Using Large Language Models
Journal First
Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi University of Ottawa, Golnaz Gharachorlu University of Ottawa, Sakina Fatima Fujitsu Research, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, Ruiyuan Wan , Ruifeng Gao Huawei Inc.
DOI
10:45
15m
Talk
COBug: A Bug Localization Pipeline for COBOL: Does It Work? An Exploratory Study
Research Papers
Kavyasri Gajula Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Phanindra Kodela Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
11:00
15m
Talk
Improving IR-based Bug Localization with Semantics-Driven Query Reduction
Journal First
Asif Mohammed Samir Dalhousie University, Masud Rahman Dalhousie University
DOI
11:15
15m
Talk
BugMentor: Generating Answers to Follow-up Questions from Software Bug Reports using Structured Information Retrieval and Neural Text Generation
Journal First
Usmi Mukherjee Dalhousie University, Masud Rahman Dalhousie University
DOI
11:30
15m
Talk
MERA: A Multi-expert LLM Framework for Severity Assessment of User Tickets in Mobile OS Beta Testing
Industry Showcase
Yongqian Sun Nankai University, Yimin Zuo Nankai University, Qingliang Zhang Nankai University, Bowen Hao Nankai University, Wenwei Gu Nankai University, Jiaqi Luan Nankai University, Sixu Zhou Nankai University, Shenglin Zhang Nankai University, Dan Pei Tsinghua University, China
11:45
15m
Talk
Disassembly-Augmented Root Cause Analysis for C/C++ Segmentation Faults in SAP HANA
Industry Showcase
Jihoon Jung SAP Labs Korea, Chansong You SAP Labs Korea, Jingun Hong SAP Labs Korea, Thomas Bach SAP, Gabin An Korea University
12:00
15m
Talk
One Sentence Can Kill the Bug: Auto-replay Mobile App Crashes from One-sentence Overviews
Journal First
Yuchao Huang , Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhe Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mingyang Li Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Song Wang York University, Chunyang Chen TU Munich, Yuanzhe Hu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences
DOI