FSE 2025
Mon 23 - Fri 27 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
Mon 23 Jun 2025 15:00 - 15:10 at Aurora A - Code Search Chair(s): Xin Xia

Evaluating the quality of code summaries is essential for enterprise software, where the complexity and scale of codebases introduce unique challenges that are inadequately addressed by existing public code datasets and evaluation methods. These methods, typically designed for small and straightforward code snippets, often overlook critical issues such as repetitiveness, verbosity, and incompleteness—issues that are particularly prominent in enterprise-level code summaries. While correctness has been extensively studied, other dimensions critical to enterprise contexts, such as distinctiveness and completeness, remain underexplored. To address these gaps, we propose a novel evaluation framework that emphasizes aggregated metrics tailored to enterprise needs, prioritizing both distinctiveness and completeness. This framework introduces metrics designed to penalize verbosity and redundancy while rewarding informativeness and alignment with the underlying code. Initial experiments conducted on human-annotated enterprise Java datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by improving the RMSE values by 7.4% over the baselines. Correlation studies of our distinctiveness and completeness metrics with human ratings also shows improvement of 32% and 5.3% respectively over the baselines.

Mon 23 Jun

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14:00 - 15:30
Code SearchResearch Papers / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at Aurora A
Chair(s): Xin Xia Zhejiang University
14:00
20m
Talk
10 years later: revisiting how developers search for code
Research Papers
Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University, Tobias Welp Google, Caitlin Sadowski , Sebastian Elbaum University of Virginia
DOI
14:20
20m
Talk
Approaching Code Search for Python as a Translation Retrieval Problem with Dual Encoders
Journal First
Monoshiz Mahbub Khan Rochester Institute of Technology, Zhe Yu Rochester Institute of Technology
14:40
20m
Talk
Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Code Search without Fine-Tuning
Research Papers
Keyu Liang Zhejiang University, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University, Chao Liu Chongqing University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University
DOI
15:00
10m
Talk
Measuring What Matters: An Aggregate Metric for Assessing Enterprise Code Summaries
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Ashita Saxena IBM Research, Palanivel Kodeswaran IBM Research India, Sayandeep Sen IBM Research India, Srikanth Tamilselvam IBM Research
15:10
20m
Talk
MiSum: Multi-Modality Heterogeneous Code Graph Learning for Multi-Intent Binary Code Summarization
Research Papers
Kangchen Zhu National university of Defense Technology, Zhiliang Tian National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Weiguo Chen National University of Defense Technology, Zixuan Dong National University of Defense Technology, mingyue leng National University of Defense Technology, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology
DOI

Information for Participants
Mon 23 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Aurora A - Code Search Chair(s): Xin Xia
Info for room Aurora A:

Aurora A is the first room in the Aurora wing.

When facing the main Cosmos Hall, access to the Aurora wing is on the right, close to the side entrance of the hotel.