FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 8 Jul 2026 15:00 - 15:20 at MB 2.430 - Software Tests

Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs) have been used in many Automated Program Repair (APR) systems, primarily for validating promising fixes and aiding fix generation. In practice, when developers submit a patch, they often implement the BRT alongside the fix. Our experience deploying agentic APR reveals that developers similarly desire a BRT within AI-generated patches to increase their confidence. However, canonical APR systems tend to generate BRTs and fixes separately, and focus on producing only the fix in the final patch. In this paper, we study agentic APR in the context of cogeneration, where the APR agent is instructed to generate both a fix and a BRT in the same patch. We evaluate the effectiveness of different cogeneration strategies on 120 human-reported bugs at Google and characterize different cogeneration strategies by their influence on APR agent behavior. We develop and evaluate patch selectors that account for test change information to select patches with plausible fixes (and plausible BRTs). Finally, we analyze the root causes of failed cogeneration trajectories. Importantly, we show that cogeneration allows the APR agent to generate BRTs for at least as many bugs as a dedicated BRT agent, without compromising the generation rate of plausible fixes, thereby reducing engineering effort in maintaining and coordinating separate generation pipelines for fix and BRT at scale.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 8 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
20m
Talk
IntentTester: Intent-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Library Test Migration
Research Papers
Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Ziyuan Zhang Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Zhejiang University
14:20
20m
Talk
Revealing Regressions: A Comparative Study of State-Capture Strategies in Validating Program Behavior
Research Papers
Hang Du University of California at Irvine, Vijay Krishna Palepu Microsoft, James Jones University of California at Irvine
14:40
20m
Talk
TestTailor: Generating High-Coverage Tests via Path-Proximal Tests with LLMs
Research Papers
Xiaoxuan Zhou Northeastern University, Yiling Lou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jinhao Dong Peking University, Dan Hao Peking University
15:00
20m
Talk
Dynamic Cogeneration of Bug Reproduction Test in Agentic Program Repair
Industry Papers
Sam Cheng Google, Michele Tufano Google, José Pablo Cambronero Google, USA, Renyao Wei Google, Sherry Shi Google, Grant Uy Google, Patrick Rondon Google, Franjo Ivančić Google
15:20
10m
Talk
Energy-Aware Test Prioritization for High-Performance Computing: A Multi-Objective Approach
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Ninad Anklesaria Oregon State University, Manish Motwani Oregon State University