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

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 9 Jul 2026 16:40 - 17:00 at MB 3.270 - Patch

Promptly porting patches from a source codebase to its variants (e.g., forks and branches) is essential for mitigating propagated defects and vulnerabilities. Recent studies have explored automated patch porting to reduce manual effort and delay, but existing approaches mainly handle inconsistencies visible in a patch’s local context and struggle with those requiring global mapping knowledge between codebases. We refer to such non-local inconsistencies as implicit inconsistencies. Implicit inconsistencies pose greater challenges for developers to resolve due to their non-local nature. To address them, we propose MIP, which enables collaboration among an LLM, a compiler, and code analysis utilities. MIP adopts different strategies for different cases: when source identifiers exist in the target codebase, it leverages compiler diagnostics; otherwise, it retrieves matched code segment pairs from the two codebases as mapping knowledge for mitigation. Experiments on two representative scenarios, cross-fork and cross-branch patch porting, show that MIP successfully resolves more than twice as many patches as the best-performing baseline in both settings. A user study with our industry partner further demonstrates its practical effectiveness.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 9 Jul

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16:00 - 17:00
16:00
20m
Talk
Automated Repair of TEE Partitioning Issues via DSL-Guided and LLM-Assisted Patching
Research Papers
Chengyan Ma Singapore Management University, Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Ruidong Han Singapore Management University, Ye Liu Singapore Management University, FENG Li , Yuqing Niu , David Lo Singapore Management University
Pre-print
16:20
20m
Talk
BackportBench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Automated Patch Backporting
Research Papers
Zhiqing Zhong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Jiaming Huang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
16:40
20m
Talk
Mitigating Implicit Inconsistencies in Patch Porting
Industry Papers
Shengyi Pan Zhejiang University, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University, Jiayuan Zhou Huawei, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Zhejiang University, Shanping Li The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University