FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Wed 8 Jul 2026 10:30 - 12:30 at MB 9A - Student Research Competition
Wed 8 Jul 2026 14:08 - 14:16 at MB 9B - Student Research Competition
Wed 8 Jul 2026 14:24 - 14:32 at MB 9A - Student Research Competition

Large Language Model (LLM) pipelines can generate semantically meaningful unit tests with high coverage, but generated tests often fail to compile or execute. Many frameworks therefore use LLM-driven repair loops that iteratively re-prompt on failures until validation succeeds, but these repairs can introduce issues such as hallucinating an invented class solely to make the test pass. In this paper, we study repair-induced issues and effects of prompt strategy across three Java projects. We build a dataset of LLM-generated broken-to-fixed test pairs, where initially failing tests are repaired via a loop under zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting, derive a taxonomy from 117 manually analyzed pairs (three anti-pattern categories, seven scenarios), and compare the performance of prompting strategies through repair rate and post-repair coverage.

Wed 8 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
Student Research CompetitionStudent Research Competition at MB 9A
10:30
2h
Talk
A Qualitative and Quantitative Exploration of LLM-Based Test Generation Repair Loops
Student Research Competition
Jaskeerat Singh University of Alberta
10:30
2h
Talk
Declarative Test-Native Software Fault Injection
Student Research Competition
Matthew MacRae-Bovell Carleton University
10:30
2h
Talk
It’s Not Just Timestamps: A Study on Docker Reproducibility
Student Research Competition
Oreofe Solarin Case Western Reserve University
10:30
2h
Talk
An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Rare Logs and its Impact of Log Parsing
Student Research Competition
Sepideh Hodaeian University of Alberta
10:30
2h
Talk
A Log-Centric Overlay on Method Call Graphs
Student Research Competition
Zhaoqi Gu University of Alberta
10:30
2h
Talk
Learning to Refine Specifications for Code Generation
Student Research Competition
Jay Patel York University
10:30
2h
Talk
Integrating Static Analysis with Learning-Based Systems for Automated Code Review
Student Research Competition
Imen Jaoua University of Montreal
10:30
2h
Talk
Does the Agent Matter? Predicting Merge Outcomes of AI-Authored Pull Requests
Student Research Competition
Niruthiha Selvanayagam Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
10:30
2h
Talk
An Empirical Study of Public Generative Art Repositories
Student Research Competition
Roxana Pena Mendieta Universite de Montreal
10:30
2h
Talk
Identifying Crisis-Native Patterns & Validating CNS Benchmark in a Global South Humanitarian Effort
Student Research Competition
Keisha Gaspard-Chickoree Dalhousie University
10:30
2h
Talk
Understanding Developers’ Experiences in Seeking Similar Rationale Information in Commit Messages
Student Research Competition
Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal
14:00 - 15:30
Student Research CompetitionStudent Research Competition at MB 9A
14:00
8m
Talk
A Log-Centric Overlay on Method Call Graphs
Student Research Competition
Zhaoqi Gu University of Alberta
14:08
8m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Public Generative Art Repositories
Student Research Competition
Roxana Pena Mendieta Universite de Montreal
14:16
8m
Talk
An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Rare Logs and its Impact of Log Parsing
Student Research Competition
Sepideh Hodaeian University of Alberta
14:24
8m
Talk
A Qualitative and Quantitative Exploration of LLM-Based Test Generation Repair Loops
Student Research Competition
Jaskeerat Singh University of Alberta
14:32
8m
Talk
Declarative Test-Native Software Fault Injection
Student Research Competition
Matthew MacRae-Bovell Carleton University
14:40
8m
Talk
Does the Agent Matter? Predicting Merge Outcomes of AI-Authored Pull Requests
Student Research Competition
Niruthiha Selvanayagam Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
14:49
8m
Talk
Identifying Crisis-Native Patterns & Validating CNS Benchmark in a Global South Humanitarian Effort
Student Research Competition
Keisha Gaspard-Chickoree Dalhousie University
14:57
8m
Talk
Integrating Static Analysis with Learning-Based Systems for Automated Code Review
Student Research Competition
Imen Jaoua University of Montreal
15:05
8m
Talk
It’s Not Just Timestamps: A Study on Docker Reproducibility
Student Research Competition
Oreofe Solarin Case Western Reserve University
15:13
8m
Talk
Learning to Refine Specifications for Code Generation
Student Research Competition
Jay Patel York University
15:21
8m
Talk
Understanding Developers’ Experiences in Seeking Similar Rationale Information in Commit Messages
Student Research Competition
Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal
14:00 - 15:30
Student Research CompetitionStudent Research Competition at MB 9B
14:00
8m
Talk
Understanding Developers’ Experiences in Seeking Similar Rationale Information in Commit Messages
Student Research Competition
Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal
14:08
8m
Talk
A Qualitative and Quantitative Exploration of LLM-Based Test Generation Repair Loops
Student Research Competition
Jaskeerat Singh University of Alberta
14:16
8m
Talk
Identifying Crisis-Native Patterns & Validating CNS Benchmark in a Global South Humanitarian Effort
Student Research Competition
Keisha Gaspard-Chickoree Dalhousie University
14:24
8m
Talk
Declarative Test-Native Software Fault Injection
Student Research Competition
Matthew MacRae-Bovell Carleton University
14:32
8m
Talk
Integrating Static Analysis with Learning-Based Systems for Automated Code Review
Student Research Competition
Imen Jaoua University of Montreal
14:40
8m
Talk
It’s Not Just Timestamps: A Study on Docker Reproducibility
Student Research Competition
Oreofe Solarin Case Western Reserve University
14:49
8m
Talk
A Log-Centric Overlay on Method Call Graphs
Student Research Competition
Zhaoqi Gu University of Alberta
14:57
8m
Talk
Learning to Refine Specifications for Code Generation
Student Research Competition
Jay Patel York University
15:05
8m
Talk
Does the Agent Matter? Predicting Merge Outcomes of AI-Authored Pull Requests
Student Research Competition
Niruthiha Selvanayagam Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
15:13
8m
Talk
An Empirical Study on the Prevalence of Rare Logs and its Impact of Log Parsing
Student Research Competition
Sepideh Hodaeian University of Alberta
15:21
8m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Public Generative Art Repositories
Student Research Competition
Roxana Pena Mendieta Universite de Montreal