ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Refactoring is crucial for maintaining a project, but it requires developers to understand code structure and system design principles well. Recent research on Large Language Models(LLMs) has shown their great capability for handling complex tasks, making them a possible solution for overcoming these challenges. In this paper, we propose MUARF, an LLM-based solution designed to automate method-level code refactoring, aiming to generate correct, high-quality, and human-like refactored code. MUARF leverages Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Generation to search for similar refactoring samples for few-shot learning, uses Multi-Agent Workflow to simulate the human refactoring process, and integrates advanced software engineering tools (e.g., RefactoringMiner, PurityChecker, StyleChecker) to assist refactoring. Evaluation results show that MUARF achieves a compilation pass rate of 86.5% and a test success rate of 83.8% for the refactored code it generates. Additionally, metrics such as CodeBLEU score and AST Diff accuracy—which compare human-refactored code with the output of MUARF —highlight the generated code is human-like. The ablation results show that RefactoringMiner and Agentware made the greatest contribution to MUARF.

Tue 29 Apr

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09:00 - 10:30
ACM Student Research Posters and Judging Session 1SRC - ACM Student Research Competition at Canada Hall 3 Poster Area
Chair(s): Md Tajmilur Rahman Gannon University
09:00
90m
Talk
Consistent Graph Model Generation with Large Language Models
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Boqi Chen McGill University
09:00
90m
Talk
Enhancing OSS Remediation with Patch Backporting
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University
09:00
90m
Talk
Improving Formal Methods VisualizationsFormal Methods
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Avinash Palliyil Georgia Institute of Technology
09:00
90m
Talk
MUARF: Leveraging Multi-Agent Workflows for Automated Code Refactoring
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Yisen Xu Software PErformance, Analysis, and Reliability (SPEAR) lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
09:00
90m
Talk
Identifying Performance-Sensitive Configurations in Software Systems with LLM-Driven Agents
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Zehao Wang Concordia University
09:00
90m
Talk
Characterising Algorithm Debt in Machine and Deep Learning Systems
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon Australian National University
09:00
90m
Talk
Automatic Fuzz Drivers for JavaScript with Type Distributions
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Mayant Mukul University of British Columbia

Thu 1 May

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11:00 - 12:30
ACM Student Research PresentationsSRC - ACM Student Research Competition at 204
Chair(s): Md Tajmilur Rahman , Lola Burgueño University of Malaga

A subset of finalist ACM SRC students will give short presentations in this session. That decision about who will present will be made after the poster sessions, and this schedule will be updated, so don’t rely on the precise timing until just before the session..

They all also have posters in Canada Hall 3 Poster area, with judging to be on Tuesday.

Awards will be announced in the banquet on Thursday evening.

11:00
6m
Talk
Automatic Fuzz Drivers for JavaScript with Type Distributions
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Mayant Mukul University of British Columbia
11:06
6m
Talk
CASS: Context-Aware Slice Summarization for Debugging Regression Failures
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Sahar Badihi University of British Columbia, Canada
Pre-print
11:12
6m
Talk
Characterising Algorithm Debt in Machine and Deep Learning Systems
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon Australian National University
11:18
6m
Talk
Consistent Graph Model Generation with Large Language Models
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Boqi Chen McGill University
11:24
6m
Talk
Enhancing OSS Remediation with Patch Backporting
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University
11:30
6m
Talk
Identifying Performance-Sensitive Configurations in Software Systems with LLM-Driven Agents
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Zehao Wang Concordia University
11:36
6m
Talk
Improving Formal Methods VisualizationsFormal Methods
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Avinash Palliyil Georgia Institute of Technology
11:42
6m
Talk
MUARF: Leveraging Multi-Agent Workflows for Automated Code Refactoring
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Yisen Xu Software PErformance, Analysis, and Reliability (SPEAR) lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
11:48
6m
Talk
On the Automation of Code Review Tasks Through Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Oussama Ben Sghaier DIRO, Université de Montréal
11:54
6m
Talk
On the Fly Input Refinement for Code Language Models
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Ravishka Shemal Rathnasuriya University of Texas at Dallas
12:00
6m
Talk
Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Miao Miao The University of Texas at Dallas
12:06
6m
Talk
Revisiting SWE-Bench: On the Importance of Data Quality for LLM-based Code Models
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Reem Aleithan York University, Canada
12:12
6m
Talk
The Balancing Act of Policies in Developing Machine Learning Explanations
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Jacob Tjaden Colby College
12:18
6m
Talk
To Mock or Not to Mock: Divergence in Mocking Practices Between LLM and Developers
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Hanbin Qin Stevens Institute of Technology
12:24
6m
Talk
Towards Compatibly Mitigating Technical Lag in Maven Projects
SRC - ACM Student Research Competition
Rui Lu East China Normal University