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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 2 May 2025 12:15 - 12:30 at 207 - Human and Social using AI 2

GitHub Copilot is an artificially intelligent programming assistant used by many developers. While a few studies have evaluated the security risks of using Copilot, there has not been any study to show if it aids developers in producing code with better runtime performance. We evaluate the runtime performance of C++ code produced when developers use GitHub Copilot versus when they do not. To this end, we conducted a user study with 32 participants where each participant solved two C++ programming problems, one with Copilot and the other without it and measured the runtime performance of the participants’ solutions on our test data. Our results suggest that using Copilot may produce C++ code with a statistically significantly slower runtime performance.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 2 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Human and Social using AI 2Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) / Demonstrations at 207
11:00
15m
Talk
Software Engineering and Foundation Models: Insights from Industry Blogs Using a Jury of Foundation Models
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Hao Li Queen's University, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
11:15
15m
Talk
FairLay-ML: Intuitive Debugging of Fairness in Data-Driven Social-Critical Software
Demonstrations
Normen Yu Penn State, Luciana Carreon University of Texas at El Paso, Gang (Gary) Tan Pennsylvania State University, Saeid Tizpaz-Niari University of Illinois Chicago
11:30
15m
Talk
Dear Diary: A randomized controlled trial of Generative AI coding tools in the workplace
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Jenna L. Butler Microsoft Research, Jina Suh Microsoft Research, Sankeerti Haniyur Microsoft Corporation, Constance Hadley Institute for Work Life
11:45
15m
Talk
Exploring GenAI in Software Development: Insights from a Case Study in a Large Brazilian Company
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Guilherme Vaz Pereira School of Technology, PUCRS, Brazil, Victoria Jackson University of California, Irvine, Rafael Prikladnicki School of Technology at PUCRS University, Andre van der Hoek University of California, Irvine, Luciane Fortes Globo, Carolina Araújo Globo, André Coelho Globo, Ligia Chelli Globo, Diego Ramos Globo
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
Human-In-the-Loop Software Development Agents
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Wannita Takerngsaksiri Monash University, Jirat Pasuksmit Atlassian, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Kla Tantithamthavorn Monash University, Ruixiong Zhang Atlassian, Fan Jiang Atlassian, Jing Li Atlassian, Evan Cook Atlassian, Kun Chen Atlassian, Ming Wu Atlassian
12:15
15m
Talk
Measuring the Runtime Performance of C++ Code Written by Humans using GitHub Copilot
Research Track
Daniel Erhabor University of Waterloo, Sreeharsha Udayashankar University of Waterloo, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo, Samer Al-Kiswany University of Waterloo
Pre-print
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