ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thu 16 Apr 2026 16:00 - 16:15 at Oceania I - Testing and Analysis 14 Chair(s): Weiyi Shang

Overfitting is one of the most persistent challenges in automated program repair (APR), typically attributed to weak or incomplete test suites. In this paper, we take a different view: overfitting is not just a nuisance but a fundamental consequence of undecidability. When full specifications are unavailable, test suites serve only as partial correctness oracles. As a result, overfitting emerges as a structural outcome rather than an incidental defect. This perspective reframes overfitting not as a solvable bug in APR, but as an inherent boundary of the problem itself. We discuss the implications of this shift and call for a research agenda that works within these limits, developing methods to quantify, explain, and ultimately reason about overfitting as an unavoidable aspect of repair.

The Undecidability of Overfitting in Automated Program Repair (icse_presentation-1.pdf)251KiB

Thu 16 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
Testing and Analysis 14Research Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) at Oceania I
Chair(s): Weiyi Shang University of Waterloo
16:00
15m
Talk
The Undecidability of Overfitting in Automated Program RepairVirtual Attendance
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Omar I. Al-Bataineh Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
File Attached
16:15
15m
Talk
Test Flimsiness: Characterizing Flakiness Induced by Mutation to the Code Under Test
Research Track
Owain Parry University of Sheffield, Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield
16:30
15m
Talk
Debugging Performance Issues in WebAssembly Runtimes via Mutation-based InferenceVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Ruiying Zeng Fudan University, Shuyao Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenxuan Zhao Fudan University, Yangfan Zhou Fudan University
Media Attached
16:45
15m
Talk
CoReX: Context-Aware Refinement-Based Slicing for Debugging Regression Failures
Research Track
Sahar Badihi University of British Columbia, Canada, Julia Rubin The University of British Columbia
Pre-print
17:00
15m
Talk
Repair Ingredients Are All You Need: Improving Large Language Model-Based Program Repair via Repair Ingredients Search
Research Track
Jiayi Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Kai Huang Technical University of Munich, Jian Zhang Beihang University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Chunyang Chen TU Munich
17:15
15m
Talk
Online and Interactive Bayesian Inference Debugging
Research Track