ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thu 16 Apr 2026 16:30 - 16:45 at Oceania I - Testing and Analysis 14 Chair(s): Weiyi Shang

Performance debugging in WebAssembly (Wasm) runtimes is essential for ensuring the robustness of Wasm, especially since performance issues have frequently occurred in Wasm runtimes, which can significantly degrade the capabilities of hosted services. Many performance issues in Wasm runtimes result from suboptimal compilation of input Wasm programs, for which existing performance debugging methods primarily designed for application-level inefficiencies are not well-suited. In this paper, we present WarpL, a novel mutation-based approach that aims to identify the exact suboptimal instruction sequences responsible for the performance issues in Wasm runtimes, thereby narrowing down the root causes. Specifically, WarpL obtains a functionally similar mutant in which the performance issue does not manifest, and isolates the exact suboptimal instructions by comparing the machine code of the original and mutated programs. We implement WarpL as an open-source tool and evaluate it on 12 real-world performance issues across three widely used Wasm runtimes. WarpL identified the exact causes in 10 out of 12 issues. Notably, we have used WarpL to successfully diagnose six previously unknown performance issues in Wasmtime.

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, Kevin Huang , 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