ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mon 13 Apr 2026 16:50 - 16:55 at Bora Bora I - Award presentation and Future Trends

The quality assurance of software containing learning components has become a critical issue in software engineering. Dataset, akin to oil in machines, serves as the core asset for this type of software, directly determining its performance and reliability. Similar to conventional software driven by vast amounts of code, where bugs in the code can severely impair its performance, for intelligent software driven by data, bugs in the data can also impair their performance. In this paper, we propose IDEX, a method to detect and repair semantically mismatched pairs within text dataset. IDEX is powered by LLM with powerful semantic understanding capabilities and incorporates an iterative feedback mechanism. Based on well-designed strategies, IDEX can proactively learn the defect features identified by the LLM and prioritize more potential defects for the LLM to repair. Moreover, IDEX progressively learns the features of defects during iteration and eventually performs defect prediction on data outside the LLM token budget. Through extensive experiments, we have demonstrated the effectiveness of IDEX and its individual modules, as well as the capability of using IDEX to imporve the performance of state-of-the-art text generation models. Additionally, when applied to a widely-used real-world text dataset, IDEX can report and repair twice the number of defects as the direct use of LLMs under the same token expenditure.

Mon 13 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
Award presentation and Future TrendsJournal Ahead Workshop (JAWs) at Bora Bora I
16:00
5m
Talk
A Survey on AI-enabled Software Logging From Generation to Intelligent Analysis of Software Logs
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Cong Wang Zhejiang University, China, Yaowei Sun Tianjin University of Science and Technology, xinguohua Tianjin University, Jiongchi Yu Singapore Management University, Guangquan Xu School of Cybersecurity, Tianjin University
16:05
5m
Talk
Towards a Benchmark for Dependency Decision-Making
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Tanmay Singla Purdue University, Berk Çakar Purdue University, Paschal Amusuo Purdue University, James C. Davis Purdue University
Pre-print
16:10
5m
Talk
A UX Perspective on the Role of Code Search in Mitigating Divergences in Software Design
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Sofia Orellano Abal University of Falmouth, Ketai Qiu USI Università della Svizzera Italiana, Chengcheng Qu University of Falmouth, Luca Di Grazia University of St. Gallen
16:15
5m
Talk
Post-Velocity Software Engineering: When Change Throughput Outruns Assurance Capacity
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Alessio Bucaioni Mälardalen University
16:20
5m
Talk
Automated Refinement of Behaviour Abstractions with Inferred Assertions
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Nazareno Aguirre University of Rio Cuarto/CONICET, Argentina, and Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China, Diego Garbervetsky Departamento de Computación, FCEyN, UBA, Sebastian Uchitel Universidad de Buenos Aires / Imperial College, Tao Yue Beihang University, Man Zhang Beihang University, China
16:25
5m
Talk
Advances in Software Metrics Thresholds Definition - a Rigorous Statistical Approach
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Diego Gonçalves Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Kecia Ferreira Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Guilherme Oliveira Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais
16:30
5m
Talk
Characterizing Software Leadership: A Mixed-Methods Approach from Social Media to Industry
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Murilo Coelho Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Denivan Campos University of Molise, Italy, Mariana Maia Bezerra Atlântico Institute, Matheus Paixao State University of Ceará, Allysson Allex Araújo Federal University of Cariri, Sávio Freire Federal Institute of Ceará
16:35
5m
Talk
Can You Help Me? An Uncertainty-Aware Self-Adaptive Delegation Approach
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Matheus Chagas State University of Ceará, Lucas Alves State University of Ceara, Brazil, Paulo Maia State University of Ceará, Andrea Zisman The Open University
16:40
5m
Talk
QLM: CodeQL Query Synthesis with Compositional PoC Validation
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
weigang he University of Technology Sydney, Xiao Cheng Macquarie University, Shuangxiang Kan UNSW, Wei Li UNSW Sydney, Xingrui Yu CFAR, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Ivor Tsang CFAR, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Yulei Sui University of New South Wales
16:45
5m
Talk
Revisiting Code Clone Genealogies: A New Taxonomy Based on Developer Actions
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Denis Sousa State University of Ceara, Brazil, Italo Uchoa State University of Ceará, Thiago Lima State University of Ceara, Brazil, Matheus Paixao State University of Ceará, Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand
16:50
5m
Talk
IDEX: LLM-Guided Debug for Semantic Mismatch in Text Corpora
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)
Shihao Weng Nanjing University, Yang Feng Nanjing University, Yining Yin Nanjing University, Yuan Yao Nanjing University, Jia Liu Nanjing University, Zhihong Zhao Nanjing University
16:55
25m
Awards
Award paper presentation
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)

17:20
10m
Day closing
Closing
Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs)