ICSME 2026
Mon 14 - Fri 18 September 2026 Benevento, Italy

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Analyzing crash-report bugs in large-scale industrial software systems requires substantial maintenance effort, particularly in production environments where developers must handle large volumes of crash reports and source code artifacts to localize and fix their root causes. While recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can assist with maintenance tasks, little is known about their effectiveness in supporting developers in analyzing crash-report bugs and repairing bugs associated with groups of crash reports in industrial settings. To address this gap, we investigate whether integrating crash report mining techniques—specifically stack trace clustering and suspicious file and method ranking — with LLMs can support crash localization and repair in production environments. We conduct a retrospective evaluation of five LLMs under four prompt configurations on 38 crash bugs collected from two large Java enterprise systems. We further analyze the structural characteristics and explanatory patterns of LLM-generated responses and assess localization and repair effectiveness through manual validation. Our results show that the best-performing configuration localizes up to 71% and correctly repairs 52% of crash bugs on the full dataset. These findings provide empirical evidence that combining crash report mining with LLM-based repair can effectively support debugging activities in industrial maintenance workflows.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 16 Sep

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 1 - Code Whisperers: AI in the Developer’s ChairRegistered Reports / Research Papers Track / Tool Demonstration and Data Showcase Track / Visions and Emerging Results Track / Industry Track at Auditorium

Theme: AI-Driven Software Development

11:00
20m
Paper
Integrating Crash Report Mining and LLMs for Bug Localization and Repair: An Industrial Report
Industry Track
Marcos Medeiros Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Daniel Lucena Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Rafael Gomes Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Roberta Coelho , Eiji Adachi Barbosa Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Rodrigo Bonifácio Informatics Center - CIn/UFPE and Computer Science Department / University of Brasília
11:20
20m
Paper
JupOtter: Cell-Level Bug Detection in Jupyter Notebooks
Research Papers Track
Lukas Ottenhof University of Alberta, Thibaud Lutellier University of Alberta
11:40
20m
Paper
Quantize with Confidence? An Empirical Study of Quantization for Code Generation
Research Papers Track
Saima Afrin William and Mary, USA, Md. Zahidul Haque William & Mary, Antonio Mastropaolo William and Mary, USA
12:00
10m
Short-paper
ATLAS: Multi-View Code Representation Tool for C and C++ Source Programs
Tool Demonstration and Data Showcase Track
Jaid Monwar Chowdhury University of Texas at Arlington, Ahmad Farhan Shahriar Chowdhury Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Humayra Binte Monwar Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Mahmuda Naznin Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Pre-print Media Attached
12:10
10m
Short-paper
Code Review is a Conversation: Toward Conversational AI Review AssistantsDistinguished Paper Award
Visions and Emerging Results Track
Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana
Pre-print
12:20
10m
Short-paper
Cleaning Logs for Downstream Tasks
Registered Reports
Zahra Ghavidel Yazdi University of Luxembourg, Van-Hoang Le University of Luxembourg, Nyyti Saarimäki University of Luxembourg, Donghwan Shin University of Sheffield, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Pre-print