ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
co-located with FSE 2025
Thu 26 Jun 2025 14:25 - 14:50 at Cosmos Hall - Code and Documentation Generation Chair(s): Ying Zou

Release notes are essential documents that communicate the details of software updates to users and developers, yet their generation remains a time-consuming and error-prone process. In this paper, we present VerLog, a novel technique that enhances the generation of software release notes using Large Language Models (LLMs). VerLog leverages few-shot in-context learning with adaptive prompting to facilitate the graph reasoning capabilities of LLMs, enabling them to accurately interpret and document the semantic information of code changes. Additionally, VerLog incorporates multi-granularity information, including fine-grained code modifications and high-level non-code artifacts, to guide the generation process and ensure comprehensive, accurate, and readable release notes. We applied VerLog to the 42 releases of 248 unique Android applications and conducted extensive evaluations. Our results demonstrate that VerLog significantly (up to 18%–21% higher precision, recall, and F1) outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of completeness, accuracy, readability, and overall quality of the generated release notes, in both controlled experiments with high-quality reference release notes and in-the-wild evaluations.

Thu 26 Jun

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14:00 - 15:30
Code and Documentation GenerationResearch Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Cosmos Hall
Chair(s): Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
14:00
25m
Talk
The First Prompt Counts the Most! An Evaluation of Large Language Models on Iterative Example-based Code Generation
Research Papers
Yingjie Fu Peking University, Bozhou Li Peking University, Linyi Li Simon Fraser University, Wentao Zhang Peking University, Tao Xie Peking University
DOI
14:25
25m
Talk
VerLog: Enhancing Release Note Generation for Android Apps using Large Language Models
Research Papers
Jiawei Guo University at Buffalo, SUNY, Haoran Yang Washington State University, Haipeng Cai University at Buffalo, SUNY
DOI
14:50
25m
Talk
Can LLMs replace Human Evaluators? An Empirical Study of LLM-as-a-Judge in Software Engineering Tasks
Research Papers
Ruiqi Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Jiyu Guo Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Guodong Fan Shandong Agriculture and Engineering University, Chun Yong Chong Huawei, Xin Xia Zhejiang University
DOI Pre-print
15:15
15m
Demonstration
Code2API: A Tool for Generating Reusable APIs from Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Tool Demonstrations
Yubo Mai Zhejiang University, Zhipeng Gao Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study - Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Lingfeng Bao Zhejiang University, Jingyuan Chen , JianLing Sun Zhejiang University

Information for Participants
Thu 26 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Cosmos Hall - Code and Documentation Generation Chair(s): Ying Zou
Info for room Cosmos Hall:

This is the main event hall of Clarion Hotel, which will be used to host keynote talks and other plenary sessions. The FSE and ISSTA banquets will also happen in this room.

The room is just in front of the registration desk, on the other side of the main conference area. The two large doors with numbers “1” and “2” provide access to the Cosmos Hall.

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