SANER 2026
Tue 17 - Fri 20 March 2026 Limassol, Cyprus

This program is tentative and subject to change.

A Pull Request (PR) is a code change proposal submitted by a developer for review by other team members. For a reviewer, prioritizing and selecting a PR to review is not easy: this selection can depend on many factors, including the extent of the change, the time available, their state of mind, etc. Existing tools and platforms like GitHub offer support for visualizing code changes and recommending reviewers to assign a PR to. However, little research has been done on providing support to the reviewer to select a PR to review from a list of (assigned) PRs. In this paper, we propose PRECOG, a Visual Studio Code plugin to help reviewers select the appropriate PR by enabling more informed decisions. PRECOG offers a radar chart visualization of the PR’s difficulty across various dimensions, and ranks PRs according to their difficulty. We evaluated PRECOG with 9 developers in a user experiment on the Java Spring Framework. Our results show that although participants differed in how they assess PRs’ difficulty, all agreed that the synthetic view provided by PRECOG helps them make rapid, informed decisions about which PR to review first. PRECOG is available at https://github.com/snail-unamur/PRECOG. A demonstration video is available at https://youtu.be/qPlr6lmgyMM.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 20 Mar

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
A PRISMA-driven Systematic Mapping Study on System Assurance Weakeners
Journal First Track
Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti York University, Alvine Boaye Belle York University, Timothy Lethbridge University of Ottawa, Oluwafemi Odu York University, Mithila Sivakumar University of Ottawa
14:15
15m
Talk
A Bug is Being Born: How Close Are We? A Time Sensitive Forecasting Approach
Registered Report Track
Mikel Robredo University of Oulu, Matteo Esposito University of Oulu, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Rafael Peñaloza University of Milano-Bicocca, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Southern Denmark and University of Oulu
14:30
15m
Talk
Newcomers’ experiences during debugging: A cognitive inclusivity perspective using GenderMag
Journal First Track
Faith Culas University of Auckland, Amisha Singh University of Auckland, Atharva Arankalle University of Auckland, Priyanka Dhopade University of Auckland, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
14:45
15m
Talk
Ranking Guidance Actions to Support Engineers in Fulfilling Process Constraints
Journal First Track
Anmol Bilal Johannes Kepler University, Christoph Mayr-Dorn Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University Linz
15:00
15m
Talk
Question Answering for Multi-Release Systems: A Case Study at Ciena
Industrial Track
Parham Khamsepour University of Ottawa, Mark Cole , Ish Ashraf , Sandeep Puri , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa, Shiva Nejati University of Ottawa
Pre-print
15:15
7m
Talk
Revealing Reversed Causal Effects in Bug-Fix Delays: A LiNGAM-Based Comparison between OSS and Enterprise Systems
Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track
Ryo Masuda Hitachi, Ltd., Takahiro Kinoshita Hitachi, Ltd., Hideyuki Kanuka Hitachi, Ltd., Sien Reeve O. Peralta Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Masanari Kondo Kyushu University
15:22
7m
Talk
PRECOG: Pull Request Priorization and Visualization
Tool Demo Track
Hugo Raskin University of Namur, Xavier Devroey University of Namur, Benoît Vanderose University of Namur
Pre-print Media Attached