SCAM 2025
Sun 7 - Fri 12 September 2025 Auckland, New Zealand
co-located with ICSME 2025
Tue 9 Sep 2025 13:30 - 13:50 at OGGB5 260-051 - Analysis 3 Chair(s): Coen De Roover

Software similarity analysis is crucial in various fields, including code clone detection, security analysis, and software refactoring. While research continues to identify new use cases, numerous similarity detectors have already been proposed for specific contexts. These detectors usually leverage project attributes, such as source code, contributors, documentation, and dependencies. Existing works consistently demonstrate that their approaches outperform others in extensive evaluations. In this paper, we challenge the idea of a universally superior similarity model. We argue that similarity is a fluent concept and that relevant metrics always depend on specific needs. We present a novel framework that enables a flexible aggregation of diverse similarity models, allowing fine-tuned configurations for specific needs and use cases. Our evaluation incorporates multiple existing similarity models and their respective benchmarks to reveal the fundamental dilemma: depending on the configuration, our aggregated model will either confirm prior results or expose significant differences among individual models. However, we will demonstrate that these variations can be explained by the additional information that leads to more fine-grained results. Our results illustrate the future of software similarity research: configurable ensembles of much more specialized models.

Tue 9 Sep

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13:30 - 14:30
Analysis 3Research Track at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
13:30
20m
Research paper
Configurable Ensembles for Software Similarity: Challenging the Notion of Universal Metrics
Research Track
Shujun Huang Software Engineering Research Group (SERG), TU Delft, Sebastian Proksch Delft University of Technology
Pre-print
13:50
20m
Research paper
Challenging Bug Prediction and Repair Models with Synthetic Bugs
Research Track
Ali Reza Ibrahimzada University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Yang Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ryan Rong Stanford University, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pre-print Media Attached
14:10
20m
Research paper
Plaintext in the Wild: Investigating Secure Connection Label Accuracy for Android Apps
Research Track
Yusei Sakuraba Okayama University, Hiroki Inayoshi Okayama University, Shoichi Saito Nagoya Institute of Technology, Akito Monden Okayama University
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