ESEIW 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 München, Germany

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Sun 4 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

19:00 - 21:00
ISERN ReceptionGeneral
19:00
2h
Dinner
ISERN Reception
General

Mon 5 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:00 - 09:00
Registration, Coffee, and MinglingCatering at Foyer
09:00 - 09:30
09:00
30m
Day opening
ISERN Opening
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
09:30 - 10:30
ISERN BusinessISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
09:30
60m
Meeting
ISERN Business
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
ISERN Session 1ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
11:00
90m
Other
Making LLM-Based Software Engineering Studies Reproducible: From Guidelines to Practice
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Florian Angermeir fortiss GmbH
Pre-print
12:30 - 13:30
LunchCatering at Foyer
12:30
60m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
ISERN Session 2aISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
13:30
90m
Other
Empirical Software Engineering Teaching Cases
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Maria Paasivaara LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland, Torgeir Dingsøyr Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SimulaMet, Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland and Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway
Link to publication
13:30 - 15:00
ISERN Session 2bISERN - Annual Meeting at Venus
13:30
90m
Other
Using LLMs in Software Engineering Research: Edited community book
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Mika Mäntylä University of Helsinki, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

15:30 - 17:00
ISERN Session 3 (Open Space)ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
Chair(s): Clemente Izurieta Montana State University, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Burak Turhan University of Oulu
15:30
90m
Other
Open Space event
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Burak Turhan University of Oulu, Clemente Izurieta Montana State University, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss
16:30 - 17:30
ISERN Steering CommitteeISERN - Annual Meeting at Pluto
16:30
60m
Meeting
ISERN Steering Committee Meeting
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
18:00 - 00:00
ISERN DinnerGeneral
18:00
6h
Dinner
ISERN Dinner
General

Tue 6 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:00 - 09:00
Registration, Coffee, and MinglingCatering at Foyer
09:00 - 10:30
ISERN Session 4ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
09:00
90m
Other
Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Per Runeson Lund University, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa University of São Paulo, Vinicius dos Santos University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP), São Carlos - SP
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
ISERN Session 5ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
11:00
90m
Other
New ideas for faster research workflows
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County, Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University
12:30 - 13:30
LunchCatering at Foyer
12:30
60m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
ISERN Session 6ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
13:30
90m
Other
How the Use of AI in Research Affects Threats to Validity and Their Mitigation
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Per Runeson Lund University, Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

15:30 - 17:00
ISERN Session 7 (Panel and Closing)ISERN - Annual Meeting at Mars
15:30
75m
Panel
Empirical Software Engineering in the Age of AI - Methods, Challenges, and Practice
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE
16:45
15m
Day closing
ISERN Closing
ISERN - Annual Meeting
Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE

Wed 7 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:00 - 08:30
Registration, Coffee, and MinglingCatering at Foyer
08:30 - 10:30
IDoESE- Session 1IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium at Mars
08:30
10m
Talk
Welcome
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Claudia Ayala Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University
08:40
25m
Talk
Agentic Software Engineering: Measuring and Improving AI-Generated Code Quality
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Antonino Coppola University of Southern Denmark
09:05
25m
Talk
Developer Skills for Agentic AI in Software Architecture
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar University of Bamberg
09:30
25m
Talk
Investigating Brain Activation Patterns in Human-Human versus Human-AI Pair Programming
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Mihaela Hristova IT University of Copenhagen
09:55
25m
Talk
Regulatory-Driven Methodology for AI/ML-Based Medical Software Development for SMEs
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Stephanie Batista Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
10:20
10m
Talk
Wrap-up session 1
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Claudia Ayala Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University
08:30 - 10:30
IASESE - LLM Guidelines Session 1IASESE - LLM Guidelines at Venus
Chair(s): Florian Angermeir fortiss GmbH, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology
08:30
45m
Talk
Introduction to the LLM Guidelines
IASESE - LLM Guidelines
Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Florian Angermeir fortiss
09:15
60m
Tutorial
Hands-on application of the guidelines to review a paper
IASESE - LLM Guidelines

10:15
15m
Tutorial
Hands-on application of the guidelines using the SKILL.md
IASESE - LLM Guidelines

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
IDoESE- Session 2IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium at Mars
11:00
25m
Talk
Theoretical Saturation in Qualitative Software Engineering Studies
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Antonio Pedro Santos Alves Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
11:25
25m
Talk
Assessing Code Quality and Software Architecture Using Static Analysis and Machine Learning
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Péter János Császár Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, Department of Software Technology and Methodology
11:50
25m
Talk
Understanding and Governing Dependencies in Software Engineering
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Kilian Wenker Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
12:15
15m
Talk
Wrap-up
IDoESE - Doctoral Symposium
Claudia Ayala Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University
11:00 - 12:30
IASESE - LLM Guidelines Session 2IASESE - LLM Guidelines at Venus
Chair(s): Florian Angermeir fortiss GmbH, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology
11:00
45m
Tutorial
Hands-on application of the guidelines using the SKILL.md
IASESE - LLM Guidelines

11:45
30m
Tutorial
Discussion and feedback on the guidelines
IASESE - LLM Guidelines

12:15
15m
Talk
Wrap up
IASESE - LLM Guidelines

12:30 - 13:30
LunchCatering at Foyer
12:30
60m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
Hackathon MRPUA Session 1Hackathon MRPUA at Mars
Chair(s): Andreas Bauer Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Sebastian Nielebock Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
13:30
15m
Talk
Introduction
Hackathon MRPUA
Andreas Bauer Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Sebastian Nielebock Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
13:45
75m
Tutorial
Hands-on reproducing of replication packages
Hackathon MRPUA

13:30 - 15:00
Industry Day session 1Industry Day at Venus
13:30
30m
Day opening
Welcome
Industry Day
14:00
30m
Talk
Computer Science Education in the Age of Generative AI
Industry Day
14:30
30m
Talk
Adoption and Transformation towards Agentic Engineering - Experience Report
Industry Day
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee BreakCatering at Venus
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

15:30 - 17:00
Hackathon MRPUA Session 2Hackathon MRPUA at Mars
Chair(s): Andreas Bauer Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Sebastian Nielebock Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
15:30
75m
Tutorial
Hands-on reproducing of replication packages
Hackathon MRPUA

16:45
15m
Talk
Wrap up
Hackathon MRPUA

15:30 - 17:00
Industry Day session 2Industry Day at Venus
15:30
30m
Talk
AI in Software Quality and Software Quality for AI
Industry Day
Benjamin Hummel CQSE GmbH
16:00
30m
Talk
AI Agent Challenges: Tracing, Monitoring, Security, Identity
Industry Day
Kai Tödter Siemens AG
16:30
30m
Panel
Panel Discussion
Industry Day
19:00 - 00:00
ESEM ReceptionGeneral
19:00
5h
Dinner
ESEM Reception
General

Thu 8 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:00 - 09:00
Registration, Coffee, and MinglingCatering at Foyer
09:00 - 10:30
Opening & KeynoteESEM - Technical Track at Terra
Chair(s): Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich
09:00
30m
Talk
Opening Ceremony
ESEM - Technical Track

09:30
60m
Keynote
Empirical Research for AI-Native Software Engineering
ESEM - Technical Track
Markku Oivo M3S, University of Oulu
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Empirical Methods, Validity and Research ArtifactsESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Registered Reports Track at Jupiter
Chair(s): Iflaah Salman University of Glasgow
11:00
12m
Talk
A Facet-Based Perspective on Code Comprehension Task Design for Empirical Research
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Luisa Bartl TU Chemnitz, Marvin Wyrich Saarland University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Janet Siegmund Chemnitz University of Technology
11:12
12m
Talk
Large-Scale Evaluation of Android-Related Research Artifacts
ESEM - Technical Track
Philipp Holzinger Fraunhofer SIT, Philipp Rajwa Fraunhofer SIT | ATHENE - National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity, Darmstadt
11:25
12m
Talk
Do LLMs Understand Validity? An Empirical Study of Machine‑Generated Threats to Validity in Software Engineering
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Ryan Dang University of California, Irvine, Noshin Tahsin University of California, Irvine, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine
11:38
12m
Talk
An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Software Bug Reports: A Registered Report
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Rohith Kumar Shanmuganathan Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg / University of Oldenburg, Nicola Thoben University of Oldenburg, Heike Wehrheim Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg / University of Oldenburg
DOI
11:51
12m
Talk
The Influence of Fraudulent AI-Generated Responses on Software Engineering Surveys
ESEM - Technical Track
Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari , Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Mairieli Wessel Radboud University
Pre-print
12:04
12m
Talk
How Many Interviews Are Enough in a Software Engineering Study? Preliminary Findings on Sample Size and Saturation
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Mauricio Rodrigues Lima University of Hawaii at Manoa, Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Pre-print
12:17
12m
Talk
Assessing the Construct Validity of Object-Oriented, Class-Level Code Quality Metrics
ESEM - Technical Track
Hera Arif Dalhousie University, Miikka Kuutila LUT University, Paul Ralph Dalhousie University
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
Requirements, Regulation and Compliance for AI SystemsESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Technical Track at Mars
Chair(s): Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions
11:00
15m
Talk
ReqGenX: An Empirical Study of Atomic Decomposition, Artifact Regeneration, and Reconstruction for Legacy SRS Documents
ESEM - Technical Track
Ragib Shahariar Ayon Texas State University, Rayed Fahmi Texas State University, Sumon Biswas Case Western Reserve University, Shibbir Ahmed Texas State University
11:15
15m
Talk
Can LLMs identify missing elements in requirements elicitation? An empirical evaluation using production derived user stories in an industry setting
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Vinay Kabadi The University of Melbourne, Naresh Gutha , Abhiram Wuntakal , Lahiri Bellarykar , Xuan-Bach D. Le University of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury
11:30
15m
Talk
Blurred Compliance Boundaries: Analyzing Open Source License Conflicts in MCP-Based Agent Workflows
ESEM - Technical Track
Xing Cui Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianyue Luo Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:45
15m
Talk
Operationalizing the EU AI Act in Agile Software Development: A Guideline-Based Approach
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Dennis Schrader University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Eva-Maria Schön University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Henning Fritzemeier Volkswagen AG, Michael Neumann University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hannover
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
Assessing the Substitution of LLM-Based Decision Components
ESEM - Technical Track
Sergio Cobos Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Robert Clarisó Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Pre-print
12:15
10m
Talk
Toward Ethical Requirements for Healthcare AI Software Systems: Emerging Results from a Multi-Stakeholder Interview Study
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Yutan Huang Monash University, Chetan Arora Monash University, Tanjila Kanij , Anuradha Madugalla Deakin University, School of IT, Australia, John Grundy Monash University
11:00 - 12:30
Software Work: Teams, Relations and the Arrival of AIESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Technical Track at Terra
Chair(s): Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County
11:00
15m
Talk
Characterising Meeting Practices in Software Engineering Teams: A Mixed-Methods Study of Perceptions, Objective Patterns, and Impacts
ESEM - Technical Track
Nitish Patkar FHNW, Xeno Isenegger Coop, Gideon Monterosa Swiss Post, Sebastiano Panichella The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I) & University of Bern, Norbert Seyff University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
11:15
15m
Talk
The role of voice and silence behaviors in software development: a structural equation modeling analysis
ESEM - Journal First Track
Mary Sánchez-Gordón Østfold University College, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alex Sánchez , Aliaksandr Hubin Østfold University College
11:30
10m
Talk
When Work Relations Matter: A Vision of Forgiveness in Software Testing
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Mary Sánchez-Gordón Østfold University College, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Rahul Mohanani University of Jyväskylä
11:40
15m
Talk
Out of Place in My Own Work: How Generative AI Displaces Software Engineers
ESEM - Technical Track
Theocharis Tavantzis Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Stefano Lambiase Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, Daniel Russo Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University
DOI Pre-print
11:55
15m
Talk
How Students Construct Human–AI Boundaries in Software Engineering Teamwork
ESEM - Technical Track
Isabella Graßl Technical University of Darmstadt
12:10
15m
Talk
A Wave of Resignations in the Aftermath of Remote Onboarding
ESEM - Journal First Track
Darja Šmite Blekinge Institute of Technology, Franz Zieris Blekinge Institute of Technology, Lars-Ola Damm Ericsson, Sweden
11:00 - 12:30
Software Security with and for LLMs: Detection, Generated Code and EvidenceESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Registered Reports Track at Venus
Chair(s): Maleknaz Nayebi York University
11:00
12m
Talk
Do LLM Vulnerability-Detection Agents Reason Better? An Empirical Decomposition of Stability, Independence, and Grounding
ESEM - Technical Track
ziyu chen National University of Defense Technology, Qiangpu Chen National University of Defense Technology, Yuwei Li National University of Defense Technology, Taiyan Wang National University of Defense Technology, Shiwen Ou National University of Defense Technology, Qingsong Xie National University of Defense Technology, Lu Zhang National University of Defense Technology, Zulie Pan National University of Defense Technology, Xingcheng Chen Technical University of Munich & fortiss GmbH
11:12
12m
Talk
TypePatrol: Adversarial Testing for Uncovering Security-Relevant Type Inconsistencies in JavaScript Libraries
ESEM - Technical Track
Sai Mallikarjun Galipelli IIT Kharagpur, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu Endor Labs, Jibesh Patra IIT Kharagpur
Pre-print
11:25
12m
Talk
On the Quality of Vulnerability-Contributing Commit Datasets: A Systematic Review and Exploit-Based Evaluation
ESEM - Technical Track
Vinicius Carvalho Lopes University of Notre Dame, Matthew Zampino University of Notre Dame, Christian Garcia University of Notre Dame, Joanna C. S. Santos University of Notre Dame, Adriana Sejfia University of Edinburgh
11:38
12m
Talk
CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs
ESEM - Technical Track
Quanzhi Fu Virginia Tech, Wang Lingxiang Unaffiliated, Wenjia Song Virginia Tech, Gelei Deng Nanyang Technological University, Yi Liu Griffith University, Dan Williams Virginia Tech, Ying Zhang Wake Forest University
11:51
12m
Talk
AI Writes Code, Humans Pay the Debt. An Empirical Study on the Sustainability and Evolution of Agent-Generated Code
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Antonino Coppola University of Southern Denmark, Matteo Esposito University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Southern Denmark
DOI
12:04
12m
Talk
Which Neurons Detect Malicious Code? A Probing Study of LLM Security Knowledge
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Lam D. Dao RMIT University, Vietnam, Vang T. Nguyen Hanoi University, Vietnam, Anh M. T. Bui Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila
Pre-print
12:17
12m
Talk
Emerging Challenges in Threat Modeling for GenAI-Augmented Systems: A View from the Trenches
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra Hamburg University of Technology, Manish Mahesh Kumar Hamburg University of Technology, Nohemi Villarreal Illada Creatum GmbH, Pankaj Pantel Creatum GmbH, Immo Brueggemann Creatum GmbH, Riccardo Scandariato Hamburg University of Technology
Pre-print
12:30 - 14:00
LunchCatering at Foyer
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
IST Editorial Board MeetingGeneral at Saturn
Chair(s): Miroslaw Staron Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
14:00 - 15:30
AI-Assisted Testing and Quality AssuranceESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track / ESEM - Journal First Track at Jupiter
Chair(s): Ivan Machado Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
14:00
15m
Talk
Explanation-Guided Metamorphic Testing of Specialized Language Models: An Empirical Study
ESEM - Technical Track
Xingcheng Chen Technical University of Munich & fortiss GmbH, Mehmet Besenk Technical University of Munich, Andrea Stocco Technical University of Munich, fortiss
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
FDRRestTest: Feedback-Driven Logical Testing for REST APIs
ESEM - Technical Track
Yutong Huo China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Dongcheng Li California State Polytechnic University, Man Zhao China University of Geosciences(Wuhan)
14:30
15m
Talk
ARIA - An Agentic Framework for Autonomous Testing of Infotainment Systems
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
António Henrique Martins Azevedo Critical TechWorks, Portugal and Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Bruno Lima LIACC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, João Pascoal Faria Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC
Pre-print
14:45
15m
Talk
Local LLMs for End-to-End Testing in Practice: Lessons from a Smart City Web Application
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Fabio Moretti ENEA, Simone Ronzoni University of Bergamo (Italy), Patrizia Scandurra University of Bergamo, Italy, Vincenzo Scotti Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
15:00
15m
Talk
Don't bother to use a second LLM and write tests yourself! A Study on Elixir
ESEM - Technical Track
Noah Leu Lestio, Julian Oertel University of Rostock, Regina Hebig Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
15:15
15m
Talk
Prompt engineering in LLMs for automated unit test generation: A large-scale study
ESEM - Journal First Track
Wendkuuni C OUEDRAOGO University of Luxembourg, Abdoul Kader Kaboré University of Luxembourg, Yinghua Li Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Haoye Tian Aalto University, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, David Lo Singapore Management University, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg
14:00 - 15:30
Sustainable Software and Energy-Aware AIESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Registered Reports Track at Mars
Chair(s): Nelly Condori-Fernández Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
14:00
15m
Talk
Whispers and Watts: An Empirical Study of the Energy Consumption of ROS 2 Topic-Based Communication
ESEM - Technical Track
Michel Albonico Federal University of Technology, Paraná (UTFPR), Nuno Macedo University of Porto; INESC TEC
14:15
15m
Talk
Beyond Response Time: Quantifying the Energy Cost of Performance Antipatterns in Microservices
ESEM - Technical Track
Alessandro Aneggi Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Vincenzo Stoico Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Andrea Janes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
14:30
15m
Talk
Green AI: The Cost of LLM-Based Code Completion
ESEM - Technical Track
Negar Alizadeh Universiteit Utrecht, Nishant Saurabh Utrecht University, Fernando Castor University of Twente
14:45
15m
Talk
Does Working with AI Agents Change How Developers Code, Test, and Review?
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Muhammad Hamza Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT), Dominik Siemon LUT University, Wardah Naeem Awan LUT University
15:00
10m
Talk
Watts and Debts of Agentic Frameworks: An Empirical Study (Registered Report)
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Aneetta Sara Shany IIIT Hyderabad, Chandrasekar S IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Beyond Individual Prompting Efficiency: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Computational Waste in AI-Assisted Software Engineering
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Darja Šmite Blekinge Institute of Technology, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad SINTEF, Gabrielle O'Brien University of Michigan, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Giuseppe Destefanis University College London (UCL), Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari , Mircea Lungu IT University, Copenhagen, Elda Paja IT University of Copenhagen, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
15:20
10m
Talk
Beyond FLOPs: Energy-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Sustainable LLMs on Code-Related Task
ESEM - Technical Track
Enrique Barba Roque Delft University of Technology, Luís Cruz TU Delft, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology
14:00 - 15:30
Agentic Software Engineering: Coordination, Plans and Agent CapabilityESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Registered Reports Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track at Terra
Chair(s): Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
14:00
15m
Talk
Coordinating Agents on a Shared Git Workspace: An Empirical Study of Action-Space Observation for Agentic Software Engineering
ESEM - Technical Track
Hasen Özaytürk Istanbul Technical University, Feza Buzluca Istanbul Technical University
14:15
15m
Talk
What makes software issue resolution tasks difficult for agents?
ESEM - Technical Track
Ebtesam Al Haque George Mason University, Brittany Johnson George Mason University
14:30
15m
Talk
CoEvolve: Feedback-Driven Policy-Harness Maintenance for Industrial LLM Auditing Systems
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Yiyang PENG China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Gang LV China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Yifeng GOU China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Qizhao WANG China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Bo ZHANG China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Ming ZHANG China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Qing XU China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Xiaosong DING China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Yu SHEN China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Yusang XIONG China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Xinyao XIAO China Telecom Sichuan Branch, Xinyu LIU China Telecom Sichuan Branch, P: Ray Feng Allianz Deutschland AG
14:45
15m
Talk
A Factorial Comparison of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Architectures for Automated Python Refactoring
ESEM - Technical Track
Alexander Puma Pucho Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Bruno Cafeo University of Campinas (Unicamp)
15:00
10m
Talk
An Exploratory Study of Agent Plans for Agentic AI Coding Tools in Open-Source Software
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar University of Bamberg, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi Heidelberg University, Jai Lal Lulla Singapore Management University, Jie M. Zhang Mistral AI and King's College London, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Sebastian Baltes Heidelberg University, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury
15:10
10m
Talk
The Impact of Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools on Build-vs-Buy Decisions: A Study Protocol
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Jai Lal Lulla Singapore Management University, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury, Jie M. Zhang Mistral AI and King's College London, Sebastian Baltes Heidelberg University, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
On Coding Agent Issue Localization Accuracy. An Exploratory Study
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Antonino Coppola University of Southern Denmark, Matteo Esposito University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Southern Denmark
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
Modeling Dependency-Propagated Ecosystem Impact of Changes in Maintenance Activities: Evaluating Support Strategies in the PyPI Network
ESEM - Technical Track
Alexandros Tsakpinis Technical University of Munich (TUM), Emil Schwenger fortiss GmbH, Alexander Pretschner TU Munich
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
The Overlooked Spirit of Open Source: LLM-based Analysis of Non-explicit Mentoring in OSS Communities
ESEM - Technical Track
Xing Cui Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianyue Luo Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:30
15m
Talk
Emotional Expression in Open-Source: How Project Function Shapes Communication
ESEM - Journal First Track
Matteo Vaccargiu University of Hohenheim, Silvia Bartolucci University College London, Nicole Novielli University of Bari, Marco Ortu University of Cagliari, Roberto Tonelli University of Cagliari, Giuseppe Destefanis University College London (UCL)
14:45
15m
Talk
Faster than the Team, Faster than the Customer: Tool Integration, Collaboration, and Organisational Lag in AI-assisted RE
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions
Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
Identifying unique developers in OSS projects: A family of models
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Ruoyu Su University of Oulu, Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Matteo Esposito University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Davide Taibi University of Southern Denmark and University of Oulu, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Southern Denmark
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Towards Competence-Based Management for Open Source Software Projects
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Sabahat Younas Independent Researcher, Marcia C. Moraes Colorado State University, Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:00
20th-anniversary moment / town hallESEM - Technical Track at Terra
Chair(s): Robert Feldt Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE, Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss, Maria Paasivaara LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland, Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich
17:00 - 18:00
Steering committe meeting (by invitation only)ESEM - Technical Track at Saturn
19:00 - 00:00
ESEM Dinner and Award CeremonyGeneral
19:00
5h
Dinner
ESEM Dinner
General

Fri 9 Oct

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

08:00 - 09:00
Registration, Coffee, and MinglingCatering at Foyer
09:00 - 10:30
09:00
30m
Talk
Opening Ceremony
ESEM - Technical Track

09:30
60m
Keynote
U(b)locking AI-native Development for Enterprise Software
ESEM - Technical Track
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Maintenance, Refactoring and Technical DebtESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track at Jupiter
Chair(s): Matteo Esposito University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
11:00
15m
Talk
Is Self-Admitted Technical Debt Tested? An Empirical Study of Coverage, Co-change, and Impact
ESEM - Technical Track
Suzuka Yoshimoto NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Kosei Horikawa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Daniel Feitosa University of Groningen, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Balancing Green and Clean Code: Prompting for LLM-Based Refactoring
ESEM - Technical Track
Feray Gulu-zada University of Tartu, Hina Anwar University of Tartu
11:30
15m
Talk
A Catalog of Transformations to Remove Dockerfile smells
ESEM - Technical Track
Eduardo Barros Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Luana Martins University of Salerno, Valeria Pontillo Gran Sasso Science Institute, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Baldoino Fonseca Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande, Ivan Machado Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
11:45
15m
Talk
Bigger Is Not Always Better: Performance and Sustainability Trade-offs in LLMs for Python Bug-Fixing Tasks
ESEM - Technical Track
Syed Fakhar Abbas Naqvi University of Tartu, Hina Anwar University of Tartu
12:00
15m
Talk
Does Spec-Driven Development Reduce Defects? An Empirical Test of Industry Claims Across 119 Open-Source Repositories
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Brenn Hill Unaffiliated
12:15
15m
Talk
Reducing Labeling Effort in Architecture Technical Debt Detection through Active Learning and Explainable AI
ESEM - Journal First Track
Edi Sutoyo Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Paris Avgeriou Univ. of Gronningen , Andrea Capiluppi University of Groningen
11:00 - 12:30
Mining Software Repositories: Large-Scale Evidence on Code, CI and EvolutionESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track at Mars
Chair(s): Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila
11:00
15m
Talk
Characterizing Feedback Statements in Machine Learning Jupyter Notebooks
ESEM - Technical Track
Arumoy Shome Delft University of Technology, Luís Cruz TU Delft, Diomidis Spinellis AUEB & TU Delft, Arie van Deursen TU Delft
11:15
15m
Talk
Does GCC Compiler Development Pay for Itself? GCC Versions’ Impact on Energy Consumption
ESEM - Technical Track
Brage Isak Bakkane Keiserås Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Bo Markussen Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Michael Kirkedal Thomsen University of Oslo & University of Copenhagen, Maja H. Kirkeby Roskilde University, Ingrid Chieh Yu University of Oslo, Ken Friis Larsen Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
11:30
15m
Talk
A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of AI Assisted/Generated Code on Quality, Centrality and Review Time at Scale
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Audris Mockus University of Tennessee, Peter Rigby Concordia University; Meta, Don Stewart Meta, Chandra Sekhar Maddila Meta Platforms, Inc., Nachiappan Nagappan Meta Platforms, Inc.
11:45
15m
Talk
Test Alert Snooze: An Empirical Study of Consecutive Test Failures on CI
ESEM - Technical Track
Ayane Shirakawa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsuya Shirai Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Masanari Kondo Kyushu University, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology
12:00
15m
Talk
Development and evolution of Xtext-based DSLs on GitHub: an empirical investigation
ESEM - Journal First Track
Weixing Zhang Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Daniel Strüber Chalmers | University of Gothenburg / Radboud University, Regina Hebig Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
12:15
10m
Talk
QModel: A Time-Aware GitHub Mining Framework for Empirical Software Quality Studies
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Dmytro Polishchuk Jagiellonian University
11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Problem-Aligned Multilingual Code Generation and Directed Code Translation by Large Language Models
ESEM - Technical Track
Quanhe Wang Xidian University, Cheng Wen Xidian University, Dugang Liu Shenzhen University, Ping Chen China Electronic Product Reliability and Environment Test Research Institute, Bin Yu Xidian University, Xianjian Han China Electronic Product Reliability and Environment Test Research Institute, Shengchao Qin Teesside University, Cong Tian Xidian University
11:15
15m
Talk
Evaluating Language Models on Cross-Language Code Functional Equivalence
ESEM - Technical Track
Hui Sun North Carolina State University, Anderson Uchôa Federal University of Ceará, Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande, Wesley K.G. Assunção North Carolina State University
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
When Review Alone No Longer Scales: Layered Supervision in AI-Assisted Software Engineering
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Markus Stolze Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Mirco Strässle smartive AG
11:45
15m
Talk
Can LLM Coding Assistants Support Emerging Programming Languages? An Empirical Study on Cangjie
ESEM - Technical Track
Junhang Cheng Beihang University, Fang Liu Beihang University, Jia Li Wuhan University, Chengru Wu Beihang University, Nanxiang Jiang Beihang University, Li Zhang Beihang University
Pre-print
12:00
10m
Talk
A Direction-Aware Study of LLM-Based Code Translation Across Eight Programming Languages
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Quanhe Wang Xidian University, Xiangyun Zhang Xidian University, Cheng Wen Xidian University, Bin Yu Xidian University, Ping Chen China Electronic Product Reliability and Environment Test Research Institute, Xianjian Han China Electronic Product Reliability and Environment Test Research Institute, Shengchao Qin Teesside University
Media Attached
12:10
10m
Talk
Parameterizing LLMs in Practice: An Empirical Study of LLMs Integrated into Software Systems
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Agustín Olmedo LIDTUA (CIC), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jannik Laval Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, VERIMAG, Christelle Urtado IMT Mines Alès, Sylvain Vauttier SyCoIA, IMT Mines Alès
12:20
10m
Talk
The Prompt Triangle: A Registered Report on Prompts as Hybrid Artifacts
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Shalini Chakraborty University of Bayreuth, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
Understanding Code and Systems: Comprehension, Explanation and AccessibilityESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Registered Reports Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track at Venus
Chair(s): Austen Rainer Queen's University Belfast
11:00
15m
Talk
What do we really know about Fortran?
ESEM - Technical Track
Austen Rainer Queen's University Belfast, Andrew Brown Queen's University Belfast, Rebecca Taylor University of Southampton, Simon Hettrick University of Southampton
11:15
15m
Talk
Beyond Standard English: L1-Aware Benchmarks for Evaluating API-Calling in LLM Agents
ESEM - Technical Track
Vitor Gaboardi dos Santos Dublin City University, Boualem Benatallah Dublin City University, Silvana Togeri Mac Mahon Dublin City University & Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre
11:30
10m
Talk
How Data Flow Complexity Impacts Program Comprehension
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Anna-Maria Maurer Saarland University, Niklas Gund Saarland University, Yannick Lehmen Saarland University, Sebastian Böhm Saarland University, Sven Apel Saarland University
DOI Pre-print
11:40
10m
Talk
Contextual Associations Between Webpage Elements for Web Accessibility: An Empirical Study
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Kishan Rakesh University of Texas at Dallas, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas
Pre-print
11:50
10m
Talk
Explanation Strategies in Smart Environments: Effects on Usability, System Understanding, and Task Performance
ESEM - Journal First Track
Mersedeh Sadeghi University of Cologne, Simon Scholz University of Cologne, Anna Trapp University of Cologne, Max Unterbusch University of Duisburg-Essen, Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen
Link to publication
12:00
15m
Talk
Exploring Developer Perceptions on the Potential of CI Recommendation Systems
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Osamah H. Alaini Trent University, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
Pre-print
12:15
10m
Talk
Does Gamification Improve Video-based Soft Skills Training of Software Engineering Professionals?
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Pasan Peiris University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Matthias Galster University of Canterbury, Antonija Mitrovic University of Canterbury, Sanna Malinen University of Canterbury, Raul Vincent Lumapas University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Jay Holland University of Canterbury
12:30 - 14:00
LunchCatering at Foyer
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

14:00 - 15:30
Requirements Engineering in Practice: Privacy, Ethics and Industrial AIESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track at Jupiter
Chair(s): Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology
14:00
15m
Talk
Global Miscommunication in Privacy Requirements Engineering: Lawyers’ Experiences Collaborating with Software Engineers
ESEM - Technical Track
Claudia Negri-Ribalta ULIDE, University of Luxembourg, Ioana Visescu ULIDE, University of Luxembourg, Muriel-Larissa FRANK SnT, University of Luxembourg, Anastasia SERGEEVA SnT, University of Luxembourg, Alberto García Simón Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Rene Noel Escuela de Ingenieria Civil Informatica, Universidad de Valparaiso, Lorena SÁNCHEZ CHAMORRO Human-Media Interaction, University of Twente
14:15
15m
Talk
A Multivocal Review of AutoML Practices, Challenges, Opportunities and Open Issues
ESEM - Technical Track
Keerthiga Rajenthiram Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faezeh Amou Najafabadi Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Link to publication
14:30
15m
Talk
AI Ethics To Requirements Practice: Building and Evaluating the HealthAI Ethics Assistant
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Yutan Huang Monash University, Jingfan Chen Monash University, Fanyu Wang Monash University, Chetan Arora Monash University, John Grundy Monash University, Cheng Zhang BMC Medical Co., Ltd.
14:45
15m
Talk
User stories as boundary objects in agile requirements engineering: A theoretical literature review
ESEM - Journal First Track
Tor Sporsem SINTEF, Torgeir Dingsøyr Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SimulaMet, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital
Link to publication DOI
15:00
15m
Talk
AI-Enabling Requirements: An Industrial Experience Report from a Data-Driven Recruitment System
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Sylwia Kopczyńska Poznan University of Technology, Miroslaw Ochodek Poznan University of Technology, Eryk Kosmala Poznan University of Technology, Jędrzej Musiał Poznan University of Technology, Rafał Mroziewski MONDI Sp. z o.o., Dominik Nitychoruk MONDI Sp. z o.o.
15:15
15m
Talk
Quality Assessment of Software Requirements Using Artificial Intelligence Methods: A Systematic Literature Review
ESEM - Journal First Track
Elise Wolf Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, Adam Trendowicz Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, Julien Siebert Fraunhofer IESE
14:00 - 15:30
Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Configuration RiskESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Technical Track at Mars
Chair(s): Andrea Janes Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
14:00
15m
Talk
Evaluating CI/CD Security Best Practices in the GitHub Actions Documentation
ESEM - Technical Track
Lukas Boschanski University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Marco Vieira University of North Carolina at Charlotte
14:15
15m
Talk
Does Fixing Break Security? An Empirical Study of Security Degradation in Iterative LLM-Driven Infrastructure-as-Code Repair
ESEM - Technical Track
Benjamin Agyekum Colorado State University, Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA
14:30
15m
Talk
A Nightly Feedback-Driven Strategy for Quality Control in Safety-Critical Software Development
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Simin Sun Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Peter Nemeth Zenseact, Staffan Johansson Zenseact, Theo Wiik Zenseact, David Friberg Zenseact, Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Miroslaw Staron Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
14:45
15m
Talk
CORA: Config Risk Analyzer --- Predicting Risk of Configuration Changes at Scale
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Weiyan Sun Meta Platforms, Inc., Audris Mockus University of Tennessee, Nachiappan Nagappan Meta Platforms, Inc.
15:00
10m
Talk
Tools for Detecting Security Issues in Infrastructure-as-Code: A Focused Literature Review
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Mohamed Haady Tiemtore, Frederic Loulergue Université d'Orléans
15:10
10m
Talk
TerraRepair: A Tool-Grounded LLM Agent for Infrastructure-as-Code Repair
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Minase Mekete Mengistu University of L'Aquila, Juri Di Rocco University of L'Aquila, Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
An Agentic Approach Towards Replication Package Quality Evaluation
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Maximilian Amougou Technical University of Munich, Florian Angermeir fortiss
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
12m
Talk
AI-to-AI Code Review of GitHub Pull Requests
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Niruthiha Selvanayagam Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
14:12
12m
Talk
How Developers Use Relation Chains in Code Review: An Empirical Study Across Three Open-Source Ecosystems
ESEM - Technical Track
Ahmed Belhouchette ENSI, Mannouba University, Moataz Chouchen Concordia University, Marouene Chaieb National School of Computer Science, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montreal, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
14:25
12m
Talk
How Do Software Professionals Evaluate AI-Generated Code? (Registered Report)
ESEM - Registered Reports Track
Samuli Määttä University of Oulu, Hera Arif Dalhousie University, Burak Turhan University of Oulu, Paul Ralph Dalhousie University, Markus Kelanti University of Oulu
Pre-print
14:38
12m
Talk
CWEFT: CWE-aware Evaluation of Free-text vs. Typed Prompts
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Lanaya Aziza Carbonell Bilkent University, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University
14:51
12m
Talk
Trust-Calibrated Code Review: A Participatory Design Study of Review Workflows for LLM-Generated Multi-File Changes
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Lo Gullstrand Heander Lund University, Agnia Sergeyuk JetBrains Research, Ilya Zakharov JetBrains Research, Emma Söderberg Lund University, Nikita Mukhortov JetBrains
15:04
12m
Talk
Code Review as Decision-Making - Building a Cognitive Model from the Questions Asked During Code Review
ESEM - Journal First Track
Lo Gullstrand Heander Lund University, Emma Söderberg Lund University, Christofer Rydenfält Lund University
15:17
12m
Talk
How Reliable Is LLM-as-Judge for Patch Correctness Assessment? An Empirical Study
ESEM - Technical Track
Shanggui Zhan School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of New Industrial Internet Control Technology, Xingqi Wang School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of New Industrial Internet Control Technology, Dan Wei School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of New Industrial Internet Control Technology, Xin Xiang chool of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Foyer
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:30
Software Ecosystems and System Lifecycle: Supply, Migration and RetirementESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track / ESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track at Jupiter
Chair(s): Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
16:00
12m
Talk
Making Impact Visible in Funding of Open Source Software: A Study of the Funders Perspective
ESEM - Technical Track
Johan Linåker RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Kevin Lumbard Creighton University, Georg Link Independent
16:12
12m
Talk
Software Supply Chains are Dead: Use-Case-Oriented Regeneration
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Tanmay Singla Purdue University, James C. Davis Purdue University
16:25
12m
Talk
A survey of the decommissioning of IT systems
ESEM - Journal First Track
Magne Jørgensen Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Oslo Metropolitan University & Scienta, Johan Nereng Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Tobias Torrissen Scienta
16:38
12m
Talk
Can Agents reconstruct microservice architecture?
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Venla Liljas University of Southern Denmark, Matteo Esposito University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Southern Denmark, Davide Taibi University of Southern Denmark and University of Oulu
16:51
12m
Talk
PQC-Readiness of Open-Source Software: An Empirical Study
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Lukas Mehl Washburn University, P: Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila
17:04
12m
Talk
Hidden Dependencies in LLM-Enabled Code Generation: An Empirical Study of Regressions and Escaped Failures
ESEM - Technical Track
Gyumin Nam Department of Computer Applied Mathematics, Hankyong National University, Geunseok Yang Hankyong National University
17:17
12m
Talk
Why Industry Migrates and When It Trusts LLMs: A Practitioner Survey on LLM-Assisted Software Migration
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Sivajeet Chand Technical University of Munich, Gedeon Lenz CHECK24, Patrick Funke CHECK24, Derui Zhu Technical University of Munich, Alexander Pretschner TU Munich
Link to publication
16:00 - 17:30
Requirements and Models: From Natural Language to UML and OCLESEM - Journal First Track / ESEM - Technical Track / ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track at Mars
Chair(s): Alexandros Tsakpinis Technical University of Munich (TUM)
16:00
15m
Talk
Towards Reliable AI-Assisted Behavioral Modeling: Evaluating Prompting, Retrieval, and Repair Strategies for UML State Transition Diagram Generation
ESEM - Technical Track
Mussammat Maimuna Faria University of Dhaka, Mashiat Amin Farin University of Texas at Dallas, Yasin Sazid University of Dhaka, Ahmedul Kabir University of Dhaka, P: Kishan Rakesh University of Texas at Dallas
16:15
10m
Talk
Toward Entanglement Dependence Metrics for Quantum Software Complexity
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Haibo Yu Kyushu Sangyo University, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University
16:25
15m
Talk
Improving the Multi-Class Classification of Non-Functional Requirements in Spanish: A Study of Dataset Balancing and Performance
ESEM - Journal First Track
Maria Isabel Limaylla Lunarejo Universidade da Coruña, Condori-Fernandez Nelly Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Miguel Rodríguez Luaces Universidade da Coruña, CITIC, Database Lab, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
16:40
10m
Talk
Prompts Blend Requirements and Solutions: From Intent to Implementation
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Shalini Chakraborty University of Bayreuth, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions
Pre-print
16:50
10m
Talk
Do Large-Scale Agile Frameworks Encode Socio-Technical Resilience?
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Chukwudi Uwasomba Edge Hill University, Helen Sharp The Open University, UK, Tamara Lopez The Open University, Michel Wermelinger The Open University, Advait Deshpande The Open University, Peggy Gregory University of Glasgow, UK
17:00
15m
Talk
Automatic criteria for prioritizing software requirements in Spanish projects
ESEM - Journal First Track
Maria Isabel Limaylla Lunarejo Universidade da Coruña, Condori-Fernandez Nelly Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Miguel Rodríguez Luaces Universidade da Coruña, CITIC, Database Lab
17:15
15m
Talk
Why Do LLMs Fail at OCL Generation? A Graph Reasoning Perspective
ESEM - Technical Track
Hamza Attarwala Polytechnique Montreal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montreal, Omar Alam Trent University, Moataz Chouchen Concordia University
Pre-print
16:00 - 17:30
16:00
15m
Talk
Beyond Rule-Based Mutation Testing: Test-Aware Mutant Generation Using Large Language Models
ESEM - Technical Track
Nils Kiele University of Calgary, Zainab Saad University of Calgary, Zirui Wang University of Calgary, Steve Drew University of Calgary, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou University of Calgary
16:15
15m
Talk
Rethinking Automated Program Repair: The Impact of Bug Complexity, Fault Localization, and LLM Cost-efficiency
ESEM - Technical Track
Junchi Liu Colorado State University, Ali Bigdeli Colorado State University, Roya Daneshi Colorado State University, Atu Ambala Colorado State University, Sudipto Ghosh Colorado State University, USA, Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA
16:30
15m
Talk
Beyond Heuristics? Rethinking Targeted Unit Test Generation in the Era of LLM Agents
ESEM - Technical Track
Jiayu Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanjun Wu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:45
15m
Talk
Evaluating LLM-Based Test Generation for a Large Industrial C++ Database System. A Case Study on SAP HANA
ESEM - Software Engineering in Practice Track
Vekil Bekmyradov TH Köln, Gummersbach, Germany, Thomas Bach SAP, Alexander Berndt Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Germany, Noah C. Puetz TH Köln, Gummersbach, Germany, Bartosz Bogacz SAP, Walldorf, Germany, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein TH Köln, Gummersbach, Germany
17:00
15m
Talk
APCA in the Loop: An Empirical Study of In-loop Patch Correctness Assessment for APR
ESEM - Emerging Results, Vision, and Reflection Papers Track
Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh Bilkent University, CS Department, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University
17:15
15m
Talk
Do Smart Contract Auditing Results Transfer Across Datasets? A Two-Benchmark Empirical Study of Static and LLM-Based Security Tools
ESEM - Technical Track
Shawal Khalid Virginia Tech, Joaquin Tuckett Virginia Tech, Chris Brown Virginia Tech
17:30 - 18:00
Closing CeremonyGeneral at Terra
17:30
30m
Day closing
Closing Ceremony
General
C: Stefan Wagner Technical University of Munich, C: Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology and fortiss
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