PROMISE 2026
Sun 5 Jul 2026 Montreal, Canada
co-located with FSE 2026
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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Keynote and Research Papers on LLM Code Generation FoundationsPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430
Chair(s): Lili Wei McGill University
09:00
5m
Day opening
Opening
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Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH
09:05
55m
Talk
Keynote 1 - The Limits of “Cute” CI/CD Pipelines
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Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
10:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Waterfall-style Multi-Agent Workflows for Class-Level Code Generation
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Wasique Islam Shafin Concordia University, Md Naklha Rafi Concordia University, Zhenhao Li York University, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University
10:15
15m
Talk
Secure-Instruct: Prompt, Synthesize, and Fine-Tune for Secure Code Generation
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Junjie Li Concordia University, Fazle Rabbi Concordia University, Bo Yang Concordia University, Song Wang York University, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: LLMs for Code Quality and Developer InteractionPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430
Chair(s): Jinqiu Yang Concordia University
11:00
15m
Talk
Developer Behavior in Response to LLM-Generated Code Refactoring Suggestions
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David Schön Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Faiza Amjad Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Tehreem Asif Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Ranim Khojah Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Mazen Mohamad Chalmers | RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Philipp Leitner Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
High Agreement, Shallow Reasoning: A Mixed-Method Study of LLMs in Refactoring Reviews
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Larisse Amorim Federal University of Minas Gerais, Caique Fortunato Federal University of Minas Gerais, Gustavo Vale Federal University of Minas Gerais, Eduardo Figueiredo Federal University of Minas Gerais
11:30
15m
Talk
NGQA: Next-Gen Software Quality Accelerator using AI Agents and LLM Reasoning
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Moein Abtahi Ontario Tech University, Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
11:45
15m
Talk
Enforcing LLMs to Use Software Design Patterns: A Case of Singleton
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Viktor Kjellberg Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Miroslaw Staron University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology
14:00 - 15:30
Session 3: Keynote and Research Papers on Code Understanding and ReasoningPROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430
Chair(s): Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH
14:00
60m
Talk
Keynote 2 - Rethinking Reliability for Software Engineering Agents
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Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University
15:00
15m
Paper
Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering
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Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew Virginia Tech, Hunter Leary Virginia Tech, Swanand Vaishampayan Virginia Tech, Chris Brown Virginia Tech
Pre-print
15:15
15m
Talk
Do LLMs Learn Structure or Names? A Study on the Robustness of Design-Pattern Detection to Identifier Shifts
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Ichsan Budiman University of Birmingham, Leandro Minku University of Birmingham, UK
16:00 - 18:00
Session 4: Security, Trust, and Verification of LLM-Generated CodePROMISE 2026 at MB 3.430
Chair(s): Zhijie Wang Concordia University
16:00
15m
Talk
Model-Driven Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems via AADL and LLMs
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Abdul Wahab Ontario Tech University, Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
16:15
15m
Talk
MAS-SRE: A Multi-Agent System for Security Requirements Engineering
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Savvas Mantzouranidis Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology
16:30
15m
Talk
Detecting Malicious Intents in Smart Contracts with Pre-trained Programming Language Models
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Youwei Huang Independent Researcher, Jianwen Li Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, Sen Fang North Carolina State University, Yao Li Macau University of Science and Technology, Peng Yang Institute of Intelligent Computing Technology, Suzhou, CAS, Bin Hu Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:45
10m
Talk
Probabilistic Evidence Aggregation for Source Code Authorship Verification: An Ongoing Set-Based Approach
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Francisco Ortin University of Oviedo, David Álvarez-Fidalgo University of Oviedo
16:55
5m
Day closing
Closing
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Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy PONTUM Software GmbH