SCAM 2025
Sun 7 - Fri 12 September 2025 Auckland, New Zealand
co-located with ICSME 2025

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Mon 8 Sep

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08:30 - 09:00
SCAM openingPlenary Events at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Cristina Cifuentes Oracle Software Assurance, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Alexander Jordan Oracle Labs, Austria, Sukyoung Ryu KAIST, Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University
08:30
30m
Day opening
Welcome to SCAM 2025
Plenary Events

09:00 - 10:00
SCAM/VISSOFT Keynote: Robert O’CallahanPlenary Events at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Cristina Cifuentes Oracle Software Assurance
09:00
60m
Keynote
Visualizing Program State in the Pernosco Debugger
Plenary Events
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee BreakCatering at Level 0 Foyer
10:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Catering

10:30 - 12:00
Analysis 1Research Track / Engineering Track at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan
10:30
22m
Research paper
Detecting Exception-Related Behavioural Breaking Changes with UnCheckGuard
Research Track
Vinayak Sharma University of Waterloo, Patrick Lam University of Waterloo
Pre-print
10:52
22m
Research paper
Handling Cyclic Reinforcement of Lattice Values in Incremental Dependency-driven Static Analysis
Research Track
Jens Van der Plas Software Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Quentin Stiévenart Université du Québec à Montréal, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
11:15
22m
Research paper
Refactoring-Aware Patch Integration Across Structurally Divergent Java Forks
Research Track
Daniel Ogenrwot University of Nevada Las Vegas, John Businge University of Antwerp; Flanders Make; University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Pre-print
11:37
22m
Research paper
Insights into Optimizing Research Software: A Case of an Architecture-Smell Detection Tool.
Engineering Track
Philipp Gnoyke , Sandro Schulze University of Magdeburg, Germany, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology
12:00 - 13:30
12:00
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

13:30 - 15:00
LLMsResearch Track at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington
13:30
22m
Research paper
Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Fine-Grained Review Comment Classification
Research Track
Linh Nguyen The University of Melbourne, Chunhua Liu The University of Melbourne, Hong Yi Lin The University of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne
13:52
22m
Research paper
Language-Agnostic Generation of Header Comments using Large Language Models
Research Track
Nathanael Yao Queen's University, Juergen Dingel Queen's University, Ali Tizghadam TELUS, Ibrahim Amer Queen's University
14:15
22m
Research paper
Smelling Secrets: Leveraging Machine Learning and Language Models for Sensitive Parameter Detection in Ansible Security Analysis
Research Track
Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Valeria Pontillo Gran Sasso Science Institute, Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
14:37
22m
Research paper
Testing the Untestable? An Empirical Study on the Testing Process of LLM-Powered Software Systems
Research Track
Cleyton V. C. de Magalhaes CESAR School, Italo Santos University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Brody Stuart-Verner University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
Pre-print
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Level 0 Foyer
15:00
60m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:00
Anniversary TriviaPlenary Events at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University
16:00
60m
Social Event
Anniversary trivia
Plenary Events

18:30 - 20:00
Social event (SCAM/VISSOFT) - The Wharfside Function CentrePlenary Events at The Wharfside Function Centre
18:30
90m
Social Event
Social event (SCAM/VISSOFT) - The Wharfside Function Centre
Plenary Events

Tue 9 Sep

Displayed time zone: Auckland, Wellington change

09:00 - 10:00
Keynote 2: Leon MoonenPlenary Events at OGGB5 260-051
09:00
60m
Keynote
It's the end of source code analysis as we know it (and we'll be fine)
Plenary Events
Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory
10:00 - 10:30
10:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Catering

10:30 - 12:00
Analysis 2Engineering Track / Research Track at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Patrick Lam University of Waterloo
10:30
22m
Research paper
On the need to perform comprehensive evaluations of automatic program repair benchmarks: Sorald case study
Research Track
Sumudu Liyanage University of Otago, Sherlock A. Licorish University of Otago, Markus Wagner Monash University, Australia, Stephen MacDonell Victoria University of Wellington
Pre-print
10:52
22m
Research paper
Static Analysis as a Feedback Loop: Enhancing LLM-Generated Code Beyond Correctness
Research Track
Scott Blyth Monash University, Sherlock A. Licorish University of Otago, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Markus Wagner Monash University, Australia
Pre-print
11:15
22m
Research paper
FaaSGuard: Secure CI/CD for Serverless Applications – An OpenFaaS Case Study
Engineering Track
Amine Barrak Oakland University, USA, Emna Ksontini University of Michigan, Ridouane Atike , Fehmi Jaafar Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Pre-print
11:37
22m
Research paper
llvm-dimeta: A library for extracting source-level type information in LLVM IR using debug metadata.
Engineering Track
Alexander Hück Scientific Computing, TU Darmstadt, Sebastian Kreutzer TU Darmstadt, Christian Bischof Scientific Computing, TU Darmstadt
12:00 - 13:30
12:00
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

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
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
File Attached
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Level 0 Foyer
14:30
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Catering

15:00 - 15:30
ClosingPlenary Events at OGGB5 260-051
Chair(s): Mariano Ceccato University of Verona, Cristina Cifuentes Oracle Software Assurance, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Johan Fabry Raincode Labs, Belgium, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute, Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Tushar Sharma Dalhousie University
15:00
30m
Day closing
Closing
Plenary Events