FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
FSE 2026 (series) / Concordia SGW Campus @Downtown Montreal /

Room information: MB 1.210

VenueConcordia SGW Campus @Downtown Montreal
Room nameMB 1.210
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Program

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Wed 8 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
Testing 2Research Papers / Journal-First Paper at MB 1.210
10:30
20m
Talk
SETS: A Simple yet Effective DNN Test Selection Approach
Journal-First Paper
Jingling Wang Nanjing University, Huayao Wu Nanjing University, Peng Wang Nanjing University, Xintao Niu Nanjing University, Changhai Nie Nanjing University
10:50
20m
Talk
MetaSel: A Test Selection Approach for Fine-Tuned DNN Models
Journal-First Paper
Amin Abbasishahkoo The School of EECS, University of Ottawa, Mahboubeh Dadkhah University of Ottawa, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, Dayi Lin Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada
11:10
20m
Talk
Can Old Tests do New Tricks for Resolving SWE Issues?
Research Papers
Yang Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Toufique Ahmed IBM, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Martin Hirzel IBM Research
11:30
20m
Talk
Empirical Insights of Test Selection Metrics under Multiple Testing Objectives and Distribution Shifts
Research Papers
Jingyu ZHANG Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Fan Wang City University of Hong Kong, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong, Yihan Liao City University of Hong Kong, Yan Xiao Sun Yat-sen University, Lei Ma The University of Tokyo & University of Alberta
Pre-print
11:50
20m
Talk
Cross-Refactoring-Type Test Program Migration for Refactoring Engines
Research Papers
Chunhao Dong Beijing Institute of Technology, Yanjie Jiang Tianjin University, Yang Zhang Hebei University of Science and Technology, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
12:10
20m
Talk
Denoising Fault Localization with Test Line Proximity
Research Papers
Marius Smytzek CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Pre-print
14:00 - 15:30
LLM for SE 4Journal-First Paper / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers at MB 1.210
14:00
20m
Talk
Detecting Code-Comment Inconsistencies in Smart Contracts by Combining LLM and Program Analysis
Research Papers
Jiashuo Zhang Peking University, China, Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Ting Zhang Peking University, Yue Li Peking University, Daoyuan Wu Lingnan University, Yanlin Wang Sun Yat-sen University, Jianbo Gao Peking University, Ting Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhong Chen
14:20
20m
Talk
Unfulfilled Promises: LLM-Based Detection of OS Compatibility Issues in Infrastructure as Code
Research Papers
Georgios-Petros Drosos ETH Zurich, Georgios Alexopoulos University of Athens, Thodoris Sotiropoulos ETH Zurich, Dimitris Mitropoulos University of Athens, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
14:40
10m
Talk
DePro: Understanding the Role of LLMs in Debugging Competitive Programming Code
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Nabiha Parvez Military Institute of Science And Technology, Tanvin Pallab Military Institute of Science And Technology, Mia Mohammad Imran Missouri University of Science and Technology, Tarannum Shaila Zaman University of Maryland Baltimore County
14:50
20m
Talk
A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for Automated Self-Admitted Technical Debt Repayment
Journal-First Paper
Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei Queen's University, Yuan Tian Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba, Bowen Xu North Carolina State University
15:10
20m
Talk
On the synchronization between Hugging Face pre-trained language models and their upstream GitHub repository
Journal-First Paper
Adekunle Ajibode Queen's University, Abdul Ali Bangash Lahore University of Management Sciences, Oussama Ben Sghaier Queen's University, Bram Adams Queen's University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
16:00 - 17:00
FSE DebateFSE Debate at MB 1.210

Debate Session: The Future of Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Thu 9 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
Testing 3Research Papers / Industry Papers / Tool Demonstrations / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at MB 1.210
10:30
20m
Talk
ACME: Automated Clause Mapping Engine for Testing Emerging Database Systems
Research Papers
Yuancheng Jiang National University of Singapore, Jianing Wang Shandong University, Chuqi Zhang National University of Singapore, Roland H. C. Yap National University of Singapore, Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore, Manuel Rigger National University of Singapore
10:50
20m
Talk
Interrogation Testing of CHC Solvers
Research Papers
David Kaindlstorfer TU Wien, Austria, Anastasia Isychev TU Wien, Valentin Wüstholz ConsenSys, Maria Christakis TU Wien
Pre-print
11:10
20m
Talk
RAT: Retrieval-Augmented Testing of Certificate Revocation List Parsers in TLS Implementations
Research Papers
Chu Chen Qufu Normal University, Qianxin Cheng Qufu Normal University, Pinghong Ren Qufu Normal University, Hairong Yu Qufu Normal University, Cong Tian Xidian University, Zhenhua Duan Xidian University, Xu Lu Xidian University, Bin Yu Xidian University, WenSheng Wang Xidian University, Jin Liu Xi'an University of Technology
11:30
10m
Talk
Software Testing Beyond Closed Worlds: Open-World Games as an Extreme Case
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Yusaku Kato Ritsumeikan University, Norihiro Yoshida Ritsumeikan University, Erina Makihara Ritsumeikan University, Katsuro Inoue Ritsumeikan University
Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
OdoTest: An Automated Testing Approach for Odometry Systems
Research Papers
Jixiang Zhou University of Science and Technology of China, Mingfei Cheng Singapore Management University, Shuncheng Tang Wuhan University of Technology, An Guo The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universituy, Xiaofei Xie Singapore Management University, Yinxing Xue Institute of AI for Industries, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Lijun Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
12:00
20m
Talk
AstraGame: Effective and Efficient VLM Agent Serving for Large-Scale Game Testing in an Industry Setting
Industry Papers
Yuzhe Guo Peking University, Haochuan Lu Tencent, Mengzhou Wu Peking University, Ting Xiong Tencent Inc., Yuetang Deng Tencent, Dezhi Ran Peking University, Wei Yang UT Dallas, Tao Xie Peking University
12:20
10m
Talk
ScalerEval: Automated and Consistent Evaluation Testbed for Auto-scalers in Microservices
Tool Demonstrations
Shuaiyu Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China, Yang Luo Wuhan University, Yuzhen Tan Wuhan University, Yunqing Yong Wuhan University, Xiaosong Huang Peking University, Jian Wang Wuhan University, Bing Li Wuhan University
12:30
20m
Talk
WalleTruth: Visual-oriented Software Testing for Web3 Wallet Browser Extensions
Research Papers
Xiaohui Hu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ningyu He Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
14:00 - 15:30
LLM for SE 7Industry Papers / Research Papers / Journal-First Paper at MB 1.210
14:00
20m
Talk
Not All RAGs Are Created Equal: A Component-Wise Empirical Study for Software Engineering Tasks
Research Papers
Qiang Ke Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hongjin Leng Xiamen University Malaysia, Shengming Zhao Fudan University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
14:20
20m
Talk
ScanCoder: Leveraging Human Attention Patterns to Enhance LLMs for Code
Research Papers
Yueke Zhang Vanderbilt University, Yifan Zhang Vanderbilt University, Zihan Fang Vanderbilt University, Greg Trafton Naval Research Laboratory, Daniel Levin Vanderbilt University, Kevin Leach Vanderbilt University, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University
14:40
20m
Talk
CodeUltraFeedback: An LLM-as-a-Judge Dataset for Aligning Large Language Models to Coding Preferences
Journal-First Paper
Martin Weyssow DIRO, Université de Montréal, Aton Kamanda DIRO, Université de Montréal, Xin Zhou Singapore Management University, Singapore, Houari Sahraoui DIRO, Université de Montréal
15:00
20m
Talk
Empirical Studies of Parameter Efficient Methods for Large Language Models of Code and Knowledge Transfer to R
Journal-First Paper
Amirreza Esmaeili University of British Columbia, Iman Saberi University of British Columbia Okanagan, Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia, Okanagan
15:20
10m
Talk
AutoChecklist: Automated Checklist Refinement for LLM Judges
Industry Papers
Mansi Uniyal Microsoft, Mukul Singh Microsoft, Gust Verbruggen Microsoft, Vu Le Microsoft, Sumit Gulwani Microsoft
17:00 - 18:00
ClosingPlenary Events at MB 1.210
17:00
60m
Day closing
FSE Closing, SRC, Introduction to FSE 2027
Plenary Events

Mon 6 Jul

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Room9:003010:003011:003012:003013:003014:003015:003016:003017:0030
MB 1.210

AIware Main Track

AIware Main Track

AIware Main Track

AIware Main Track

Tue 7 Jul

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Room8:00309:003010:003011:003012:0030
MB 1.210

AIware Main Track

AIware Main Track

Wed 8 Jul

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Room10:003011:003012:003013:003014:003015:003016:0030
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Research Papers + Journal-First Paper

Testing 2

Journal-First Paper + Ideas, Visions and Reflections + Research Papers

LLM for SE 4

FSE Debate

FSE Debate

Thu 9 Jul

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Room10:003011:003012:003013:003014:003015:003016:003017:0030
MB 1.210

Research Papers + Industry Papers + Tool Demonstrations + Ideas, Visions and Reflections

Testing 3

Industry Papers + Research Papers + Journal-First Paper

LLM for SE 7

Plenary Events

Closing

Wed 8 Jul

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Room10:0015304511:0015304512:0015304513:0015304514:0015304515:00153045
MB 1.210
FSE Journal-First Paper
SETS: A Simple yet Effective DNN Test Selection Approach
10:30 - 10:50
FSE Journal-First Paper
MetaSel: A Test Selection Approach for Fine-Tuned DNN Models
10:50 - 11:10
FSE Research Papers
Can Old Tests do New Tricks for Resolving SWE Issues?
11:10 - 11:30
FSE Research Papers
Empirical Insights of Test Selection Metrics under Multiple Testing Obj ...
11:30 - 11:50
FSE Research Papers
Cross-Refactoring-Type Test Program Migration for Refactoring Engines
11:50 - 12:10
FSE Research Papers
Denoising Fault Localization with Test Line Proximity
12:10 - 12:30
FSE Research Papers
Detecting Code-Comment Inconsistencies in Smart Contracts by Combining ...
14:00 - 14:20
FSE Research Papers
Unfulfilled Promises: LLM-Based Detection of OS Compatibility Issues in ...
14:20 - 14:40
FSE Ideas, Visions and Reflections
DePro: Understanding the Role of LLMs in Debugging Competitive Programm ...
14:40 - 14:50
FSE Journal-First Paper
A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for Automated Self-Admitted ...
14:50 - 15:10
FSE Journal-First Paper
On the synchronization between Hugging Face pre-trained language models ...
15:10 - 15:30

Thu 9 Jul

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Room10:0015304511:0015304512:0015304513:0015304514:0015304515:0015304516:0015304517:00153045
MB 1.210
FSE Research Papers
ACME: Automated Clause Mapping Engine for Testing Emerging Database Systems
10:30 - 10:50
FSE Research Papers
Interrogation Testing of CHC Solvers
10:50 - 11:10
FSE Research Papers
RAT: Retrieval-Augmented Testing of Certificate Revocation List Parsers ...
11:10 - 11:30
FSE Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Software Testing Beyond Closed Worlds: Open-World Games as an Extreme Case
11:30 - 11:40
FSE Research Papers
OdoTest: An Automated Testing Approach for Odometry Systems
11:40 - 12:00
FSE Industry Papers
AstraGame: Effective and Efficient VLM Agent Serving for Large-Scale Ga ...
12:00 - 12:20
FSE Tool Demonstrations
ScalerEval: Automated and Consistent Evaluation Testbed for Auto-scaler ...
12:20 - 12:30
FSE Research Papers
WalleTruth: Visual-oriented Software Testing for Web3 Wallet Browser Ex ...
12:30 - 12:50
FSE Research Papers
Not All RAGs Are Created Equal: A Component-Wise Empirical Study for So ...
14:00 - 14:20
FSE Research Papers
ScanCoder: Leveraging Human Attention Patterns to Enhance LLMs for Code
14:20 - 14:40
FSE Journal-First Paper
CodeUltraFeedback: An LLM-as-a-Judge Dataset for Aligning Large Languag ...
14:40 - 15:00
FSE Journal-First Paper
Empirical Studies of Parameter Efficient Methods for Large Language Mod ...
15:00 - 15:20
FSE Industry Papers
AutoChecklist: Automated Checklist Refinement for LLM Judges
15:20 - 15:30
FSE Plenary Events
FSE Closing, SRC, Introduction to FSE 2027
17:00 - 18:00