FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
VenueConcordia SGW Campus @Downtown Montreal
Room nameMB 3.210
Floor0
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Program

This program is tentative and subject to change.

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Mon 6 Jul

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09:00 - 10:30
Opening and Lightning talksDoctoral Symposium at MB 3.210
09:00
30m
Day opening
Opening
Doctoral Symposium
Cristian Cadar Imperial College London, Gail Murphy University of British Columbia
09:30
3m
Talk
Unsupervised Extraction of Latent Structures in Software Operations Data
Doctoral Symposium
Qiaolin Qin Polytechnique Montréal
09:33
3m
Talk
Towards Efficient and Secure Pull-Request-Based Software Development
Doctoral Symposium
Kazi Amit Hasan Queen's University, Canada
09:36
3m
Talk
Malleable Interfaces for Reviewing Software Documentation
Doctoral Symposium
Avinash Bhat McGill University
09:39
6m
Talk
Testing Protocols with Formal Languages
Doctoral Symposium
Alexander Liggesmeyer CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
09:45
2m
Talk
Towards Trustworthy AI-Enabled Systems: From Model-Level Reliability to Systemic Assurance
Doctoral Symposium
Yuheng Huang The University of Tokyo
09:47
3m
Talk
Awareness and Avoidance of Security Vulnerabilities in Software Tutorials
Doctoral Symposium
Bhagya Chembakottu McGill University
09:50
3m
Talk
Agentic Software Engineering Through Image-Based Multimodal Communications
Doctoral Symposium
Xuchen Tan York University
09:53
3m
Talk
Toward Scalable Automated Repository-Level Datasets for Software Vulnerability Detection
Doctoral Symposium
Amine LBATH Université Grenoble Alpes
09:56
6m
Talk
Toward Reliable Oracle Verification of Quantum Programs Under Noise and Resource Constraints
Doctoral Symposium
10:02
3m
Talk
From Deterministic Pipelines to Layered Automation: The Evolution of GitHub Actions in CI/CD
Doctoral Symposium
Elmira Onagh York University
10:05
3m
Talk
From Syntactic Mimicry to Semantic Correctness: Behavioral Understanding in LLM Code Generation
Doctoral Symposium
Ajmain Inqiad Alam University of Saskatchewan
10:08
3m
Talk
When Testing Meets Refactoring
Doctoral Symposium
Victor Guerra Veloso Concordia University
10:11
6m
Talk
From Helpful to Trustworthy: LLM Agents for Pair Programming
Doctoral Symposium
Ragib Shahariar Ayon Texas State University
10:17
3m
Talk
Automated Diagnosis and Testing of Game Compatibility Layers
Doctoral Symposium
Hanzheng Dai University of Alberta
10:20
3m
Talk
Reliable and Developer-Aligned Evaluation of Agents for Software Engineering
Doctoral Symposium
Răzvan Mihai Popescu Delft University of Technology
10:23
3m
Talk
Towards AI-Powered Localization of Software Bugs: From Semantic Understanding to Agentic Cognition
Doctoral Symposium
Asif Mohammed Samir Dalhousie University
10:26
3m
Talk
Democratizing Legal Requirements for Context-Aware Software Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Sophia Jit University of Toronto
14:00 - 15:30
Talks (Session 2)Doctoral Symposium at MB 3.210
14:00
15m
Talk
Awareness and Avoidance of Security Vulnerabilities in Software Tutorials
Doctoral Symposium
Bhagya Chembakottu McGill University
14:15
15m
Talk
From Syntactic Mimicry to Semantic Correctness: Behavioral Understanding in LLM Code Generation
Doctoral Symposium
Ajmain Inqiad Alam University of Saskatchewan
14:30
15m
Talk
Unsupervised Extraction of Latent Structures in Software Operations Data
Doctoral Symposium
Qiaolin Qin Polytechnique Montréal
14:45
15m
Talk
Towards Efficient and Secure Pull-Request-Based Software Development
Doctoral Symposium
Kazi Amit Hasan Queen's University, Canada
15:00
15m
Talk
When Testing Meets Refactoring
Doctoral Symposium
Victor Guerra Veloso Concordia University
16:00 - 18:00
16:00
15m
Talk
Networking at a Conference
Doctoral Symposium
Jie M. Zhang Mistral AI and King's College London
16:15
15m
Talk
Research in the Presence of AI
Doctoral Symposium
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
16:30
60m
Live Q&A
Ask Me Anything
Doctoral Symposium
Cristian Cadar Imperial College London, Gail Murphy University of British Columbia

Tue 7 Jul

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
20m
Talk
Towards Automated Crowdsourced Testing via Personified-LLM
Research Papers
Shengcheng Yu Technical University of Munich, Yuchen Ling Nanjing University, Chunrong Fang Nanjing University, Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University, Chunyang Chen TU Munich
11:20
20m
Talk
Clotho: Measuring Task-Specific Pre-Generation Test Adequacy for LLM Inputs
Research Papers
Juyeon Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Somin Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Robert Feldt Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Shin Yoo KAIST
Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
Automated Knowledge-Aware Test Reuse
Research Papers
Ziyuan Zhang Zhejiang University, Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Zhejiang University, Shanping Li The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University
12:00
20m
Talk
Generalizing Test Cases for Comprehensive Test Scenario Coverage
Research Papers
Binhang Qi National University of Singapore, Yun Lin Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xinyi Weng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chenyan Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National University of Singapore, Hailong Sun Beihang University, Gordon Fraser University of Passau, Jin Song Dong National University of Singapore
12:20
10m
Talk
The Impact of Documentation on Test Engagement in Pull Requests in OSS
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Teal Amore Eastern Michigan University, Nathan Berman Eastern Michigan University, Siyuan Jiang Eastern Michigan University
12:30 - 14:00
TSE Editorial Board MeetingCatering at MB 3.210
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Bio-Aware Software Engineering for Reproducible Research.pdf
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Yiming Zeng University of Connecticut, Dingbang Wang University of Connecticut, Ryan Green University of Cincinnati, Jinze Liu Virginia Commonwealth University, Tingting Yu University of Connecticut
14:10
20m
Talk
Predicting long time contributors with knowledge units of programming languages: an empirical study
Journal-First Paper
Md Ahasanuzzaman Queen's University, Gustavo A. Oliva Huawei Canada and Queen's University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:30
20m
Talk
Human-AI experience in integrated development environments: a systematic literature review
Journal-First Paper
Agnia Sergeyuk JetBrains Research, Ilya Zakharov JetBrains Research, Ekaterina Koshchenko JetBrains Research, Mali Izadi Google & TU Delft
14:50
20m
Talk
Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Roadmap for Sustaining Open Source Communities in the Age of GenAI
Journal-First Paper
Zixuan Feng Oregon State University, USA, Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories, Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft, Tyler Menezes CodeDay, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Igor Steinmacher RESHAPE LAB, Northern Arizona University, USA, Anita Sarma Oregon State University
Pre-print
15:10
20m
Talk
A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI
Journal-First Paper
Domenico Amalfitano University of Naples Federico II, Andreas Metzger paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Tommaso Fulcini Politecnico di Torino, Tobias Hey Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Jan Keim Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Vincenzo Scotti Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Anne Koziolek Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen
16:00 - 17:30
16:00
20m
Talk
Neuron-Guided Interpretation of Code LLMs: Where, Why, and How?
Research Papers
Zhe Yin Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijun Shen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
16:20
20m
Talk
Beyond Language Boundaries: Uncovering Programming Language Families for Code Language Models
Research Papers
Shangbo Yun Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Jianghong Huang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijun Shen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
16:40
20m
Talk
Engineering Pitfalls in AI Coding Tools: An Empirical Study of Bugs in Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI
Industry Papers
Ruixin Zhang York University, Wuyang Dai York University, Hung Viet Pham York University, Gias Uddin York University, Canada, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University, Song Wang York University
17:00
20m
Talk
Compiling Code LLMs into Lightweight Executables
Research Papers
Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Junda He Singapore Management University, Zhou Yang University of Alberta; CIFAR AI Chair; Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , Chengran Yang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Mykhailo Klymenko CSIRO's Data61, Thong Hoang CSIRO's Data61, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu Data61, CSIRO, Zhenchang Xing CSIRO's Data61, David Lo Singapore Management University

Wed 8 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
RealBench: A Repo-Level Code Generation Benchmark Aligned with Real-World Software Development Practices
Research Papers
Jia Li Wuhan University, Hongyi Deng Peking University, Yiran Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Kechi Zhang Peking University, China, Tianqi Shao Peking University, Tiankuo Zhao Wuhan University, Weinan Wang Peking University, Zhi Jin Wuhan University, Ge Li Peking University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Yingtao Fang Wuhan University, Yihong Dong Peking University
10:50
20m
Talk
Do Not Treat Code as Natural Language: Implications for Repository-Level Code Generation and Beyond
Research Papers
Minh Le-Anh FPT Software AI Center, Huyen Nguyen Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Khanh An Tran Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nam Le Hai Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Linh Ngo Van Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nghi D. Q. Bui Google Research, Xuan-Bach D. Le University of Melbourne
DOI Pre-print
11:10
20m
Talk
One Size Does Not Fit All: Revisiting Code Context Engineering for Repository-Level Code Generation
Research Papers
Yichen LI ByteDance, Qiye Lin Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Yun Peng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhihan Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jinyang Liu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chaozheng Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yintong Huo Singapore Management University, Singapore, Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
11:30
10m
Talk
LLM-Assisted Repository-Level Generation with Structured Spec-Driven Engineering
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Shuzhao Feng McGill University, Boqi Chen University of Ottawa, Brett Meyer McGill University, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University
Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
In Line with Context: Repository-Level Code Generation via Context Inlining
Research Papers
Chao Hu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wenhao Zeng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yuling Shi Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijun Shen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
12:00
20m
Talk
RepoFuse: A Dual-Context Approach to Repository-Level Code Completion at Industrial Scale
Industry Papers
Ming Liang Ant Group, Xiaoheng Xie Ant Group, Gehao Zhang Ant Group, Xunjin Zheng Ant Group, Wei Jiang Ant Group, Chengpeng Wang National University of Singapore, Gang Fan Huawei Hong Kong Research Centre, Peng Di Kunlunxin & UNSW Sydney
12:30 - 14:00
FSE 2027 PCCatering at MB 3.210
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
IssueGuard: Real-Time Secret Leak Prevention Tool for GitHub Issue Reports
Tool Demonstrations
Md Nafiu Rahman Brac University , Sadif Ahmed Bangladesh University of Engineering and Techonology, Zahin Wahab The University of British Columbia, Gias Uddin York University, Canada, Rifat Shahriyar Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh
Pre-print
14:10
20m
Talk
ProofFusion: Improving Neural Theorem Proving via Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
Research Papers
Manqing Zhang Northwestern Polytechnical University, Yunwei Dong Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lingru Zhou Northwestern Polytechnical University, Bingxu Xiao Northwestern Polytechnical University, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
14:30
20m
Talk
Eagle: Leveraging Operations Documents for Comprehensive Benchmark Question Generation
Industry Papers
Yuhe Liu Tsinghua University, Changhua Pei Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hang Wang Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Longlong Xu Tsinghua University, Xiaogang Dong Huawei, Zhen Feng Huawei, Li Zheng China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Kehang Ji China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Dan Pei Tsinghua University
14:50
20m
Talk
Unveiling AI-Driven Web Applications: Insights into Characteristics, Functionality, and Compliance
Research Papers
Liuhuo Wan , Zicong Liu University of Queensland, Chuan Yan University of Queensland, Liujia Wan Northeastern University, Naipeng Dong The University of Queensland, Australia, Zi Huang University of Queensland, Guangdong Bai City University of Hong Kong
15:10
20m
Talk
One Size Does Fit All: Exploring Model Fusion for Software Engineering Tasks
Research Papers
Yinggang Qiu National University of Defense Technology, Yihao Qin , Mingyang Geng National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Dezun Dong NUDT
16:00 - 17:00
16:00
20m
Talk
GUIMigrator: Semantics-Preserving Transpilation from Android XML to Compose and SwiftUI
Research Papers
Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Zhejiang University
16:20
10m
Talk
Kea2: Practical Property-based Testing for Mobile Apps
Tool Demonstrations
Xixian Liang East China Normal University, Cheng Peng East China Normal University, Bo Ma East China Normal University, Xiangchen Shen East China Normal University, Yiheng Xiong Singapore Management University, Ting Su East China Normal University
16:30
20m
Talk
What You See Is Not What You Tap: Detecting Misalignments between Visual and Interactive Boundaries in Mobile Apps
Industry Papers
Qingyang Qiu College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Xuan Wang Fudan University, Jintao Wang College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Yongxiang Hu Fudan University, Hailiang Jin Meituan Inc., Xingjian Yang College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Yao Xu College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shiyu Guo Meituan Inc., Juxing Yuan Meituan Inc., Yangfan Zhou Fudan University
16:50
10m
Talk
Characterizing Real-World Accessibility Issues Reported in Kotlin Mobile Apps
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Benjamín Enrique González-Briones Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alison Fernandez-Blanco Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Leonel Merino Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Camilo Escobar-Velásquez Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, Mario Linares-Vásquez Universidad de los Andes

Thu 9 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
Chiseling Out Efficiency: Structured Skeleton Supervision for Efficient Code Generation
Research Papers
Yu Yu Shandong Normal University, Zhihong Sun Nanjing University, Jia Li Tsinghua University, Yao Wan Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Chuanyi Li Nanjing University, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University, Ruyun Wang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tao Huang Shandong Normal University, Zhi Jin Peking University, Wuhan University, Ge Li Peking University, Chen Lyu Shandong Normal University
10:50
20m
Talk
The Impact of Prompt Programming on Function-Level Code Generation
Journal-First Paper
Ranim Khojah Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Mazen Mohamad Chalmers | RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Philipp Leitner Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Link to publication DOI
11:10
20m
Talk
GraphQLify: Automated and Type Safety-Preserving GraphQL API Adoption
Research Papers
Saleh Amareen Wayne State University, Arif Rahman Wayne State University, Sazzadur Rahaman University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Amiangshu Bosu Wayne State University
11:30
20m
Talk
Influence-Aware Bayesian-Inspired Token Reweighting for Improved Code Generation
Research Papers
YUQI ZHU Academy of Military Sciences, Ge Li Peking University, Hong Mei Peking University, Zhi Jin Peking University, Wuhan University, Jia Li Wuhan University, Qibin Zheng Advanced Institute of Big Data, Beijing, Jieyuan Zhang Academy of Military Sciences
11:50
20m
Talk
HumanEvalComm: Benchmarking the Communication Competence of Code Generation for LLMs and LLM Agent
Journal-First Paper
Jie JW Wu Michigan Technological University, USA, Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia, Okanagan
12:10
20m
Talk
PlayCoder: Making LLM-Generated GUI Code Playable
Research Papers
Zhiyuan Peng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wei Tao LightSpeed, Xin Yin Zhejiang University, Chenhao Ying Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yuan Luo Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yiwen Guo Unaffiliated
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
20m
Talk
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Landscape, Security Threats, and Future Research Directions
Journal-First Paper
Xinyi Hou Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shenao Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
14:20
20m
Talk
Human-aligned AI Model Cards with Weighted Hierarchy Architecture
Industry Papers
Pengyue Yang The University of Sydney, Haolin Jin The University of Sydney, Qingwen Zeng The University of Sydney, Jiawen Wen The University of Sydney, Harry Rao Bytedance, Huaming Chen The University of Sydney
14:40
10m
Talk
Machine Learning in the Wild: Early Evidence of Non-Compliant ML-Automation in Open-Source Software
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Zohaib Arshid University of Sannio, Italy, Daniele Bifolco University of Sannio, Fiorella Zampetti University of Sannio, Italy, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy
14:50
20m
Talk
SMARLA: A Safety Monitoring Approach for Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents
Journal-First Paper
Amirhossein Zolfagharian University of Ottawa - School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Manel Abdellatif École de Technologie Supérieure, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, Ramesh S
15:10
10m
Talk
DevGen: Automated Generation of Virtual Device Models for Kernel Drivers via Large Language Models
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Mingyu Wang Xidian University, Bin Yu Xidian University, Wenjian Lu Xidian University, kefeng gao Xidian University, Zhi Wang Xidian University, Cheng Wen Xidian University, Xu Lu Xidian University, Cong Tian Xidian University
15:20
10m
Talk
Panther: Faster and Cheaper Computations with Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Tool Demonstrations
Fahd Seddik University of British Columbia, Abdulrahman Elbedewy University of Texas at Austin, Gaser Elmasry Cairo University, Mohamed Abdelmoniem Noon, Yahia Zakaria Cairo University

Mon 6 Jul

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Tue 7 Jul

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Wed 8 Jul

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