FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
VenueConcordia SGW Campus @Downtown Montreal
Room nameMB 3.430
Floor0
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Program

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Sun 5 Jul

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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Keynote and Research Papers on LLM Code Generation FoundationsPROMISE at MB 3.430
09:00
5m
Day opening
Opening
PROMISE
Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy
09:05
55m
Talk
Keynote 1 - The Limits of “Cute” CI/CD Pipelines
PROMISE
Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
10:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Waterfall-style Multi-Agent Workflows for Class-Level Code Generation
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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 at MB 3.430
11:00
15m
Talk
Developer Behavior in Response to LLM-Generated Code Refactoring Suggestions
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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 at MB 3.430
14:00
60m
Talk
Keynote 2 - Rethinking Reliability for Software Engineering Agents
PROMISE
Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University
15:00
15m
Paper
Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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 at MB 3.430
16:00
15m
Talk
Model-Driven Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems via AADL and LLMs
PROMISE
Abdul Wahab Ontario Tech University, Akramul Azim Ontario Tech University
16:15
15m
Talk
MAS-SRE: A Multi-Agent System for Security Requirements Engineering
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
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
PROMISE
Francisco Ortin University of Oviedo, David Álvarez-Fidalgo University of Oviedo
16:55
5m
Day closing
Closing
PROMISE
Lili Wei McGill University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Csaba Nagy

Tue 7 Jul

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11:00 - 12:30
Bug Detection and LocalizationIndustry Papers / Journal-First Paper / Research Papers at MB 3.430
11:00
20m
Talk
GraphLocator: Graph-guided Causal Reasoning for Issue Localization
Research Papers
Wei Liu Peking University, Chao Peng Tencent, Pengfei Gao ByteDance, Aofan Liu Peking University, Wei Zhang Peking University, Haiyan Zhao Peking University, Zhi Jin Peking University, Wuhan University
11:20
20m
Talk
Reflex: Event-Driven Automated Fault Localization for Large-Scale LLM Training
Industry Papers
Hua Ding Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yun Zhang ByteDance Seed, Bo Zhang China Electric Power Research Institute, Wenxiao Wang ByteDance Seed, Libo Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huan Yu ByteDance Seed, Zhe Nan ByteDance Seed, Zuquan Song ByteDance Seed, Weiqiang Lou ByteDance Seed, Gaohong Liu ByteDance Seed, Xi Yang ByteDance Seed, Yuhan Li ByteDance Seed, Qinlong Wang ByteDance Seed, Shuguang Wang ByteDance Seed, Wencong Xiao ByteDance Seed, Shenghong Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
11:40
10m
Talk
How Far Can VLMs Go for Visual Bug Detection? Studying 19,738 Keyframes from 41 Hours of Gameplay Videos
Industry Papers
Wentao Lu University of Alberta, Alexander Senchenko Electronic Arts, Alan Sayle Electronic Arts, Abram Hindle University of Alberta, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta
11:50
20m
Talk
Typestate-based Fault Localization of API Usage Violations in a Deep Learning Program
Journal-First Paper
Fraol Batole Tulane University, Ruchira Manke Tulane University, Robert Dyer University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Hridesh Rajan Tulane University
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
20m
Talk
Mining Long Tail Bugs: Identifying Rare and Overlooked Issues in Code
Research Papers
Wentao Liang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanjun Wu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianyue Luo Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dinghao Liu Shandong University, Haotian Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:20
20m
Talk
LinkAnchor: An Autonomous LLM-Based Agent for Issue-to-Commit Link Recovery
Research Papers
Arshia Akhavan San Diego State University, Alireza Hoseinpour Bowling Green State University, Abbas Heydarnoori Bowling Green State University, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mehdi Keshani University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Pre-print Media Attached
14:40
20m
Talk
Automated Identification of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discriminatory Texts from Issue Comments
Journal-First Paper
Sayma Sultana Tulane University, USA, Jaydeb Sarker University of Nebraska at Omaha, Farzana Israt Wayne State University, Rajshakhar Paul Wayne State University, Amiangshu Bosu Wayne State University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
Rethinking Software Quality Measurement: A Vision for AI-Assisted Triangulation in the Post-Metrics Era
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Jomar Thomas Almonte The Pennsylvania State University, Nathalia Nascimento Pennsylvania State University
15:10
20m
Talk
UNICS: Multilingual Code Search via Unified Pseudocode and Contrastive Transfer Learning
Research Papers
Ye Fan Nanjing University, Jidong Ge Nanjing University, Chuanyi Li Nanjing University, Liguo Huang Southern Methodist University, Bin Luo Nanjing University
16:00 - 17:20
16:00
20m
Talk
PoCGen: Generating Proof-of-Concept Exploits for Vulnerabilities in Npm Packages
Research Papers
Deniz Simsek University of Stuttgart, Aryaz Eghbali CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany, Michael Pradel CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
16:20
20m
Talk
Exorcist: Enabling Atomic-Level Runtime Detection of Spectre Attacks Using Precise Event Based Sampling
Research Papers
Hao Jia Xidian University, Haoyu Ma Beijing Jiaotong University, Changfeng Ding Xidian University, Jinku Li Xidian University
16:40
20m
Talk
Unveiling the Fragility of Binary Code Similarity Detection via Targeted Attacks with Model Explanations
Research Papers
Mingjie Chen Zhejiang University, Tiancheng Zhu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Mingxue Zhang Zhejiang University, Yiling He University College London, Minghao Lin Independent Researcher, Penghui Li Columbia University, Kui Ren The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University
17:00
20m
Talk
AVDA: Autonomous Vibe Detection Authoring for Cybersecurity
Industry Papers
Muhammed Fatih Bulut Microsoft, Carlo DePaolis Microsoft, Raghav Batta Microsoft, Anjali Mangal Microsoft

Wed 8 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
Fuzzing-based mutation testing of C/C++ software in cyber-physical systems
Journal-First Paper
Jaekwon Lee Kangwon National University, South Korea, Fabrizio Pastore University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
10:50
20m
Talk
It Takes Two: Option-Aware Directed Greybox Fuzzing for Vulnerability PoC Generation
Research Papers
Susheng Wu Fudan University, Xin Hu Fudan University, China, Yiheng Cao Fudan University, Zhuotong Zhou Fudan University, Yiheng Huang Fudan University, Yijian Wu Fudan University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, Zhijia Zhao Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University
11:10
20m
Talk
ChainDelta: Automatic Patch-based Exploit Generation for Ethereum with Fuzzing Agents
Research Papers
Mingxi Ye Sun Yat-sen University, Yuhong Nan Sun Yat-sen University, Zhijie Zhong School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Jianzhong Su Sun Yat-sen University, Xingwei Lin Zhejiang University, Peilin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
11:30
20m
Talk
Adaptive Mutation Scheduling with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Contract Fuzzing
Research Papers
Qianqian Pang zhejang university, Xin Yin Zhejiang University, Tingting Bi The University of Melbourne, Lingfeng Bao Zhejiang University, Chao Ni Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University
11:50
20m
Talk
OCPPuzz: Specification-driven Fuzzing of Charging Station Management Systems with Large Language Model
Research Papers
Jongchan Hong Sungkyunkwan University, Jaewon Kim Sungkyunkwan University, Sungjae Hwang Sungkyunkwan University
12:10
20m
Talk
PROGnosticator: Testing Source-to-Source Code Translators via Construct-oriented Fuzzing
Research Papers
Yeaseen Arafat University of Utah, Stefan Nagy University of Utah
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Class Archetypes: Principles, Detection, Evolution
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Mattia Giannaccari REVEAL @ Software Institute – USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Marco Raglianti REVEAL @ Software Institute – USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Michele Lanza Software Institute - USI, Lugano
14:10
20m
Talk
Improving Data Leakage Detection in Machine Learning Notebooks through Static Slicing and Structured LLM Prompts
Research Papers
Taha Draoui University of Michigan-Flint, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan-Flint, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology
14:30
20m
Talk
TypePro: Boosting LLM-Based Type Inference via Inter-Procedural Slicing
Research Papers
linTeyu Xiamen University, Minghao Fan Xiamen University, Huaxun Huang , Zhirong Shen Xiamen University, Rongxin Wu Xiamen University
14:50
20m
Talk
Sound Termination and Non-Termination Analysis of C Programs with Bit-Precise Bounded Semantics and Advanced Constructs
Research Papers
Negar Fathi University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Hiroshi Unno Tohoku University, Tachio Terauchi Waseda University, Rahul Purandare University of Nebraska-Lincoln
15:10
20m
Talk
Semantics-Guided Control-Flow Reconstruction for Firmware Binaries via Static Analysis
Research Papers
Fengjuan Gao Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Qingjie Zhu Nanjing University, Yi Zhang Nanjing University, Yu Wang Nanjing University, Xuandong Li Nanjing University, Ke Wang Nanjing University
16:00 - 17:00
16:00
10m
Talk
ProfOlaf: Semi-Automated Tool for Systematic Literature Reviews
Tool Demonstrations
Martim Afonso INESC-ID, IST, University of Lisbon and Politecnico di Torino, Nuno Saavedra INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Bruno Lourenço INESC-ID, IST and CINAV, University of Lisbon and Portuguese Naval Academy, Alexandra Mendes Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, João F. Ferreira Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC-ID
16:10
20m
Talk
LLM-Powered Workflow Optimization for Multidisciplinary Software Development: An Automotive Industry Case Study
Industry Papers
A: Shuai Wang Chalmers University of Technology, Yinan Yu Chalmers University of Technology, Earl T. Barr University College London, Dhasarathy Parthasarathy Volvo Group
Pre-print
16:30
20m
Talk
TaskSnap: One Task at a Time With Snapshots
Journal-First Paper
Juliana G. de Souza University of Zurich, https://hasel.dev/team/juliana-souza/, Remy Egloff University of Zurich, Thomas Fritz University of Zurich, André N. Meyer University of Zurich
16:50
10m
Talk
BayesInsights: Modelling Software Delivery and Developer Experience with Bayesian Networks at Bloomberg
Industry Papers
Serkan Kirbas Bloomberg LP, Federica Sarro University College London, David Williams University College London

Thu 9 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
CuFuzz: An API-Knowledge-Graph Coverage-Driven Fuzzing Framework for CUDA Libraries
Research Papers
Ximing Fan School of cyber science and engineering, Sichuan University, China, Yong Fang Sichuan University, Peng Jia Sichuan University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Yijia Xu Sichuan University, Xi Peng Huawei Theory Lab, Yuhao Zhou Fudan University
10:50
20m
Talk
Eidolon: Perform Noise-Aware Fuzzing on FHE Libraries via Equivalence Expression Transformation
Research Papers
Zhensheng Xian Tsinghua University, Zhen Yan Tsinghua University, Yuanliang Chen Tsinghua University, Xuelian Cao Tsinghua University, Fuchen Ma Tsinghua University, Dalong Shi AVIC International Digital Network Technology Co., Ltd., Yu Jiang Tsinghua University
11:10
20m
Talk
SQLiFuzz: Uncovering SQL Injection in Any Web Applications
Research Papers
I Putu Arya Dharmaadi University of Groningen, Thuan Pham University of Melbourne, Fadi Mohsen University of Groningen, Fatih Turkmen University of Groningen
11:30
20m
Talk
Reducing Coverage-Equivalent Inputs in Grammar-based Fuzzing by Avoiding Recurrent Rule Sequences
Research Papers
Jaehan Yoon , Yunji Seo Korea University, Hakjoo Oh Korea University, Sooyoung Cha Sungkyunkwan University
11:50
10m
Talk
CapCo: Automating Carla-Apollo Co-Simulation and Scenario Fuzzing
Tool Demonstrations
Xiaodong Zhang University of Chinese Academy of Science, Songyang Yan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zijiang Yang University of Science and Technology of China and Synkrotron, Inc.
12:00
10m
Talk
SQLynx: Towards Generic Mutation-Based Fuzzing for DBMSs Across Diverse Dialects
Tool Demonstrations
Runpei Miao SKLCCSE Lab, Beihang University, Jie Liang Beihang University, Zhiyong Wu Tsinghua University, China, Jingzhou Fu School of Software, Tsinghua University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University, Shuai Ma SKLCCSE Lab, Beihang University
12:10
10m
Talk
A Practical Fuzzer for the Python Runtime System
Tool Demonstrations
Wen Li Utah State University, Haipeng Cai University at Buffalo, SUNY
12:20
10m
Talk
Shark2Pit: Automated Test Template Generation for Protocol Fuzzing Based on Packet Parser
Tool Demonstrations
Yulai Fu , Yuanliang Chen Tsinghua University, Fuchen Ma Tsinghua University, Changjian Liu Central South University, Wanli Chen Central South University, Dalong Shi AVIC International Digital Network Technology Co., Ltd., Qiang Fu Central South University, Heyuan Shi Central South University
14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Mapping GitHub Sponsorships: A Longitudinal Observatory for Open-Source Sustainability
Tool Demonstrations
Rylan Hiltz Trent University, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
14:10
20m
Talk
HAFix: History-Augmented Large Language Models for Bug Fixing
Journal-First Paper
Yu Shi Queen's University, Abdul Ali Bangash Lahore University of Management Sciences, Emad Fallahzadeh Queen's University, Bram Adams Queen's University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University
14:30
20m
Talk
Characterizing and Mitigating False-Positive Bug Reports in the Linux Kernel
Research Papers
jiashuo tian Tianjin University, Dong Wang Tianjin University, Chen Yang Tianjin University, Haichi Wang Tianjin University, Zan Wang Tianjin University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
14:50
10m
Talk
Causal Software Engineering: A Vision and Roadmap
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Roberto Pietrantuono Università di Napoli Federico II, Luca Giamattei Università di Napoli Federico II, Stefano Russo Università di Napoli Federico II, Julien Siebert Fraunhofer IESE, Neil Walkinshaw The University of Sheffield
15:00
10m
Talk
A Tool for Automatically Cataloguing and Selecting Pre-Trained Models and Datasets for Software Engineering
Tool Demonstrations
Alexandra González Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Oscar Cerezo Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Silverio Martínez-Fernández UPC-BarcelonaTech
Pre-print Media Attached

Tue 7 Jul

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Wed 8 Jul

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