ICSME 2025
Sun 7 - Fri 12 September 2025 Auckland, New Zealand
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Wed 10 Sep

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10:30 - 12:00
Session 1 - DocumentationResearch Papers Track / Industry Track / Registered Reports at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Ashkan Sami Edinburgh Napier University
10:30
15m
APIDocBooster: An Extract-Then-Abstract Framework Leveraging Large Language Models for Augmenting API Documentation
Research Papers Track
Chengran Yang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Jiakun Liu Harbin Institute of Technology, Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Yunbo Lyu Singapore Management University, Junda He Singapore Management University, Ming Li Nanjing University, David Lo Singapore Management University
10:45
15m
Automatically Augmenting GitHub Issues with Informative User Reviews
Research Papers Track
Arthur Pilone University of São Paulo, Marco Raglianti Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Michele Lanza Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Fabio Kon University of São Paulo, Paulo Meirelles University of São Paulo
Pre-print
11:00
15m
Can LLMs Update API Documentation?
Research Papers Track
Seonah Lee Gyeongsang National University, Jueun Heo , Katherine R. Dearstyne University of Notre Dame
11:15
15m
RMGenie: An LLM-Based Agent Framework for Open Source Software README Generation
Research Papers Track
Xing Cui Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhiyuan Li , Tianyue Luo (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:30
15m
Requirements Ambiguity Detection and Explanation with LLMs: An Industrial Study
Industry Track
Sarmad Bashir RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Alessio Ferrari Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and University College Dublin (UCD), Muhammad Abbas Khan RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Per Erik Strandberg Westermo Network Technologies AB, Zulqarnain Haider Alstom Rail AB, Sweden, Mehrdad Saadatmand RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Markus Bohlin Mälardalen University
Pre-print
11:45
10m
Learning From the Best: What Makes Popular Hugging Face Models? A Registered Report
Registered Reports
Yinan Wu North Carolina State University, Zhou Yang University of Alberta, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Bo Wang Beijing Jiaotong University, Xuan-Bach D. Le University of Melbourne, David Lo Singapore Management University
13:30 - 15:00
Session 3 - Debugging and RefactoringResearch Papers Track / Industry Track / Tool Demonstration Track / NIER Track at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Ashkan Sami Edinburgh Napier University
13:30
15m
Boosting Redundancy-based Automated Program Repair by Fine-grained Pattern MiningTCSE Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers Track
Jiajun Jiang Tianjin University, Fengjie Li Tianjin University, Zijie Zhao Tianjin University, Zhirui Ye Tianjin University, Mengjiao Liu Tianjin University, Bo Wang Beijing Jiaotong University, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
13:45
10m
LadyBug: A GitHub Bot for UI-Enhanced Bug Localization in Mobile Apps
Tool Demonstration Track
Junayed Mahmud University of Central Florida, James Chen University of Toronto, Terry Achille University of Central Florida, Camilo Alvarez-Velez University of Central Florida, Darren Dean Bansil University of Central Florida, Patrick Ijieh University of Central Florida, Samar Karanch University of Central Florida, Nadeeshan De Silva William & Mary, Oscar Chaparro William & Mary, Andrian Marcus George Mason University, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida
13:55
15m
Together We Are Better: LLM, IDE and Semantic Embedding to Assist Move Method Refactoring
Research Papers Track
Abhiram Bellur University of Colorado Boulder, Fraol Batole Tulane University, Malinda Dilhara Amazon Web Services, USA, Mohammed Raihan Ullah University of Colorado Boulder, Yaroslav Zharov JetBrains Research, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research, Kai Ishikawa NEC Corporation, Haifeng Chen NEC Laboratories America, Masaharu Morimoto NEC Corporation, Shota Motoura NEC Corporation, Takeo Hosomi NEC Corporation, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Hridesh Rajan Tulane University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, JetBrains Research
14:10
10m
COB2PY - A Non-AI, Rule-Based COBOL to Python TranslatorOnline
Tool Demonstration Track
Kowshik Reddy Challa Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, Sonith M V Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, Chiranjeevi B S Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
14:20
10m
How Does Test Code Differ From Production Code in Terms of Refactoring? An Empirical Study
NIER Track
Kosei Horikawa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bin Lin Hangzhou Dianzi University, Kenji Fujiwara Nara Women’s University, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Pre-print
14:30
10m
How Much Can a Behavior-Preserving Changeset Be Decomposed into Refactoring Operations?
NIER Track
Kota Someya Institute of Science Tokyo, Lei Chen Institute of Science Tokyo, Michael J. Decker Bowling Green State University, Shinpei Hayashi Institute of Science Tokyo
DOI Pre-print
14:40
15m
Governance Matters: Lessons from Restructuring the data.table OSS Project
Industry Track
Pedro Arantes RESHAPE LAB, Northern Arizona University, USA, Doris Amoakohene Northern Arizona University, Toby Hocking Université de Sherbrooke, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher RESHAPE LAB, Northern Arizona University, USA
15:30 - 17:00
Session 5 - DebuggingResearch Papers Track / Industry Track at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
15:30
15m
The Impact of Fine-tuning Large Language Models on Automated Program RepairTCSE Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers Track
Roman Machacek University of Bern, Anastasiia Grishina Simula Research Laboratory, Max Hort Simula Research Laboratory, Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory
Pre-print Media Attached
15:45
15m
Bridging Solidity Evolution Gaps: An LLM-Enhanced Approach for Smart Contract Compilation Error Resolution
Research Papers Track
Likai Ye Zhejiang University, Mengliang Li Zhejiang University, Dehai Zhao CSIRO's Data61, Jiamou Sun CSIRO's Data61, Xiaoxue Ren Zhejiang University
Pre-print
16:00
15m
Code Property Graph Meets Typestate: A Scalable Framework to Behavioral Bug DetectionTCSE Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers Track
Xingjing Deng Beihang University, Zhengyao Liu Beihang University, Zhong Xitong Beihang University, shuo hong Beihang University, Yixin Yang , Xiang Gao Beihang University, Yan Xuhui Huawei, Hailong Sun Beihang University
16:15
15m
Syntest-ACR: Automated Crash Reproduction for JavaScript
Research Papers Track
Philip Oliver Victoria University of Wellington, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Craig Anslow Victoria University of Wellington, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington
File Attached
16:30
15m
TSGuard: Detecting Logic Bugs in Time Series Management Systems via Time Series Algebra
Research Papers Track
Lingwei Kuang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Liang Liu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Wenjing Wang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ning Cao Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shijie Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fan Liu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Haolong Chen Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
16:45
15m
HybridRCA: Lightweight Critical-Path-Aware Hybrid Tracing for Root-Cause Analysis in Production Microservices
Industry Track
Maryam Ekhlasi Ciena, Arnaud Fiorini Polytechnique Montreal, Naser Ezzati Jivan , Michel Dagenais Polytechnique Montreal, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal

Thu 11 Sep

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10:30 - 12:00
10:30
15m
OptionFuzz: Fuzzing SMT Solvers with Optimized Option Exploration via Large Language Models
Research Papers Track
Yuhao Peng (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhiyuan Li , Tianyue Luo (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yanjun Wu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:45
15m
Nüwa: Enhancing MLIR Fuzzing with LLM-Driven Generation and Adaptive Mutation
Research Papers Track
Bocan Cao Northwest University, Weiyuan Tong Northwest University, Zhanyong Tang Northwest University, Zixu Wang Northwest University, Hao Huang Northwest University, Yuheng Yan Northwest University
11:00
10m
MediumDarwin: LittleDarwin Grows with Performance and Research-oriented Extensions
Tool Demonstration Track
Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin & Research Ireland Lero, Thomas Laurent School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin & Research Ireland Lero, Anthony Ventresque School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin & Research Ireland Lero
11:10
10m
Rethinking Cognitive Complexity for Unit Tests: Toward a Readability-Aware Metric Grounded in Developer Perception
NIER Track
Wendkuuni Arzouma Marc Christian OUEDRAOGO University of Luxembourg, Yinghua Li University of Luxembourg, Xueqi Dang University of Luxembourg, SnT, Xin Zhou Singapore Management University, Singapore, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, David Lo Singapore Management University, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg
11:20
15m
Targeted Test Selection Approach in Continuous IntegrationOnline
Industry Track
Pavel Plyusnin T-Technologies, Aleksey Antonov T-Technologies, Vasilii Ermakov T-Technologies, Aleksandr Khaybriev T-Technologies, Margarita Kikot T-Technologies, Nikolay Bushkov T-Technologies, Stanislav Moiseev T-Technologies
DOI Pre-print
11:35
15m
An Empirical Investigation into the Capabilities of Anomaly Detection Approaches for Test Smell Detection
Journal First Track
Valeria Pontillo Gran Sasso Science Institute, Luana Martins University of Salerno, Ivan Machado Federal University of Bahia - UFBA, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci Università di Salerno
DOI Pre-print
11:50
10m
Research paper
Assessing Reliability of Statistical Maximum Coverage Estimators in FuzzingOnline
Registered Reports
Danushka Liyanage University of Sydney, Australia, Nelum Attanayake University of Sydney, Australia, Zijian Luo University of Sydney, Australia, Rahul Gopinath University of Sydney
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
13:30 - 15:00
Session 9 - Testing 3Journal First Track / NIER Track / Tool Demonstration Track / Research Papers Track / Registered Reports at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh Ericsson AB, Mälardalen University, Carleton University
13:30
15m
Full-paper
Metamorphic Testing of Large Language Models for Natural Language Processing
Research Papers Track
Steven Cho The University of Auckland, New Zealand, Stefano Ruberto JRC European Commission, Valerio Terragni University of Auckland
Pre-print
13:45
15m
Onweer: Automated Resilience Testing through Fuzzing
Research Papers Track
Gilles Coremans Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
14:00
10m
Generating Highly Structured Test Inputs Leveraging Constraint-Guided Graph Refinement
Registered Reports
Zhaorui Yang University of California, Riverside, Yuxin Qiu University of California at Riverside, Haichao Zhu Meta, Qian Zhang University of California at Riverside
14:10
10m
Short-paper
Prioritizing Test Smells: An Empirical Evaluation of Quality Metrics and Developer Perceptions
NIER Track
Md Arif Hasan University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Toukir Ahammed Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
14:20
10m
LLMShot: Reducing snapshot testing maintanence via LLMs
NIER Track
Ergün Batuhan Kaynak Bilkent University, Mayasah Lami Bilkent University, Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh Bilkent University, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University
Pre-print
14:30
15m
Combinatorial Transition Testing in Dynamically Adaptive Systems: Implementation and Test Oracle
Journal First Track
Pierre Martou UCLouvain / ICTEAM, Benoît Duhoux Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Kim Mens Université catholique de Louvain, ICTEAM institute, Belgium, Axel Legay Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
14:45
10m
LLMLOOP: Improving LLM-Generated Code and Tests through Automated Iterative Feedback Loops
Tool Demonstration Track
Ravin Ravi University of Auckland, Dylan Bradshaw University of Auckland, Stefano Ruberto JRC European Commission, Gunel Jahangirova King's College London, Valerio Terragni University of Auckland
Pre-print
15:30 - 17:00
Session 11 - Human Factors 1Journal First Track / Research Papers Track at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
15:30
15m
Characterizing the System Evolution That is Proposed After a Software Incident
Research Papers Track
Matt Pope Brigham Young University, Jonathan Sillito Brigham Young University
15:45
15m
Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News
Research Papers Track
Prachnachai Meakpaiboonwattana Mahidol University, Warittha Tarntong Mahidol University, Thai Mekratanavorakul Mahidol University, Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand, Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp Mahidol University, Raula Gaikovina Kula The University of Osaka, Morakot Choetkiertikul Mahidol University, Thailand, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Thanwadee Sunetnanta Mahidol University
16:00
15m
Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
Research Papers Track
Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
Pre-print
16:15
15m
Accessibility Rank: A Machine Learning Approach for Prioritizing Accessibility User Feedback
Journal First Track
Xiaoqi Chai Beihang University (Work conducted at The University of Auckland), James Tizard University of Auckland, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
16:30
15m
Don't Settle for the First! How Many GitHub Copilot Solutions Should You Check?
Journal First Track
Julian Oertel University of Rostock, Jil Klünder University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover, Regina Hebig Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
16:45
15m
Adoption of Automated Software Engineering Tools and Techniques in Thailand
Journal First Track
Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand, Jens Krinke University College London, Morakot Choetkiertikul Mahidol University, Thailand, Thanwadee Sunetnanta Mahidol University, Federica Sarro University College London

Fri 12 Sep

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10:30 - 12:00
Session 13 - Reuse 1NIER Track / Research Papers Track / Industry Track / Registered Reports at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan
10:30
15m
From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Research Papers Track
Peerachai Banyongrakkul The University of Melbourne, Mansooreh Zahedi The Univeristy of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Haoyu Gao The University of Melbourne
Pre-print
10:45
15m
Are Classical Clone Detectors Good Enough For the AI Era?
Research Papers Track
Ajmain Inqiad Alam University of Saskatchewan, Palash Ranjan Roy University of Saskatchewan, Farouq Al-Omari Thompson Rivers University, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan
11:00
10m
Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
NIER Track
Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University, Dulina Rathnayake Department of Computer Science, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
Pre-print
11:10
10m
A Preliminary Study on Large Language Models Self-Negotiation in Software Engineering
NIER Track
Chunrun Tao Kyushu University, Honglin Shu Kyushu University, Masanari Kondo Kyushu University, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University
11:20
10m
CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Registered Reports
Md Nazmul Hossain Department of Computer Science, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
Pre-print
11:30
15m
A Deep Dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Code Completion: Experience on WeChat
Industry Track
Zezhou Yang Tencent Inc., Ting Peng Tencent Inc., Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Chaozheng Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hailiang Huang Tencent Inc., Yuetang Deng Tencent
11:45
10m
Inferring Attributed Grammars from Parser Implementations
NIER Track
Andreas Pointner University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria, Josef Pichler University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Herbert Prähofer Johannes Kepler University Linz
Pre-print
13:30 - 15:00
Session 15 - Reuse 2NIER Track / Industry Track / Research Papers Track at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Elliott Wen The University of Auckland
13:30
15m
AST-Enhanced or AST-Overloaded? The Surprising Impact of Hybrid Graph Representations on Code Clone Detection
Research Papers Track
Zixian Zhang School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Takfarinas Saber School of Computer Science, University of Galway
13:45
10m
Client–Library Compatibility Testing with API Interaction Snapshots
NIER Track
Gustave Monce Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI, Thomas Degueule CNRS, Jean-Rémy Falleri Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI. Institut Universitaire de France., Romain Robbes CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
Pre-print
13:55
10m
Prompting Matters: Assessing the Effect of Prompting Techniques on LLM-Generated Class Code
NIER Track
Adam Yuen University of Calgary, John Pangas University of Calgary, Md Mainul Hasan Polash University of Calgary, Ahmad Abdellatif University of Calgary
14:05
10m
From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
NIER Track
Nitika Chopra Trent University, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Automated Recovery of Software Product Lines from Legacy Configurable Codebases
Industry Track
Tewfik Ziadi University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), Karim Ghallab Sorbonne Université - RedFabriQ/Mobioos, Zaak Chalal RedFabriQ/Mobioos
14:30
15m
Integrating Rules and Semantics for LLM-Based C-to-Rust Translation
Industry Track
Feng Luo Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Kexing Ji Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shuzheng Gao Chinese University of Hong Kong, jiafeng Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Kui Liu Huawei, Xin Xia Zhejiang University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:30 - 16:30
Session 17 - Security 3Research Papers Track at Case Room 3 260-055
Chair(s): Valerio Terragni University of Auckland
15:30
15m
LLM-SZZ: Novel Vulnerability Affected Range Identification Driven by Large Language Model and CVE Description
Research Papers Track
Siqi Fan Lanzhou University, Xin Liu Lanzhou University, Yingli Zhang Lanzhou University, Yuan Tan Lanzhou University, Luxing Yin Lanzhou University, Zhaorun Chen University of Chicago, Song Li The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, Lei Qiao Lanzhou University, Rui Zhou Lanzhou University
15:45
15m
Enhanced Vulnerability Localization: Harmonizing Task-Enhanced Tuning and General LLM Prompting
Research Papers Track
Wentong Tian Beihang University, Yuanzhang Lin Beihang University, Xiang Gao Beihang University, Hailong Sun Beihang University
16:00
15m
Toward Realistic Evaluations of Just-In-Time Vulnerability Prediction
Research Papers Track
Duong Nguyen Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Le-Cong Thanh The University of Melbourne, Triet Le The University of Adelaide, Muhammad Ali Babar School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Quyet Thang Huynh Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Wed 10 Sep

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Thu 11 Sep

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Fri 12 Sep

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