Dates
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Fri 19 Jul 2024
Tracks
FSE Demonstrations
FSE Ideas, Visions and Reflections
FSE Industry Papers
FSE Journal First
FSE Research Papers
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Wed 17 Jul

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11:00 - 12:30
Software Maintenance and Comprehension 1Research Papers / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Demonstrations at Acerola
Chair(s): Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University
12:21
9m
Talk
From Models to Practice: Enhancing OSS Project Sustainability with Evidence-Based Advice
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Nafiz Imtiaz Khan Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA
Link to publication DOI
16:00 - 18:00
Program Analysis and Performance 1Research Papers / Industry Papers / Demonstrations / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at Acerola
Chair(s): Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute
17:48
9m
Talk
Verification of Programs with Common Fragments
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Ivan Postolski University of Buenos Aires, Víctor Braberman ICC (UBA-CONICET), Diego Garbervetsky Departamento de Computación, FCEyN, UBA, Sebastian Uchitel Imperial College and University of Buenos Aires
16:00 - 18:00
Program Repair and SynthesisDemonstrations / Research Papers / Ideas, Visions and Reflections at Mandacaru
Chair(s): Fernanda Madeiral Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
17:30
9m
Talk
Execution-free program repair
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Bertrand Meyer Constructor Institute Schaffhausen, Li Huang Constructor Institute Schaffhausen, Ilgiz Mustafin Constructor Institute, Manuel Oriol Constructor Institute Schaffhausen
16:00 - 18:00
17:03
9m
Talk
On Polyglot Program Testing
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Philémon Houdaille DIVERSE Team, IRISA-INRIA, CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, IRISA, University of Rennes, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University
DOI Pre-print
17:21
9m
Talk
Predicting Test Results without Execution
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached

Thu 18 Jul

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
Empirical Studies 2Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers / Industry Papers / Journal First at Acerola
Chair(s): Iftekhar Ahmed University of California, Irvine
11:54
9m
Talk
The Patch Overfitting Problem in Automated Program Repair: Practical Magnitude and a Baseline for Realistic Benchmarking
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Justyna Petke University College London, Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Maria Kechagia University College London, Aldeida Aleti Monash University, Federica Sarro University College London
12:12
9m
Talk
Reproducibility Debt: Challenges and Future Pathways
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Zara Hassan Australian National University, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Michael Norrish Australian National University, Graham Williams Australian National University, Alex Potanin Australian National University
Link to publication DOI
12:21
9m
Talk
A Vision on Open Science for the Evolution of Software Engineering Research and Practice
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Edson OliveiraJr State University of Maringá, Fernanda Madeiral Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Alcemir Rodrigues Santos State University of Piauí, Christina von Flach Federal University of Bahia, Sérgio Soares Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Pre-print
14:00 - 15:30
14:36
9m
Talk
Using Run-time Information to Enhance Static Analysis of Machine Learning Code in Notebooks
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Yiran Wang Linköping University, José Antonio Hernández López Linkoping University, Ulf Nilsson Linköping University, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University
Link to publication DOI
14:45
9m
Talk
Human-Imperceptible Retrieval Poisoning Attacks in LLM-Powered Applications
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Quan Zhang Tsinghua University, Binqi Zeng Central South University, Chijin Zhou Tsinghua University, Gwihwan Go Tsinghua University, Heyuan Shi Central South University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University
15:12
9m
Talk
Testing Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems with Large-Language Models: A Formal Approach
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Xi Zheng Macquarie University, Aloysius K. Mok University of Texas at Austin, Ruzica Piskac Yale University, Yong Jae Lee University of Wisconsin Madison, Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California, Dakai Zhu The University of Texas at San Antonio, Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA, Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
14:00 - 15:30
Security and Privacy 1Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Industry Papers / Research Papers at Pitanga
Chair(s): Gias Uddin York University, Canada
14:18
9m
Talk
A Preliminary Study on the Privacy Concerns of Using IP Addresses in Log Data
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Issam Sedki Concordia University
14:27
9m
Talk
Personal Data-Less Personalized Software Applications
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Sana Belguith University of Bristol, Inah Omoronyia University of Bristol, Ruzanna Chitchyan University of Bristol
16:00 - 18:00
16:18
9m
Talk
Monitoring the Execution of 14K Tests: Methods Tend to Have One Path that Is Significantly More Executed
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached
17:30
9m
Talk
Test Polarity: Detecting Positive and Negative Tests
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached
16:00 - 18:00
FuzzingDemonstrations / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers / Industry Papers at Sapoti
Chair(s): Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada
16:54
9m
Talk
When Fuzzing Meets LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Yu Jiang Tsinghua University, Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma Tsinghua University, Yuanliang Chen Tsinghua University, Chijin Zhou Tsinghua University, Yuheng Shen Tsinghua University, Zhiyong Wu Tsinghua University, China, Jingzhou Fu Tsinghua University, Mingzhe Wang Tsinghua University, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Quan Zhang Tsinghua University
Pre-print
17:03
9m
Talk
Look Ma, No Input Samples! Mining Input Grammars from Code with Symbolic Parsing
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Leon Bettscheider CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Link to publication DOI

Fri 19 Jul

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
Software Maintenance and Comprehension 4Research Papers / Demonstrations / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Industry Papers at Pitomba
Chair(s): Timo Kehrer University of Bern
15:03
9m
Talk
The lion, the ecologist and the plankton: a classification of species in multi-bot ecosystems
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Dimitrios Platis Neat, Linda Erlenhov Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Link to publication

Unscheduled Events

Not scheduled
Talk
AutoOffAB: Toward Automated Offline A/B Testing for Data-Driven Requirement Engineering
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Jie JW Wu University of British Columbia (UBC)
Pre-print

Accepted Papers

Title
A Preliminary Study on the Privacy Concerns of Using IP Addresses in Log Data
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
AutoOffAB: Toward Automated Offline A/B Testing for Data-Driven Requirement Engineering
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print
A Vision on Open Science for the Evolution of Software Engineering Research and Practice
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print
Execution-free program repair
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
From Models to Practice: Enhancing OSS Project Sustainability with Evidence-Based Advice
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Link to publication DOI
Human-Imperceptible Retrieval Poisoning Attacks in LLM-Powered Applications
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Look Ma, No Input Samples! Mining Input Grammars from Code with Symbolic Parsing
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Link to publication DOI
Monitoring the Execution of 14K Tests: Methods Tend to Have One Path that Is Significantly More Executed
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached
On Polyglot Program Testing
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
DOI Pre-print
Personal Data-Less Personalized Software Applications
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Predicting Test Results without Execution
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached
Reproducibility Debt: Challenges and Future Pathways
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Link to publication DOI
Testing Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems with Large-Language Models: A Formal Approach
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Test Polarity: Detecting Positive and Negative Tests
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print Media Attached
The lion, the ecologist and the plankton: a classification of species in multi-bot ecosystems
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Link to publication
The Patch Overfitting Problem in Automated Program Repair: Practical Magnitude and a Baseline for Realistic Benchmarking
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Using Run-time Information to Enhance Static Analysis of Machine Learning Code in Notebooks
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Link to publication DOI
Verification of Programs with Common Fragments
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
When Fuzzing Meets LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Pre-print

Call for Ideas, Visions and Reflections Papers

FSE 2024 Ideas, Visions and Reflections Track (FSE-IVR) seeks to disrupt the status quo in our discipline with radical, innovative, thought-provoking new ideas, and research directions, as well as lessons learned from the past.

We invite three types of papers:

  1. Innovative, groundbreaking new ideas supported by promising initial results, such as:
    • Exciting new directions in early stages of research, supported by initial evidence.
    • Startling new results that come in conflict with established results or beliefs, supporting a call for fundamentally new research directions.
  2. Visions of the future, such as:
    • Bold visions of new directions that may not yet be supported by solid results but rather by a strong and well-motivated scientific intuition. Examples include unusual synergies with other disciplines, or the importance of software engineering in problems whose software engineering aspects have not been studied earlier.
    • Summaries of highly innovative research ideas recently awarded as grants.
  3. Reflections on the past, such as:
    • Bold revisits of current research directions that may be somehow misguided.
    • Thoughtful observations coalescing the most important ideas since the inception of the field of software engineering, where they have led us so far, where past ideas have turned out to be right or wrong.

Submissions must clearly motivate and illustrate initial evidence (type 1) or a rationale (types 2 and 3) for changing current practice and/or research in software engineering. The writing style can be narrative to the extent where this supports the motivation for an emerging research direction.

Evaluation results are not required for FSE-IVR papers. Preliminary results for submissions of the first type or a sketch of an evaluation plan for submissions of the second type, could help the reviewers understand the scope of the work better.

FSE Ideas, Visions and Reflections Track is a cultural forum for encouraging trailblazers to share their vision and new research directions that connect to other fields or to share candid, critical reflections on past and present research. FSE-IVR publications lay the foundation for strong full-paper publications later on.

Scope

FSE-IVR provides a forum for innovative, thought-provoking research in software engineering to accelerate the exposure of the community to early, yet promising and potentially inspiring research efforts. FSE-IVR papers are first-class contributions that provide novel, soundly motivated research directions, emerging results, and thoughtful reflections.

The track addresses the same technical topics of interest as those of the research paper track. However, authors are encouraged to combine these topics in new ways to establish connections to other fields outside of classical software engineering, as well as to argue for the importance of software engineering research in areas not explicitly listed.

Out of Scope

A submission should not be an FSE full research submission lacking an evaluation, or a disguised advertisement for previously published results: An FSE research track submission with slightly less evaluation or lower quality is not a good FSE-IVR paper.

Evaluation

All papers will be evaluated according to:

  • Value: the problem is worth exploring
  • Impact: the potential for disruption of current practice
  • Originality: the novelty of the paper insight
  • Scholarship: appropriate consideration of relevant literature
  • Quality: overall paper quality

Innovative, groundbreaking new ideas (type 1) papers will also be evaluated according to:

  • Surprise: startling and unexpected findings

Visions of the future (type 2) and Reflections on the past (type 3) papers will also be evaluated according to:

  • Validity: soundness of the rationale

How to Submit

In the submission form, authors must clearly identify their paper as one of - New Ideas and Early Results - Visions (of the future) - Reflections (on the past)

A submission must conform at the time of submission to the FSE 2024 Format and Submission Guidelines, and must not exceed four pages (not including a one-page bibliography). Papers must be submitted electronically at the FSE-IVR submission site by the submission deadline.

FSE-IVR will employ the same double-blind review process as the main research track. Submissions must not reveal authors’ identities; consult the main research track CfP for more details on appropriate anonymization practices.

Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits may be rejected without review.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of FSE 2024. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper at FSE 2024 in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. One-day registrations do NOT satisfy the registration requirement. Please carefully read the complete list of FSE Submission Policies and Policies for Accepted Contributions.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: January 28, 2024 (23:59:59 AOE)
  • Notification to authors: April 9, 2024
  • Camera-ready deadline: May 14, 2024

If you have any questions about the suitability of a paper, please contact the co-chairs, Marsha Chechik and Qingwei Lin.

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