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ICPC 2020
Mon 13 - Wed 15 July 2020
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The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting great, promising ideas in early stages of research. Ideally, the ICPC ERA track seeks papers challenging the status quo of program comprehension with new research directions and provocative ideas. ERA track is the perfect place for a paper that aims at setting the agenda for a new line of research and a series of future papers!

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Mon 13 Jul

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13:00 - 13:30
OpeningResearch / Programming Education / Tool Demonstration / ERA / Industry at ICPC
Chair(s): Eunjong Choi Kyoto Institute of Technology, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
13:00
30m
Welcome to ICPC 2020
Research

13:30 - 14:30
Keynote : Comprehension Challenges at the Level of Software Ecosystems and Global Software EngineeringResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal
13:30
60m
Keynote
Comprehension Challenges at the Level of Software Ecosystems and Global Software Engineering
Research
K: Ralf Laemmel Facebook London
Media Attached File Attached
14:30 - 14:50
Awards CeremonyResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
15:00 - 16:00
Session 1: TestsResearch / Tool Demonstration / Industry at ICPC
Chair(s): Dario Di Nucci Tilburg University
15:00
12m
Paper
Testing of Mobile Applications in the Wild: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Apps
Research
Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Gemma Catolino Delft University of Technology, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Media Attached
15:12
12m
Paper
UI Screens Identification and Extraction from Mobile Programming Screencasts
Research
Mohammad Alahmadi Florida State University, Abdulkarim Malkadi Florida State University, USA - Jazan University, KSA, Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:24
12m
Paper
Measuring Software Testability Modulo Test Quality
Research
Valerio Terragni Università della Svizzera Italiana, Pasquale Salza University of Zurich, Mauro Pezze Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT)
Pre-print Media Attached
15:36
12m
Paper
Program Slicing and Execution Tracing for Differential Testing at Adobe Analytics
Industry
Darryl Jarman Adobe, Scott Hunt Adobe, Dave Towey University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Media Attached
15:48
12m
Paper
Just-In-Time Test Smell Detection and Refactoring: The DARTS Project
Tool Demonstration
Stefano Lambiase University of Salerno, Andrea Cupito University of Salerno, Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Media Attached
16:30 - 17:30
Session 2: QualityResearch / Tool Demonstration at ICPC
Chair(s): Gemma Catolino Delft University of Technology
16:30
12m
Paper
How Does Incomplete Composite Refactoring Affect Internal Quality Attributes?
Research
Ana Carla Bibiano PUC-Rio, Vinícius Soares PUC-Rio, Daniel Coutinho PUC-Rio, Eduardo Fernandes Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, João Lucas Correia Federal University of Alagoas, Kleber Tarcísio UFCG, Anderson Oliveira PUC-Rio, Alessandro Garcia PUC-Rio, Rohit Gheyi Federal University of Campina Grande, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Baldoino Fonseca , Caio Barbosa UFAL, Daniel Oliveira PUC-Rio
Media Attached
16:42
12m
Paper
An Empirical Study of Quick Remedy Commits
Research
Fengcai Wen , Csaba Nagy Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana
Pre-print Media Attached
16:54
12m
Paper
When Are Smells Indicators of Architectural Refactoring Opportunities? A Study of 50 Software Projects
Research
Leonardo Da Silva Sousa Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Willian Oizumi PUC-Rio, Alessandro Garcia PUC-Rio, Anderson Oliveira PUC-Rio, Diego Cedrim Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Lucena
Pre-print Media Attached
17:06
12m
Paper
Refactoring Android-specific Energy Smells: A Plugin for Android Studio
Tool Demonstration
Emanuele Iannone University of Salerno, Fabiano Pecorelli University of Salerno, Dario Di Nucci Tilburg University, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
Media Attached
17:18
12m
Paper
BugVis: Commit Slicing for Defect Visualisation
Tool Demonstration
David Bowes Lancaster University, Jean Petric Lancaster University, Tracy Hall Lancaster University
Media Attached

Tue 14 Jul

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00:00 - 01:00
Session 3: FaultsERA / Research at ICPC
Chair(s): Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology
00:00
12m
Paper
Exploiting Code Knowledge Graph for Bug Localization via Bi-directional Attention
Research
Jinglei Zhang Peking University, Rui Xie Peking University, Wei Ye Peking University, Yuhan Zhang Peking University, Shikun Zhang Peking University
Media Attached
00:12
12m
Paper
On Combining IR Methods to Improve Bug Localization
Research
Saket Khatiwada Louisiana State University, Miroslav Tushev Louisiana State University, Nash Mahmoud Louisiana State University
Media Attached
00:24
12m
Paper
An Empirical Study on Critical Blocking Bugs
Research
Hao Ren Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Yanhui Li Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Lin Chen Nanjing University
Media Attached
00:36
12m
Paper
Improving the Accuracy of Spectrum-based Fault Localization for Automated Program Repair
ERA
Tetsushi Kuma Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Shinsuke Matsumoto Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto Osaka University
Media Attached
00:48
12m
Paper
Automatic Android Deprecated-API Usage Update by Learning from Single Updated Example
ERA
Stefanus Agus Haryono Singapore Management University, Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University, Hong Jin Kang School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Lucas Serrano Sorbonne University/Inria/LIP6, Gilles Muller Inria, Julia Lawall Inria, David Lo Singapore Management University, Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University
Media Attached
01:30 - 02:30
Session 4: SummalizationResearch / ERA at ICPC
Chair(s): Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University
01:30
15m
Paper
Improved Code Summarization via a Graph Neural Network
Research
Alexander LeClair University Of Notre Dame, Sakib Haque University of Notre Dame, Lingfei Wu IBM Research, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame
Pre-print Media Attached
01:45
15m
Paper
BugSum: Deep Context Understanding for Bug Report Summarization
Research
Haoran Liu National University of Defense Technology, Yue Yu College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Yong Guo National University of Defense Technology, Deze Wang National University of Defense Technology, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology
Media Attached
02:00
15m
Paper
A Human Study of Comprehension and Code Summarization
Research
Sean Stapleton University of Michigan, Yashmeet Gambhir University of Michigan, Alexander LeClair University Of Notre Dame, Zachary Eberhart , Westley Weimer University of Michigan, USA, Kevin Leach University of Michigan, Yu Huang University of Michigan
Pre-print Media Attached
02:15
15m
Paper
Linguistic Documentation of Software History
ERA
Miroslav Tushev Louisiana State University, Nash Mahmoud Louisiana State University
Media Attached
07:00 - 08:00
Session 5: For ResearchersResearch / ERA / Tool Demonstration at ICPC
Chair(s): Bin Lin Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
07:00
15m
Paper
A Literature Review of Automatic Traceability Links Recovery for Software Change Impact Analysis
Research
Thazin Win Win Aung University of Technology Sydney, Yulei Sui University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Huan Huo University of Technology Sydney
Media Attached
07:15
15m
Paper
Improving Code Search with Co-Attentive Representation Learning
Research
Jianhang Shuai School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Ling Xu School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chao Liu Zhejiang University, Meng Yan School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Yan Lei School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University
Media Attached
07:30
15m
Paper
OpenSZZ: A Free, Open-Source, Web-Accessible Implementation of the SZZ Algorithm
Tool Demonstration
Valentina Lenarduzzi LUT University , Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Davide Taibi Tampere University , Damian Andrew Tamburri Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Media Attached
07:45
15m
Paper
Staged Tree Matching for Detecting Code Move across Files
ERA
Akira Fujimoto Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Junnosuke Matsumoto , Shinji Kusumoto Osaka University
Media Attached
08:30 - 09:30
Session 6: ArtifactsResearch / ERA at ICPC
Chair(s): Hironori Washizaki Waseda University
08:30
12m
Paper
A Self-Attentional Neural Architecture for Code Completion with Multi-Task Learning
Research
Fang Liu Peking University, Ge Li Peking University, Bolin Wei Peking University, Xin Xia Monash University, Zhiyi Fu Peking University, Zhi Jin Peking University
Pre-print Media Attached
08:42
12m
Paper
Knowledge Transfer in Modern Code Review
Research
Maria Caulo University of Basilicata, Bin Lin Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana, Giuseppe Scanniello University of Basilicata, Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Pre-print Media Attached
08:54
12m
Paper
How are Deep Learning Models Similar? An Empirical Study on Clone Analysis of Deep Learning Software
Research
Xiongfei Wu University of Science and Technology of China, Liangyu Qin University of Science and Technology of China, Bing Yu Kyushu University, Xiaofei Xie Nanyang Technological University, Lei Ma Kyushu University, Yinxing Xue , Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University
Media Attached
09:06
12m
Paper
Unified Configuration Setting Access in Configuration Management Systems
Research
Markus Raab Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Bernhard Denner Thales, Stefan Hanenberg University of Duisburg-Essen, Jürgen Cito MIT
Media Attached
09:18
12m
Paper
Inheritance software metrics on smart contracts
ERA
Ashish Rajendra Sai University of Limerick, Conor Holmes University of Limerick, Jim Buckley Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Andrew LeGear Horizon Globex
Media Attached
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote : Software Engineering for Industrial AI: A Key Enabler of Digital TransformationResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Eunjong Choi Kyoto Institute of Technology
13:00
60m
Keynote
Software Engineering for Industrial AI: A Key Enabler of Digital Transformation
Research
14:10 - 14:50
Open Steering Committee MeetingResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
15:00 - 16:00
Session 7: About DevelopersIndustry / Research / Programming Education at ICPC
Chair(s): Wahab Hamou-Lhadj Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
15:00
12m
Paper
How Graduate Computing Students Search When Using an Unfamiliar Programming Language
Research
Gina Bai North Carolina State University, Joshua Kayani , Kathryn Stolee North Carolina State University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:12
12m
Paper
What Drives the Reading Order of Programmers? An Eye Tracking Study
Research
Norman Peitek Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Janet Siegmund TU Chemnitz, Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:24
12m
Paper
Evaluating a Visual Approach for Understanding JavaScript Source Code
Research
Martín Dias University of Chile, Diego Orellana University of Chile, Santiago Vidal ISISTAN-CONICET, Leonel Merino University of Stuttgart, Alexandre Bergel University of Chile
Pre-print Media Attached
15:36
12m
Paper
How do Students Experience and Judge Software Comprehension Techniques?
Programming Education
Regina Hebig University of Gothenburg, Truong Ho-Quang , Rodi Jolak Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Jan Schroeder Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Linero Humberto Chalmers University of Technology, Ågren Magnus Chalmers University of Technology, Salome Maro Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Media Attached
15:48
12m
Paper
Understanding What Software Engineers Are Working on — The Work-Item Prediction Challenge
Industry
Ralf Laemmel Facebook London, Alvin Kerber Facebook, Liane Praza
Pre-print Media Attached
16:30 - 17:30
Session 8: AnalysisResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Jinqiu Yang Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
16:30
15m
Paper
srcClone: Detecting Code Clones via Decompositional Slicing
Research
Hakam W. Alomari Miami University, Matthew Stephan Miami University
Pre-print Media Attached
16:45
15m
Paper
Investigating Near-Miss Micro-Clones in Evolving Software
Research
Manishankar Mondal Assistant Professor, Khulna University, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan
Media Attached
17:00
15m
Paper
A Model to Detect Readability Improvements in Incremental Changes
Research
Devjeet Roy Washington State University, Sarah Fakhoury Washington State University, John Lee Washington State University, Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University
Media Attached
17:15
15m
Paper
Supporting Program Comprehension through Fast Query Response in Large-Scale Systems
Research
Jinfeng Lin University of Notre Dame, Yalin Liu University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
Media Attached

Wed 15 Jul

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00:00 - 01:00
Session 9: For DevelopersTool Demonstration / Research / ERA at ICPC
Chair(s): Anderson Oliveira PUC-Rio
00:00
12m
Paper
An Empirical Study on Dynamic Typing Related Practices in Python Systems
Research
Zhifei Chen Nanjing University, Yanhui Li Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, Wanwangying Ma Nanjing University, Lin Chen Nanjing University, Baowen Xu Nanjing University
Media Attached
00:12
12m
Paper
Performing Tasks Can Improve Program Comprehension Mental Model of Novice
Research
Amal A. Shargabi Qassim University, Syed Ahmad Aljunid Universiti Teknologi MARA, Muthukkaruppan Annamalai Universiti Teknologi MARA, Abdullah Mohd Zin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Media Attached
00:24
12m
Paper
SimplyHover: Improving Comprehension of else Statements
Tool Demonstration
Ahmad Jbara Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, Georgia, USA, Bar Ben Michael , Or Shacham , Omer Tavor
Media Attached
00:36
12m
Paper
Combining biometric data with focused document types classifies a success of program comprehension
ERA
Toyomi Ishida Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hidetake Uwano National Institute of Technology, Nara College, Japan, Yoshiharu Ikutani Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Media Attached
00:48
12m
Paper
Program Comprehension in Virtual Reality
ERA
James Dominic Clemson University, Brock Tubre Clemson Universtiy, Jada Houser Clemson University, Charles Ritter Clemson University, Deborah Kunkel Clemson University, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University
Media Attached
01:30 - 02:30
Session 10: DocumentationIndustry / Research / ERA at ICPC
Chair(s): Gias Uddin University of Calgary, Canada
01:30
15m
Paper
Deep-Diving into Documentation to Develop Improved Java-to-Swift API Mapping
Research
Zejun Zhang , Minxue Pan Nanjing University, Tian Zhang Nanjing University, Xinyu Zhou Nanjing University, Xuandong Li Nanjing University
Media Attached
01:45
15m
Paper
The Secret Life of Commented-Out Source Code
Research
Tri Minh-Triet Pham Concordia University, Jinqiu Yang Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Pre-print Media Attached
02:00
15m
Paper
Ownership at Large — Open Problems and Challenges in Ownership Management
Industry
John Ahlgren Facebook, Maria Eugenia Berezin Facebook, Kinga Bojarczuk Facebook, Johann George Facebook, Natalija Gucevska Facebook, Mark Harman Facebook and University College London, Shan He Facebook, Ralf Laemmel Facebook London, Erik Meijer , Silvia Sapora Facebook, Justin Spahr-Summers Facebook
Pre-print Media Attached
02:15
15m
Paper
Detecting Code Comment Inconsistency using Siamese Recurrent Network
ERA
Fazle Rabbi Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Md Saeed Siddik Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
Pre-print Media Attached
08:30 - 09:30
Session 11: SearchResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan
08:30
20m
Paper
GGF: A Graph-based Method for Programming Language Syntax Error Correction
Research
Liwei Wu Nanjing University, Fei Li Nanjing University, Youhua Wu Nanjing University, Tao Zheng Nanjing University
Media Attached
08:50
20m
Paper
Adaptive Deep Code Search
Research
ChunYang Ling Peking University, Zeqi Lin Peking University, Yanzhen Zou Peking University, Bing Xie Peking University
Pre-print Media Attached
09:10
20m
Paper
Duplicate Bug Report Detection Using Dual-Channel Convolutional Neural Networks
Research
Jianjun He School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Ling Xu School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Meng Yan School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Yan Lei School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University
Media Attached
13:00 - 13:30
Most Influential Paper AwardResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
13:00
30m
Talk
On the Equivalence of Information Retrieval Methods for Automated Traceability Link Recovery: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Research
Rocco Oliveto University of Molise, Malcom Gethers , Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
13:30 - 14:00
ClosingResearch at ICPC
Chair(s): Eunjong Choi Kyoto Institute of Technology

Call for Papers

The goal of the Early Research Achievements (ERA) track is to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for presenting great, promising ideas in early stages of research. Ideally, the ICPC ERA track seeks papers challenging the status quo of program comprehension with new research directions and provocative ideas. ERA track is the perfect place for a paper that aims at setting the agenda for a new line of research and a series of future papers!

In principle, the track addresses the same topics of interest as those of the technical research paper track. ERA submissions are intended to describe a single and well-defined idea at an early stage of investigation. As opposed to regular research papers, ERA papers are not intended to serve as a vehicle for the dissemination of research results. Submissions to the ERA track should describe research in progress. Authors of contributions to other tracks are welcome to also submit a paper to the ERA track if a specific aspect of their research meets the goal of the track. Ideally, ERA authors will combine research topics in new ways, establish connections to other fields outside of classical program comprehension, as well as argue for the importance of program comprehension research in areas not explicitly listed.

The submissions should clearly focus on the new proposed ideas or the emerging results, their impact on the field at large, and future research directions. An ERA paper is not expected to have a solid and complete evaluation as in the main research track. Naturally, preliminary results that provide initial support for the proposed ideas claimed are welcome.

ERA track submissions must explicitly answer the following questions in the submission: What is the new idea? Why is it new? What is the single most related paper by the same author(s)? By others? What feedback do the authors expect from the forum? Addressing these questions in explicit, distinct sections is strongly recommended.

Format and Submission

ERA track submissions must not be longer than 4 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, and appendices where references may optionally continue on 1 additional page (a.k.a. 4+1 pages). Purchase of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed. All ERA track submissions must, at the time of submission, conform to the ACM Master Article Template, indifferent of the type-setting system used (LaTeX, Word…). LaTeX users should use the provided class and bibliographic style without modification:

\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}

Submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the HotCRP Submission System. The submissions must comply with the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification and the IEEE Policy on Authorship, part of the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, submissions to the ERA track must not have been accepted previously for publication or submitted for review to another conference, journal, or book while under review for ICPC. Submissions should not disclose the identity of the authors to comply with the double-blind review process employed by ICPC. The authors’ names must be omitted from the submissions and references to their prior work should be in the third person. Further advice, guidance, and explanation about the double-blind review process are available on the Q & A of ICSE 2020.

ICPC 2020 and the ERA track follow the ACM SIGSOFT rules on Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality of Submissions and all authors, reviewers, and organizers will uphold the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Review and Evaluation Criteria

ERA papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the ERA Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality, and consistency of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. Special emphasis will be put on the originality and timeliness of the proposed contribution, and even though a full evaluation of the proposed ideas is welcomed, it is not required.

Publication and Presentation

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete a Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. At least one author of the paper must register and present the paper at the conference; otherwise the paper will be excluded from both the program and the proceedings. The papers will be presented in a formal setting. More details on the presentations will follow the notifications.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings, which will also be available in the ACM and IEEE Digital Library. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2020. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Track Chairs

Leon Moonen, Venera Arnaudova