Tue 18 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:00 - 10:10 | |||
10:10 - 10:50 | Empirical Studies in Program ComprehensionResearch / Education at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand | ||
10:10 10mPaper | Considerations and Pitfalls in Controlled Experiments on Code Comprehension Research Dror Feitelson Hebrew University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:20 10mPaper | Let's Ask Students About Their Programs, Automatically Education Teemu Lehtinen Aalto University, André L. Santos University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, Juha Sorva Aalto University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:30 10mPaper | The effect of block-based formulas on formula comprehension in spreadsheets Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:40 10mPaper | Is Algorithm Comprehension Different from Program Comprehension? Education Philipp Kather , Jan Vahrenhold Department of Computer Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:00 - 11:30 | Impact on CodeJournal First / Research at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Dario Di Nucci Tilburg University | ||
11:00 10mPaper | Locating Faulty Methods with a Mixed RNN and Attention Model Research Shouliang Yang School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Junming Cao Shanghai JiaoTong University, Hushuang Zeng School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijun Shen School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:10 10mPaper | EtherSolve: Computing an Accurate Control-Flow Graph from Ethereum Bytecode Research Filippo Contro Università degli Studi di Verona, Marco Crosara University of Verona, Mariano Ceccato University of Verona, Mila Dalla Preda University of Verona, Italy Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:20 10mPaper | A systematic mapping study on architectural smells detection (JSS) Journal First Haris Mumtaz University of Auckland, Paramvir Singh The University of Auckland, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland Media Attached | ||
11:30 - 12:00 | |||
11:30 30mSocial Event | Introduction to the social program Research | ||
16:00 - 16:10 | |||
16:10 - 16:40 | |||
16:10 30mPaper | Design Defects Detection and Correction by Example Research Marouane Kessentini University of Michigan, Wael Kessentini DePaul University, Houari Sahraoui Université de Montréal, Mounir Assaf Stevens Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Media Attached | ||
17:20 - 17:50 | |||
18:00 - 19:00 | |||
18:00 60mSocial Event | Mental health in Academia Research | ||
Wed 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
02:00 - 02:30 | Understanding Systems -1Journal First / Research at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Eunjong Choi Kyoto Institute of Technology | ||
02:00 10mPaper | Weighing the Evidence: On Relationship Types in Microservice Extraction Research Lisa Kirby University of British Columbia, Canada, Evelien Boerstra , Zachary John Christopher Anderson , Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Canada Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:10 10mPaper | Comprehensive Integration of API Usage Patterns Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:20 10mPaper | Analyzing bug fix for automatic bug cause classification (JSS) Journal First Zhen Ni , Bin Li Yangzhou University, Xiaobing Sun Yangzhou University, Tianhao Chen , Ben Tang , Xinchen Shi Media Attached | ||
03:10 - 04:00 | |||
03:10 50mSocial Event | Free social Room/Coffee Time Research | ||
10:00 - 10:30 | ML for Program Comprehension Journal First at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Fabio Palomba University of Salerno | ||
10:00 10mPaper | Improving deep-learning-based fault localization with resampling (JSEP) Journal First Zhuo Zhang Purdue University, Yan Lei School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, Meng Yan School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Ling Xu School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Junhao Wen Media Attached | ||
10:10 10mPaper | Imbalanced metric learning for crashing fault residence prediction (JSS) Journal First Zhou Xu Wuhan University, Kunsong Zhao Wuhan University, Meng Yan , Peipei Yuan , Ling Xu School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Yan Lei School of Big Data & Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Xiaohong Zhang Chongqing University Media Attached | ||
10:20 10mPaper | Adaptive Selection of Classifiers for Bug Prediction: A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of Its Performances and a Benchmark Study (SCP) Journal First Media Attached | ||
10:40 - 11:00 | |||
10:40 10mPaper | Understanding Architecture Erosion: The Practitioners' Perceptive Research Ruiyin Li Wuhan University, China; University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Peng Liang Wuhan University, Mohamed Soliman , Paris Avgeriou University of Groningen, The Netherlands Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:50 10mPaper | Understanding Code Smell Detection via Code Review: A Study of the OpenStack Community Research Xiaofeng Han Wuhan University, China, Amjed Tahir Massey University, Peng Liang Wuhan University, Steve Counsell Brunel University London, Yajing Luo Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:10 - 12:00 | |||
11:10 50mSocial Event | Free social Room/Happy hour Together/Drink and Science Research | ||
16:00 - 16:40 | |||
16:00 40mKeynote | A Layered Model of Comprehension in Collaborative Software Development: Programs, Programming, and Programmers Plenary Sessions Carolyn Penstein Rose Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute Media Attached | ||
17:25 - 17:50 | |||
17:50 - 18:10 | |||
17:50 10mPaper | Does Code Structure Affect Comprehension? On Using and Naming Intermediate Variables Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
18:00 10mPaper | Using Non-Verbal Expressions as a Tool in Naming Research Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
18:10 - 19:00 | |||
18:10 50mSocial Event | Quiz- How much do you know about ICPC? Research | ||
Thu 20 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
02:00 - 02:30 | |||
02:00 10mPaper | Exploiting Method Names to Improve Code Summarization: A Deliberation Multi-Task Learning Approach Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:10 10mPaper | A Multi-Modal Transformer-based Code Summarization Approach for Smart Contracts Research Zhen Yang City University of Hong Kong, China, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong, Xiao Yu Wuhan University of Technology, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Zhengyuan Wei City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Xiaoxue Ma , Miao ZHANG City University of Hong Kong Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:20 10mPaper | Improving Code Summarization with Block-wise Abstract Syntax Tree Splitting Research Chen Lin , Zhichao Ouyang , Junqing Zhuang , Jianqiang Chen , Hui Li Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Rongxin Wu Xiamen University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:40 - 03:00 | Source code AnalysisEarly Research Achievement (ERA) / Research / Tool Demonstration at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Gema Rodríguez-Pérez University of Waterloo | ||
02:40 5mDemonstration | RefactorHub: A Commit Annotator for Refactoring Tool Demonstration Ryo Kuramoto Tokyo Institute of Technology, Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:45 5mPaper | Detecting Inconsistent Thrown Exceptions Early Research Achievement (ERA) Media Attached | ||
02:50 10mPaper | Where to Handle an Exception? Recommending Exception Handling Locations from a Global Perspective Research Xiangyang Jia School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Songqiang Chen School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xingqi Zhou , Xintong Li , Run Yu , Xu Chen , Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
03:00 - 04:00 | |||
03:00 60mSocial Event | How to write socio-technical papers in ICPC Community Research Bonita Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Eliane Wiese University of Utah | ||
10:00 - 10:40 | |||
10:00 40mKeynote | An algorithm to estimate stress-induced cortisol variations from skin conductance measurements Plenary Sessions Media Attached | ||
11:30 - 12:00 | |||
11:30 30mSocial Event | Free social Room/Happy hour Together/Drink and Science Research | ||
17:40 - 18:00 | Understanding Systems -3Research at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
17:40 10mPaper | Atoms of Confusion in Java Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:50 10mPaper | Bug or not bug? That is the question Research Quentin Perez , Pierre-Antoine Jean , Christelle Urtado EuroMov DHM, Univ Montpellier & IMT Mines Ales, Sylvain Vauttier Pre-print Media Attached | ||
18:00 - 18:10 | |||
18:10 - 19:00 | |||
18:10 50mSocial Event | Pet Event Research | ||
Fri 21 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
02:00 - 02:40 | Inferring code evolutionResearch at ICPC Main Room Chair(s): Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology | ||
02:00 10mPaper | ConfInLog: Leveraging Software Logs to Infer Configuration Constraints Research Shulin Zhou National University of Defense Technology, Xiaodong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Yuanliang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, Teng Wang National University of Defense Technology, China, Wang Li National University of Defense Technology, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology, China Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:10 10mPaper | Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution Research Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Emily Hu , Jiajun Chen , Eman Abdullah AlOmar Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:20 10mPaper | Keywords Guided Method Name Generation Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:30 10mPaper | Automated Comment Update: How Far are We? Research Bo Lin National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Kui Liu Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:50 - 03:00 | |||
03:00 - 04:00 | |||
03:00 60mSocial Event | Free social Room/Coffee Time Research | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the premier venue for work in the area of software program comprehension. It encompasses both human activities for comprehending the software and technologies for supporting such comprehension.
The research track provides a quality forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss new results in program comprehension. Topics of interest for all tracks include but are not limited to:
- Empirical evaluations of program comprehension tools, techniques, and approaches;
- Human aspects in program comprehension, including gender considerations in program comprehension, information processing strategies, the role of emotions in program comprehension, and more;
- Cognitive theories for program comprehension, including experiments, empirical studies, and case studies;
- Collaborative software engineering practices for program comprehension;
- Individual, collaborative, distributed, and global program comprehension;
- Novel visualization techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
- Novel text summarisation techniques and interfaces to support program comprehension, including searching, browsing and analyzing;
- Comprehension of specific types of software systems, such as open/closed source, mobile applications, spreadsheets, web-based systems, legacy systems, product lines, libraries, multi-threaded applications, and systems of systems;
- Comprehension in the context of diverse software process models and specific lifecycle activities, such as: maintenance, evolution, re-engineering, migration, security, auditing, and testing;
- Comprehension of software artifacts ranging from requirements documents to test cases and crash logs; from API documentation to models, meta-models and model transformation; and from Stack Overflow questions & answers to GitHub code review messages - all artifacts software developer encounters when creating or evolving software;
- Comprehension and legal issues, such as due diligence, intellectual property, reverse engineering, and litigation;
- Issues and case studies in the transfer of program comprehension technology to industry;
- Tool support for program comprehension.
Technical Research Track papers accepted for presentation at ICPC 2021 will be invited to be revised and extended for consideration in a thematic special issue of the Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers of the conference will be also awarded with an IEEE/TCSE Distinguished Paper Award. In addition, ICPC 2021 will introduce for the first time the ICPC Honorable Mentions, special awards that will be assigned, on the basis of the program committee reports, to the papers that have applied extremely novel and/or outstanding research methods to the problem of interest.
Format and Submission
Submissions must not be longer than 10 pages for the main text, inclusive of figures, tables, appendices. References only may be included on up to 2 additional pages. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed.
Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines, (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).
The submissions must comply with the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification. In particular, they must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ICPC. The submission must also comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship, part of the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ.
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 2021.
ICPC 2021 follows 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.
By submitting to the ICPC, authors acknowledge that they conform to the authorship policy of the ACM, and the authorship policy of the IEEE.
Submissions to the Research Track that meet the above requirements can be made via the Easychair submission site (https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icpc2021) by the submission deadline. When submitting, select the track ‘ICPC 2021 Research’. We encourage the authors to upload their paper information early (and can submit the PDF later) to properly enter conflicts for double-blind reviewing.
Any submission that does not comply with these requirements may be desk rejected by the Technical Track PC Chairs without further review.
Supplementary Material
Supplementary material can be uploaded via the EasyChair site or anonymously linked from the paper submission. Although PC members are not obligated to look at this material, we strongly encourage submitters to use supplementary material to provide access to anonymized code or data, whenever possible. Please carefully review any supplementary material to ensure it conforms to the double-blind policy (described above). For example, code and data repositories may be exported to remove version control history, scrubbed of names in comments and metadata, and anonymously uploaded to a sharing site to support review.
One resource that may be helpful in accomplishing this task is this blog post: https://ineed.coffee/5205/how-to-disclose-data-for-double-blind-review-and-make-it-archived-open-data-upon-acceptance/.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
Research papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Soundness: The extent to which the paper’s contributions are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods;
- Significance: The extent to which the paper’s contributions are important with respect to open software engineering challenges;
- Novelty: The extent to which the contribution is sufficiently original and is clearly explained with respect to the state-of-the-art;
- Verifiability: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to support independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions;
- Presentation: The extent to which the paper’s quality of writing meets the standards of ICPC, including clear descriptions and explanations, appropriate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.
Publication and Presentation
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for ICPC 2021 and present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings, which will also be available in the IEEEXplore Library. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or COVID-19 prevention). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications.
| Mon 22 Mar 2021 Camera Ready |
| Fri 5 Mar 2021 Notifications |
| Fri 29 Jan 2021 Paper Submission |
| Fri 22 Jan 2021 Abstract Submission |
Fabio PalombaProgram Co-Chair
University of Salerno
Italy
Anita SarmaProgram Co-Chair
Oregon State University
Bram AdamsCommittee Member
MCIS, Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Shivali AgarwalCommittee Member
IBM
India
Iftekhar AhmedCommittee Member
University of California, Irvine
Titus BarikCommittee Member
Microsoft, USA
United States
Matthias BookCommittee Member
University of Iceland
Iceland
Amiangshu BosuCommittee Member
Wayne State University
Barbora Buhnova † 2024Committee Member
Masaryk University
Czechia
Marco CastelluccioCommittee Member
Mozilla
Fernando CastorCommittee Member
Federal University of Pernambuco
Gemma CatolinoCommittee Member
Tilburg University & Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Netherlands
Zadia CodabuxCommittee Member
University of Saskatchewan
Andrea De LuciaCommittee Member
University of Salerno
Italy
Ghizlane El BoussaidiCommittee Member
École de Technologie Supérieure
Canada
Neil ErnstCommittee Member
University of Victoria
Canada
Anne EtienCommittee Member
Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille
Anna Rita FasolinoCommittee Member
Federico II University of Naples
Italy
Filomena FerrucciCommittee Member
University of Salerno
Italy
Alessandro GarciaCommittee Member
PUC-Rio
Brazil
Michael W. GodfreyCommittee Member
University of Waterloo, Canada
Canada
Carmine GravinoCommittee Member
University of Salerno
Daniel GraziotinCommittee Member
University of Stuttgart
Yann-Gaël GuéhéneucCommittee Member
Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Sarra HabchiCommittee Member
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Sonia HaiducCommittee Member
Florida State University
United States
Tracy HallCommittee Member
Lancaster University
Imed HammoudaCommittee Member
Chalmers and University of Gothenburg
Sweden
Shinpei HayashiCommittee Member
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
Marianne HuchardCommittee Member
LIRMM
France
Letizia JaccheriCommittee Member
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway
Siyuan JiangCommittee Member
Eastern Michigan University
Foutse KhomhCommittee Member
Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Sandeep KuttalCommittee Member
The University of Tulsa
United States
Thomas LaTozaCommittee Member
George Mason University
United States
Filippo LanubileCommittee Member
University of Bari
Italy
Valentina LenarduzziCommittee Member
LUT University
Finland
Li LiCommittee Member
Monash University
Australia
Lei MaCommittee Member
University of Alberta
Canada
Collin McMillanCommittee Member
University of Notre Dame
Kevin MoranCommittee Member
George Mason University
United States
Joyce Nakatumba-NabendeCommittee Member
Makerere University
Uganda
Maleknaz NayebiCommittee Member
Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
James NobleCommittee Member
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
Ipek OzkayaCommittee Member
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
United States
Paige Rodeghero Committee Member
Clemson University
United States
Matheus PaixaoCommittee Member
University of Fortaleza
Brazil
Rahul PanditaCommittee Member
Phase Change Software
United States
Mike PapadakisCommittee Member
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Fabio PetrilloCommittee Member
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Canada
Lutz PrecheltCommittee Member
Freie Universität Berlin
Germany
Hitesh SajnaniCommittee Member
Engineering Systems Group, Microsoft
Sandro SchulzeCommittee Member
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Germany
Bonita SharifCommittee Member
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
United States
Tushar SharmaCommittee Member
Siemens Research
United States
Ioana SoraCommittee Member
Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romania
Damian Andrew TamburriCommittee Member
TU/e
Netherlands
Silvia Regina VergilioCommittee Member
Federal University of Paraná
Brazil
Tanja E. J. VosCommittee Member
Universitat Politècnica de València and Open Universiteit
Igor WieseCommittee Member
Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR)
Minghui ZhouCommittee Member
Peking University, China
China