Dates
Tracks
Sun 12 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
Sun 12 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
08:00 - 17:30 | Sunday RegistrationICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Main Entrance Registration for ICSE 2026. | ||
08:00 9h30mRegistration | ICSE 2026 Registration ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 10mTalk | Opening Message from the Chairs ICPC Program | ||
09:10 60mKeynote | When AI Gets It *Almost* Right: Lessons from AI-Assisted Software Development ICPC Program Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi Media Attached | ||
10:10 20mAwards | A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors MIP Award Guilherme Amaral Avelino Federal University of Piaui, Leonardo Passos University of Waterloo, Canada, Andre Hora UFMG, Marco Tulio Valente Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Link to publication DOI | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Sunday Morning BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 1 - Code AnalysisResearch Track / ICPC Program / Early Research Achievements (ERA) at Europa II Chair(s): Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Pretraining on Call Graphs: When Binary Analysis Tasks Profit From Context Research Track Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:10 10mTalk | LuaReSym: Recovering Variables Liveness Range in Stripped Lua Bytecode via Multi-Stage Static Analysis Research Track Weilong Li School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University, Ruizhi Xiao School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University, Yabo Wang School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University, Jiakun Sun School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University, Yuqing Shao School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shuyuan Jin School of Computer Science and Engineering,Sun Yat-sen University | ||
11:20 10mTalk | Modubin: A Binary Modularization Approach Based on the Locality of Homologous Functions Research Track Wenyan Yu Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lei Cui Zhongguancun Laboratory, Jiayuan Li Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, liyubo Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Li Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kai Cheng Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hongsong Zhu Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences DOI Media Attached | ||
11:30 10mTalk | RlDecompiler: Enhancing LLM-based Decompilation via Reinforcement Learning with a Multi-Faceted Reward Function Research Track Yuchi Su University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Weina Niu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Jiacheng Gong University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Ran Yan University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Song Li The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, Xin Liu Lanzhou University, Xiaosong Zhang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | ||
11:40 10mTalk | A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Exploit Generation with Constraint-Guided Comprehension and Reflection Research Track Siyi Chen Alibaba Group, Tianhan Luo Alibaba Group, Shijian Wu Alibaba Group, Xiangyu Liu Alibaba Group, Yilin Zhou Wuhan University, Qi Li Alibaba Group, Wenyuan Xu Aarhus University Pre-print | ||
11:50 10mTalk | Typify: A Lightweight Usage-driven Static Analyzer for Precise Python Type Inference Research Track Ali Aman University of Windsor, Muhammad Asaduzzaman University of Windsor, Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba Pre-print | ||
12:00 10mTalk | To GOTO or Not to GOTO: Measuring Structural Complexity of (Decompiled) Code Research Track | ||
12:10 5mTalk | Understanding Type Hints in Python Libraries and Frameworks: Early Insights Early Research Achievements (ERA) | ||
12:15 10mLive Q&A | Joint QA and Discussion ICPC Program | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | Sunday LunchICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Lunch time with a variety of meal options available for attendees, including vegetarian choices. This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to enjoy a meal while networking with colleagues and discussing the day’s events. | ||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch ICSE Catering | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Sunday Afternoon BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Afternoon Break with a variety of beverages and snacks available for attendees. This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Session 3 - Tools and Interfaces for Software AnalysisEarly Research Achievements (ERA) / Replications and Negative Results (RENE) / Tool Demonstration / ICPC Program / Research Track at Europa II Chair(s): Nicole Novielli University of Bari | ||
16:00 10mTalk | A Comparative Study of Dual-Monitor and Augmented-Reality Interfaces for Digital-Twin-Based Debugging Research Track Lucas Kreber Trier University, Nico Feld Trier University, Stephan Diehl Computer Science, University Trier, Germany, Benjamin Weyers Trier University | ||
16:10 5mTalk | Understanding CI/CD Workflow Runs Through Interactive and Animated Visualizations Early Research Achievements (ERA) Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo University of Bern, Universidad de La Frontera, Sebastiano Panichella University of Bern, Timo Kehrer University of Bern | ||
16:15 5mTalk | CrossLink: A Tool for Cross-Language (Java-C/C++) Code Comprehension Tool Demonstration Ajinkya Sawarkar Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Anirudh Arrepu Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Media Attached File Attached | ||
16:20 5mTalk | BF-CBOM: Uncovering Cryptographic Assets Through Comparative CBOM Analysis at Scale Tool Demonstration DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:25 5mTalk | COBMaker - An Interactive Block-Based Programming Environment for COBOL Tool Demonstration Satish Pati IIT Tirupati, Raghavendra Pappu IIT Tirupati, Rahul Krishna Gaddam IIT Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Media Attached | ||
16:30 5mTalk | CPPJoules: An Energy Measurement Tool for C++ Tool Demonstration Shivadharshan S Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Akilesh P Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Rajrupa Chattaraj Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Media Attached | ||
16:35 10mTalk | Can We Spot Energy Regressions Using Developers Tests? An Industrial Replication Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Louay Khrouf Berger-Levrault, Anas Shatnawi Berger-Levrault, Romain Rouvoy Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF | ||
16:45 10mTalk | Evaluating the use of Augmented Reality for Dependency Graph Analysis: A Controlled Experiment Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dussan Freire-Pozo Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Tiara Rojas-Stambuk Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Alison Fernandez-Blanco Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Leonel Merino Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | ||
16:55 5mTalk | Test Behaviors, Not Methods! Detecting Tests Obsessed by Methods Early Research Achievements (ERA) Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:00 10mTalk | Déjà Vu: A Replication Study on Code Smells and Faults in JavaScript Projects Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Kevin Pacifico University of Salerno, Giammaria Giordano University of Salerno, Valeria Pontillo Gran Sasso Science Institute, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Damian Andrew Tamburri University of Sannio - JADS/NXP Semiconductors, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno Link to publication | ||
17:10 10mTalk | Industrial Replication of COLOR: Locator Repair in Continuous Integration and Failure Patterns under UI/DOM Evolution Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Hilal Taha University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Joel Muller BGL BNP Paribas DOI File Attached | ||
17:20 10mLive Q&A | Joint QA and Discussion ICPC Program | ||
Mon 13 AprDisplayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
Mon 13 Apr
Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change
08:00 - 17:30 | Monday RegistrationICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Main Entrance Registration for ICSE 2026. | ||
08:00 9h30mRegistration | ICSE 2026 Registration ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
09:40 - 10:30 | |||
09:40 50mKeynote | The Role of an Empirical Software Engineering Researcher in the Age of Generative AI ICPC Program Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Monday Morning BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 5 - Summarization, Documentation, and Code ReviewResearch Track / Vaclav Rajlich Early Career Award / ICPC Program / Journal First at Europa II Chair(s): Masud Rahman Dalhousie University | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Vaclav Rajlich Award Vaclav Rajlich Early Career Award Marvin Wyrich Saarland University | ||
11:10 10mTalk | RepoMind: Enhancing Repository-Level Code Generation via LLM Reasoning over Structured Repository Documentation Research Track Songwen Gong South China University of Technology, Mengzhen Wang South China University of Technology, Jiexin Wang South China University of Technology, Yi Cai School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China | ||
11:20 10mTalk | SQL-Commenter: Aligning Large Language Models for SQL Comment Generation with Direct Preference Optimization Research Track Lei Yu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Peng Wang Institute of Information Engineering，Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingyuan Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Xin Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jia Xu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Yang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changzhi Deng Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiajia Ma Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Fengjun Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Pre-print Media Attached File Attached | ||
11:30 10mTalk | Studying Quality Improvements Recommended via Manual and Automated Code Review Research Track Giuseppe Crupi Università della Svizzera italiana, Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana Pre-print | ||
11:40 10mTalk | Towards Universal Segmentation for Log Parsing Research Track Van-Hoang Le University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Huy-Trung Nguyen Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
11:50 10mTalk | DPS: Design Pattern Summarisation Using Code Features Journal First Najam Nazar Monash University, Sameer Sikka University of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University | ||
12:00 10mTalk | On the Impact of Code Comments for Automated Bug-Fixing: An Empirical Study Research Track Antonio Vitale Politecnico di Torino, University of Molise, Emanuela Guglielmi University of Molise, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise Pre-print | ||
12:10 20mLive Q&A | Joint QA and Discussion ICPC Program | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | Monday LunchICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Lunch time with a variety of meal options available for attendees, including vegetarian choices. This session will provide an opportunity for attendees to enjoy a meal while networking with colleagues and discussing the day’s events. | ||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch ICSE Catering | ||
13:00 - 14:00 | |||
13:00 60mMeeting | ICPC Open town hall meeting ICPC Program | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Monday Afternoon BreakICSE Catering at Catering and Exhibition Hall (Europa I to IV) Afternoon Break with a variety of beverages and snacks available for attendees. This break will provide an opportunity for networking and relaxation between sessions. | ||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Break ICSE Catering | ||
16:00 - 18:00 | Session 7 - LLM-Based Agents for Software Engineering TasksJournal First / Replications and Negative Results (RENE) / Research Track / ICPC Program at Europa II Chair(s): Wesley K.G. Assunção North Carolina State University, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan | ||
16:00 10mTalk | LLMs for Qualitative Data Analysis Fail on Security-specific Comments in Human Experiments Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Maria Camporese University of Trento, Fabio Massacci University of Trento; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Yuanjun Gong University of Trento Pre-print File Attached | ||
16:10 10mTalk | Do comments and expertise still matter? An experiment on programmers’ adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code Journal First Changwen LI , Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Ofir Turel The University of Melbourne | ||
16:20 10mTalk | Reducing Token Usage of State-in-Context Agents using Minification Replications and Negative Results (RENE) | ||
16:30 10mTalk | Agile Story-Point Estimation: Is RAG a Better Way to Go? Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Lamyea Maha University of Saskatchewan, Tajmilur Rahman Gannon University, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan DOI Pre-print | ||
16:40 10mTalk | Improved Bug Localization with AI Agents Leveraging Hypothesis and Dynamic Cognition Research Track Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:50 10mTalk | Code Ranking with Human-Inspired Agent-Based Framework Research Track Liuwen Cao South China University of Technology, liang jiaxi , Jiexin Wang South China University of Technology, Yi Cai School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China | ||
17:00 20mLive Q&A | Joint QA and Discussion ICPC Program | ||
17:20 40mAwards | ICPC Awards and Closing Session ICPC Program | ||
20:00 - 23:00 | Social Event for Co-located ConferencesICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms at Rio Scenarium Co-located event participants are invited to join us at Rio Scenarium for an informal evening with live Brazilian music, food, drinks, and great company in the heart of Lapa, a traditional samba region in Rio. Buses depart from the conference venue starting at 18:00. | ||
20:00 3hDinner | Social Event for Co-located Conferences ICSE Social, Networking and Special Rooms | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
The Journal-First track is aimed at recent journal-first papers describing original results that relate to program comprehension. We invite the authors of journal-first papers to submit a talk proposal to present their work at ICPC 2026.
For journal papers to be eligible to participate in the Journal-First program, they must:
- Be within the scope of the conference, that is, the paper contains work related to program comprehension (see the ICPC Research Track Call for Papers for possible topics).
- Have been accepted in one of the participating journals:
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM),
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS),
- Science of Computer Programming (SCP),
- Information & Software Technology (IST),
- Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE).
- Have been accepted on or after November 1, 2024, and before the Journal-first submission deadline of January 16, 2026.
- Meet the journal-first criteria (see below).
- Not have already been presented, or are currently being considered for, journal-first or similar initiatives of other conferences.
For a journal paper to be considered as Journal-first, it must adhere to all of the following criteria:
- It must report completely new research results or present novel contributions that significantly extend and were not previously reported in prior work.
- It may not extend any of the author’s prior work solely with additional proofs or algorithms (or other such details presented for completeness), additional empirical results, or minor enhancements or variants of the results presented in the prior work.
- It may not repurpose materials previously published at a conference that targets software professionals.
Format and Submission
Interested authors should submit a short talk proposal (as one PDF file, max. two pages) consisting of the (1) paper title, (2) abstract, (3) a short statement on how the work satisfies the journal first criteria and the scope of ICPC, and (4) the PDF of the accepted paper. Please list all authors of the original journal paper as authors in HotCRP.
Submissions can be made via the ICPC Journal-First Track submission site (https://icpc2026-journalfirst.hotcrp.com/) by the submission deadline.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
The Journal-first committee will evaluate if the submission is within the scope of the ICPC conference and, in general, fulfills the eligibility criteria mentioned above. We plan to select as many papers as possible for inclusion in the Journal-first program. In case the interest in the Journal-first is higher than expected, the track chairs, together with the conference technical program co-chairs, will reserve the right to prioritize papers that better fit the conference technical program.
As the papers have been already reviewed and accepted by high-quality journals, they will not be reviewed again for technical correctness. They will be checked for the Journal-first criteria and prioritized according to the conference theme. Authors will not receive any reviews with the notification.
Publication and Presentation
At least one author of each accepted Journal-first contribution must register and attend the full conference in person to present the paper. Failure to present the paper might result in exclusion from future Journal-first programs.
The journal-first papers will not be part of the ICPC proceedings. However, the conference online program will contain a hyperlink to the journal paper (if already published) or, in case the paper hasn’t been published yet, to its preprint (we will encourage the authors of accepted Journal-First track to make a preprint of the paper available prior to ICPC).
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
| Fri 23 Jan 2026 Notification |
| Fri 16 Jan 2026 Submission Deadline |
Submission Link