Research TrackICSME 2024
Wed 9 OctDisplayed time zone: Arizona change
08:45 - 09:00 | ICSME Conference OpeningResearch Track / Industry Track / Tool Demo Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track / Journal First Track / Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival at Humphreys Chair(s): Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta Welcome and opening remarks for the conference. | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | ICSME KeynoteResearch Track / Industry Track / Tool Demo Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track / Journal First Track / Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival at Humphreys Chair(s): Fabio Calefato University of Bari | ||
09:00 60mKeynote | Maintaining Intelligence: Evolving Software Engineering Practices for AI-Enabled SystemsKeynote Research Track Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal |
10:30 - 12:00 | Session 1: Code Understanding and OptimizationResearch Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track at Abineau Chair(s): Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana | ||
10:30 15m | Optimizing Decompiler Output by Eliminating Redundant Data Flow in Self-Recursive InliningResearch Track Paper Research Track Runze Zhang , Ying Cao Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ruigang Liang Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peiwei Hu , Kai Chen Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
10:45 15m | Compilation of Commit Changes within Java Source Code RepositoriesOpen Research ObjectResearch Track Paper Research Track Stefan Schott Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Wolfram Fischer SAP Security Research, Serena Elisa Ponta SAP Security Research, Jonas Klauke Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Eric Bodden Pre-print | ||
11:00 15m | Understanding Code Change with Micro-ChangesResearch Track Paper Research Track Lei Chen Tokyo Institute of Technology, Michele Lanza Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:15 10m | What You Need is What You Get: Theory of Mind for an LLM-Based Code Understanding AssistantNIER Paper New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Pre-print | ||
11:25 15m | Decomposing God Header File via Multi-View Graph ClusteringResearch Track Paper Research Track Pre-print | ||
11:40 10m | How Far Have We Gone in Binary Code Understanding Using Large Language ModelsResearch Track Paper Research Track Xiuwei Shang University of Science and Technology of China, Shaoyin Cheng University of Science and Technology of China, Guoqiang Chen University of Science and Technology of China, Yanming Zhang , Li Hu , Xiao Yu , Gangyang Li , Weiming Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, Nenghai Yu Pre-print |
13:30 - 15:00 | Technical Briefing on srcML & srcDiff: Infrastructure to Support Exploring, Analyzing, and Differencing of Source CodeResearch Track at Humphreys This technology briefing is intended for those interested in constructing custom software analysis and manipulation tools to support research. The briefing is also aimed at researchers interested in leveraging syntactic differencing in their investigations. srcML (srcML.org) is an infrastructure consisting of an XML representation for C/C++/C#/Java source code along with efficient parsing technology to convert source code to-and-from the srcML format. srcDiff (srcDiff.org) is an infrastructure supporting syntactic source-code differencing and change analysis. srcDiff leverages srcML along with an efficient differencing algorithm to produce deltas that accurately model developer edits. In this tech briefing, we give an overview of srcML and srcDiff along with a tutorial of how to use them to support research efforts. The briefing is also a forum to seek feedback and input from the community on what new enhancements and features will better support software engineering research. | ||
17:00 - 18:00 | |||
Thu 10 OctDisplayed time zone: Arizona change
09:00 - 10:00 | ICSME KeynoteResearch Track / Industry Track / Tool Demo Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track / Journal First Track / Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival at Humphreys Chair(s): Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta | ||
09:00 60mKeynote | Disrupting Developer Dynamics: AI-Driven Innovations' Influence on CommunitiesKeynote Research Track Denae Ford Microsoft Research |
15:30 - 17:00 | Session 11: Mining Software RepositoriesTool Demo Track / Research Track / Registered Reports Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track at Fremont Chair(s): Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | ||
15:30 15m | “What Happened to my Models?” History-Aware Co-Existence and Co-Evolution of Metamodels and ModelsResearch Track Paper Research Track Marcel Homolka Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Luciano Marchezan Johannes Kepler University Linz, Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University Linz | ||
15:45 10m | MetaSim: A search engine for finding Similar GitHub RepositoriesTool Demo Paper Tool Demo Track Md Rayhanul Masud University of California, Riverside, Md Omar Faruk Rokon Sponsored Search, Walmart Global Tech, Qian Zhang University of California at Riverside, Michalis Faloutsos UCR Media Attached | ||
15:55 10m | SEART Data Hub: Streamlining Large-Scale Source Code Mining and Pre-ProcessingTool Demo Paper Tool Demo Track Ozren Dabic Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, Rosalia Tufano Università della Svizzera Italiana, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana | ||
16:05 10m | Diving into Software Evolution: Virtual Reality vs. On-ScreenRegistered Reports Paper Registered Reports Track David Moreno-Lumbreras Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Gregorio Robles Universidad Rey Juan Carlos DOI Pre-print | ||
16:15 10m | Review-Pulse: A Dashboard for Managing User Feedback for Android ApplicationsTool Demo Paper Tool Demo Track Omar Adbealziz University of Saskatchewan, Zadia Codabux University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan | ||
16:25 10m | Monitoring Temporal Dynamics of Issues in Crowdsourced User Reviews and their Impact on Mobile App UpdatesNIER Paper New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Vitor Mesaque Alves de Lima Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Jacson Rodrigues Barbosa Institute of Informatics (INF) / Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini University of São Paulo | ||
16:35 10m | Using Animations to Understand CommitsNIER Paper New Ideas and Emerging Results Track DOI Pre-print | ||
16:45 10m | Maven Unzipped: Packaging Impacts the EcosystemResearch Track Paper Research Track Mehdi Keshani Delft University of Technology, Gideon Bot Delft University of Technology, Priyam Rungta , Maliheh Izadi Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Sebastian Proksch Delft University of Technology |
18:00 - 22:00 | BanquetCatering at The Gopher's Hole (Weatherford Hotel) Conference banquet held at The Gopher’s Hole, located in the Weatherford Hotel. | ||
Fri 11 OctDisplayed time zone: Arizona change
08:45 - 10:00 | ICSME 2024 Awards CeremonyResearch Track / Industry Track / Tool Demo Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track / Journal First Track / Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival at Humphreys Chair(s): Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta, Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory and BI Norwegian Business School | ||
08:45 35m | ICSME 2024 Awards Research Track | ||
09:20 40m | Most Influential Paper Talk: "An Exploratory Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt" Research Track Link to publication DOI Pre-print |
10:30 - 12:00 | Session 12: Machine Learning in Software EngineeringTool Demo Track / Research Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track at Abineau Chair(s): Mohammed Sayagh ETS Montreal, University of Quebec | ||
10:30 15m | Can We Do Better with What We Have Done? Unveiling the Potential of ML Pipeline in NotebooksResearch Track Paper Research Track | ||
10:45 10m | MergeRepair: Merging Task-Specific Adapters in Code LLMs for Automated Program RepairRegistered Reports Paper Registered Reports Track Meghdad Dehghan University of British Columbia, Jie JW Wu University of British Columbia (UBC), Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print | ||
10:55 15m | On the Use of Deep Learning Models for Semantic Clone DetectionResearch Track Paper Research Track Subroto Nag Pinku University of Saskatchewan, Debajyoti Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Canada | ||
11:10 10m | GlueTest: Testing Code Translation via Language InteroperabilityNIER Paper New Ideas and Emerging Results Track Muhammad Salman Abid Cornell University, Mrigank Pawagi Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Sugam Adhikari Islington College, Xuyan Cheng Dickinson College, Ryed Badr University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Md Wahiduzzaman BRAC University, Vedant Rathi Adlai E Stevenson High School, Ronghui Qi Wuhan University, Choiyin Li Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College, Lu Liu University of Washington, Rohit Sai Naidu Dublin High School, Licheng Lin Zhejiang University, Que Liu University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Asif Zubayer Palak BRAC University, Mehzabin Haque University of Dhaka, Xinyu Chen University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Saikat Dutta Cornell University | ||
11:20 10m | Does Co-Development with AI Assistants Lead to More Maintainable Code? A Registered ReportRegistered Reports Paper Registered Reports Track Markus Borg CodeScene, Dave Hewett Equal Experts, Donald Graham Equal Experts, Noric Couderc Lund University, Emma Söderberg Lund University, Luke Church University of Cambridge | Candela Inc, Dave Farley Continuous Delivery Pre-print | ||
11:30 15m | Leveraging Large Vision-Language Model For Better Automatic Web GUI TestingResearch Track Paper Research Track Siyi Wang , Sinan Wang Southern University of Science and Technology, Yujia Fan , Xiaolei Li , Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology | ||
11:45 5m | StackRAG Agent: Improving Developer Answers with Retrieval-Augmented GenerationTool Demo Paper Tool Demo Track Davit Abrahamyan University of British Columbia, Fatemeh Hendijani Fard University of British Columbia |
17:00 - 17:30 | ICSME Conference ClosingResearch Track / Industry Track / Tool Demo Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results Track / Registered Reports Track / Journal First Track / Artifact Evaluation Track and ROSE Festival at Humphreys Join us for the closing plenary session to wrap up ICSME 2024 and take a peek at the 2025 edition. | ||
Unscheduled Events
Not scheduled Meeting | Technical Briefing on srcML & srcDiff: Infrastructure to Support Exploring, Analyzing, and Differencing of Source Code Research Track |
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
Goal and Scope
The 40th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution. We invite high quality submissions describing significant and unpublished results related to but not limited to any of the following software maintenance and evolution topics (in alphabetical order):
- Change and defect management
- Code cloning and provenance
- Concept and feature location
- Continuous integration/deployment
- Empirical studies of software maintenance and evolution
- Evolution of non-code artifacts
- Evolution and maintenance of AI-based applications
- Human aspects of software maintenance and evolution
- Large Language Models for software evolution and maintenance tasks
- Maintenance and evolution of model-based methods
- Maintenance and evolution of mobile apps
- Maintenance and evolution of service-oriented and cloud computing systems
- Maintenance and evolution processes
- Maintenance versus release process
- Mining software repositories
- Productivity of software engineers during maintenance and evolution
- Release engineering
- Reverse engineering and re-engineering
- Run-time evolution and dynamic configuration
- Software and system comprehension
- Software migration and renovation
- Software quality assessment
- Software refactoring and restructuring
- Software testing theory and practice
- Source code analysis and manipulation
- Technical Debt
ICSME welcomes innovative ideas that are timely, well-presented, and evaluated. All submissions must position themselves within the existing literature, describe the relevance of the results to specific software engineering goals, and include a clear motivation and presentation of the work. All submissions must be in English and follow the paper submission guidelines below.
All papers must be full papers.
Evaluation
Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk-rejected without being reviewed. All submissions that meet the submission criteria and fit the scope of the conference will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. The importance of contribution, originality, quality of presentation, soundness, evaluation (where applicable), and appropriate comparison to related work will be assessed for all submissions. Where applicable (e.g., empirical studies and other technical contributions with an evaluation), the replicability of the work will be assessed.
Author Response Period
ICSME 2024 will offer a seven-day author response period. In this period, the authors will have the opportunity to inspect the reviews and answer specific questions raised by the program committee. This period is scheduled after all reviews have been completed and discussed, to inform the subsequent decision-making process. Authors will be able to see the full reviews, including the reviewer scores as part of the author response process.
NEW IN 2024: Early Decisions
To reduce the author and reviewer burden of unnecessary writing/reading of author responses, ICSME 2024 is introducing early decisions: * If reviewers already decide that a paper can be accepted in its current state without requiring any further input from the authors, the authors will receive an “Accept” decision at the beginning of the author response period and will not be required to submit a response. * Conversely, if the paper is perceived to be in a highly deficient state by the reviewers, leading them to conclude that the authors’ response is unlikely to alter their evaluation significantly, the authors will receive a “Reject” decision at the beginning of the author response period and will not be asked to submit a response. * All other papers will receive a “Response Recommended” notification at the beginning of the author response period. However, as customary, it is still up to the authors to decide if they want to submit an author response.
This approach ensures that author responses are primarily reserved for cases with some controversy or where the reviewers have specific and pertinent inquiries to be addressed.
Publication and Presentation
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. All authors of all accepted papers will be asked to complete an electronic IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference. Failure of at least one author to register by the early registration date will result in the paper being withdrawn from the conference proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., by not placing it in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Presentation details will follow notifications of acceptance.
Paper Submission
Submitted papers must comply with IEEE plagiarism policy and procedures. Papers submitted to ICSME 2024 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review, or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for ICSME 2024. Submitting the same paper to different tracks of ICSME 2024 is also not allowed. ICSME 2024 will use a double anonymous reviewing process. Submitted papers must adhere to the following rules:
- Author names and affiliations must be omitted. (The track co-chairs will check compliance before reviewing begins.)
- References to authors’ own related work must be in the third person. (For example, instead of “We build on our previous work…”, use “We build on the work of…”)
- The title of the submission must be different from the preprints of the authors on arXiv or similar sites. During the review period, authors must not publicly use the submission title.
- Please see the Double-Anonymous Reviewing FAQ for more information and guidance.
Papers must strictly adhere to the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format. Please use the templates available here. LaTeX users should use the following configuration: \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
. Microsoft Word users should use the US Letter format template. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures and appendices) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. All submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted online by the deadline via the ICSME 2024 EasyChair link. All authors, reviewers, and organizers are expected to uphold the IEEE Code of Conduct.
Authors of select papers from the research track will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Springer International Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). Invited papers will be expected to comply with the standard guidelines when publishing an extended version of a paper, including the addition of about 30% new material.
Submission
Please use the following link to submit to the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsme2024
Open Science Policy
ICSME encourages open science practices. While sharing of data sets, replication packages, or preprints is not required, it is expected to be the default, and non-sharing needs to be justified, for example, in the case of industry data subject to confidentiality issues or legal requirements. PC members are not required to run code and check details of the artifact, but are asked to comment on its inclusion (specifically whether the data/code promised in the paper is available in the artifact). Upon submission, authors should do one of the following: (1) make their data available to the program committee via an online archival (see below), (2) include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable, or (3) indicate that they intend to make their data publicly available upon acceptance. Note that, even if not intentional, the last option can create doubt in reviewers’ minds as to why the data is not made available for review. Accordingly, we strongly encourage following one of the first two options.
When sharing data, please use an online archival site such as zenodo.org, figshare.com, or https://osf.io/. These sites ensure that the content is archived and they generate a DOI for the content, enabling it to be cited. To learn more about how to share data while maintaining double-anonymous, read the explanation provided by Daniel Graziotin. One resource that may be helpful in accomplishing this task is this blog post. We recognize that anonymizing artifacts such as source code is more difficult than preserving anonymity in a paper. We ask authors to take a best-effort approach to not reveal their identities. We will also ask reviewers to avoid trying to identify authors by looking at commit histories and other such information that is not easily anonymized. Authors wanting to share GitHub repositories may want to look into using https://anonymous.4open.science, which is an open-source tool that helps you quickly double anonymous your repository.
ICSME supports and encourages Green Open Access (also called self-archiving). We encourage authors to self-archive a preprint of their accepted manuscript in an e-print server such as arXiv.org. Open access increases the availability of your work and increases citation impact. To learn more about open access, please read the Green Open Access FAQ by Arie van Deursen. Note that if your research includes scraped GitHub data, the GitHub Terms of Service require that “publications resulting from that research are open access”. If possible, we recommend that you archive your paper (e.g., on arXiv or on your website) only after the ICSME reviewing process is completed, to avoid undermining the double-anonymous reviewing process.
Authors of papers accepted into ICSME 2024 will be invited to submit their artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation Track. Papers with accepted artifacts will be awarded badges and invited to present lightning talks at the ROSE (Recognising and Rewarding Open Science in Software Engineering) Festival. Please see the Call for Participation for the Artifact Evaluation Track.
For inquiries, we invite you to reach out to the ROSE Festival and artifacts chairs, Massimiliano di Penta (dipenta@unisannio.it) and Fernanda Madeiral (f.madeiral.delfim@vu.nl).
Important Dates
** All submission dates are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) **
- Abstract submission: April 4, 2024
- Paper submission: April 11, 2024
- Early decision notification: May 30, 2024
- Final notification: June 13, 2024
- Camera-ready submission: July 29, 2024
Track Co-Chairs
Fabio Calefato (fabio.calefato@uniba.it), University of Bari, Italy
Sarah Nadi (sarah.nadi@nyu.edu), New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE