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MSR 2018
Mon 28 - Tue 29 May 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
co-located with * ICSE 2018 *
VenueCongress center Gothia Towers
Room nameJ1 room
Floor2
Capacity180
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Program

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Sun 27 May

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09:00 - 10:30
Opening, Vision Keynote, and Developer ObservationICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Katsuro Inoue Osaka University
09:00
10m
Day opening
Welcome to ICPC 2018
ICPC Technical Research
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
09:11
34m
Talk
Sensing and Supporting Software Developer's Focus (Vision Keynote)Vision Keynote
ICPC Technical Research
Manuela Zueger University of Zurich, Thomas Fritz University of Zurich, University of British Columbia
09:45
10m
Short-paper
Code Phonology: an exploration into the vocalization of codeERA
ICPC Technical Research
Felienne Hermans , Alaaeddin Swidan Delft University of Technology, Efthimia Aivaloglou Open University of the Netherlands
09:55
17m
Full-paper
Meaningful Variable Names for Decompiled Code: A Machine Translation ApproachTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Alan Jaffe Carnegie Mellon University, Jeremy Lacomis Carnegie Mellon University, Edward Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print Media Attached
10:13
17m
Full-paper
Descriptive Compound Identifier Names Improve Source Code ComprehensionTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Andrea Schankin Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Annika Berger Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Daniel Holt Heidelberg University, Johannes Hofmeister University of Passau, Till Riedel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Michael Beigl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Pre-print
11:00 - 12:30
Clones, Code Smell, Refactoring and MaintenanceICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Hitesh Sajnani Microsoft
11:00
10m
Short-paper
Towards Just-In-Time Refactoring Recommenders (ERA)ERA
ICPC Technical Research
Jevgenija Pantiuchina Università della Svizzera italiana, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Michele Tufano College of William and Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
11:10
10m
Short-paper
Toward Refactoring Evaluation with Code NaturalnessERA
ICPC Technical Research
Pre-print
11:20
10m
Industry talk
How Slim Will My System Be? Estimating Refactored Code Size by Merging ClonesIndustry Track
ICPC Technical Research
Norihiro Yoshida Nagoya University, Takuya Ishizu Osaka University, Buford Edwards Iii Osaka University, Katsuro Inoue Osaka University
Link to publication DOI
11:30
10m
Short-paper
RepliComment: Identifying Clones in Code CommentsERA
ICPC Technical Research
Arianna Blasi Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and IMDEA Software Institute, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute
11:40
10m
Short-paper
A Preliminary Study on Using Code Smells to Improve Bug LocalizationERA
ICPC Technical Research
Aoi Takahashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Natthawute Sae-Lim Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology
DOI Pre-print
11:50
17m
Full-paper
Un-Break My Build: Assisting Developers with Build Repair HintsTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Carmine Vassallo University of Zurich, Sebastian Proksch University of Zurich, Timothy Zemp University of Zurich, Harald Gall University of Zurich
DOI Pre-print
12:07
17m
Full-paper
Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based TaggingTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Boyang Li , Christopher Vendome , Mario Linares-Vásquez Systems and Computing Engineering Department , Universidad de los Andes , Bogotá, Colombia , Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
14:00 - 15:30
Bugs and DebuggingICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): James R. Cordy
14:00
17m
Full-paper
Recognizing Software Bug-Specific Named Entity in Software Bug RepositoryTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Cheng Zhou Yangzhou University, Bin Li Yangzhou University, Xiaobing Sun Yangzhou University, Hongjing Guo Yangzhou University
14:17
10m
Short-paper
CoBOT: Static C/C++ Bug Detection in the Presence of Incomplete CodeTool Demo
ICPC Technical Research
Qing Gao Peking University, Sen Ma Peking University, Sihao Shao , Yulei Sui University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Guoliang Zhao CASIC_CQC Software Testing and Assessment Technology(Beijing) Corporation, Ltd., Luyao Ma Peking University, Xiao Ma Peking University, Fuyao Duan , Xiao Deng Peking University, Shikun Zhang Peking University, Xianglong Chen CASC Software Testing Center
14:28
17m
Full-paper
Recommending Frequently Encountered BugsTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Yun Zhang Zhejiang University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xin Xia Monash University, Jing Jiang Beihang University, JianLing Sun Zhejiang University
Pre-print
14:45
17m
Full-paper
Cross Version Defect Prediction with Representative Data via Sparse Subset SelectionTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Zhou Xu Wuhan University, Shuai Li The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Yutian Tang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo , Tao Zhang Harbin Engineering University, Jin Liu Wuhan University, Jun Xu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
15:02
17m
Full-paper
Unsupervised Deep Bug Report SummarizationTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Xiaochen Li , He Jiang , Dong Liu Dalian University of Technology, Zhilei Ren , Ge Li Peking University
15:19
7m
Short-paper
MetropolJS: Visualizing and Debugging Large-Scale JavaScript Program Structure with TreemapsTool Demo
ICPC Technical Research
Joshua Scarsbrook University of Waikato, Ryan Ko University of Waikato, Bill Rogers University of Waikato, David Bainbridge University of Waikato
16:00 - 17:00
Program Design and RepairICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Annibale Panichella Deflt University of Technology
16:00
10m
Short-paper
What Design is Discussed by Developers?ERA
ICPC Technical Research
Giovanni Viviani University of British Columbia, Calahan Janik-Jones University of Toronto, Michalis Famelis Université de Montréal, Xin Xia Monash University, Gail Murphy University of British Columbia
16:10
10m
Short-paper
Toward Introducing Automated Program Repair Techniques to Industrial Software DevelopmentERA
ICPC Technical Research
Keigo Naitou Osaka University, Akito Tanikado Osaka University, Shinsuke Matsumoto Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto , Hiroyuki Kirinuki NTT, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi NTT, Haruto Tanno NTT
Pre-print
16:20
10m
Short-paper
Learning Syntactic Features of Programming Languages from Imagery Using Convolutional Neural NetworksERA
ICPC Technical Research
Jordan Ott , Abigail Atchison Chapman University, Paul Harnack , Natalie Best Chapman University, Haley Anderson Chapman University, Cristiano Firmani Chapman University, Erik Linstead Chapman University
DOI Pre-print
16:30
30m
Talk
Adventures in NICAD: A Ten-Year RetrospectiveMIP Talk
ICPC Technical Research
Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, James R. Cordy
17:00 - 17:45
Open Steering Committee MeetingICPC Technical Research at J1 room

Mon 28 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Generation and ClassificationICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Shaowei Wang Queen's University
11:00
17m
Full-paper
Deep Code Comment GenerationTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Xing Hu Peking University, Ge Li Peking University, Xin Xia Monash University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Zhi Jin Peking University
Pre-print
11:17
10m
Short-paper
On the Naturalness of Auto-generated Code —Can We Identify Auto-Generated Code Automatically?ERA
ICPC Technical Research
Masayuki Doi Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Ryo Arima , Kento Shimonaka Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto
Pre-print
11:27
10m
Short-paper
Augmenting Source Code Lines with Sample Variable ValuesERA
ICPC Technical Research
Matúš Sulír Technical University of Košice, Jaroslav Porubän Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Pre-print
11:37
17m
Full-paper
Automatically Classifying Posts into Question Categories on Stack OverflowTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Stefanie Beyer University of Klagenfurt, Christian Macho University of Klagenfurt, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Martin Pinzger Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
11:54
17m
Full-paper
Automatic Tag Recommendation for Software Development Video TutorialsTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Esteban Parra Florida State University, Javier Escobar-Avila Florida State University, Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
DOI Pre-print
12:11
17m
Full-paper
Classification of APIs by Hierarchical ClusteringTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Johannes Härtel University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, Hakan Aksu University of Koblenz, Ralf Laemmel University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
14:00 - 15:00
Vision Keynote and Mobile AppsICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
14:00
35m
Talk
The Language Dichotomy: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development (Vision Keynote)Vision Keynote
ICPC Technical Research
Kevin Moran College of William & Mary, Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
14:35
17m
Full-paper
LESdroid - A Tool for Detecting Exported Service Leaks of Android ApplicationsTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Jun Ma Nanjing University, Shaocong Liu Nanjing University, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Xianping Tao Nanjing University, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Jian Lu Nanjing University
14:52
17m
Full-paper
Do Developers Update Third-Party Libraries in Mobile Apps?Technical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Pasquale Salza USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Fabio Palomba , Dario Di Nucci Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cosmo D'Uva University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno
Pre-print
15:09
17m
Full-paper
What's Inside My App?: Understanding Feature Redundancy in Mobile AppsTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Yao Guo , Yuanchun Li Peking University, Ziyue Yang Peking University, Xiangqun Chen Peking University
16:00 - 17:30
Readibility, Features and APIsICPC Technical Research at J1 room
Chair(s): Yoshiki Higo Osaka University
16:00
17m
Full-paper
Impacts of Coding Practices on ReadabilityTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Rodrigo Santos IPT-SP, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
16:17
10m
Short-paper
An Empirical Investigation on the Readability of Manual and Generated Test CasesERA
ICPC Technical Research
Giovanni Grano University of Zurich, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise
Pre-print
16:27
10m
Short-paper
The CodeCompass Comprehension FrameworkTool Demo
ICPC Technical Research
Zoltan Porkolab Eotvos Lorond University, Dániel Krupp Ericsson Ltd, Tibor Brunner Ericsson Hungary, Marton Csordas Ericsson Hungary
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
16:37
17m
Full-paper
The Effect of Poor Source Code Lexicon and Readability on Developers' Cognitive LoadTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Sarah Fakhoury Washington State University, Yuzhan Ma Washington State University Pullman, Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University Pullman, Olusola Adesope Washington State University
DOI Pre-print
16:54
17m
Full-paper
Assessing an Architecture's Ability to Support Feature EvolutionTechnical Research
ICPC Technical Research
Ran Mo Drexel University, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Qiong Feng Drexel University
17:11
10m
Industry talk
Leveraging the Agile Development Process for Selecting Invoking/Excluding Tests to Support Feature LocationIndustry Track
ICPC Technical Research
Gregory S. DeLozier , Michael J. Decker Bowling Green State University, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Jonathan I. Maletic Kent State University
17:30 - 18:30

Wed 30 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Human and Social Aspects of Computing I* ICSE * Technical Papers / * ICSE * Journal first papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Ita Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
11:00
20m
Talk
Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering: How Far Can We Go?
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Bin Lin , Fiorella Zampetti University of Sannio, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Michele Lanza Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Rocco Oliveto University of Molise
11:20
20m
Talk
Identifying Features in Forks
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Shurui Zhou , Ştefan Stănciulescu , Olaf Leßenich , Yingfei Xiong Peking University, Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print File Attached
11:40
20m
Talk
Roles and Impacts of Hands-on Software Architects in Five Industrial Case Studies
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Inayat Rehman , Mehdi Mirakhorli Rochester Institute of Technology, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo, Azad Aralbay , Matthew Thornton
12:00
20m
Talk
Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development
* ICSE * Journal first papers
Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Federico Maiorano , Nicole Novielli University of Bari
DOI Pre-print
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

14:00 - 15:30
Open-Source Systems* ICSE * Technical Papers / * ICSE * Journal first papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
14:00
20m
Talk
Inheritance Usage Patterns in Open-Source Systems
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Jamie Stevenson , Murray Wood University of Strathclyde
Pre-print File Attached
14:20
20m
Talk
Almost There: A Study on Quasi-Contributors in Open-Source Software Projects
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Igor Steinmacher Federal University of Technology - Paraná / Northern Arizona University, Gustavo Pinto UFPA, Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Analyzing a Decade of Linux System Calls
* ICSE * Journal first papers
Mojtaba Bagherzadeh Queen's University, Nafiseh Kahani , Cor-Paul Bezemer Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, Juergen Dingel Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, James R. Cordy
Link to publication Pre-print
15:00
20m
Talk
To Distribute or Not to Distribute? Why Licensing Bugs Matter
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Christopher Vendome , Daniel M. German , Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Gabriele Bavota Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Mario Linares-Vásquez Systems and Computing Engineering Department , Universidad de los Andes , Bogotá, Colombia , Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
15:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

16:00 - 18:00
Empirical Software Engineering* ICSE * Journal first papers / * ICSE * Technical Papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Marija Mikic Google
16:00
20m
Full-paper
Does the Propagation of Artifact Changes across Tasks reflect Work Dependencies?
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Christoph Mayr-Dorn Johannes Kepler University Linz, Alexander Egyed
DOI Pre-print
16:20
20m
Talk
Large-Scale Analysis of Framework-Specific Exceptions in Android AppsAward
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Lingling Fan East China Normal University, China/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Ting Su Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sen Chen Nanyang Technological University, Guozhu Meng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lihua Xu , Geguang Pu , Zhendong Su University of California, Davis
DOI Pre-print File Attached
16:40
20m
Talk
Effect Sizes and their Variance for AB/BA Crossover Design Studies
* ICSE * Journal first papers
Link to publication DOI
17:00
20m
Talk
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Effects of Code Obfuscations on Android Apps and Anti-Malware Products
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Mahmoud Hammad University of California, Irvine, Joshua Garcia , Sam Malek University of California, Irvine
DOI Pre-print Media Attached File Attached
17:20
20m
Talk
An empirical study on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software classes
* ICSE * Journal first papers
Nemitari Ajienka , Andrea Capiluppi Brunel University, Steve Counsell Brunel University London
Link to publication DOI Media Attached
17:40
20m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

Fri 1 Jun

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09:00 - 10:30
Requirements and Recommender Systems* ICSE * Technical Papers / * ICSE * Journal first papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Joanne M. Atlee University of Waterloo, Canada
09:00
20m
Talk
The Evolution of Requirements Practices in Software Startups
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Catarina Gralha NOVA-LINCS, FCT/UNL, Daniela Damian University of Victoria, Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Miguel Goulao NOVA-LINCS, FCT/UNL, João Araújo
Pre-print Media Attached
09:20
20m
Talk
Traceability in the Wild: Automatically Augmenting Incomplete Trace linksAward
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Michael Rath Technische Universität Ilmenau, Jacob Rendall University of Notre Dame, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame, Patrick Mäder Technische Universität Ilmenau
Pre-print
09:40
20m
Talk
A Temporal Permission Analysis and Enforcement Framework for Android
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Alireza Sadeghi Google, Inc, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of California, Irvine, Negar Ghorbani , Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Sam Malek University of California, Irvine
10:00
20m
Talk
Global-Aware Recommendations for Repairing Violations in Exception Handling
* ICSE * Journal first papers
10:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

11:00 - 12:30
Search-Based Software Engineering I* ICSE * Technical Papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Shin Yoo Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
11:00
20m
Talk
Testing Vision-Based Control Systems Using Learnable Evolutionary Algorithms
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Raja Ben Abdessalem SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Shiva Nejati SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Thomas Stifter
Pre-print File Attached
11:20
20m
Talk
To Preserve or Not to Preserve Invalid Solutions in Search-Based Software Engineering: A Case Study in Software Product Lines
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Jianmei Guo Alibaba Group, Kai Shi
11:40
20m
Talk
Nemo: Multi-Criteria Test-Suite Minimization with Integer Nonlinear Programming
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Jun-Wei Lin University of California, Irvine, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of California, Irvine, Joshua Garcia , Sam Malek University of California, Irvine
Pre-print File Attached
12:00
20m
Talk
Is "Better Data" Better Than "Better Data Miners"?
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Amritanshu Agrawal North Carolina State University, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print File Attached
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

14:00 - 15:30
Search-Based Software Engineering II* ICSE * Technical Papers / * ICSE * Journal first papers at J1 room
Chair(s): Daniel Varro McGill University / Budapest University of Technology and Economics
14:00
20m
Talk
Search-Based Test Data Generation for SQL Queries
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Jeroen Castelein , Maurício Aniche Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Mozhan Soltani , Annibale Panichella Deflt University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
14:20
20m
Talk
Multi-Objective Integer Programming Approaches for Solving Optimal Feature Selection Problem
* ICSE * Technical Papers
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
14:40
20m
Talk
Automated Refactoring of OCL Constraints with Search
* ICSE * Journal first papers
Hong Lu , Shuai Wang , Tao Yue Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Lab, Jan Nygard
15:00
20m
Talk
Automatically Generating Search Heuristics for Concolic Testing
* ICSE * Technical Papers
Sooyoung Cha Korea University, South Korea, Seongjoon Hong , Junhee Lee , Hakjoo Oh Korea University
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
* ICSE * Technical Papers

Sun 27 May

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Mon 28 May

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Wed 30 May

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Fri 1 Jun

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