Workshop program

  • Full papers: 15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for questions
  • Short papers: 10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for questions
  • Tool Competition papers: 7 minutes presentation + 3 minutes for questions
  • Position papers: 8 minutes presentation + 7 minutes for questions
All times in AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time -- UTC + 10)
09:15 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote "Automated Bug Management: Reflections and the Road Ahead" by David Lo
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote "Trends and Opportunities in the Application of Large Language Models: the Quest for Maximum Effect" by Albert Ziegler
Session 1 - Position Papers: 12:00 - 12:30
12:00 - 12:15 The (Ab)use of Open Source Code to Train Language Models
Ali Al-Kaswan and Maliheh Izadi
12:15 - 12:30 Exploring Generalizability of NLP-based Models for Modern Software Development Cross-Domain Environements
Rrezarta Krasniqi and Hyunsook Do
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
Tool Competition: 13:45 - 15:15
13:45 - 13:55 Opening & Issue Report Classification Competition
Rafael Kallis, Maliheh Izadi, Pooja Rani, Luca Pascarella and Oscar Chaparro
13:55 - 14:05 An Intelligent Tool for Classifying Issue Reports
Muhammad Laiq
14:05 - 14:15 Few-Shot Learning for Issue Report Classification
Giuseppe Colavito, Filippo Lanubile and Nicole Novielli
14:15 - 14:25 Code Comment Classification Competition
Pooja Rani, Luca Pascarella and Oscar Chaparro
14:25 - 14:35 Performance Comparison of Binary Machine Learning Classifiers in Indentifying Code Comment Types: An Exploratory Study
Amila Indika, Peter Y. Washington and Anthony Peruma
14:35 - 14:45 Classifying Code Comments via Pre-trained Programming Language Model
Ying Li, Haibo Wang, Huaien Zhang and Shin Hwei Tan
14:45 - 14:55 STACC: Code Comment Classification using Sentence Transformers
Ali Al-Kaswan, Maliheh Izadi and Arie van Deursen
14:55 - 15:15 Closing
Rafael Kallis, Maliheh Izadi, Pooja Rani, Luca Pascarella and Oscar Chaparro
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Research Papers: 15:45 - 17:15
15:45 - 16:05 An Exploratory Study on the Usage and Readability of Messages within Assertion Methods of Test Cases
Taryn Takebayashi, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Weim Mkaouer and Christian Newman
16:05 - 16:25 Stop Words for Processing Software Engineering Documents: Do they Matter?
Yaohou Fan, Chetan Arora and Christoph Treude
16:25 - 16:45 Applying Information Theory to Software Evolution
Adriano Torres, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude and Markus Wagner
16:45 - 17:00 Zero-shot Prompting for Code Complexity Prediction Using GitHub Copilot
Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Abdus Samee, Sk Ruhul Azgor, Md. Asif Haider, Shehabul Islam Sawraz and Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos
17:00 - 17:15 Evaluating Code Comment Generation with Summarized API Docs
Bilel Matmti and Fatemeh Fard
17:15 - 17:30 Closing