The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the flagship conference in the field, takes place in April. Similar to previous years, faculty from UC Irvine’s Software Engineering program are contributing a variety of research papers and organizing roles, panels, and reviews.
Below is the list of papers and events with UC Irvine affiliates in bold.
ICSE MAIN TRACK
- Automated Generation of Accessibility Test Reports from Recorded User Transcripts, by Syed Fatiul Huq, Mahan Tafreshipour, Kate Kalcevich, Sam Malek – ✨ ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award ✨
- Automated Accessibility Analysis of Dynamic Content Changes on Mobile Apps by Forough Mehralian, Ziyao He, Sam Malek
- An Empirical Study on Automatically Detecting AI-Generated Source Code: How Far Are We? by Hyunjae Suh, Mahan Tafreshipour, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu, Iftekhar Ahmed
- Context Conquers Parameters: Outperforming Proprietary LLM in Commit Message Generation by Aaron Imani, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Moshirpour
- REDII: Test Infrastructure to Enable Deterministic Reproduction of Failures for Distributed Systems, by Yang Feng, Zheyuan Lin, Dongchen Zhao, Mengbo Zhou, Jia Liu, James Jones
- Leveraging Propagated Infection to Crossfire Mutants by Hang Du, Vijay Krishna Palepu, James Jones
- Code Today, Deadline Tomorrow: Procrastination Among Software Developers by Zeinabsadat Saghi, Thomas Zimmermann, Souti Chattopadhyay
- GenC2Rust: Towards Generating Generic Rust Code from C, by Xiafa Wu, Brian Demsky
ICSE SEIP TRACK
- Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era by Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal – ✨ ICSE SEIP Distinguished Paper Award ✨
- Beyond the Comfort Zone: Emerging Solutions to Overcome Challenges in Integrating LLMs into Software Products by Nadia Nahar, Christian Kästner, Jenna L. Butler, Chris Parnin, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird
- Enhancing Differential Testing: LLM-Powered Automation in Release Engineering by Ajay Krishna Vajjala, Arun Krishna Vajjala, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Jason Entenmann, Nicole Forsgren, Aliaksandr Hramadski, Sandeepan Sanyal, Oleg Surmachev, Haris Mohammad, Jade D’Souza, Mikhail Demyanyuk, Thomas Zimmermann
- Exploring GenAI in Software Development: Insights from a Case Study in a Large Brazilian Company by Guilherme Vaz Pereira, Victoria Jackson, Rafael Prikladnicki, Andre van der Hoek, Luciane Fortes, Carolina Araújo, André Coelho, Ligia Chelli, Diego Ramos
- How much does AI impact development speed? An enterprise-based randomized controlled trial by Elise Paradis, Kate Grey, Quinn Madison, Daye Nam, Andrew Macvean, Nan Zhang, Ben Ferrari-Church, Satish Chandra
ICSE OTHER TRACKS
- Discovering Ideologies of the Open Source Software Movement by Yang Yu, Yi Wang, David Redmiles – New Ideas and Emerging Results
- Bug Analysis in Jupyter Notebook Projects: An Empirical Study by Taijara Santana, Paulo Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed – Journal-first Papers
PAPERS IN CO-LOCATED EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
- Creative Problem-Solving: A Study with Blind and Low Vision Software Professionals by Karina Kohl, Yoonha Cha, Victoria Jackson, Rafael Prikladnicki, Andre van der Hoek, Stacy Branham – CHASE Research Track
- Learning from Mistakes: Understanding Ad-hoc Logs through Analyzing Accidental Commits by Yi-Hung Chou, Yiyang Min, April Wang James Jones – MSR Technical Papers
- Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories by Mahan Tafreshipour University of California at Irvine, Aaron Imani, Eric Huang, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Thomas Zimmermann, Iftekhar Ahmed – MSR Technical Papers
- Visualizing Frequent Peer Assessment Results to Uncover Problems in Project Team Dynamics by Yu Lu, André van der Hoek – CSEE&T
- Visualizing Team Progress and Contribution in Student Projects with TeamCAST by Anmol Vilas Deshpande, André van der Hoek – CSEE&T
UCI SE faculty are also deeply involved in shaping the conference itself, including reviewing for the conference, organizing workshops, giving keynote speeches, and participating in panels.
- Keynote: Professor Thomas Zimmermann delivers a keynote Trust No Bot? Forging Confidence in AI for Software Engineering at the FORGE workshop.
- Workshop Leadership: Professor Iftekhar Ahmed co-organizes The IDE workshop. Professor Joshua Garcia and Alfred Chen organize the International Workshop on Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems (SE4ADS 2025).
- Panel Participation: Professor David Redmiles joins experts on a Doctoral Symposium panel focusing on human aspects in SE. Professor Iftekhar Ahmed joins a panel on ACM Student Research Competition.
- Professor Iftekhar Ahmed receives the Distinguished Reviewer Award for CHASE 2025.