Schedule

Week at a Glance¶

Week 10: March 12th - March 14th¶

school Academic Speaker - Amit Seal Ami - William & Mary - Exploring The Gaps in the Design and Practice of Static Analysis Tools for Software Security

calendar_month Tue March 12th

Software Naturalness & LLMs (Hindle-ICSE'12, Niu-ICSE'23)

calendar_month Thu March 14th

Critical Paper Reviews

calendar_month Released Tuesday, March 5th

calendar_month Due Thursday, April 18th, 11:59pm

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Research Project Checkpoint 1

calendar_month Released Tuesday, March 5th

calendar_month Due Tuesday, March 26th, 11:59pm

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Course Schedule¶

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This schedule is subject to change throughout the course of the semester. Any changes will be announced on Ed Discussions.

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Students can download the papers from this page. Please note that the paper downloads are password protected.

Course ScheduleCourse Reading List

Week	Date	Topic	Materials	Assignment Deadlines	Project Deadlines
Week 1	Tue Jan 9	Introduction	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 1 Git, Github, and Typescript Due Tuesday Jan 16th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 1	Thu Jan 11	Software Archeology and Anthropology	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 2	Tue Jan 16	Metrics and Measurement	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 2	Thu Jan 18	Project Planning & Agile Development	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 3	Tue Jan 23	Software Teams and Communication	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 2 Hello NodeBB! Due Thursday Feb 1st @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 3	Thu Jan 25	Software Testing	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 4	Tue Jan 30	Software Architecture	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 4	Thu Feb 1	Static & Dynamic Analysis	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 5	Tue Feb 6th	A Software Engineer's Guide to LLMs Pt. I	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 3 - Deployment Due Friday Feb 9th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation	SDE Project Checkpoint 1 Due Friday Feb 9th @ 11:59pm descriptionInformation
Week 5	Thu Feb 8th	A Software Engineer's Guide to LLMs Pt. II	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 6	Tue Feb 13	Software Engineering Ethics	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo	Assignment 4 - Static Analysis & CI Due Monday Feb 19th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation	SDE Project Checkpoint 2 Due Friday March 1st @ 11:59pm descriptionInformation
Week 6	Thu Feb 15	Open Source Software + Security & Privacy	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 7	Tue Feb 20	Midterm Exam	picture_as_pdf Slides	Critical Research Paper Reviews Due Thurs April 18th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 7	Thu Feb 22	An Introduction to SWE Research: DL & SWE	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 8	Tue Feb 27	How to Read and Present Research Papers	slideshowLogistics Video picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 8	Thu Feb 29	construction Industry Speaker - Michele Tufano - Microsoft - InferFix: End-to-End Program Repair with LLMs	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 9	Tue Mar 5	How to Present a Research Paper + Interactive Bug Reporting for Mobile Apps - Dr. Moran	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo		Research Project Checkpoint 1 Due Tuesday March 26th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 9	Thu Mar 7	Code to Comment Translation: A Comparative Study on Model Effectiveness & Errors - Junayed Mahmud + Guest Speaker
Week 10	Tue Mar 12	school Academic Speaker - Amit Seal Ami - William & Mary - Exploring The Gaps in the Design and Practice of Static Analysis Tools for Software Security	picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo
Week 10	Thu Mar 14	Software Naturalness & LLMs	Hindle-ICSE'12 Niu-ICSE'23
Week 11	Tue Mar 19	Spring Break - No Class
Week 11	Thu Mar 21	Spring Break - No Class
Week 12	Tue Mar 26	LLM Applications Part I	Xia-ICSE'23 Dunay-arXiv'24 Xia-ICSE'24
Week 12	Thu Mar 28	LLM Applications Part II	Xia-ICSE'24b Mastropaolo-ICSE'24 Feng-ICSE'24		Research Project Checkpoint 2 Due Thursday April 18th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation
Week 13	Tue Apr 2	Human Factors in Software Engineering	Liang-ICSE'23 Liang-ICSE'24 Zhang-FSE'24
Week 13	Thu Apr 4	The Next Era of Deep Learning for Code	Ding-ICSE'24 Liu-ICSE'23 Spiess-FSE'24
Week 14	Tue Apr 9	Software Engineering for Machine Learning	Chen-ICSE'24 Gesi-ICSE'23 Neelofar-ICSE'24
Week 14	Thu Apr 11	Engineering Accessible Software	Salehnamadi-ASE'22 Liu-ASE'23 Feng-ICSE'23
Week 15	Tue Apr 16	Studying the Effects of LLMs on Software Engineering	Eladawy-ICSE'24 Kabir-CHI'24 Gruber-ICSE'24
Week 15	Thu Apr 18	No Class - Dr. Moran Traveling to ICSE'24

Week 10 - March 14th - Software Naturalness and LLMs

Hindle-ICSE'12: Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabel, and Premkumar Devanbu. 2012. On the naturalness of software. In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '12) (Team 17 - SJD)
Niu-ICSE'23: Changan Niu, Chuanyi Li, Vincent Ng, Dongxiao Chen, Jidong Ge, and Bin Luo. 2023. An Empirical Comparison of Pre-Trained Models of Source Code. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 10 - Team 10)

Week 12 - March 26th - LLM Applications Part I

Xia-ICSE'23: Chunqiu Steven Xia, Yuxiang Wei, and Lingming Zhang. 2023. Automated Program Repair in the Era of Large Pre-Trained Language Models. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 7 - The Best)
Dunay-arXiv'24: Dunay, Omer, Daniel Cheng, Adam Tait, Parth Thakkar, Peter C. Rigby, Andy Chiu, Imad Ahmad et al. Multi-line AI-assisted Code Authoring. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04141 (2024) (Team 14 - The Gumbas)
Xia-ICSE'24a: Xia, Chunqiu Steven, Matteo Paltenghi, Jia Le Tian, Michael Pradel, and Lingming Zhang. "Universal fuzzing via large language models." In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 12 - ALTF4)

Week 12 - March 28th - LLM Applications Part II

Xia-ICSE'24b: Xia, Chunqiu Steven, Yifeng Ding, and Lingming Zhang. Revisiting the Plastic Surgery Hypothesis via Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10494 (2023) (Team 2 - Mission Possible)
Mastropaolo-ICSE'24: Antonio Mastropaolo, Fiorella Zampetti, Gabriele Bavota, and Massimiliano Di Penta. 2024. Toward Automatically Completing GitHub Workflows. In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 6 - Scholar Space Devs)
Feng-ICSE'24: Sidong Feng and Chunyang Chen. 2024. Prompting Is All You Need: Automated Android Bug Replay with Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 1 - Code Crafters)

Week 13 - April 2nd - Human Factors in Software Engineering

Liang-ICSE'23: Jenny T. Liang, Maryam Arab, Minhyuk Ko, Amy J. Ko, and Thomas D. LaToza. 2023. A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 23 - CRV_Trio)
Liang-ICSE'24: Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang, and Brad A. Myers. 2024. A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 8 - ACV_Trio)
Zhang-FSE'24: Zhang, Yifan, Jiliang Li, Zachary Karas, Aakash Bansal, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Collin McMillan, Kevin Leach, and Yu Huang. EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'24) (Team 16 - Array of Sunshine)

Week 13 - April 4th - The Next Era of Deep Learning for Code

Ding-ICSE'24: Yangruibo Ding, Benjamin Steenhoek, Kexin Pei, Gail Kaiser, Wei Le, and Baishakhi Ray. 2024. TRACED: Execution-aware Pre-training for Source Code. In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 22 - Software Wolves)
Liu-ICSE'23: Shangqing Liu, Bozhi Wu, Xiaofei Xie, Guozhu Meng, and Yang Liu. 2023. ContraBERT: Enhancing Code Pre-Trained Models via Contrastive Learning. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 21 - Minions)
Spiess-FSE'24: Spiess, Claudio, David Gros, Kunal Suresh Pai, Michael Pradel, Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Susmit Jha, Prem Devanbu, and Toufique Ahmed. "Quality and Trust in LLM-generated Code. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'24) (Team 19 - Byte Knight)

Week 14 - April 9th - Software Engineering for Machine Learning

Chen-ICSE'24: Chen, Zhenpeng, Jie M. Zhang, Federica Sarro, and Mark Harman. An Empirical Study on Fairness Improvement with Multiple Protected Attributes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01923 (2023) (Team 4 - Kanyarasi)
Gesi-ICSE'23: Jiri Gesi, Xinyun Shen, Yunfan Geng, Qihong Chen, and Iftekhar Ahmed. 2023. Leveraging Feature Bias for Scalable Misprediction Explanation of Machine Learning Models. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 20 - NodeBBs)
Neelofar-ICSE'24: Neelofar Neelofar and Aldeida Aleti. 2024. Towards Reliable AI: Adequacy Metrics for Ensuring the Quality of System-level Testing of Autonomous Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 5 - College Dropouts)

Week 14 - April 11th - Engineering Accessible Software

Salehnamadi-ASE'22: Navid Salehnamadi, Forough Mehralian, and Sam Malek. 2023. Groundhog: An Automated Accessibility Crawler for Mobile Apps. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '22) (Team 13 - Accessibility Adjusters)
Liu-ASE'23: Y. Liu, et al., ASTER: Automatic Speech Recognition System Accessibility Testing for Stutterers. In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'23) (Team 11 - Bug Busters)
Feng-ICSE'23: Sidong Feng, Mulong Xie, and Chunyang Chen. 2023. Efficiency Matters: Speeding Up Automated Testing with GUI Rendering Inference. In Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '23) (Team 18 - Noad Toads)

Week 15 - April 16th - Studying the Effects of LLMs on Software Engineering

Eladawy-ICSE'24: Hadeel Eladawy, Claire Le Goues, and Yuriy Brun, Automated Program Repair, What Is It Good For? Not Absolutely Nothing!. In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'24) (Team 9 - The A Team)
Kabir-CHI'24: Kabir, Samia, David N. Udo-Imeh, Bonan Kou, and Tianyi Zhang. Who answers it better? an in-depth analysis of chatgpt and stack overflow answers to software engineering questions. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'24) (Team 3 - DGP)
Gruber-ICSE'24: Martin Gruber, Muhammad Firhard Roslan, Owain Parry, Fabian Scharnböck, Phil McMinn, and Gordon Fraser. 2024. Do Automatic Test Generation Tools Generate Flaky Tests? In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24) (Team 15 - Logic Bytes)