Dates
Tracks
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Mon 28 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Mon 28 Apr
Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 30mDay opening | Official Opening Program | ||
09:30 60mKeynote | Mining BOMs for Improving Supply Chain Efficiency & Resilience Keynotes Kate Stewart Linux Foundation | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Defects, bugs, and issuesData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at 214 Chair(s): Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal, Minhaz Zibran Idaho State University | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Learning from Mistakes: Understanding Ad-hoc Logs through Analyzing Accidental Commits Technical Papers Yi-Hung Chou University of California, Irvine, Yiyang Min Amazon, April Wang ETH Zürich, James Jones University of California at Irvine Pre-print | ||
11:10 10mTalk | On the calibration of Just-in-time Defect Prediction Technical Papers Xhulja Shahini paluno - University of Duisburg-Essen, Jone Bartel University of Duisburg-Essen, paluno, Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen, paluno | ||
11:20 10mTalk | An Empirical Study on Leveraging Images in Automated Bug Report Reproduction Technical Papers Dingbang Wang University of Connecticut, Zhaoxu Zhang University of Southern California, Sidong Feng Monash University, William G.J. Halfond University of Southern California, Tingting Yu University of Connecticut | ||
11:30 10mTalk | It’s About Time: An Empirical Study of Date and Time Bugs in Open-Source Python Software Technical Papers Shrey Tiwari Carnegie Mellon University, Serena Chen University of California, San Diego, Alexander Joukov Stony Brook University, Peter Vandervelde University of California, Santa Barbara, Ao Li Carnegie Mellon University, Rohan Padhye Carnegie Mellon University | ||
11:40 10mTalk | Enhancing Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Models with Developer-Centric Features Technical Papers Emanuela Guglielmi University of Molise, Andrea D'Aguanno University of Molise, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise | ||
11:50 10mTalk | Revisiting Defects4J for Fault Localization in Diverse Development Scenarios Technical Papers Md Nakhla Rafi Concordia University, An Ran Chen University of Alberta, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Shaohua Wang Central University of Finance and Economics | ||
12:00 5mTalk | Mining Bug Repositories for Multi-Fault Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track | ||
12:05 5mTalk | HaPy-Bug - Human Annotated Python Bug Resolution Dataset Data and Tool Showcase Track Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Mikołaj Fejzer Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Radosław Woźniak Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Łukasz Halada University of Wrocław, Poland, Aleksander Kazecki Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Mykhailo Molchanov Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, Krzysztof Stencel University of Warsaw | ||
12:10 5mTalk | SPRINT: An Assistant for Issue Report Management Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Security and legal aspectsIndustry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers at 215 Chair(s): Mohammad Ghafari TU Clausthal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal | ||
11:00 10mTalk | Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack Technical Papers | ||
11:10 10mTalk | Software Composition Analysis and Supply Chain Security in Apache Projects: an Empirical Study Technical Papers Sabato Nocera University of Salerno, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Giuseppe Scanniello University of Salerno, Natalia Juristo Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Pre-print | ||
11:20 10mTalk | Good practice versus reality: a landscape analysis of Research Software metadata adoption in European Open Science Clusters Technical Papers | ||
11:30 10mTalk | Towards Security Commit Message Standardization Technical Papers Sofia Reis Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID, Rui Abreu INESC-ID; University of Porto, Corina Pasareanu CMU, NASA, KBR | ||
11:40 10mTalk | From Industrial Practices to Academia: Uncovering the Gap in Vulnerability Research and Practice Technical Papers | ||
11:50 5mTalk | Patch Me If You Can—Securing the Linux Kernel Industry Track Gunnar Kudrjavets Amazon Web Services, USA Pre-print | ||
11:55 5mTalk | OSS License Identification at Scale: A Comprehensive Dataset Using World of Code Data and Tool Showcase Track Mahmoud Jahanshahi Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Knoxville, David Reid University of Tennessee, Adam McDaniel University of Tennessee Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee | ||
12:00 5mTalk | SCRUBD: Smart Contracts Reentrancy and Unhandled Exceptions Vulnerability Dataset Data and Tool Showcase Track Chavhan Sujeet Yashavant Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Mitrajsinh Chavda Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Saurabh Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, Amey Karkare IIT Kanpur, Angshuman Karmakar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Pre-print | ||
12:05 5mTalk | ICVul: A Well-labeled C/C++ Vulnerability Dataset with Comprehensive Metadata and VCCs Data and Tool Showcase Track Chaomeng Lu DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven, Tianyu Li DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven, Toon Dehaene KU Leuven, Bert Lagaisse DistriNet Group-T, KU Leuven | ||
12:10 5mTalk | A Dataset of Software Bill of Materials for Evaluating SBOM Consumption Tools Data and Tool Showcase Track Rio Kishimoto Osaka University, Tetsuya Kanda Notre Dame Seishin University, Yuki Manabe The University of Fukuchiyama, Katsuro Inoue Nanzan University, Shi Qiu Toshiba, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University | ||
12:15 5mTalk | Wild SBOMs: a Large-scale Dataset of Software Bills of Materials from Public Code Data and Tool Showcase Track Luis Soeiro LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Thomas Robert LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Stefano Zacchiroli Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Pre-print | ||
12:20 5mTalk | MaLAware: Automating the Comprehension of Malicious Software Behaviours using Large Language Models (LLMs) Data and Tool Showcase Track BIKASH SAHA Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Nanda Rani Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Sandeep K. Shukla Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | ||
13:00 - 13:30 | |||
14:00 - 15:30 | MSR 2025 Mining ChallengeMining Challenge at 215 Chair(s): Joyce El Haddad Université Paris Dauphine - PSL , Damien Jaime Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6, Pascal Poizat Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6 | ||
14:00 4mTalk | Analyzing Dependency Clusters and Security Risks in the Maven Central Repository Mining Challenge | ||
14:04 4mTalk | Chasing the Clock: How Fast Are Vulnerabilities Fixed in the Maven Ecosystem? Mining Challenge Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Rajshakhar Paul Wayne State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:08 4mTalk | Decoding Dependency Risks: A Quantitative Study of Vulnerabilities in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Costain Nachuma Idaho State University, Md Mosharaf Hossan Idaho State University, Asif Kamal Turzo Wayne State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:12 4mTalk | Faster Releases, Fewer Risks: A Study on Maven Artifact Vulnerabilities and Lifecycle Management Mining Challenge Md Shafiullah Shafin Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, S. M. Mahedy Hasan Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:16 4mTalk | Insights into Dependency Maintenance Trends in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Barisha Chowdhury Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, S. M. Mahedy Hasan Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:20 4mTalk | Insights into Vulnerability Trends in Maven Artifacts: Recurrence, Popularity, and User Behavior Mining Challenge Courtney Bodily Idaho State University, Eric Hill Idaho State University, Andreas Kramer Idaho State University, Leslie Kerby Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:24 4mTalk | Understanding Software Vulnerabilities in the Maven Ecosystem: Patterns, Timelines, and Risks Mining Challenge Md Fazle Rabbi Idaho State University, Rajshakhar Paul Wayne State University, Arifa Islam Champa Idaho State University, Minhaz F. Zibran Idaho State University | ||
14:28 4mTalk | Dependency Update Adoption Patterns in the Maven Software Ecosystem Mining Challenge Baltasar Berretta College of Wooster, Augustus Thomas College of Wooster, Heather Guarnera The College of Wooster | ||
14:32 4mTalk | Analyzing Vulnerability Overestimation in Software Projects Mining Challenge Taha Draoui University of Michigan-Flint, Faten Jebari University of Michigan-Flint, Chawki Ben Slimen University of Michigan-Flint, Munjaap Uppal University of Michigan-Flint, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer University of Michigan - Flint | ||
14:36 4mTalk | Dependency Dilemmas: A Comparative Study of Independent and Dependent Artifacts in Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Mehedi Hasan Shanto Khulna University, Muhammad Asaduzzman University of Windsor, Manishankar Mondal Khulna University, Shaiful Chowdhury University of Manitoba | ||
14:40 4mTalk | Cascading Effects: Analyzing Project Failure Impact in the Maven Central Ecosystem Mining Challenge Mina Shehata Belmont University, Saidmakhmud Makhkamjonoov Belmont University, Mahad Syed Belmont University, Esteban Parra Belmont University | ||
14:45 4mTalk | Do Developers Depend on Deprecated Library Versions? A Mining Study of Log4j Mining Challenge Haruhiko Yoshioka Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Sila Lertbanjongngam Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Masayuki Inaba Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Youmei Fan Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takashi Nakano Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazumasa Shimari Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Osaka University, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:49 4mTalk | Mining for Lags in Updating Critical Security Threats: A Case Study of Log4j Library Mining Challenge Hidetake Tanaka Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazuma Yamasaki Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Momoka Hirose Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takashi Nakano Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Youmei Fan Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kazumasa Shimari Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Osaka University, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:53 4mTalk | On the Evolution of Unused Dependencies in Java Project Releases: An Empirical Study Mining Challenge Nabhan Suwanachote Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yagut Shakizada Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bin Lin Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hajimu Iida Nara Institute of Science and Technology | ||
14:57 4mTalk | Out of Sight, Still at Risk: The Lifecycle of Transitive Vulnerabilities in Maven Mining Challenge Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Mikołaj Fejzer Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Krzysztof Rykaczewski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Krzysztof Stencel University of Warsaw | ||
15:01 4mTalk | Popularity and Innovation in Maven Central Mining Challenge Nkiru Ede Victoria University of Wellington, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Ulrich Zülicke Victoria University of Wellington | ||
15:05 4mTalk | Software Bills of Materials in Maven Central Mining Challenge Yogya Gamage Universtité de Montréal, Nadia Gonzalez Fernandez Université de Montréal, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal | ||
15:09 4mTalk | The Ripple Effect of Vulnerabilities in Maven Central: Prevalence, Propagation, and Mitigation Challenges Mining Challenge | ||
15:13 4mTalk | Tracing Vulnerabilities in Maven: A Study of CVE lifecycles and Dependency Networks Mining Challenge Pre-print | ||
15:17 4mTalk | Understanding Abandonment and Slowdown Dynamics in the Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Kazi Amit Hasan Queen's University, Canada, Jerin Yasmin Queen's University, Canada, Huizi Hao Queen's University, Canada, Yuan Tian Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto, Steven Ding Pre-print | ||
15:21 4mTalk | Characterizing Packages for Vulnerability Prediction Mining Challenge Saviour Owolabi University of Calgary, Francesco Rosati University of Calgary, Ahmad Abdellatif University of Calgary, Lorenzo De Carli University of Calgary, Canada | ||
15:25 4mTalk | Understanding the Popularity of Packages in Maven Ecosystem Mining Challenge Sadman Jashim Sakib University of Windsor, Muhammad Asaduzzaman University of Windsor, Curtis Bright University of Windsor, Cole Morgan University of Windsor | ||
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
Tue 29 Apr
Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 30mAwards | MSR 2025 Most Influential Paper Award MIP Award | ||
09:30 30mAwards | MSR 2025 Foundational Contribution Award FCA Award | ||
10:00 30mTalk | The Standard of Rigor for MSR Research: A 20-Year Evolution Vision and Reflection Bogdan Vasilescu Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, USA | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Build systems and DevOpsData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers / Tutorials at 215 Chair(s): Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi | ||
11:00 7mTalk | Build Scripts Need Maintenance Too: A Study on Refactoring and Technical Debt in Build Systems Technical Papers Anwar Ghammam Oakland University, Dhia Elhaq Rzig University of Michigan - Dearborn, Mohamed Almukhtar Oakland University, Rania Khalsi University of Michigan - Flint, Foyzul Hassan University of Michigan at Dearborn, Marouane Kessentini Grand Valley State University | ||
11:07 7mTalk | LLMSecConfig: An LLM-Based Approach for Fixing Software Container Misconfigurations Technical Papers Ziyang Ye The University of Adelaide, Triet Le The University of Adelaide, Muhammad Ali Babar School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide Pre-print | ||
11:14 7mTalk | How Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Update Their Dependencies? An Empirical Study on Terraform Module Updates Technical Papers Mahi Begoug , Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec, Moataz Chouchen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada | ||
11:21 7mTalk | TerraDS: A Dataset for Terraform HCL Programs Data and Tool Showcase Track Christoph Buehler University of St. Gallen, David Spielmann University of St. Gallen, Roland Meier armasuisse, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen Pre-print | ||
11:28 7mTalk | OSPtrack: A Labeled Dataset Targeting Simulated Execution of Open-Source Software Data and Tool Showcase Track Zhuoran Tan University of Glasgow, Christos Anagnostopoulos University of Glasgow, Jeremy Singer University of Glasgow | ||
11:35 7mTalk | CARDS: A collection of package, revision, and miscelleneous dependency graphs Data and Tool Showcase Track Euxane TRAN-GIRARD LIGM, CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel, Laurent BULTEAU LIGM, CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel, Pierre-Yves DAVID Octobus S.c.o.p. Pre-print | ||
11:42 7mTalk | GHALogs: Large-scale dataset of GitHub Actions runs Data and Tool Showcase Track Florent Moriconi EURECOM, AMADEUS, Thomas Durieux TU Delft, Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Aurélien Francillon EURECOM | ||
11:50 40mTutorial | Agents for Software Development Tutorials Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | AI for SE (2)Technical Papers / Industry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track at 214 Chair(s): Giuseppe Destefanis Brunel University London, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal | ||
14:00 10mTalk | Automatic High-Level Test Case Generation using Large Language Models Technical Papers Navid Bin Hasan Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Md. Ashraful Islam Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Junaed Younus Khan Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Sanjida Senjik Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Anindya Iqbal Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh | ||
14:10 10mTalk | Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories Technical Papers Mahan Tafreshipour University of California at Irvine, Aaron Imani University of California, Irvine, Eric Huang University of California, Irvine, Eduardo Santana de Almeida Federal University of Bahia, Thomas Zimmermann University of California, Irvine, Iftekhar Ahmed University of California at Irvine Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Towards Detecting Prompt Knowledge Gaps for Improved LLM-guided Issue Resolution Technical Papers Ramtin Ehsani Drexel University, Sakshi Pathak Drexel University, Preetha Chatterjee Drexel University, USA Pre-print | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Intelligent Semantic Matching (ISM) for Video Tutorial Search using Transformer Models Technical Papers | ||
14:40 10mTalk | Language Models in Software Development Tasks: An Experimental Analysis of Energy and Accuracy Technical Papers Negar Alizadeh Universiteit Utrecht, Boris Belchev University of Twente, Nishant Saurabh Utrecht University, Patricia Kelbert Fraunhofer IESE, Fernando Castor University of Twente | ||
14:50 10mTalk | TriGraph: A Probabilistic Subgraph-Based Model for Visual Code Completion in Pure Data Technical Papers Anisha Islam Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Abram Hindle University of Alberta | ||
15:00 5mTalk | Inferring Questions from Programming Screenshots Technical Papers Faiz Ahmed York University, Xuchen Tan York University, Folajinmi Adewole York University, Suprakash Datta York University, Maleknaz Nayebi York University | ||
15:05 5mTalk | Human-In-The-Loop Software Development Agents: Challenges and Future Directions Industry Track Jirat Pasuksmit Atlassian, Wannita Takerngsaksiri Monash University, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Kla Tantithamthavorn Monash University, Ruixiong Zhang Atlassian, Shiyan Wang Atlassian, Fan Jiang Atlassian, Jing Li Atlassian, Evan Cook Atlassian, Kun Chen Atlassian, Ming Wu Atlassian | ||
15:10 5mTalk | FormalSpecCpp: A Dataset of C++ Formal Specifications Created Using LLMs Data and Tool Showcase Track Madhurima Chakraborty University of California, Riverside, Peter Pirkelbauer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Qing Yi Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Software qualityTechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at 215 Chair(s): Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montréal, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario | ||
14:00 10mTalk | PyExamine: A Comprehensive, Un-Opinionated Smell Detection Tool for Python Technical Papers | ||
14:10 10mTalk | Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes. Technical Papers Julien Malka LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France, Stefano Zacchiroli Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, Théo Zimmermann Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Refactoring for Dockerfile Quality: A Dive into Developer Practices and Automation Potential Technical Papers Emna Ksontini University of Michigan - Dearborn, Meriem Mastouri University of Michigan, Rania Khalsi University of Michigan - Flint, Wael Kessentini DePaul University | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Smells-sus: Sustainability Smells in IaC Technical Papers | ||
14:40 10mTalk | Evidence is All We Need: Do Self-Admitted Technical Debts Impact Method-Level Maintenance? Technical Papers Shaiful Chowdhury University of Manitoba, Hisham Kidwai University of Manitoba, Muhammad Asaduzzman University of Windsor | ||
14:50 5mTalk | DPy: Code Smells Detection Tool for Python Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
14:55 5mTalk | CoMRAT: Commit Message Rationale Analysis Tool Data and Tool Showcase Track Mouna Dhaouadi University of Montreal, Bentley Oakes Polytechnique Montréal, Michalis Famelis Université de Montréal Media Attached | ||
15:00 5mTalk | E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects Data and Tool Showcase Track Sergio Di Meglio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Valeria Pontillo Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Sergio Di Martino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | ||
15:05 5mTalk | TestMigrationsInPy: A Dataset of Test Migrations from Unittest to Pytest Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
15:10 5mTalk | pyMethods2Test: A Dataset of Python Tests Mapped to Focal Methods Data and Tool Showcase Track Pre-print | ||
15:15 5mTalk | DataTD: A Dataset of Java Projects Including Test Doubles Data and Tool Showcase Track | ||
15:20 5mTalk | JPerfEvo: A Tool for Tracking Method-Level Performance Changes in Java Projects Data and Tool Showcase Track Kaveh Shahedi Polytechnique Montréal, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Heng Li Polytechnique Montréal | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | Plenary: ClosingProgram / Vision and Reflection at 214 Chair(s): Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Future of AI4SE: From Code Generation to Software Engineering? Vision and Reflection Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, New York; | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Reshaping MSR (and SE) empirical evaluations in 2030 Vision and Reflection Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy | ||
17:00 15mDay closing | Closing Session Program Bram Adams Queen's University, Olga Baysal Carleton University, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands | ||
17:15 15mDay closing | MSR 2026 Presentation Program | ||
Call for MSR Junior PC 2025
MSR Junior PC Training 2025 by Professor Alexander Serebrenik
Following two successful editions of the MSR Shadow PC in 2021 and 2022 (see also this paper or this presentation for more context), and MSR Junior PC 2023 and 2024, MSR Junior PC 2025 will continue to integrate the junior MSR PC members into the main technical track program committee!
Goal: The main goal remains unchanged: to train the next generation of MSR (and, more broadly, SE) reviewers and program committee members, in response to a widely-recognized challenge of scaling peer review capacity as the research community and volume of submissions grows over time.
Target: Similar to the previous MSR Junior PC, the primary audience for the Junior PC is early-career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, new faculty members, and industry practitioners) who are keen to get more involved in the academic peer-review process but have not yet served on a technical research track program committee at international SE conferences (e.g., ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE, MSR, ICSME, SANER).
New for 2025: Unlike the MSR Junior PC review processes in 2023 and 2024, which involved 3 regular PCs and 2 junior PCs, MSR 2025 will shift to a model of 2 regular PCs and 1 junior PC. This approach aligns with other conferences, where typically 3 PCs review each paper. The changes are driven by the following reasons:
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Reducing Review Workload: The previous model, requiring 5 PCs per paper, placed a substantial review burden on both junior and regular PCs, potentially compromising the quality of the reviews due to the tight 1-month schedule of MSR. By reducing the number of PCs from 3+2 to 2+1, the review workload for each PC will be lowered, thereby expecting to enhance the quality of the reviews.
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Improving Authors’ Responses: MSR provides an author response period to allow authors to clarify their submissions. Previously, with 5 PCs per paper, authors struggled to produce high-quality responses within the 750-word limit. The reduction to 3 PCs (2 regular, 1 junior) will likely help authors craft more effective and manageable responses within the word limit.
This change is expected to provide substantial benefits to authors, Junior PCs, and Regular PCs. Nevertheless, the Junior PC co-chairs will ensure that the quality of the feedback will not be compromised. Junior PC members will receive training from senior researchers and/or past MSR distinguished reviewers on how to write and provide constructive review for software engineering papers, what to look for, what to avoid, and the suggested review structure aligned with the MSR review criteria. They will also receive guidance from MSR (Junior) PC Co-Chairs on the expected review quality, confidentiality, and ethics standards, how to write good reviews, and how to participate in discussions (see ACM reviewers’ responsibilities). Finally, Junior PC members will receive feedback on how to improve their reviews before the rebuttal notification (by the discussion lead). The discussion lead will perform quality assurance, ensuring the reviews are of high quality and remain constructive.
Review Process for MSR 2025: All submissions to the MSR research track will be reviewed jointly by both regular and junior PC members, as part of the same process. Junior PCs will then serve alongside regular PC members on the main technical track PC, participating fully in the review process, including author responses and PC discussions to reach consensus. Each paper will receive two reviews from two regular PC members and one review from a Junior PC member. The final decisions will be made by consensus among all reviewers, as always. Based on our experience with the MSR Shadow PC in 2021 and 2022 and MSR Junior PC in 2023 and 2024, we expect that the addition of a junior PC to each paper will increase the overall quality of reviews that the authors receive, since junior reviewers will typically have a deep understanding of recent topics, and can thus provide deep technical feedback on the subject.
Why Join the MSR Junior PC?
Serving on the Junior PC is an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, new faculty members, industry practitioners, etc) to be recognized and gain experience in community service, i.e., being part of a major conference program committee. It is also worthwhile for a number of reasons, including:
- Seeing examples of actual reviews for the same papers, written by the regular PC members, gaining more experience as a reviewer and learning from the senior researchers how to write better reviews.
- Participating in the real process and having a share in the final outcome of the paper, increasing the motivation and engagement of the junior reviewers throughout the process.
- Getting to know how a PC is run and how it operates.
- Being mentored by experienced PC members.
- Gaining experience reviewing papers and understanding the challenges faced by reviewers reading multiple papers which may not always be in their area of expertise.
- Submitting high-quality reviews makes one a more likely candidate for future PCs of the technical track of MSR or otherwise.
- Getting to see both strong and weak papers at the submission stage.
- Discovering what it takes to publish a paper in a reputable conference, such as MSR.
- Having a chance to read top-notch papers in your area of expertise before they are published.
What is Required of MSR Junior PC Members?
Junior PC members must commit themselves to write their own detailed and rigorous reviews for papers assigned to them by the allotted deadline. This timely review commitment is essential to the good functioning of the Junior PC. Candidates who might be unable to fulfil their reviewing duties should refrain from applying. Junior PC members will be expected to review a load of 1-3 papers per member, submit on-time reviews, and participate in the online discussion of their assigned papers. Junior PC members must follow the ethical standards of peer review, respect the anonymity of the review process, not share which papers they have reviewed or solicit sub-reviews, and must not use Generative AI (new for 2025). Junior PC members who do not adhere to the ethical standards of peer-review will be excluded from the process.
Who Can Participate in the MSR Junior PC?
The Junior PC is open to PhD students, post-docs, new faculty members and industry practitioners experienced in software engineering or mining software repositories research, especially those who have not yet served in a program committee of the technical research track (or the main track) of the international SE conferences (e.g., ICSE, FSE, ASE, MSR, ICSME, SANER). We will select the Junior PC members based on research experience for joining the Junior PC. The Junior PC selection process will also strive to ensure diversity.
How to Apply?
If you are interested in participating, please complete the online application form (https://forms.gle/yze4nPZVFVMJ7exY6) for MSR 2025 Junior PC by September 15th, 2024 AoE.
mportant Dates
AoE: Anywhere on Earth
- Junior PC Self-Nomination Open: August 27th, 2024, AoE
- Junior PC Self-Nomination Deadline: September 15th, 2024 AoE
- Announcement of Junior PC members: October 1st, 2024 AoE
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
| Tue 1 Oct 2024 Announcement of Junior PC members |
| Sun 15 Sep 2024 Junior PC Self-Nomination Deadline |
| Tue 27 Aug 2024 Junior PC Self-Nomination Open |
Jerin Yasmin
Queen's University, Canada
Canada
Georges Aaron RANDRIANAINA
Univ Rennes - IRISA
France
Terry Yue Zhuo
Monash University and CSIRO's Data61
Australia
Sicong Cao
Yangzhou University
China
Zhihan Jiang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Md Shamimur Rahman
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada
Yi Liu
Quantstamp
Chengwei Liu
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Mohammed Latif Siddiq
University of Notre Dame
United States
Cen Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Ranindya Paramitha
University of Trento
Italy
Zeyan Liu
University of Louisville
Feifei Niu
University of Ottawa
Canada
Muhammad Waseem
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Finland
Sofia Reis
Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID
Portugal
Kazi Amit Hasan
Queen's University, Canada
Canada
Noor Nashid
University of British Columbia
Canada
Fuxiang Chen
University of Leicester, UK
Le-Cong Thanh
The University of Melbourne
Australia
Suyu Ma
CSIRO's Data61
Mingyi Zhou
Monash University
China
Yunbo Lyu
Singapore Management University
Songqiang Chen
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
China
Ramtin Ehsani
Drexel University
United States
Arghavan Moradi Dakhel
Polytechnique Montreal
Canada
Qingchao Shen
Tianjin University
China
Zhao Tian
Tianjin University
China
Hui Gao
Nanjing University
China
Lin Yang
Tianjin University
China
Yuxin Qiu
University of California at Riverside
United States
Chenxi Zhang
Xidian University
Fuman Xie
University of Queensland
Australia
Eduardo Fernandes
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Brazil
Saikat Mondal
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Yonghui Liu
Monash University
Australia
Samuel W. Flint
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
United States
Ayesha Siddika Nipu
Teaching Faculty II, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
United States
Yichen LI
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China
Hanmo You
Tianjin University
China
Jiongchi Yu
Singapore Management University
Singapore
Yingquan Zhao
Tianjin University
China
Yuqiang Sun
Nanyang Technological University
Moritz Mock
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Italy
Khadijah Al Safwan
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Saudi Arabia
Fatima Sabir
Punjab University College of Information Technology , University of the Punjab
Pakistan
Jasmine Latendresse
Concordia University
Canada
Sabiha Salma
George Mason University
United States
Luana Martins
University of Salerno
Italy
Mathieu Nassif
McGill University
Mingfei Cheng
Singapore Management University
Singapore
Zhensu Sun
Singapore Management University
Singapore
Jiyang Zhang
University of Texas at Austin
United States
Riccardo Rubei
University of L'Aquila
Italy
Nadeeshan De Silva
William & Mary
Li Yang
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Zhen Yang
Shandong University
China
Arpit Thool
Virginia Tech, USA
United States
Shazibul Islam Shamim
Kennesaw State University
Arifa Islam Champa
Idaho State University
United States
Mahtab Nejati
University of Waterloo
Canada
Khairul Alam
Dept. of Computer Science, Usask
Canada
Piotr Przymus
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Poland
Ehsan Firouzi
Technische Universität Clausthal
Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Farshad Kazemi
University of Waterloo
Canada
Jaydeb Sarker
University of Nebraska at Omaha
United States
Haoyu Gao
The University of Melbourne
Chen Yang
Tianjin University
China
Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz
Iowa State University
United States
Gengyi Sun
University of Waterloo
Junkai Chen
Zhejiang University
China
TomWu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Emeralda Sesari
University of Groningen
Netherlands
Ping Charoenwet
The University of Melbourne
Yang Yue
California State University San Marcos
SayedHassan Khatoonabadi
Concordia University
Canada
Luan Pham
RMIT University
Australia
Yang Zhang
National University of Defense Technology, China
China
Madhurima Chakraborty
University of California, Riverside
Paschal Amusuo
Purdue University
United States
Zhijie Liu
ShanghaiTech University, China
China
Yakun Zhang
Peking University
China
Xinyu Lian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
Jingzhi Gong
University of Leeds
Yujin Huang
The Univeristy of Melbourne
Robert Zhang
The University of Texas at Austin
United States
Miao Miao
The University of Texas at Dallas
United States
Jiashuo Zhang
Peking University, China
Zijie Huang
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluation
China
Jieke Shi
Singapore Management University
Singapore
Amine Barrak
Oakland University, USA
United States
Wenxin Jiang
Purdue University
United States
Zhiyang Chen
University of Toronto
Canada
Rafiullah Omar
Yue Liu
Monash University, Australia
Jiho Shin
York University
Canada
Laura Plein
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana
University of Waterloo
Zhiqing Zhong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen)
China
Minhyuk Ko
Virginia Tech
United States
Bernd Gruner
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Data Science
Julien Malka
LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
France
Xiaohu Du
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ali Reza Ibrahimzada
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States
Mootez Saad
Dalhousie University
Canada
Han Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong SAR China
Denivan Campos
University of Molise, Italy
Italy
Jingxiao Tian
University of California, San Diego
United States
Giuseppe Colavito
University of Bari
Italy
Lanxin Yang
Nanjing University
China