Best Papers/ICSME

ICSME Best Papers

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution

11 papers · 2021–2026

← ICSME Conference Info

🏆 2026(8)

Distinguished Paper Award

To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built

Rudrajit Choudhuri; Christian Bird; Carmen Badea; Anita Sarma

Distinguished Paper Award

Code Review is a Conversation: Toward Conversational AI Review Assistants

Rosalia Tufano

Distinguished Paper Award

Towards Knowledge Alignment in Code LLMs: Contrastive Unlearning for Evolving APIs

Huy Q. Tran; Dang H. Vu; Tuyen N. Dinh; Anh H. D. Nguyen; Anh N. H. Vu; Anh M. T. Bui; Phuong T. Nguyen

Distinguished Paper Award

Question Answering for Diagram-Rich Technical Meeting Videos

Zhuoran Xu; Jia Li; Dayuan Tan; Mark Cole; Ish Ashraf; Sandeep Puri; Mehrdad Sabetzadeh; Shiva Nejati

Distinguished Paper Award

Optimizing Spectral Signature in Code Backdoor Detection

Quoc Hung Le; Thanh Le-Cong; Xuan-Bach D. Le; Bowen Xu

Distinguished Paper Award

"It Comes in Notebooks": Changes and Challenges When Operationalizing ML Prototypes

Arumoy Shome; Luís Cruz; Diomidis Spinellis; Arie van Deursen

Distinguished Paper Award

DebTrace: Tracing, Verifying, and Revisiting a Decade of Debian Reproducibility

Abhishek Reddypalle; William Boulton; Sabine Brunswicker; Santiago Torres-Arias

Distinguished Paper Award

Smelly Bad Practices in Performance System Tests: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime

Sergio Di Meglio; Valeria Pontillo; Luigi Libero Lucio Starace; Luana Martins; Dario Di Nucci; Fabio Palomba

🏆 2022(1)

Distinguished Paper Award

Peeler: Learning to Effectively Predict Flakiness without Running Tests

Yihao QinShangwen WangKui LiuBo LinHongjun WuLi LiXiaoguang MaoTegawendé F. Bissyandé

🏆 2021(2)

Distinguished Paper Award

Interactive Patch Filtering as Debugging Aid

Jingjing LiangRuyi JiJiajun JiangShurui ZhouYiling LouYingfei XiongGang Huang

Debugging

Distinguished Paper Award

Towards Just-Enough Documentation for Agile Effort Estimation: What Information Should Be Documented?

Jirat PasuksmitPatanamon ThongtanunamShanika Karunasekera

Best Papers/ICSME

ICSME Best Papers

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution

11 papers · 2021–2026

← ICSME Conference Info

🏆 2026(8)

Distinguished Paper Award

To Copilot and Beyond: 22 AI Systems Developers Want Built

Rudrajit Choudhuri; Christian Bird; Carmen Badea; Anita Sarma

Distinguished Paper Award

Code Review is a Conversation: Toward Conversational AI Review Assistants

Rosalia Tufano

Distinguished Paper Award

Towards Knowledge Alignment in Code LLMs: Contrastive Unlearning for Evolving APIs

Huy Q. Tran; Dang H. Vu; Tuyen N. Dinh; Anh H. D. Nguyen; Anh N. H. Vu; Anh M. T. Bui; Phuong T. Nguyen

Distinguished Paper Award

Question Answering for Diagram-Rich Technical Meeting Videos

Zhuoran Xu; Jia Li; Dayuan Tan; Mark Cole; Ish Ashraf; Sandeep Puri; Mehrdad Sabetzadeh; Shiva Nejati

Distinguished Paper Award

Optimizing Spectral Signature in Code Backdoor Detection

Quoc Hung Le; Thanh Le-Cong; Xuan-Bach D. Le; Bowen Xu

Distinguished Paper Award

"It Comes in Notebooks": Changes and Challenges When Operationalizing ML Prototypes

Arumoy Shome; Luís Cruz; Diomidis Spinellis; Arie van Deursen

Distinguished Paper Award

DebTrace: Tracing, Verifying, and Revisiting a Decade of Debian Reproducibility

Abhishek Reddypalle; William Boulton; Sabine Brunswicker; Santiago Torres-Arias

Distinguished Paper Award

Smelly Bad Practices in Performance System Tests: Detection, Prevalence, and Lifetime

Sergio Di Meglio; Valeria Pontillo; Luigi Libero Lucio Starace; Luana Martins; Dario Di Nucci; Fabio Palomba

🏆 2022(1)

Distinguished Paper Award

Peeler: Learning to Effectively Predict Flakiness without Running Tests

Yihao QinShangwen WangKui LiuBo LinHongjun WuLi LiXiaoguang MaoTegawendé F. Bissyandé

🏆 2021(2)

Distinguished Paper Award

Interactive Patch Filtering as Debugging Aid

Jingjing LiangRuyi JiJiajun JiangShurui ZhouYiling LouYingfei XiongGang Huang

Debugging

Distinguished Paper Award

Towards Just-Enough Documentation for Agile Effort Estimation: What Information Should Be Documented?

Jirat PasuksmitPatanamon ThongtanunamShanika Karunasekera