Welcome from the General Chair and the Program Co-Chairs at the 23rd edition of the International Conference on Program Comprehension

1. I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E
O N P R O G R A M C O M P R E H E N S I O N
S P O N S O R E D B Y
F L O R E N C E , I TA LY - M AY 1 8 , 2 0 1 5

2. Back to Italy after 11 years for the fourth time
First time after evolving from workshop to conference

3. ICPC Steering Committee
ICSE 2015 Organizing Committee
IEEE Computer Society
DGMP Group

4. O R G A N I Z I N G C O M M I T T E E : T H A N K S !
P R O G R A M C O - C H A I R
C H R I S T I A N B I R D
M I C R O S O F T, U S A
P R O G R A M C O - C H A I R
R O C C O O L I V E T O
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M O L I S E , I TA LY
E R A T R A C K C O - C H A I R
G A B R I E L E B AV O TA
U N I V E R S I T Y O F S A N N I O , I TA LY
E R A T R A C K C O - C H A I R
M I C H A E L C O L L A R D
U N I V E R S I T Y O F A K R O N , U S A
T O O L D E M O C O - C H A I R
B R A M A D A M S
P O LY T E C H N I C O F M O N T R E A L , C A N A D A
T O O L D E M O C O - C H A I R
S O N I A H A I D U C
F L O R I D A S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y, U S A
I N D U S T RY T R A C K C O - C H A I R
C R I S T I N A M A R I N E S C U
U N I V E R S I T Y O F T I M I S O A R A , R O M A N I A
I N D U S T RY T R A C K C O - C H A I R
S U R E S H T H U M M A L A P E N TA
I B M R E S E A R C H , I N D I A
I N D U S T RY T R A C K C O - C H A I R
PAT R I C K WA G S T R O M
I B M R E S E A R C H , U S A

5. F I N A N C E C H A I R
C A R M I N E G R AV I N O
U N I V E R S I T Y O F S A L E R N O , I TA LY
P R O C E E D I N G S C H A I R
G I U S E P P E S C A N N I E L L O
U N I V E R S I T Y O F B A S I L I C ATA , I TA LY
L O C A L A R R A N G E M E N T S C H A I R
G I U S E P P E L A M I
I S T I - C N R , I TA LY
P U B L I C I T Y C O - C H A I R
C H R I S PA R N I N
G E O R G I A I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y, U S A
P U B L I C I T Y C O - C H A I R
A I K O YA M A S H I TA
S I M U L A R E S E A R C H L A B , N O R WAY
W E B M A S T E R
FA B I O PA L O M B A
U N I V E R S I T Y O F S A L E R N O , I TA LY
O R G A N I Z I N G C O M M I T T E E : T H A N K S !

6. Some
numbers

7. 92participants
24different countries

8. USA
Switzerland
Germany
Canada
Japan
Italy
The Netherland
Israel
China
India
Ireland
Romania
Singapore
United Kingdom
Chile
Greece
Iran
Luxembourg
Norway
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Austria
Brazil
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PA RT I C I PA N T S B Y C O U N T RY

9. I C P C 2 0 1 5 I S
O N T H E
I C S E I E E E
C S A P P

10. I C P C 2 0 1 5 I S O N T H E
W H O VA E V E N T A P P
Passcode: icpit
Key features of Whova
Explore profiles of all attendees
Send in-app messages
Scan and exchanges business cards
Receive notifications from organizers
Access agenda, maps, and parking info
Share photos

11. I C P C 2 0 1 5 I S O N
T W I T T E R A N D
FA C E B O O K
#icpc15
https://www.facebook.com/icpcconf2015

12. Social Event
Tour to the historical wine cellars of the castle, a wine
tasting in the garden, and the dinner in the hall
"Lorenzo Il Magnifico" of the castle.

13. Logistic
The Castle is located in
Greve In Chianti, around
30Km from the conference
place
The bus to reach the
location will leave at 5:30
pm from Piazza Adua
We need around 1 hour to
reach the Castle

14. Sponsors
S P O N S O R S
S U P P O RT E R S

15. Technical
Program

16. Research papers
ERA papers (managed by Gabriele and Michael)
Industry papers (managed by Cristina, Suresh and Patrick)
Tool demos (managed by Sonia and Bram)
Call for Papers

17. 73 research papers
22 ERA papers
5 industry papers
5 tool demos
Papers received

18. USA
China
Canada
Germany
Brazil
Singapore
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
France
UK
Belgium
Hungary
India
Israel
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Ireland
Pakistan
Chile
Finland 0,1
0,3
0,7
0,8
1,0
1,0
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9,2
10,0
18,6
Submissions by country

19. 1: for each paper
2: paper.assignTo(R1, R2, R3);
3: do {
4: reviewer.doReview();
5: while (date != February 27th, 2015);
6: do {
7: all.discuss();
8: if (contrastingReview(paper))
9: paper.assign(R4);
10: while (date != March 7th, 2015);
11: chairs.makeDecision();
12: do {
13: all.discussDecisions();
14: while (date != March 9th, 2015);
15: chairs.sendNotifications();
The reviewing process

20. 23research papers 31.5% acceptance rate
7ERA papers 31.8% acceptance rate
3industry papers
4tool demos
Papers accepted

21. USA
Canada
Germany
Switzerland
Singapore
UK
Austria
Israel
Chile
Italy
Finland
Belgium
Brazil
China
France
Hungary
India
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0,13
0,33
0,33
1
1
1,13
2,5
2,67
3,78
4,17
5,98
Accepted papers by country

22. How final decisions were made
280review versions
#ofreviews
0
25
50
75
100
# of words
100- 100-250 250-500 500-750 750-1000 1000+
145,250words354comments

23. Giuliano Antoniol, Venera Arnaoudova, Alberto Bacchelli, Olga
Baysal, Andrew Begel, Dirk Beyer, Dave Binkley, Mariano
Ceccato, James R. Cordy, Serge Demeyer, Massimiliano Di
Penta, Thomas Fritz, Alessandro Garcia, Mike Godfrey, Mark
Grechanik, Stefan Hanenberg, Mark Harman, Emily Hill, Abram
Hindle, Daqing Hou, Katsuro Inoue, Huzefa Kagdi, Foutse
Khomh, Rainer Koschke, Shinji Kusumoto, Michele Lanza, David
Lo, Jonathan Maletic, Andrian Marcus, Collin McMillan, Leon
Moonen, Martin Pinzger, Vaclav Rajlich, Annibale Panichella,
Lori Pollock, Denys Poshyvanyk, Chanchal K. Roy, Bonita Sharif,
Paolo Tonella, Nikolas Tsantalis, Bogdan Vasilescu, Andy
Zaidman, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicholas A. Kraft
Thanks to the 44 pc members
…and…

24. Nahla Abid, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Stefanie Beyer, Amal
Boukhdhir, Oscar Chaparro, Michael Decker, Alexander
Driemeyer, Leleh Eshkevari, Vincent Hellendoorn, Felienne
Hermans, Siyuan Jiang, Md Yasser Karim, Katja Kevic, Oleksii
Kononenko, Mario Linares Vásquez, Douglas Martin, Davood
Mazinanian, Paul Will McBurney, Manishankar Mondal, Laura
Moreno, Shamima Mukta, Christian Newman, Ashiqur Rahman,
Masud Rahman, Paige Rodeghero, Zohreh Sharafi, Andreas
Stahlbauer, Jeff Svajlenko, Ricardo Terra, Wei Wang, Yibin
Wang, Martin White, Leon Wilson, Wei Wu, Yue Yu, Motahareh
Bahrami Zanjani, Cheng Zhang
Thanks to the 37 additional reviewers

25. You, the committee, deserve all the credit
for making this high quality program this year!

26. What papers talk about…

27. May 18th May 19th
8.30 - 9.30
9.30 - 10.30 Industry Session
10.00 - 11.00 Break Break
11.00 - 12.30 Mining Software Repositories Users, User Interfaces, and Feature Location
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Learning and Sharing Program Knowledge Large Scale Empirical Studies
15.30 - 16.00 Break Break
16.00 - 17.00 Tool Demo Session Reading and Visualization
17.00 - 17.15 Closing
17.15
Program: Technical sessions
We start at 8.30

28. May 18th May 19th
8.30 - 9.30
Keynote by Andreas Zeller
MIP
9.30 - 10.30 Industry Session
10.00 - 11.00 Break Break
11.00 - 12.30 Mining Software Repositories Users, User Interfaces, and Feature Location
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Learning and Sharing Program Knowledge Large Scale Empirical Studies
15.30 - 16.00 Break Break
16.00 - 17.00 Tool Demo Session Reading and Visualization
17.00 - 17.15 Closing
17.15 Open Steering Committee meeting
Program: More
We start at 8.30

29. Best Paper award
ICPC 2015 Awards
Best ERA Paper award
Best Tool Demo award
Best Reviewer award
Do not miss the social event…

30. ICPC 2015 Special Issue
A special issue of the Empirical
Software Engineering Journal (edited
by Springer) will feature extended,
revised versions of the best papers
Also the best paper from the ERA track
will be invited
Submission deadline: October, 2015
EMSE 2013 Impact Factor: 1.640

31. Let’s start!

32. Test Complement Exclusion:
Guarantees from Dynamic Analysis
Andreas Zeller is a full professor for Software
Engineering at Saarland University in Saarbrücken,
Germany, since 2001.
In 2010, Zeller was inducted as Fellow of the ACM for
his contributions to automated debugging and mining
software archives, for which he also was awarded 10-
year impact awards from ACM SIGSOFT and ICSE.
In 2011, he received an ERC Advanced Grant,
Europe's highest and most prestigious individual
research grant, for work on specification mining and
test case generation.
In 2013, Zeller co-founded Testfabrik AG, a start-up on
automatic testing of Web applications, where he
chairs the supervisory board.