Meta Research

Facebook is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). The conference will be held virtually from May 23 to 29, 2021.

Engage With Us

Join us for a pre-conference panel on Monday, May 24, from 11:00am to 12:00pm PST. Hear from researchers at Facebook — how they got here, what they do, and more. RSVP at the link below.

Interested in learning more about the work we do? In the process of obtaining a PhD degree? Facebook recruiters and researchers will be available for a virtual booth session at the following times:

• Wednesday, May 26: 22:45 – 23:15 CEST (1:45 – 2:15pm PST)
• Thursday, May 27: 18:45 – 19:15 CEST (9:45 – 10:15am PST)
• Friday, May 28: 22:50 – 23:20 CEST (1:50 – 2:20pm PST)

To share your experience with Facebook recruiters offline, connect with them below.

Facebook Research at ICSE 2021

Facebook-affiliated authors are in bold.

Tuesday, May 25

12:45 – 13:05 CEST (3:45 – 4:05am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 2

• Enhancing Genetic Improvement of Software with Regression Test Selection
  
  Giovani Guizzo, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman

Wednesday, May 26

18:15 – 18:45 CEST (9:15am – 9:45am PST)

• Facebook Launches New Research Award Opportunity

At ICSE 2021, we are excited to launch another research award opportunity for academia. Led by Mark Harman, this request for proposals (RFP) continues the research work Facebook is doing that tackles the scientific and technical challenges we face in developing and deploying a Web Enabled Simulation.

Join us on Wednesday, May 26 for a live Q&A with our Facebook team who will officially launch this RFP. You can find more information about this research award and others on our website.

18:50 – 19:10 CEST (9:50am – 10:10am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 4

• Testing Web Enabled Simulation at Scale Using Metamorphic Testing
  John Ahlgren, Maru Berezin, Kinga Bojarczuk, Elena Dulskyte, Inna Dvortsova, Johann George, Natalija Gucevska, Mark Harman, Maria Lomeli, Erik Meijer, Silvia Sapora, and Justin Spahr-Summers

19:10 – 19:30 CEST (10:10 – 10:30am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 3

• Code Prediction by Feeding Trees to Transformers
  
  Sonia Kim, Jinman Zhao, Yuchi Tian, and Satish Chandra

19:30 – 19:50 CEST (10:30 – 10:50am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 3

• Learning Autocompletion from Real-World Datasets
  
  Ari Aye, Sonia Kim, and Hongyu Li

20:40 – 11:00 CEST (11:40am – 12:00pm PST)

Blended Sessions Room 4

• Industry-scale IR-based Bug Localization: A Perspective from Facebook
  
  Vijayaraghavan Murali, Lee Gross, Rebecca Qian, and Satish Chandra

Thursday, May 27

10:15 – 10:35 CEST (1:15 – 1:35am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 1

• “Ignorance and Prejudice” in Software Fairness
  Jie Zhang and Mark Harman

12:25 – 12:45 CEST (3:25 – 3:45am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 4

• MuDelta: Delta-Oriented Mutation Testing at Commit Time
  
  Wei Ma, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Mike Papadakis, and Mark Harman

17:05 – 17:25 CEST (8:05 – 8:25am PST)

Blended Sessions Room 3

• What It Would Take to Use Mutation Testing in Industry — A Study at Facebook
  
  Moritz Beller, Chu-Pan Wong, Johannes Bader, Andrew Scott, Mateusz Machalica, Satish Chandra, and Erik Meijer

21:30 – 21:50 CEST (12:30 – 12:50pm PST)

Blended Sessions Room 3

• Scalable Statistical Root Cause Analysis on App Telemetry
  
  Vijayaraghavan Murali, Edward Yao, Umang Mathur, and Satish Chandra

Tuesday, June 1

• DeepTest 2021

The International Workshop on Testing for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Testing (DeepTest) returns again as a co-located workshop at ICSE in 2021. DeepTest is a high-quality workshop for research at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and software engineering (SE).

Join keynote speakers Dr. Amir Ronen (SparkBeyond), Natalija Gucevska (Facebook London), and Mark Harman (Facebook London) at this workshop featuring invited talks, presentations based on research paper submissions, and one or more panel discussions, where all participants are invited to share their insights and ideas. Find more information at the link below.