Want to know how Automatic Program Repair is being implemented in industry? Well, hot off the SCC Lancaster press is Emily Winter’s FSE 2025 presentation of the APR work done on The Fixie project project in collaboration with Tech At Bloomberg: youtube.com/watch?v=wAB9HH…

It's been an absolute pleasure to attend (albeit virtually) the GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2025 today and present our poster and paper on Improved Evaluation of Automatic Source Code Summarisation! (tinyurl.com/mvvphd2c)

As ICSE Steering Committee chair, I'm happy to announce that ICSE 2027 will be held in Dublin - thanks so much to Brian Fitzgerald for taking on this huge task to serve the software engineering community Brian Fitzgerald Lero

We're recruiting Assistant/Associate Professors in Software Engineering. Be nice to have you join us 😀 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Our paper "Fault-insertion and Fault-fixing behavioural patterns in #Apache #Software #Foundation Projects" has been accepted for publication in Information and Software Technology. Check out the preprint: researchgate.net/publication/36…

Serkan Kirbas, a Team Lead with our News Search Infrastructure Engineering group, will be presenting "Automatic Program Repair in Industry: Findings from Bloomberg" at the 63 CREST Open Workshop (CREST Open Workshop) today (11 AM BST) bloom.bg/3yMIczf #APR #softwaredevelopment

After a very nice lunch, we are back with a talk from Dr Vesna Nowack: "Human Factors in Automatically Generated Software" #COW63

The best SE Summer School, just go if you possibly can....

On Apr. 20th, 2023 at 14.30 CET Nour Ali from Brunel University of London will give a webinar at the MC Research Group on "The Microservice Architecture Recovery Approach (MiSAR)". After the webinar, there will be a 30-min MC Meet&Greet session 🤝. Teams link: buff.ly/3MgOTRY

We're delighted with another excellent subject ranking in the latest The Guardian Good University Guide

We were lucky enough to host a talk on Explainability in SE given by the brilliant A/Prof Kla Tantithamthavorn. Thanks Kla 👏

We are beyond delighted that Dr Saad Ezzini Saad EZZINI has joined our Software Engineering Group as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) 😍 Watch this space for more work from Lancaster in the intersection of SE and NLP 💪

So pleased to see Vesna doing a great job of presenting our EPSRC funded Fixie work at the CREST COW 👏

What brilliant news for LERO 👏

We are expanding our team! Two Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) positions are available. We need a Software Engineer and a Socio-Technical expert. Come and join us in one of the most beautiful and friendly parts of the UK hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Exciting PhD Opportunity in LLM, AI & NLP for Software Engineering at Lancaster University, UK! 🎓 📅 Start: Jan/Apr 2024 📆 Application deadline: 15 Dec 2023 🔗 bit.ly/phd-llm Eligible for UK Home students. Why Lancaster? lancaster.ac.uk/study/why-lanc…

The quality of negative training data really matters in vulnerability prediction! Our latest work with Lech Madeyski sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Software vulnerability prediction is gaining great attention in cyber security. Today's #paperoftheday discusses the effect of the easy and hard negatives in vulnerability prediction datasets on the performance of vulnerability prediction. doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.…

Super proud of Lucy Hunt (Lucy Hunt) for defending her PhD on the fascinating topic of Whistleblowing in Software Engineering. Thanks to excellent examiners Klaas-Jan Stol @kjstol.bsky.social and Adrian Friday, and to Phil Benachour for chairing. 📸Lucy with supervisor Tracy Hall and examiners

Cannot believe it was 10 years ago at EASE2014 in London that Claes first gave this fabulous paper on snowballing 🤔 A well deserved award and looking forward to hearing from Claes 10 years on at #EASE2024 👏