That's a wrap for this year's edition of PROMISE! 🎊 It was a fantastic run, full of interesting talks and lively discussions. Thanks to everyone involved for putting together such a rich program. Keep following this space for updates on next year's edition — we'll see you then!

⚠️Youwei Huang presents work on detecting malicious intent in smart contracts using pre-trained programming language models — with Jianwen Li (CMU Silicon Valley), Sen Fang (NC State), Yao Li, Peng Yang & Bin Hu (CAS). #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

✍️Closing out the talks: Francisco Ortin (Univ. of Oviedo) on probabilistic evidence aggregation for source code authorship verification — an ongoing set-based approach. With David Álvarez-Fidalgo. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

️🛡️ Session 4 continues with exciting talks! Savvas Mantzouranidis presents MAS-SRE — a multi-agent system for security requirements engineering. Joint work with Ricardo Britto. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🧠 Ichsan Budiman (Univ. of Birmingham) asks: do LLMs detecting design patterns actually understand structure, or just familiar variable/class names? Work with Leandro Minku. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

📚 Hunter Leary presents "Beyond Code Snippets" — benchmarking LLMs on repository-level QA. With Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew, Swanand Vaishampayan & Chris Brown. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

⚙️Moein Abtahi (Ontario Tech Univ.) introduces NGQA — a Next-Gen Software Quality Accelerator combining AI agents and LLM reasoning. Joint work with Akramul Azim. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🎤 Keynote 2 at #PROMISE2026: "Rethinking Reliability for Software Engineering Agents" — Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen (@petertsehsun) kickstarts Session 3. What does "reliable" mean when agents are writing code? Come find out! @FSEconf #PROMISE26 #FSE26 #FSE2026

⚙️Akramul Azim on model-driven automation of cyber-physical systems, combining AADL with LLMs. Joint work with Abdul Wahab. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🧩 Closing Session 2 at #PROMISE2026: Viktor Kjellberg (Chalmers | Univ. of Gothenburg) on guiding LLMs to actually follow software design patterns. With Farnaz Fotrousi & Miroslaw Staron. #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🔍 "High Agreement, Shallow Reasoning" — Eduardo Figueiredo presents a mixed-method study of LLMs in refactoring. Co-authors: Larisse Amorim, Caique Fortunato, Gustavo Vale. #PROMISE2026 #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

👩‍💻 We start off our second session: LLMs for code quality & developer interaction. First off: Ranim Khojah on how developers actually react to LLM-generated refactoring suggestions. #FSE2026 #PROMISE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🔐 Up next at #PROMISE2026: Junjie Li (Concordia Univ.) on "Secure-Instruct" — prompting, synthesizing, and fine-tuning LLMs for more secure code generation. Co-authors: Fazle Rabbi, Bo Yang, Song Wang, Jinqiu Yang. #FSE2026 #PROMISE26 #FSE26

🤖 Now at #PROMISE2026: Md Naklha Rafi presents an empirical study of waterfall-style multi-agent LLM workflows for class-level code generation — w/ Wasique Islam Shafin, Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen (@petertsehsun). #FSE2026 #FSE26 #PROMISE26:

🎤 Starting off #PROMISE2026 with our first keynote: "The Limits of 'Cute' CI/CD Pipelines" by @shane_mcintosh (Univ. of Waterloo). A hard look at build/release automations!  Live now at Concordia SGW! @FSEconf #FSE2026 #FSE26 #PROMISE26

We are kicking off #PROMISE26 this morning with a note from our GC, Lili Wei (@LiliWei_SE) , and PC Co-Chair, Csaba Nagy (@ncsaba_).  If you are at FSE in person, join us at MB 3.430. Otherwise, follow along here as we keep you posted as the day unfolds. #FSE2026

🗓️With ICSE wrapping up, it’s time to look ahead: a quick reminder that the early bird registration deadline for @FSEconf is April 24th, a week from today. We look forward to welcoming all of you to PROMISE'26 in Montreal this July. conf.researchr.org/attending…

📢 Exciting news! The accepted papers at PROMISE'26 are now available on our website: conf.researchr.org/home/prom…. Congratulations to all the authors on their fantastic work! 🎉 These papers will be presented on July 5 @FSEconf in Montreal—join us there!

📢 We are one day away from the deadline for PROMISE '26! Submit your papers and make sure to join us @FSEconf in July. More details: conf.researchr.org/home/prom…

🎉 Sharing some good news today! PROMISE’26 no longer requires an abstract submission. We look forward to receiving your papers by Jan 16. More details: conf.researchr.org/home/prom… 📅 Important Dates (AoE) 📄 Paper Submission: Jan 16, 2026 📢 Author Notification: March 6, 2026