Jean-Rémy Falleri, Floréal Morandat and Xavier Blanc were awarded the prestigious “most influential paper” prize at Automated Software Engineering 2024 conference, for their work on “Fine-grained and accurate source code differencing”, published in 2014.
Three LaBRI researchers have been awarded the prestigious “Most Influential Paper” prize at the Automated Software Engineering 2024 conference, which recognizes the most influential papers from this conference over the last ten years. The prize was awarded for their work on the paper “Fine-grained and accurate source code differencing”, which introduces a new technique for studying the evolution of a software system: syntactic evolution inference.
This technique provides a more structured and accurate view of the evolution of a software system than the classic technique used in the famous “diff” command, which uses textual evolution inference. This work has been implemented in popular open-source software here, and here. They have been very influential in the software evolution community, being at the heart of many empirical studies or approaches to automatic software repair.