MSR 2026
Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 14 Apr 2026 12:20 - 12:30 at Oceania V - Session 1-A: AI & Autonomous Agents

Automating front-end development directly from design artifacts and textual requirements could accelerate iteration cycles and reduce implementation errors, yet most prior work addresses only a single modality (either design-to-code or text-to-code generation) without integrating complementary specifications. We propose a multi-agent framework that jointly reasons over user stories and Figma designs to synthesize complete React applications. The framework coordinates generation, validation, and repair through three architectural strategies: Supervisor (tool-calling) for centralized routing, Hierarchical for decomposed supervision, and Custom for deterministic workflow execution. Evaluated on four real-world projects (75 user stories) using six generator–judge model pairs (Claude, Gemini, GPT), the system achieves 54% full functional coverage and 58% full visual fidelity; including partial matches raises success rates to 77% and 85%, respectively. Architectural choice modestly affects quality (3–5 percentage-point variation) but substantially impacts cost: the Custom architecture reduces generator token usage by 21–65% compared to Hierarchical and Supervisor (tool-calling) configurations, while judge models consistently dominate overall cost (5.9× more tokens on average than generators). To further enhance pipeline stability and reduce manual intervention, we introduce a lightweight repair toolkit comprising automated refusal retries, JSX sanitization, and template scaffolding resolves the majority of generation-stage failures without regeneration. Overall, these results demonstrate that multimodal, agentic frameworks can reliably automate front-end synthesis, though achieving full production-grade quality still requires human refinement and improved handling of complex interaction behaviors.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 14 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
Session 1-A: AI & Autonomous AgentsTechnical Papers / MSR Program at Oceania V
11:00
10m
Talk
Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects
Technical Papers
Hao He Carnegie Mellon University, Courtney Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Shyam Agarwal Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
11:10
10m
Talk
LLM-Based Detection of Tangled Code Changes for Higher-Quality Method-Level Bug Datasets
Technical Papers
Md Nahidul Islam Opu University of Manitoba, Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba, Shaiful Chowdhury University of Manitoba
Pre-print
11:20
10m
Talk
Adversarial Bug Reports as a Security Risk in Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair
Technical Papers
Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, Andreas Happe TU Wien, Jürgen Cito TU Wien
Pre-print
11:30
10m
Talk
Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time
Technical Papers
Răzvan Mihai Popescu Delft University of Technology, David Gros University of California, Davis, Andrei Botocan Delft University of Technology, Rahul Pandita GitHub, Inc., Prem Devanbu University of California at Davis, Maliheh Izadi Delft University of Technology
11:40
10m
Talk
Evaluating the Use of LLMs for Automated DOM-Level Resolution of Web Performance Issues
Technical Papers
Gideon Peters Concordia University, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi Concordia University, Emad Shihab Concordia University
11:50
10m
Talk
Are Coding Agents Generating Over-Mocked Tests? An Empirical Study
Technical Papers
Andre Hora UFMG, Romain Robbes CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
Pre-print
12:00
10m
Talk
Consistent or Sensitive? Automated Code Revision Tools Against Semantics-Preserving Perturbations
Technical Papers
Shirin Pirouzkhah University of Zurich, Souhaila Serbout University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Alberto Bacchelli IfI, University of Zurich
Pre-print
12:10
10m
Talk
Beyond the Prompt: An Empirical Study of Cursor Rules
Technical Papers
Shaokang Jiang University of California, Irvine, Daye Nam University of California, Irvine
Pre-print
12:20
10m
Talk
Bridging Design and Implementation: A Study of Multi-Agent LLM Architectures for Automated Front-End Generation
Technical Papers
Caren Rizk Concordia University, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi Concordia University, Emad Shihab Concordia University