ICSE Most Influential Papers

ICSE

International Conference
on Software Engineering®

ICSE MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPER AWARD

This award is presented at each ICSE, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering® to the author(s) of the paper from the ICSE conference of 10 years ago that is judged to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering during the 10 years since its original publication.

The award is jointly sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE.

Recipients are given a plaque engraved with their names and signed by the General Chair of ICSE'N. The award is presented yearly by the ICSE'N general chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. The recipients are asked to give a presentation at the conference on their current views on software engineering.

Each year the current program committee for ICSE'N reviews the papers from ICSE'(N-10) and selects the paper they consider to have been the most influential paper during the previous 10 years. When more than one paper receives strong support, honorable mention awards are sometimes given as deemed appropriate.

RECIPIENTS AND TITLE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPER AWARD

2021	Andrea Arcuri, Lionel Briand: A Practical Guide for Using Statistical Tests to Assess Randomized Algorithms in Software Engineering ICSE-33, 2011
2020	Susmit Jha, Sumit Gulwani, Sanjit A. Seshia, Ashish Tiwari: Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis ICSE-32, 2010
2019	Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues, Stephanie Forrest: It Does What You Say, Not What You Mean: Lessons From A Decade of Program Repair ICSE-31, 2009
2018	Amy J. Ko and Brad A. Myers: Debugging Reinvented: Asking and Answering Why and Why Not Questions About Program Behavior ICSE-30, 2008
2017	Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ernst, and Thomas Ball: Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation ICSE-29, 2007
2016	John Anvik, Lyndon Hiew, and Gail C. Murphy: Who Should Fix This Bug? ICSE-28, 2006
2015	James H. Andrews, Lionel C. Briand, and Yvan Labiche: Is Mutation an Appropriate Tool for Testing Experiments? ICSE-27, 2005b
2014	Thomas Zimmerman, Peter Weisgerber, Stephan Diehl and Andreas Zeller: Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes, ICSE-26, 2004
2013	Davor Čubranić and Gail C. Murphy: Hipikat: Recommending Pertinent Software Development Artifacts, ICSE-25, 2003
2012	Jonathan Aldrich, Craig Chambers, David Notkin: ArchJava: Connecting Software Architecture to Implementation, ICSE-24, 2002
2011	Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella: Analysis and Testing of Web Applications, ICSE-23, 2001
2010	James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Păsăreanu, Robby, Hongjun Zheng: Bandera: extracting finite-state models from Java source code, ICSE-22, 2000
2010	Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, James Herbsleb: A case study of open source software development: the Apache server, ICSE-22, 2000.
2009	Peri Tarr, Harold Ossher, William Harrison, and Stanley M. Sutton Jr.: N Degrees of Separation: Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns, ICSE-21, 1999.
2008	Peyman Oreizy, Nenad Medvidovic and Richard N. Taylor: Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution, ICSE-20, 1998.
2007	Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco and Giovanni Vigna: Designing Distributed Applications with Mobile Code Paradigms, ICSE-19, 1997.
2006	No Award.
2005	Michael Jackson and Pamela Zave: Deriving Specifications from Requirements: An Example, ICSE-17, 1995.
2004	Robert Allen and David Garlan: Formalizing Architectural Connection, ICSE-16, 1994.
2003	Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer and Anthony Finkelstein: Expressing the Relationships between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification, ICSE-15, 1993.
2002	David S. Rosenblum: Towards a Method of Programming with Assertions, ICSE-14, 1992.
2001	Robert Balzer: Tolerating Inconsistency, ICSE-13, 1991.
2000	No award.
1999	Dewayne Perry: The Inscape Environment, ICSE-11, 1989.
1998	David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman and Aharon Shtul-Trauring: Statemate: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems, ICSE-10, 1988.
1997	Manny Lehman: Process Models, Process Programs, Programming Support, ICSE-9, 1987.
1997	Lee Osterweil: Software Processes are Software Too, ICSE-9, 1987.
1996	Sam Redwine Jr. and William Riddle: Software Technology Maturation, ICSE-8, 1985.
1995	David L. Parnas, Paul C. Clements and David M. Weiss: The Modular Structure of Complex Systems, ICSE-7, 1984.
1994	Sol Greenspan, John Mylopoulos and Alex Borgida: Capturing More World Knowledge in the Requirements Specification, ICSE-6, 1982.
1993	Mark Weiser: Program Slicing, ICSE-5, 1981.
1992	Walter Tichy: Software Development Control Based on Module Interconnection, ICSE-4, 1979.
1991	David Parnas: Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction, ICSE-3, 1978.
1990	William A. Wulf, Ralph L. London and Mary Shaw: An Introduction to the Construction and Verification of Alphard Programs, ICSE-2, 1976.
1989	Marc J. Rochkind: The Source Code Control System, NCSE-1, 1975.