SPLASH 2025
Sun 12 - Sat 18 October 2025 Singapore
co-located with ICFP/SPLASH 2025

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 17 Oct 2025 11:30 - 12:00 at Peony SE - Tools

Current IDE-integrated program synthesis leaves no indication of what code was auto-generated, let alone an explanation of why. This makes both identifying and understanding machine-generated code hard. We therefore add example scopes, comments enclosing synthesized code that document the input-output examples that created it. This also allows programmers to manually edit examples and re-launch the synthesizer without tediously re-entering the examples. Scopes are simply text, and so can be created anywhere, including inside other scopes. However, synthesizers can only reason about one flat example set. To address this, we introduce ScooPy, IDE-integrated program synthesis for nested example specifications. ScooPy lets programmers edit example scopes, see live information based on the examples, and, call the synthesizer using nested scopes. In two user studies with 6 and 16 participants we see that example scopes increase users’ engagement with the code and that ScooPy improves users’ ability to synthesize for some types of tasks.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 17 Oct

Displayed time zone: Perth change

10:30 - 12:15
10:30
30m
Talk
What You See Is What It Does: A Structural Pattern for Legible Software
Onward! Papers
A: Eagon Meng MIT, A: Daniel Jackson MIT
11:00
30m
Talk
Literate Tracing
Onward! Papers
Matthew Sotoudeh Stanford University
Pre-print Media Attached
11:30
30m
Talk
ScooPy: Enhancing Program Synthesis with Nested Example Specifications
Onward! Papers
Tomer Katz Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Hila Peleg Technion