Report from the ASE 2024 Workshop on Replications and Negative Results

This report summarizes the organization and outcomes of the Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Workshop at the Automated Software Engineering (ASE) conference in 2024. This workshop solicited two types of papers: (a) papers replicating prior work, and extending that work to other datasets, domains, or methods to see if the conclusions of the original work hold; (b) negative results papers, focused on experiments that other researchers may have thought reasonable to try, but did not work, accompanied by some hypothesis.

Discussion at the workshop included topics such as the replication issue in SE, how that affects graduate students performing research, and ways to improve the replicability of research and how to disseminate negative results in the community.