ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov 2025 14:00 - 14:10 at Grand Hall 1 - Testing & Analysis 1

It is essential to detect functional differences between programs in various software engineering tasks, such as automated program repair, mutation testing, and code refactoring. The problem of detecting functional differences between two programs can be reduced to searching for a difference exposing test (DET): a test input that results in different outputs on the subject programs. In this paper, we propose Mokav, a novel execution-driven tool that leverages LLMs to generate DETs. Mokav takes two versions of a program (P and Q) and an example test input. When successful, Mokav generates a valid DET, a test input that leads to provably different outputs on P and Q. Mokav iteratively prompts an LLM with a specialized prompt to generate new test inputs. At each iteration, Mokav provides execution-based feedback from previously generated tests until the LLM produces a DET. We evaluate Mokav on 1535 pairs of Python programs collected from the Codeforces competition platform and 32 pairs of programs from the QuixBugs dataset. Our experiments show that Mokav outperforms the state-of-the-art, Pynguin and Differential Prompting, by a large margin. Mokav can generate DETs for 81.7% (1,255/1535) of the program pairs in our benchmark (versus 4.9% for Pynguin and 37.3% for Differential Prompting). We demonstrate that the iterative and execution-driven feedback components of the system contribute to its high effectiveness.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Mokav: Execution-driven Differential Testing with LLMs
Journal-First Track
Khashayar Etemadi ETH Zurich, Bardia Mohammadi Sharif University of Technology, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology
14:10
10m
Talk
Validity-Preserving Delta Debugging via Generator Trace Reduction
Journal-First Track
Luyao Ren Peking University, Xing Zhang Peking University, Ziyue Hua Peking University, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Xiao He Bytedance, Yingfei Xiong Peking University, Tao Xie Peking University
14:20
10m
Talk
Execution-Aware Program Reduction for WebAssembly via Record and Replay
Research Papers
Doehyun Baek University of Stuttgart, Daniel Lehmann Google, Germany, Ben L. Titzer Carnegie Mellon University, Sukyoung Ryu KAIST, Michael Pradel CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
14:30
10m
Talk
DebCovDiff: Differential Testing of Coverage Measurement Tools on Real-World Projects
Research Papers
Wentao Zhang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jinghao Jia University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Erkai Yu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tianyin Xu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Media Attached
14:40
10m
Talk
DRIFT: Debug-based Trace Inference for Firmware Testing
Research Papers
Changming Liu Northeastern University, Alejandro Mera Northeastern University, Meng Xu University of Waterloo, Engin Kirda Northeastern University
14:50
10m
Talk
Enhancing Differential Testing With LLMs For Testing Deep Learning Libraries
Journal-First Track
Meiziniu LI The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dongze Li The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jianmeng Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jialun Cao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yongqiang Tian Monash University, Shing-Chi Cheung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15:00
10m
Talk
Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement
Research Papers
Yuanhe Zhang Zhejiang University, Zhiquan Yang Zhejiang University, Shengyi Pan Zhejiang University, Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University
15:10
10m
Talk
Metamorphic Testing for Audio Content Moderation Software
Research Papers
Wenxuan Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yongjiang Wu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junyuan Zhang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shuqing Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yun Peng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenting Chen City University of Hong Kong, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:20
10m
Talk
Comprehend, Imitate, and then Update: Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Test Suite Evolution
Research Papers
Tangzhi Xu Nanjing University, Jianhan Liu Nanjing University, Yuan Yao Nanjing University, Cong Li ETH Zurich, Feng Xu Nanjing University, Xiaoxing Ma Nanjing University