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

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov 2025 14:20 - 14:30 at Grand Hall 1 - Testing & Analysis 1

WebAssembly (Wasm) programs may trigger bugs in their engine implementations. To aid debugging, program reduction techniques try to produce a smaller variant of the input program that still triggers the bug. However, existing execution-unaware program reduction techniques struggle with large and complex Wasm programs, because they rely on static information and apply syntactic transformations, while ignoring the valuable information offered by the input program’s execution behavior.

We present RR-Reduce and Hybrid-Reduce, novel execution-aware program reduction techniques that leverage execution behaviors via record and replay. RR-Reduce identifies a bug- triggering function as the target function, isolates that function from the rest of the program, and generates a reduced program that replays only the interactions between the target function and the rest of the program. Hybrid-Reduce combines a complementary execution-unaware reduction technique with RR-Reduce to further reduce program size.

We evaluate RR-Reduce and Hybrid-Reduce on 28 Wasm programs that trigger a diverse set of bugs in three engines. On average, RR-Reduce reduces the programs to 1.20% of their original size in 14.5 minutes, which outperforms the state of the art by 33.15× in terms of reduction time. Hybrid-Reduce reduces the programs to 0.13% of their original size in 3.5 hours, which outperforms the state of the art by 3.42× in terms of reduced program size and 2.26× in terms of reduction time. We envision RR-Reduce as the go-to tool for rapid, on-demand debugging in minutes, and Hybrid-Reduce for scenarios where developers require the smallest possible programs.

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