FSE 2025
Mon 23 - Fri 27 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Andromeda - Lightning Talks and Poster Session Chair(s): Jie M. Zhang

Software testing is one of the most important phases of the software development process, since it allows to assess and improve the quality of the software product. One of the most common testing approaches is End-to-End testing, which consists of validating the entire application under test as a whole, not focusing on the individual components, but on the higher-level workflow. This kind of testing gives high confidence in meeting business requirements. However, End-to-End testing typically requires human intervention, which makes it a slow and expensive technique. At the same time, several studies suggest that software testing is often perceived as a tedious activity by human beings. A potential solution to this problem is gamification, i.e. the application of game design mechanics to non-ludic activities, to increase the motivation of the subjects involved. In recent years, gamification has become increasingly popular in the software engineering field, being applied to development, design, and testing. My Ph.D. path explores the possibilities given by the application of gamification to End-to-End software testing, with a focus on mobile and web applications. The goal is to realize, assess and evaluate software systems that integrate the classic End-to-end testing techniques, such as exploratory testing, with gamification aspects, such as leaderboards, competition, and levels.

Wed 25 Jun

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14:00 - 15:30
Lightning Talks and Poster SessionDoctoral Symposium at Andromeda
Chair(s): Jie M. Zhang King's College London
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards Privacy-Preserving Code Generation: Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Code Large Language Models
Doctoral Symposium
Melih Catal University of Zurich
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Reversing Programs for Error Reachability Analysis
Doctoral Symposium
Adéla Štěpková Masaryk University
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automated Vulnerability-Focused Code Reviews
Doctoral Symposium
Leonardo Centellas Computer Science Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
On the Brittleness of Legacy Web UI Testing: A Pragmatic Perspective
Doctoral Symposium
Haonan Zhang University of Waterloo
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Co-Intelligence in Software Engineering: Understanding and Optimizing GenAI Integration in Software Engineering for Skill Development in Time-Constrained Programming
Doctoral Symposium
Omkar Joshi Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Investigating the Role of Formal Verification in Software Development: From Automatic Specification Generation to Usability of Verification Languages
Doctoral Symposium
Tina Masoudi PhD student
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Enhancing Large Language Model Integration in Integrated Development Environments
Doctoral Symposium
Daniele Cipollone Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards More Interpretable Large Language Models for Code
Doctoral Symposium
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Formal Liability Apportionment in Autonomous Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Kaveh Aryan King's College London
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Fine-Grained Developer Reification
Doctoral Symposium
Stefano Campanella REVEAL @ Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
End-to-End Testing Gamification: A Novel Approach to the Verification and Validation of Web and Mobile Applications
Doctoral Symposium
Lorenzo Laudadio Politecnico di Torino
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Research Open-Source Software: supporting small communities with technical and social aspects
Doctoral Symposium
Lavinia Francesca Paganini Eindhoven University of Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Generating Code Tours Using Locally-Runnable LLMs
Doctoral Symposium
Martin Balfroid University of Namur
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
When Performance Failure Occurs in Low-Latency Storage Systems: Observation, Prediction, and Solutions
Doctoral Symposium
Linxiao Bai National University of Defense Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Mediating between Human Programmers and Integrated Development Environments using LLM-based Agents
Doctoral Symposium
Ziyou Li Delft University of Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automating the conformity assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems software
Doctoral Symposium
Guillaume Nguyen University of Namur
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Securing Language Models Against Vulnerability Encoding
Doctoral Symposium
Rui Melo University of Porto
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Information for Participants
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Andromeda - Lightning Talks and Poster Session Chair(s): Jie M. Zhang
Info for room Andromeda:

Andromeda is located close to the restaurant and the bar, at the end of the corridor on the side of the bar.

From the registration desk, go towards the restaurant, turn left towards the bar, walk until the end of the corridor.