FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Thu 9 Jul 2026 15:10 - 15:30 at MB 2.430 - GUI Testing Chair(s): Shin Yoo

Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing is a primary technique for testing mobile applications. Among existing testing methods, script-based testing is widely adopted because test scripts can be replayed across devices and versions. However, as mobile apps evolve, frequent changes to GUI appearance and interaction logic often render scripts written for earlier versions obsolete. Existing repair approaches typically follow a stepwise framework, repairing scripts action by action. While effective for minor GUI appearance changes, they struggle when interaction logic is modified. In this paper, we present TUSR, a test unit–based repair framework that fundamentally departs from the stepwise paradigm. TUSR introduces the concept of a “Test Unit”—a contiguous sequence of test actions serving a single testing intention—and repairs scripts at the unit level. It first splits scripts into test units using a multi-modal LLM with a rule-based correction mechanism to ensure consistency, then conducts dynamic repair guided by a Chain-of-Thought prompt enhanced with reflective memory. Experiments on 20 real-world Android applications, covering 262 test scripts and 3,485 actions, demonstrate that TUSR significantly outperforms state-of-the-art black-box and white-box repair approaches.

Thu 9 Jul

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14:00 - 15:20
14:00
20m
Talk
VLM-Fuzz: Vision Language Model Assisted Recursive Depth-First Search Exploration for Effective GUI Testing of Android Apps
Journal-First Paper
Biniam Fisseha Demissie Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Yan Naing Tun Singapore Management University, Lwin Khin Shar Singapore Management University, Mariano Ceccato University of Verona
14:20
20m
Talk
From Suspicious Signals to Crashes: Guiding Bug-driven GUI Testing via Code-inspired Tracing
Research Papers
Mengzhuo Chen Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhe Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chunyang Chen TU Munich, Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Boyu Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuekai Huang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jun Hu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:40
20m
Talk
WebTestPilot: Agentic End-to-End Web Testing against Natural Language Specification by Inferring Oracles with Symbolized GUI Elements
Research Papers
Xiwen Teoh National University of Singapore, Yun Lin Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Duc-Minh Nguyen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ruofei Ren Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wenjie Zhang National University of Singapore, Jin Song Dong National University of Singapore
Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
From GUI Tests to Conversational Interaction: A New Perspective on App-Specific Voice Assistants
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Xue Qin Villanova University, Sumesh Surendran Letha Villanova University
Media Attached File Attached
15:10
20m
Talk
TUSR: A Test Unit–Based Framework for Repairing Obsolete GUI Test Scripts
Research Papers
Shaoheng Cao Nanjing University, Minxue Pan Nanjing University, Xuandong Li Nanjing University