ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tue 29 Apr 2025 16:24 - 16:30 at 212 - Session 4: Testing (talks and panel) Chair(s): Tayana Conte

Advancements in deep learning have significantly improved model performance across tasks involving code, text, and image processing. However, these models still exhibit notable mispredictions in real-world applications, even when trained on up-to-date data. Such failures often arise from slight variations in inputs such as minor syntax changes in code, rephrasing in text, or subtle lighting shifts in images that reveal inherent limitations in these models’ capability to generalize effectively. Traditional approaches to address these challenges involve retraining, a resource-intensive process that demands significant investments in data labeling, model updates, and redeployment.

This research introduces an adaptive, on-the-fly input refinement framework aimed at improving model performance through input validation and transformation. The input validation component detects inputs likely to cause errors, while input transformation applies domain-specific adjustments to better align these inputs with the model’s handling capabilities. This dual strategy reduces mispredictions across various domains, boosting model performance without necessitating retraining. As a scalable and resource-efficient solution, this framework holds significant promise for high-stakes applications in software engineering, natural language processing, and computer vision.

Tue 29 Apr

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16:00 - 17:00
Session 4: Testing (talks and panel)Doctoral Symposium at 212
Chair(s): Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
16:00
6m
Talk
TestifAI: Probabilistic Context-Aware Testing For Safe Deep Learning Models
Doctoral Symposium
AroojArif Northeastern University London
16:06
6m
Talk
Foundation Models for Automatic Issue Labeling
Doctoral Symposium
Giuseppe Colavito University of Bari
16:12
6m
Talk
Automatically Generating Single-Responsibility Unit Tests
Doctoral Symposium
Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad Católica Boliviana
16:18
6m
Talk
Automatic Test Case Generation for Smart Human-Centric Ecosystems
Doctoral Symposium
Alind Xhyra Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) Lugano, Constructor Institute of Technology (CIT) Schaffhausen
16:24
6m
Talk
A Framework for On the Fly Input Refinement for Deep Learning Models
Doctoral Symposium
Ravishka Shemal Rathnasuriya University of Texas at Dallas
16:30
30m
Panel
Panel: Testing
Doctoral Symposium
Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Xavier Devroey University of Namur, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, Ahmed Arif University of California, Merced, Giuseppe Colavito University of Bari, Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Ravishka Shemal Rathnasuriya University of Texas at Dallas, Alind Xhyra Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) Lugano, Constructor Institute of Technology (CIT) Schaffhausen