ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Wed 30 Apr 2025 11:30 - 11:45 at 214 - AI for Testing and QA 1 Chair(s): Jieshan Chen

UI automation is a useful technique for UI testing, bug reproduction and robotic process automation. Recording the user actions with an application assists rapid development of UI automation scripts, but existing recording techniques are intrusive, rely on OS or GUI framework accessibility support or assume specific app implementations. Reversing-engineering user actions from screencasts is non-intrusive, but a key reverse-engineering step is currently missing - recognize human-understandable structured user actions ([command] [widget][location]) from action screencasts. To fill the gap, we propose a deep learning-based computer vision model which can recognize 11 commands and 11 widgets, and generate location phrases from action screencasts, through joint learning and multi-task learning. We label a large dataset with 7260 video-action pairs, which record the user interactions with Word, Zoom, Firefox, Photoshop, and Window 10 Settings. Through extensive experiments, we confirm the effectiveness and generality of our model, and demonstrate the usefulness of a screencast-to-action-script tool built upon our model for bug reproduction.

Wed 30 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
AI for Testing and QA 1Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) at 214
Chair(s): Jieshan Chen CSIRO's Data61
11:00
15m
Talk
Does GenAI Make Usability Testing Obsolete?Award Winner
Research Track
Ali Ebrahimi Pourasad , Walid Maalej University of Hamburg
11:15
15m
Talk
Feature-Driven End-To-End Test Generation
Research Track
Parsa Alian University of British Columbia, Noor Nashid University of British Columbia, Mobina Shahbandeh University of British Columbia, Taha Shabani University of British Columbia, Ali Mesbah University of British Columbia
11:30
15m
Talk
SeeAction: Towards Reverse Engineering How-What-Where of HCI Actions from Screencasts for UI AutomationAward Winner
Research Track
Dehai Zhao CSIRO's Data61, Zhenchang Xing CSIRO's Data61, Qinghua Lu Data61, CSIRO, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu Data61, CSIRO, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61
11:45
15m
Talk
Synthesizing Document Database Queries using Collection AbstractionsArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-Reusable
Research Track
Qikang Liu Simon Fraser University, Yang He Simon Fraser University, Yanwen Cai Simon Fraser University, Byeongguk Kwak Simon Fraser University, Yuepeng Wang Simon Fraser University
12:00
15m
Talk
The Power of Types: Exploring the Impact of Type Checking on Neural Bug Detection in Dynamically Typed LanguagesArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-Reusable
Research Track
Boqi Chen McGill University, José Antonio Hernández López Linköping University, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University
12:15
15m
Talk
DialogAgent: An Auto-engagement Agent for Code Question Answering Data Production
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Xiaoyun Liang ByteDance, Jingyi Ren ByteDance, Jiayi Qi ByteDance, Chao Peng ByteDance, Bo Jiang Bytedance Network Technology