ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mon 13 Apr 2026 16:00 - 16:20 at Bora Bora II - FTW Session 2

Flaky tests yield inconsistent results without any code changes, damaging the confidence in test suites. This work investigates the feasibility of detecting flaky tests in the Swift programming language through static analysis techniques combined with machine learning. From 14 open-source projects, we collected flaky tests through systematic re-execution and commit analysis, extracted tokens, and trained five classifiers (Random Forest, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, SVM, and KNN) with TF-IDF vectors. The Random Forest classifier achieved the best results, followed by SVM, demonstrating that it is possible to predict instability with high accuracy based solely on the code. The results confirm the effectiveness of static detection and vocabulary as predictors of flakiness within the Swift ecosystem, aiding developers in proactively identifying these issues.

Mon 13 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

16:00 - 17:30
FTW Session 2DeepTest / FTW at Bora Bora II
16:00
20m
Talk
A Preliminary Study on the Vocabulary of Flaky Tests in Swift
FTW
João Medeiros Federal University of Pernambuco, Breno Miranda Federal University of Pernambuco
16:20
20m
Talk
Flaky Tests in a Large Industrial Database Management System: An Empirical Study of Fixed Issue Reports for SAP HANA
FTW
Alexander Berndt Heidelberg University, Thomas Bach SAP, Sebastian Baltes Heidelberg University
Pre-print
16:40
20m
Talk
Preliminary Results on Evaluating Large Language Models for Labeling Root Cause Categories of Fixed Flaky Tests
FTW
Yang Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kaiyao Ke University of California Berkeley, Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
17:00
30m
Panel
Panel: Future of Flaky Test Research in the Era of Generative AI
FTW