ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thu 16 Apr 2026 14:00 - 14:15 at Asia IV - AI for Software Engineering 14 Chair(s): Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Automated unit test generation using large language models (LLMs) holds great promise but often struggles with generating tests that are both correct and maintainable in real-world projects. This paper presents KTester, a novel framework that integrates project-specific knowledge and testing domain knowledge to enhance LLM-based test generation. Our approach first extracts project structure and usage knowledge through static analysis, which provides rich context for the model. It then employs a testing-domain-knowledge-guided separation of test case design and test method generation, combined with a multi-perspective prompting strategy that guides the LLM to consider diverse testing heuristics. The generated tests follow structured templates, improving clarity and maintainability. We evaluate KTester on multiple open-source projects, comparing it against state-of-the-art LLM-based baselines using automatic correctness and coverage metrics, as well as a human study assessing readability and maintainability. Results demonstrate that KTester significantly outperforms existing methods across all metrics, producing tests with clearer intent and higher practical value.

Thu 16 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
AI for Software Engineering 14Research Track at Asia IV
Chair(s): Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
14:00
15m
Talk
Knowledge Matters: Injecting Project and Testing Knowledge into LLM-based Unit Test GenerationVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Anji Li School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Mingwei Liu Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhenxi Chen Sun Yat-Sen University, Zheng Pei Sun Yat-Sen University, Zike Li Sun Yat-Sen University, Dekun Dai Sun Yat-Sen University, Yanlin Wang Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
14:15
15m
Talk
Issue2Test: Generating Reproducing Test Cases from Issue ReportsVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Noor Nashid University of British Columbia, Islem BOUZENIA CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Michael Pradel CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Ali Mesbah University of British Columbia
14:30
15m
Talk
RBCTest: Leveraging LLMs to Mine and Verify Oracles of API Response Bodies for RESTful API Testing
Research Track
Hieu Huynh University of Melbourne, Quoc-Tri Le Katalon LLC, Tu Nguyen University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nguyen University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vu Nguyen University of Science, VNU-HCM; Katalon LLC., Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
14:45
15m
Talk
Measuring the Influence of Incorrect Code on Test Generation
Research Track
Dong Huang The University of Hong Kong, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Mark Harman Meta Platforms, Inc. and UCL, Mingzhe Du National University of Singapore, Heming Cui University of Hong Kong
15:00
15m
Talk
Retrieval-Augmented Test Generation: How Far Are We?
Research Track
Jiho Shin Queen's University, Nima Shiri Harzevili York University, Reem Aleithan York University, Canada, Hadi Hemmati York University, Song Wang York University
Pre-print
15:15
15m
Talk
SAINT: Service-level Integration Test Generation with Program Analysis and LLM-based Agents
Research Track
Rangeet Pan IBM Research, Raju Pavuluri IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Ruikai Huang Georgia Institute of Technology, Tyler Stennett Georgia Institute of Technology, Rahul Krishna IBM Research, Alessandro Orso University of Georgia, USA, Saurabh Sinha IBM Research