ICSME 2025
Sun 7 - Fri 12 September 2025 Auckland, New Zealand

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 10 Sep 2025 14:00 - 14:10 at Case Room 2 260-057 - Session 4 - Testing 1 Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh

Recent advances in web agent technologies have enabled automated web browser operations through natural language instructions. While these technologies show promise for end-to-end test automation, significant challenges remain, such as uncertainty in test execution due to LLMs, increased execution time and cost, and decreased accuracy in identifying operation targets as web pages become more complex. To address these challenges, we propose XTestGen, which generates Gherkin-format test cases and JavaScript step definitions from natural language. XTestGen improves reproducibility by producing deterministic scripts, enhances maintainability through modular step reuse and scenario abstraction, and increases element identification accuracy in complex web pages using hierarchical tree exploration. Our evaluation shows that XTestGen enables abstraction and reuse in test generation and achieves higher accuracy in element identification than naive approaches. A demonstration video is available at: https://youtu.be/sQmsNCPGtPo

Pre-print (paper.pdf)240KiB

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 10 Sep

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13:30 - 15:00
Session 4 - Testing 1Research Papers Track / Registered Reports / Journal First Track / NIER Track / Industry Track / Tool Demonstration Track at Case Room 2 260-057
Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh Ericsson AB, Mälardalen University, Carleton University
13:30
15m
Performance Testing in Open-Source Web Projects: Adoption, Maintenance, and a Change Taxonomy
Research Papers Track
Sergio Di Meglio Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Valeria Pontillo Gran Sasso Science Institute, Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Sergio Di Martino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Pre-print
13:45
15m
Harnessing LLMs for Document-Guided Fuzzing of OpenCV Library
Research Papers Track
Bin Duan The University of Queensland, Tarek Mahmud Texas State University, Meiru Che Central Queensland University, Yan Yan University of Illinois Chicago, Naipeng Dong The University of Queensland, Australia, Dan Dongseong Kim The University of Queensland, Guowei Yang University of Queensland
14:00
10m
XTestGen: Natural Language to Maintainable E2E Test Scripts with LLMs
Tool Demonstration Track
Hiroyuki Kirinuki NTT, Masaki Tajima NTT Software Innovation Center, Kei Wakabayashi NTT
File Attached
14:10
10m
Towards Effective Lightweight Test Oracles for Automated Multi-Fault Program RepairOnline
NIER Track
Omar I. Al-Bataineh Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
Media Attached
14:20
15m
Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
Industry Track
Davi Gama Hardman CESAR - Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems, César França Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brody Stuart-Verner University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
14:35
15m
Enriching automatic test case generation by extracting relevant test inputs from bug reports
Journal First Track
Wendkuuni Arzouma Marc Christian OUEDRAOGO University of Luxembourg, Laura Plein CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Abdoul Kader Kaboré University of Luxembourg, Andrew Habib ABB Corporate Research, Germany, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, David Lo Singapore Management University, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg
14:50
10m
An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Registered Reports
Edward Abrokwah Department of Computer Science, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University
Pre-print
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