There have been rapid recent developments in automated software test design, repair and program improvement. Advances in artificial intelligence also have great potential impact to tackle software testing research problems. In this keynote we highlight open research problems and challenges from an industrial perspective. This perspective draws on our experience at Meta Platforms, which has been actively involved in software testing research and development for approximately a decade. As we set out here, there are many exciting opportunities for software testing research to achieve the widest and deepest impact on software practice. With this overview of the research landscape from an industrial perspective, we aim to stimulate further interest in the deployment of software testing research. We hope to be able to collaborate with the scientific community on some of these research challenges.

Additional information

There is an invited paper (with the same title) to accompany this keynote talk.

The keynote talk will be given by Nadia Alshahwan and Mark Harman. The paper is by Nadia Alshahwan, Mark Harman and Alexandru Marginean.

Thanks to the many Meta engineers, managers and leadership for their assistance, support and work on deploying automated software testing and improvement techniques.