ICST 2025
Mon 31 March - Fri 4 April 2025 Naples, Italy
Fri 4 Apr 2025 11:30 - 11:45 at Aula Magna (AM) - Automated Testing Chair(s): Cristian Cadar

The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) is a volunteer organization aiming to qualify practitioners in software testing and quality assurance. It issues a certification scheme with many certification products for this subject matter. These certification products are based on the current state of practice, international, and consist of a syllabus and certification exam question sets. We recently revised and updated the Advanced Level Test Analyst Syllabus which focuses on black-box test techniques. In this presentation, we share our experience with developing the new syllabus. First, we indicate how we determined the scope. The selected techniques had to be generally applicable and provide evidence of their effectiveness. We provide an overview of the test techniques selected, classify them, and mention the sources of information we could use. They include domain testing, random testing, combinatorial testing, state transition testing, CRUD testing, decision table testing, and metamorphic testing. Next, we indicate the level of cognitive knowledge we require for each technique based on Bloom’s taxonomy. We also mention how we selected the references to books, articles and websites. Finally, we share our experience how the new certification was received by our stakeholders - the training material authors, trainers, and exam providers. In the summary, we explain our tradeoff between the highest possible professionalism of software testers and the acceptance of our training in the industry.

Fri 4 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Automated TestingIndustry / Research Papers / Journal-First Papers / Education at Aula Magna (AM)
Chair(s): Cristian Cadar Imperial College London
11:00
15m
Talk
Testing Practices, Challenges, and Developer Perspectives in Open-Source IoT Platforms
Research Papers
Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas William & Mary, Safwat Ali Khan George Mason University, Prianka Mandal William & Mary, Adwait Nadkarni William & Mary, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Many-Objective Neuroevolution for Testing Games
Research Papers
Patric Feldmeier University of Passau, Katrin Schmelz University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Black-Box Testing for Practitioners
Education
Matthias Hamburg IEEE Computer Society; International Software Testing Qualifications Board, Adam Roman Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science; International Software Testing Qualifications Board
11:45
15m
Talk
CUBETESTERAI: Automated JUnit Test Generation using the LLaMA Model
Industry
Daniele Gorla Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Shivam Kumar , Pietro Nicolaus Roselli Lorenzini , Alireza Alipourfaz
12:00
15m
Talk
Can Search-Based Testing with Pareto Optimization Effectively Cover Failure-Revealing Test Inputs?
Journal-First Papers
Lev Sorokin Technische Universität München, Germany, Damir Safin fortiss, Shiva Nejati University of Ottawa
12:15
15m
Talk
[prerecorded] ADGE: Automated Directed GUI Explorer for Android Applications
Research Papers
Yue Jiang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Xiaobo Xiang Singular Security Lab, Beijing, China, Qingli Guo Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qi Gong Key Laboratory of Network Assessment Technology, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Xiaorui Gong Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science
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