ICST 2026
Mon 18 - Fri 22 May 2026 Daejeon, South Korea
Wed 20 May 2026 16:45 - 17:00 at Room 103 - Test Prioritization & Build Optimization Chair(s): Na Meng

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multiple general-purpose computer architectures in the data center. This leads to new testing challenges as it creates demand to qualify the software for the additional architectures. Naively double-testing all software for both architectures is costly and unnecessary. Further, reconfiguring CI/CD to take advantage of the new architecture can be non-trivial at scale. This paper introduces CI/CD Variants and an optimized testing cycle to solve these twin challenges. We empirically evaluate our solution’s impact on human and machine expenses using 44k projects at Google on real production data. First, we estimate saving ∼25% of machine expenses at the negligible cost of a few delayed breakage detections per day. Second, we estimate a 90+% reduction in human cost for migrating the configuration. All features described in this paper are now Generally Available at Google and we report this as an empirical case study in scaling CI/CD to new architectures.

Wed 20 May

Displayed time zone: Seoul change

15:30 - 17:00
Test Prioritization & Build OptimizationResearch Papers / Industry at Room 103
Chair(s): Na Meng Virginia Tech
15:30
25m
Talk
FALCON: Efficient Test Case Prioritization via Submodular OptimizationDistinguished Paper AwardArtifact ReviewedArtifact Available
Research Papers
Twumasi Mensah-Boateng University of North Texas, Jing Yuan University of North Texas, Hyunsook Do University of North Texas
15:55
25m
Talk
DANTE: Data-Driven Test Case Selection and Prioritization for Long-Running Test SuitesDistinguished Paper AwardArtifact ReviewedArtifact Available
Research Papers
Simone Reale Politecnico di Milano, Elisabeta di Nitto Politecnico di Milano, Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Giovanni Quattrocchi Politecnico di Milano
16:20
25m
Talk
How Effectively Do Large Language Models Help with Build Conflict Resolution?
Research Papers
Sheikh Shadab Towqir Virginia Tech, Xiaoyan Zhang Virginia Tech, Todd Mytkowicz Google, Na Meng Virginia Tech
Pre-print
16:45
15m
Talk
Taming the Variants: Multi-Architecture Continuous Testing at Google
Industry
Pre-print