ICTSS 2025
Wed 17 - Fri 19 September 2025 Limassol, Cyprus
co-located with ECSA 2025
Fri 19 Sep 2025 11:30 - 12:00 at Atrium C - Reinforcement Learning and Generative Testing Chair(s): Li Huang

Testing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents is costly and heavily dependent on environment configurations. Tests based on randomly generated configurations without specific objectives tend to be inefficient. Two key criteria for effective test generation are the difficulty and diversity of configurations. A configuration is considered difficult if it is likely to cause the agent to fail. Diversity aims to broadly cover the space of possible configurations. Automatically identifying configurations that are both difficult and diverse improves the evaluation of DRL agents, but remains a challenging task. Our approach is inspired by existing literature: we build a binary classifier to distinguish configurations, identify explanatory attributes using the Layerwise Relevance Propagation (LRP) method, and then generate new configurations through mutation. Experimental results on the parking and humanoid environments show that our method produces more difficult and diverse configurations, leading to a higher failure rate compared to existing approaches on the same environments.

Fri 19 Sep

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11:00 - 12:30
Reinforcement Learning and Generative TestingGeneral Track at Atrium C
Chair(s): Li Huang Constructor Institute Schaffhausen
11:00
30m
Talk
Reusable Test Suites for Reinforcement Learning
General Track
Jørn Eirik Betten Simula Research Laboratory; Oslo Metropolitan University, Quentin Mazouni Simula Research Laboratory, Dennis Gross Simula Research Laboratory, Pedro Lind Oslo Metropolitan University; School of Economics,Innovation and Technology, Kristiania University of AppliedSciences, Helge Spieker Simula Research Laboratory
11:30
30m
Talk
Test Generation for Deep Reinforcement Learning Using LRP-Guided Mutation of Classified Configurations
General Track
Brice Tchuenkam Université du Québec en Outaouais, Omer Nguena Timo Université du Québec en Outaouais
12:00
30m
Talk
Test Amplification for REST APIs via Single and Multi-Agent LLM Systems
General Track
Robbe Nooyens University of Antwerp, Tolgahan Bardakci University of Antwerp and Flanders Make, Mutlu Beyazıt University of Antwerp and Flanders Make vzw, Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp and Flanders Make vzw