ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Andromeda - Doctoral Symposium

Automated web UI testing addresses the labor- and time-intensive demands of manual testing. Despite its importance, numerous barriers impede the continuous automation of end-to-end web UI testing: brittle legacy tests, suboptimal automation frameworks, and web app design unsuited for effective UI testing. While many studies investigate these challenges, most overlook the root causes of brittleness from a pragmatic perspective. This dissertation first reassesses these causes by examining the brittleness of testing real-world web apps. Building on that, we extend existing frameworks to mitigate flakiness stemming from impractical automation frameworks. We also transform traditional web UI testing by decoupling test cases from web applications, using natural language as an intermediary. Finally, we introduce a pragmatic benchmark to steer research toward more realistic web applications. Through these studies, we aim to shed light on current challenges and encourage a more pragmatic perspective on UI testing.

Wed 25 Jun

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14:00 - 15:30
Doctoral SymposiumDoctoral Symposium at Andromeda

Lightning talks and poster session

14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
On the Brittleness of Legacy Web UI Testing: A Pragmatic Perspective
Doctoral Symposium
Haonan Zhang University of Waterloo
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Fine-Grained Developer Reification
Doctoral Symposium
A: Stefano Campanella REVEAL @ Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
When Performance Failure Occurs in Low-Latency Storage Systems: Observation, Prediction, and Solutions
Doctoral Symposium
A: Linxiao Bai National University of Defense Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards Privacy-Preserving Code Generation: Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Code Large Language Models
Doctoral Symposium
A: Melih Catal University of Zurich
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Mediating between Human Programmers and Integrated Development Environments using LLM-based Agents
Doctoral Symposium
A: Ziyou Li Delft University of Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Investigating the Role of Formal Verification in Software Development: From Automatic Specification Generation to Usability of Verification Languages
Doctoral Symposium
A: Tina Masoudi PhD student
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automated Vulnerability-Focused Code Reviews
Doctoral Symposium
Leonardo Centellas Computer Science Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Co-Intelligence in Software Engineering: Understanding and Optimizing GenAI Integration in Software Engineering for Skill Development in Time-Constrained Programming
Doctoral Symposium
Omkar Joshi Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Formal Liability Apportionment in Autonomous Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Kaveh Aryan King's College London
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Research Open-Source Software: supporting small communities with technical and social aspects
Doctoral Symposium
A: Lavinia Francesca Paganini Eindhoven University of Technology
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Reversing Programs for Error Reachability Analysis
Doctoral Symposium
Adéla Štěpková Masaryk University
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Towards More Interpretable Large Language Models for Code
Doctoral Symposium
A: Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas William & Mary
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Securing Language Models Against Vulnerability Encoding
Doctoral Symposium
Rui Melo University of Porto
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Enhancing Large Language Model Integration in Integrated Development Environments
Doctoral Symposium
Daniele Cipollone Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Generating Code Tours Using Locally-Runnable LLMs
Doctoral Symposium
A: Martin Balfroid University of Namur
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
End-to-End Testing Gamification: A Novel Approach to the Verification and Validation of Web and Mobile Applications
Doctoral Symposium
Lorenzo Laudadio Politecnico di Torino
14:00
90m
Doctoral symposium paper
Automating the conformity assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems software
Doctoral Symposium
Guillaume Nguyen University of Namur

Information for Participants
Wed 25 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:30 at Andromeda - Doctoral Symposium
Info for room Andromeda:

Andromeda is located close to the restaurant and the bar, at the end of the corridor on the side of the bar.

From the registration desk, go towards the restaurant, turn left towards the bar, walk until the end of the corridor.