SANER 2026
Tue 17 - Fri 20 March 2026 Limassol, Cyprus
Wed 18 Mar 2026 14:15 - 14:30 at Megaron Gamma - Session 2C - Testing and Analysis Chair(s): Simin Sun

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) rely on extensive testing to ensure safety and reliability, yet road scenario datasets often contain redundant cases that slow down the testing process without improving fault detection. We present a novel test prioritization approach that reduces redundancy while preserving geometric and behavioral diversity. Road scenarios are segmented into representative sections, which are compared using similarity scores based on dynamic time warping and enriched with dynamic features of the ADS driving behavior. These features guide clustering to identify groups of similar scenarios, from which representative cases are selected to guarantee coverage. Finally, we introduce a prioritization mechanism that ranks roads based on geometric complexity, driving difficulty, and historical failures, ensuring that the most critical and challenging tests are executed first. We evaluate our approach on the OPENCAT dataset and the Udacity self-driving car simulator using different ADS from the literature, showing that it substantially reduces redundancy while preserving scenario diversity and improving test efficiency.

Wed 18 Mar

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14:00 - 15:30
Session 2C - Testing and AnalysisResearch Track / Tool Demo Track / Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track / Industrial Track / Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track at Megaron Gamma
Chair(s): Simin Sun Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
14:00
15m
Talk
PiCo: Privacy-preserving Code Sanitization for Cloud-based LLMs
Research Track
Xinyuan Zhang Sun Yat-sen University, Yuhong Nan Sun Yat-sen University, Jiequan Zheng Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangrong Wu Sun Yat-sen University, Yixi Lin Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
14:15
15m
Talk
Coverage-Guided Road Selection and Prioritization for Efficient Testing in Autonomous Driving Systems
Research Track
Qurban Ali University of Milano-Bicocca, Andrea Stocco Technical University of Munich, fortiss, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Oliviero Riganelli University of Milano - Bicocca
Pre-print
14:30
15m
Talk
CloudFix: Automated Policy Repair for Cloud Access Control Policies Using Large Language Models
Research Track
Bethel Hall Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, Owen Ungaro Stevens Institute of Technolgoy, William Eiers
Pre-print
14:45
15m
Talk
Search-based Testing for an Autonomous Delivery Robots Scheduler
Industrial Track
Thomas Laurent Lero@Trinity College Dublin, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics
15:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Investigation on the use of Large Language Models for Performance Bug Detection
Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track
Muhammad Imran Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Vittorio Cortellessa University of L'Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Riccardo Rubei Malardalen University, Luca Traini University of L'Aquila
15:15
7m
Talk
WasmWeaver: A Framework for Runtime-Aware WebAssembly Program Generation with Reinforcement Learning
Tool Demo Track
Kilian Müller Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Siddharth Mane , Peter Wägemann Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Norman Franchi
15:22
7m
Talk
An Agentic AI Framework for Conflict-Aware Smart Home Automation via Natural Language
Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track
Sayyada Aisha Mehvish Toronto Metropolitan University, Manar Alalfi Toronto Metropolitan University