SSBSE 2025
Sun 16 Nov 2025 Seoul, South Korea
co-located with ASE 2025
Sun 16 Nov 2025 14:50 - 15:10 at Grand Hall 4 - SSBSE Challenge

Fuzzing has become a key search-based technique for software testing, but continuous fuzzing campaigns consume substantial computational resources and generate significant carbon footprints. Existing grey-box fuzzing approaches like AFL++ focus primarily on coverage maximisation, without considering the energy costs of exploring different execution paths. This paper presents GreenAFL, an energy-aware framework that incorporates power consumption into the fuzzing heuristics to reduce the environmental impact of automated testing whilst maintaining coverage. GreenAFL introduces two key modifications to traditional fuzzing workflows: energy-aware corpus minimisation considering power consumption when reducing initial corpora, and energy-guided heuristics that direct mutation towards high-coverage, low-energy inputs. We conduct an ablation study comparing vanilla AFL++, energy-based corpus minimisation, and energy-based heuristics to evaluate the individual contributions of each component. Results show that highest coverage, and lowest energy usage is achieved whenever at least one of our modifications is used.

Fuzz Smarter, Not Harder: Towards Greener Fuzzing with GreenAFL (2510.25665v1.pdf)1.15MiB

Sun 16 Nov

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14:00 - 15:30
SSBSE ChallengeSSBSE Challenge at Grand Hall 4
14:00
10m
Talk
Challenge Overview
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14:10
20m
Talk
GA4GC: Greener Agent for Greener Code via Multi-Objective Configuration Optimization
SSBSE Challenge
Jingzhi Gong University of Leeds, Yixin Bian Harbin Normal University, Luis de la Cal Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Giovanni Pinna University of Trieste, Anisha Uteem King's College London, David Williams University College London, Mar Zamorano López University College London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, William Langdon University College London, Hector Menendez King’s College London, Federica Sarro University College London
Pre-print
14:30
20m
Talk
GreenMalloc: Allocator Optimisation for Industrial Workloads
SSBSE Challenge
Aidan Dakhama King's College London, William Langdon University College London, Hector Menendez King’s College London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London
Pre-print
14:50
20m
Talk
Fuzz Smarter, Not Harder: Towards Greener Fuzzing with GreenAFL
SSBSE Challenge
Ayse Irmak Ercevik King's College London, Aidan Dakhama King's College London, Melane Navaratnarajah King's College London, Yazhuo Cao King's College London, Leo Fernandes Federal Institute of Alagoas (IFAL)
Pre-print File Attached
15:10
20m
Talk
HotCat: Green and Effective Feature Selection for HotFix Bug Taxonomy
SSBSE Challenge
Luis de la Cal Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Yazhuo Cao King's College London, Ayse Irmak Ercevik King's College London, Giovanni Pinna University of Trieste, Lukas Twist King's College London, David Williams University College London, Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, William Langdon University College London, Hector Menendez King’s College London, Federica Sarro University College London
Pre-print