News

Lunch Voucher (21 May 2026)

On 21 May, your lunch is prepared as a Voucher by which you can order an item at one of the eight local restaurants nearby the conference venue. You can find the locations of the eight restaurants, and the list of items that they provide for Vouchers at the Conference Booklet, or at the following link:

https://conf.researchr.org/info/icst-2026/Lunch+Out

Vouchers will be distributed right after the MIP award session at Grand Ballroom 201. If you need to take it on the other time, please visit the Secretariat Office right next to Grand Ballroom 201.

Proceedings Access (17 May 2026)

From 18 May, the proceedings will be available online for participants.
You will be able to find the access information once you signed in the registration website: https://icst2026.genimice.com

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Welcome to the official website of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026 edition.

ICST serves as a premier platform uniting researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners worldwide to showcase their cutting-edge research findings, innovative ideas, and practical applications in the domain of Software Testing, Verification, and Validation. The 19th edition of ICST, scheduled for 2026, will be held in Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

ICST 2026 will welcome high-quality submissions across various tracks, including (but not limited to) full research papers, short papers, posters, testing tools and demonstrations, industry perspectives, and doctoral symposium submissions. Additionally, the conference will host co-located events, including workshops, challenges and tutorials, and keynote addresses by eminent scientists. Stay tuned for additional details on tracks and co-located events!

All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

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Announcements

One-day Registration will be available on site (11 May 2026)

We offer one-day on-site registration for each day of the main conference program (19 May, 20 May, and 21 May). Please find more details at the registration page.

Invited Tutorials (23 Apr 2026)
We are thrilled to announce that ICST 2026 accommodate two invited tutorials on security testing:

• Function-Level Fuzzing for RTOS Kernels with RTCon by Eunkyu Lee and Insu Yun (KAIST)
• B2R2: Practical Binary Reversing for Security Research by Sehoon Kim and Sang Kil Cha (KAIST)

Please find more on them at the ICST 2026 Tutorials.

Early-bird Registration Re-opened (22 Apr 2026)
In response to multiple requests, we have re-opened the registration site. New registrations will be accepted at the Early-bird rate until the end of April:

https://icst2026.genimice.com/index.do

If you have any technical issue, please contact the registration manager at registration@icst2026.org

Early-bird and Author Registration Deadlines Extended (10 Apr 2026)

We are extending the earl-bird registration deadline by one week.
You can register at the early-bird rates by 17 Apr 2026 AoE.

In addition, the author registration deadline has been extended to 15 April 2026 AoE due to the previous temporary unavailability of the payment system.

Keynote Speakers (30 Mar 2026)

We are delighted to announce three eminent keynote speakers for ICST 2026.

Marcel Böhme (MPI-SP, Germany)	Tsong Yueh Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)	Shin Yoo (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

Conference Hotel Information (19 Mar 2026)

We introduce our partnered hotels, which offer special discounted rates exclusively for ICST 2026 participants. Please find more details at the Hotels page.

Announcement: 12 Mar 2026

Registration Updates (12 Mar 2026)

We have two good news to share:

First, the registration system is now available for payment from anywhere in the world: https://icst2026.genimice.com/index.do

Second, we have reduced the registration fees to make ICST 2026 more accessible: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/icst-2026/registration

For those who already completed their payment, the registration team is contacting you regarding the refunding. Please check email used for your registration.

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— ICST Conference (@ICSTconf) April 8, 2026

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