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Andy Zaidman is a full professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He received his MSc and PhD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has been at Delft University of Technology since 2006.
His research interests include software testing, software evolution and software analytics. He is an active member of the research community and has been involved in the organisation of conferences such as ICSME, WCRE (general chair & program chair), CSMR, VISSOFT (program chair) and MSR (general chair). In 2015 he gave a talk a TEDxDelft “Making Testing Fun”.
In 2013 he received a prestigious NWO Vidi career grant from NWO, the Dutch science foundation, for his work in the area of software testing and software evolution. In 2019, he received the Vici career grant, the most prestigious career grant from the Dutch science foundation.
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Contributions
2025
2024
SCAM
ICSE
AST
- Author of An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects within the AST 2024-track
- Author of Using GitHub Copilot for Test Generation in Python: An Empirical Study within the AST 2024-track
- Author of Running a Red Light: An Investigation into Why Software Engineers (Occasionally) Ignore Coverage Checks within the AST 2024-track
- Author of What Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Teaching About Software Testing? within the AST 2024-track
2023
Mining Software Repositories
EASE
ICSE
- Session Chair of Program translation and synthesis (part of Technical Track)
- Author of Developer-centric test amplification within the Journal-First Papers-track
- Program Committee Member in Technical Track within the Technical Track-track
- Author of How Developers Engineer Test Cases: An Observational Study within the Journal-First Papers-track
AST
2022
ICSE
Mining Software Repositories
International Conference on Program Comprehension
2021
ESEM
International Conference on Program Comprehension
Mining Software Repositories
2020
ICST
- Testing Tools Track Chair in Organizing Committee
- Author of Massively Parallel, Highly Efficient, but What About the Test Suite Quality? Applying Mutation Testing to GPU Programs within the Research Papers-track
- Session Chair of Testing tools (part of Testing Tools Track)
- Testing Tools Track Chair in Program Chairs within the Testing Tools Track-track
- Session Chair of Testing tools (part of Testing Tools Track)
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
ASE
ICSE
- Author of How Bugs Are Born: A Model to Identify How Bugs Are Introduced in Software Components within the Journal First-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Doctoral Symposium-track
- Author of Improving Change Prediction Models with Code Smell-Related Information within the Journal First-track
Mining Software Repositories
- Session Chair of Award Talks (part of MSR Awards)
- Ordinary PC member in Program Committee within the Technical Papers-track
- Author of LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log Analysis within the Data Showcase-track
- Awards Co-Chair in Organizing Committee
- MSR Award Co-Chair in Program Committee within the MSR Awards-track
2019
ICSE
- PC Member in Program Committee within the New Ideas and Emerging Results-track
- Author of Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells? within the Journal-First Papers-track
- Author of Discovering Community Patterns in Open-Source: A Systematic Approach and Its Evaluation within the Journal-First Papers-track
2018
ICSE
- Author of On The Dichotomy of Debugging Behavior Among Programmers within the Technical Papers -track
- Author of Poster T7: How Do Community Smells Influence Code Smells? within the Posters -track
- Author of The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison between Textual and Structural Smells within the Journal first papers-track
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results -track