AST 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025

Dates
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Thu 1 May 2025
Fri 2 May 2025
Sat 3 May 2025
Rooms
211
Canada Hall 3 plus Foyer
Tracks
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ICSE Catering
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Sun 27 Apr

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Sunday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Sunday Lunch
ICSE Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Sunday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

Mon 28 Apr

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

09:00 - 10:30
Conference Opening & KeynoteAST 2025 at 211
09:00
90m
Keynote
Personalized Fuzzing
AST 2025
Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Monday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Session 1: LLM for TestingAST 2025 at 211
11:00
30m
Full-paper
Acceptance Test Generation with Large Language Models: An Industrial Case Study
AST 2025
Margarida Ferreira University of Porto and Critical TechWorks, Luís Viegas University of Porto and Critical TechWorks, João Pascoal Faria Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC, Bruno Lima Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto & LIACC
11:30
30m
Full-paper
AsserT5: Test Assertion Generation Using a Fine-Tuned Code Language Model
AST 2025
Severin Primbs University of Passau, Benedikt Fein University of Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Pre-print
12:00
30m
Full-paper
Simulink Mutation Testing using CodeBERT
AST 2025
Jingfan Zhang University of Ottawa, Delaram Ghobari University of Ottawa, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa, Shiva Nejati University of Ottawa
Pre-print
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Monday Lunch
ICSE Catering

14:00 - 15:30
Session 2: Panel DiscussionAST 2025 at 211
15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Monday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

16:00 - 17:30
Session 3: Test GenerationAST 2025 at 211
16:00
30m
Full-paper
Automated Test-Case Generation for REST APIs Using Model Inference Search Heuristic
AST 2025
Clinton Cao Delft University of Technology, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, Sicco Verwer TU Delft
Pre-print
16:30
30m
Full-paper
Automated Test Generation for Integration Testing
AST 2025
Elson Kurian University of Milano Bicocca, Luca Guglielmo Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Pietro Braione University of Milano-Bicocca, Giovanni Denaro University of Milano - Bicocca
17:00
30m
Full-paper
Automated Test Generation from Program Documentation Encoded in Code Comments
AST 2025
Giovanni Denaro University of Milano - Bicocca, Luca Guglielmo Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Tue 29 Apr

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09:00 - 10:30
Conference Opening & Keynote 2AST 2025 at 211
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Tuesday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Session 4: When and How to TestAST 2025 at 211
11:00
22m
Full-paper
An Adaptive Testing Approach Based on Field Data
AST 2025
Samira Santos da Silva Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Ricardo Caldas Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Antonia Bertolino National Research Council, Italy
11:22
22m
Full-paper
Exceptional Behaviors: How Frequently Are They Tested?
AST 2025
Andre Hora UFMG, Gordon Fraser University of Passau
Pre-print
11:45
22m
Full-paper
Improving Examples in Web API Specifications using Iterated-Calls In-Context Learning
AST 2025
Kush Jain Carnegie Mellon University, Kiran Kate IBM Research, Jason Tsay IBM Research, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Martin Hirzel IBM Research
12:07
22m
Full-paper
What Types of Automated Tests do Developers Write?
AST 2025
Marko Ivanković University of Passau, Luka Rimanić Google Switzerland GmbH, Ivan Budiselic Google, Goran Petrovic Google; Universität Passau, Gordon Fraser University of Passau, René Just University of Washington
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Tuesday Lunch
ICSE Catering

14:00 - 15:30
Session 5: Testing of LLMsAST 2025 at 211
14:00
30m
Full-paper
Adaptive Probabilistic Operational Testing for Large Language Models Evaluation
AST 2025
Ali Asgari TU Delft, Antonio Guerriero Università di Napoli Federico II, Roberto Pietrantuono Università di Napoli Federico II, Stefano Russo Università di Napoli Federico II
14:30
30m
Full-paper
ASTRAL: Automated Safety Testing of Large Language Models
AST 2025
Miriam Ugarte Mondragon University, Pablo Valle Mondragon University, José Antonio Parejo Maestre University of Seville, Sergio Segura University of Seville, Aitor Arrieta Mondragon University
Pre-print
15:00
30m
Full-paper
A Taxonomy of Failures in Tool-Augmented LLMs
AST 2025
Cailin Winston University of Washington, René Just University of Washington
15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Tuesday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

16:00 - 17:30
Session 6: Vulnerability Detection & ClosingAST 2025 at 211
16:00
30m
Full-paper
A New Era in Software Security: Towards Self-Healing Software via Large Language Models and Formal Verification
AST 2025
Norbert Tihanyi Technology Innovation Institute, Yiannis Charalambous The University of Manchester, Ridhi Jain Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Mohamed Amine Ferrag Guelma University, Lucas C. Cordeiro University of Manchester, UK and Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
16:30
30m
Full-paper
Bringing Light into the Darkness: Leveraging Hidden Markov Models for Blackbox Fuzzing
AST 2025
Anne Borcherding Fraunhofer IOSB, Mark Giraud Fraunhofer IOSB, Johannes Häring Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
17:00
30m
Full-paper
Incorporating Domain Knowledge into GNNs for Advanced Vulnerability Detection in Java
AST 2025
ROSMAEL ZIDANE LEKEUFACK FOULEFACK Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI)/University of Trento (UNITN), Alessandro Marchetto Università di Trento

Wed 30 Apr

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Wednesday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Wednesday Lunch
ICSE Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Wednesday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

Thu 1 May

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10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Thursday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Thursday Lunch
ICSE Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Thursday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

Fri 2 May

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Friday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

12:30 - 14:00
13:15
45m
Lunch
Friday Lunch
ICSE Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Friday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

Sat 3 May

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

10:30 - 11:00
10:30
30m
Break
Saturday Morning Break
ICSE Catering

12:30 - 14:00
13:15
45m
Lunch
Saturday Lunch
ICSE Catering

15:30 - 16:00
15:30
30m
Break
Saturday Afternoon Break
ICSE Catering

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