Program - ICSE 2026

Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Mon 13 Apr

9:00

Vibe Coding ≠ Vibe Testing: What Happens When No One Reads Source Code

Antonio Mastropaolo

9:20

9:40

10:00

Beyond Accuracy: Characterizing Code Comprehension Capabilities in (Large) Language Models

Felix Mächtle, Jan-Niclas Serr, Nils Loose, Thomas Eisenbarth

Large Language Models for Secure Code Assessment: A Multi-Language Empirical Study

Kohei Dozono, Tiago Espinha Gasiba, Andrea Stocco

10:20

10:40

11:00

Latent Regularization in Generative Test Input Generation

Giorgi Merabishvili, Oliver Weissl, Andrea Stocco

Tool Competition Opening

11:20

Warnless @ DeepTest 2026 Tool Competition

Qunying Song, Yuan Gao, Roberto Brusnicki, Federica Sarro

Virtual Attendance

11:40

Exida Test Generator @ DeepTest 2026 Tool Competition

Kaan Gueney Keklikci, Krepis Dimitrij, Peressini Gaia

Virtual Attendance

12:00

Contextual Risk-Driven Input Structuring for Probing (CRISP) @ DeepTest 2026 Tool Competition

Virtual Attendance

ATLAS: Adaptive Test Learning And Selection @ DeepTest 2026 Tool Competition

Antonio Pedro Santos Alves, Marcos Kalinowski

12:20

12:40

13:00

13:20

13:40

14:00

Joanna Kisaakye, Wing Lam, Fabian Leinen, August Shi

Keynote: The Ghost in the Machine - Why we still have not solved Flaky tests

14:20

14:40

15:00

Panel: Flaky Tests in Industry

15:20

15:40

16:00

A Preliminary Study on the Vocabulary of Flaky Tests in Swift

João Medeiros, Breno Miranda

16:20

Flaky Tests in a Large Industrial Database Management System: An Empirical Study of Fixed Issue Reports for SAP HANA

Alexander Berndt, Thomas Bach, Sebastian Baltes

16:40

Preliminary Results on Evaluating Large Language Models for Labeling Root Cause Categories of Fixed Flaky Tests

Yang Chen, Kaiyao Ke, Darko Marinov

17:00

Panel: Future of Flaky Test Research in the Era of Generative AI

17:20