Wed 2 AprDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
11:00 - 12:30 | LLMs in TestingResearch Papers / Industry / Journal-First Papers at Aula Magna (AM) Chair(s): Phil McMinn University of Sheffield | ||
12:00 15mTalk | FlakyFix: Using Large Language Models for Predicting Flaky Test Fix Categories and Test Code Repair Journal-First Papers Sakina Fatima University of Ottawa, Hadi Hemmati York University, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland |
11:00 - 12:30 | Testing, Localisation and RepairJournal-First Papers / Research Papers / Industry at Room A Chair(s): Shin Yoo KAIST | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Summary of Automated Program Repair for Variability Bugs in Software Product Line Systems Journal-First Papers Thu-Trang Nguyen , Xiao-Yi Zhang University of Science and Technology Beijing, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics
, Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Hieu Vo VNU University of Engineering and Technology Link to publication DOI | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Automated Engineering of Domain-Specific Metamorphic Testing Environments Journal-First Papers Pablo Gómez-Abajo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Pablo C Canizares Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, Alberto Núňez University Complutense of Madrid, Spain., Esther Guerra Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Juan de Lara Autonomous University of Madrid Link to publication DOI |
11:00 - 12:30 | Fuzzing and SecurityResearch Papers / Industry / Journal-First Papers at Room A1 Chair(s): Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp and Flanders Make vzw | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Automated SC-MCC Test Case Generation using Coverage Guided Fuzzing Journal-First Papers |
14:00 - 15:30 | Test OracleJournal-First Papers / Research Papers / Industry at Aula Magna (AM) Chair(s): Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Mutation-Guided Metamorphic Testing of Optimality in AI Planning Journal-First Papers Quentin Mazouni Simula Research Laboratory, Arnaud Gotlieb Simula Research Laboratory, Helge Spieker Simula Research Laboratory, Mathieu Acher University of Rennes - Inria - CNRS - IRISA, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Link to publication DOI |
16:00 - 17:00 | Software Testing and Fault AnalysisJournal-First Papers / Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results at Room A Chair(s): Luigi Libero Lucio Starace Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Promoting Open Science in Test-driven Software Experiments Journal-First Papers | ||
16:15 15mTalk | A New Perspective on the Competent Programmer Hypothesis Through the Reproduction of Real Faults With Repeated Mutations Journal-First Papers Zaheed Ahmed University of Goettingen, Eike Schwass , Steffen Herbold University of Passau, Fabian Trautsch University of Göttingen, Jens Grabowski |
Fri 4 AprDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
11:00 - 12:30 | Automated TestingIndustry / Research Papers / Journal-First Papers / Education at Aula Magna (AM) Chair(s): Cristian Cadar Imperial College London | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Can Search-Based Testing with Pareto Optimization Effectively Cover Failure-Revealing Test Inputs? Journal-First Papers Lev Sorokin Technische Universität München, Germany, Damir Safin fortiss, Shiva Nejati University of Ottawa |
Accepted Papers
Call for Journal-First Presentations
ICST 2025 invites submissions for presentations of journal-first papers published recently in prestigious software engineering journals in all areas of software testing, verification, and validation. This will both enrich the ICST program as well as offer the authors an opportunity to present their work to the community.
Eligibility
Applications for journal papers published in:
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
- Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)
- Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
- Software Quality Journal (SQJ)
- Information and Software Technology (IST)
- Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR)
Other journals may be considered on a case-by-case basis. A journal-first presentation submitted to ICST 2025 must adhere to the following criteria:
- The paper was accepted for publication (i.e., the date of the acceptance notification) no earlier than 1 January 2023.
- The paper is in the scope of the conference, as defined in the call for ICST 2025 research papers.
- The paper reports completely new research results or presents novel contributions that were not previously reported in prior published work.
- The paper has not been presented and is not under consideration for journal-first programs of other conferences.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Automated test generation, e.g., fuzz testing, search-based test generation, (dynamic) symbolic execution
- Manual testing practices and techniques
- Security testing
- Model-based testing
- Test automation
- Static analysis and symbolic execution
- Formal verification and model checking
- Software reliability
- Social aspects of the software testing process
- Testability and design
- Testing and development processes
- Testing education
- Testing in specific domains, such as mobile, web, embedded/cyber-physical systems, concurrent, distributed, cloud, GUI, and real-time systems
- Testing for learning-enabled software, including deep learning and Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Testing video games, augmented reality
- Testing/debugging tools
- Theory of software testing
- Empirical studies
- Experience reports
Submission of Proposals
If you have a journal publication that meets the aforementioned criteria, you can submit a one-page proposal via EasyChair.
The submission should consist of:
- the paper title;
- names of all authors;
- an extended abstract using the two-column IEEE conference publication format (same as the research track submission);
- a short statement on how the work satisfies the journal-first criteria;
- a pointer to the original journal paper.
Please list all authors of the original journal paper as authors of your submission in EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icst2025).
Important Dates
- Journal First Submissions Deadline: Dec 1st 2024
- Journal First Acceptance Notification: Dec 15th 2024
- Submissions close at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12)
Publication
The JF manuscripts have already been, or will be, published through the journals and therefore will NOT be part of the ICST proceedings. The journal-first papers will be listed in the conference program and the proceedings will only contain the abstract and a pointer to the journal publication.
Presentation
If a submission is accepted for the journal-first program, at least one author of the associated journal paper must register and attend the conference to present the paper in person.