ICST 2025
Mon 31 March - Fri 4 April 2025 Naples, Italy
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Dates
Wed 2 Apr 2025
Fri 4 Apr 2025
Tracks
ICST Education
ICST Industry
ICST Journal-First Papers
ICST Research Papers
ICST Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results
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Wed 2 Apr

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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
15m
Talk
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
15m
Talk
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
15m
Talk
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
15m
Talk
Automated SC-MCC Test Case Generation using Coverage Guided Fuzzing
Journal-First Papers
Golla Monika Rani , Sangharatna Godboley National Institute of Technology Warangal
14:00 - 15:30
Test OracleJournal-First Papers / Research Papers / Industry at Aula Magna (AM)
Chair(s): Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg
14:45
15m
Talk
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
15m
Talk
Promoting Open Science in Test-driven Software Experiments
Journal-First Papers
Marcus Kessel University of Mannheim, Colin Atkinson University of Mannheim
16:15
15m
Talk
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 Apr

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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
15m
Talk
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

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.

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