We have 4 open PhD positions in the Future of Software Engineering (FUSE) lab! Topics: - code review efficiency - predictive software testing - automated code refactoring - engineering productivity metrics (1/2)
Andy Zaidman
Andy Zaidman
@azaidman.bsky.social
Full professor in software engineering @tudelft. Department head. Software tester. Researcher. Teacher. World citizen.
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FUSE is a collaboration between TU Delft's Software Engineering Research Group and Meta's Developer Infrastructure team More info: se.ewi.tudelft.nl/fuse-lab/vac... Deadline: January 4 (2/2)
📣📣 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀! We're running a study at TU Delft on 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. We would love your insights! (takes 15 minutes) 👉 lnkd.in/dPPF6-Vq The more voices, the better! Thank you 💙 #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting
We need an enormous amount of scrutiny to be sure that GenAI results don’t only look good, but are actually right. @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
Testing isn’t the same as quality, testing is an inquiry into software quality @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
Testers are the only people in software that consider “trouble first”. @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch testing day
We have extended the deadline until November 9th, Anywhere on Earth. This just might be your chance to join us at **AST 2026** in Rio de Janeiro! Consider submitting! See: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026
The deadline is just around the corner: you have 4 more days! Submit to Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) and have a chance to meet up with the community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026 (co-located with #ICSE2026) #AST2026 #CallForPapers #softwaretesting cc @mrksbrg.bsky.social
The deadline is just around the corner: you have 4 more days! Submit to Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) and have a chance to meet up with the community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026 (co-located with #ICSE2026) #AST2026 #CallForPapers #softwaretesting cc @mrksbrg.bsky.social
AST (Automation of Software Test) is back and will again by co-located with ICSE’26 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). We are looking forward to your submissions on anything related to software testing! conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026 #softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026
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CFP: AST 2026 - Automation of Software Test (co-located with ICSE). Deadline: 26 Oct 2025 (AoE). Seeking strong work in testing/automation. Details: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026
AST (Automation of Software Test) is back and will again by co-located with ICSE’26 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). We are looking forward to your submissions on anything related to software testing! conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026 #softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026
So, research.com send me an email and I look at the profile that they've created for me... Seems that I connect archaeology and paleontology. I also bring programming languages and operating systems in the mix. Luckily they didn't find out I also do software engineering 😰
@robertoverdecchia.bsky.social presenting “Energy-Aware Software Testing” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social He is referring to my paper “An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects”, see azaidman.github.io/publications...
Pre-print: carolin-brandt.de/publications...
Caro Brandt presenting our IEEE TSE paper “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
@enrique.ebarba.com presenting “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social Joint work with Luis Cruz and Thomas Durieux Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10063
Caro Brandt presenting our IEEE TSE paper “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
@kjstol.bsky.social presenting “Predicting Attrition among Software Professionals: Antecedents and Consequences of Burnout and Engagement” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
@plago.bsky.social proposes 10 propositions to wrap up her keynote at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social * Propositions accompany a Dutch PhD thesis to let the PhD reflect on the broader context of their PhD research
@plago.bsky.social defines software sustainability as follows: “the preservation of the long term and beneficial use of software, and its appropriate evolution, in a context that continuously changes.” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
@plago.bsky.social giving a keynote at #ICSE2025 entitled “Software Sustainability and its Engineering: How far have we come?” @icseconf.bsky.social
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At 11:45 Amir Deljouyi will present his paper “Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests” at #ICSE2025 in room 214. Joint work with Roham Koohestani & Mali Izadi. Pre-print: azaidman.github.io/publications... @icseconf.bsky.social
Enrique Barbo Roque, Luis Cruz, and Thomas Durieux from @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025 for their paper “Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption” @icseconf.bsky.social
- flaky tests - slow laptop - layoffs - interpersonal dynamics - … A bad day also feeds into personal life, feeling of having to compensate in the evening, thus impacting family life, amplifying the feeling of a bad day. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.18379 #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social (2/2)
David Parnas arguing the importance of testing in his @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025 keynote
David Parnas continues his #ICSE2025 keynote by saying that AI should actually be called Imitation Intelligence (II), because of (a) Alan’s Turing “Imitation Game” and (b) that AI imitates things that it observes/is trained on. @icseconf.bsky.social
“If you have a buggy program, you can fix it or call it AI”, David Parnas during his #ICSE2025 keynote Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software @icseconf.bsky.social
Overview of areas of accepted #ICSE2025 papers @icseconf.bsky.social
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Opening of #icse2025 shows how large ICSE has grown. 1900 participants and 4000 authors of papers. @icseconf
David Lo and Corina Pasareanu introducing the program of the 50th anniversary @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025
#ICSE2025 is starting with general co-chairs @tcltcl.bsky.social and @lionelbriand.bsky.social introducing us to the conference @icseconf.bsky.social
At Google, there are more configuration tests than code tests! More information here: homes.cs.washington.edu/~rjust/publ/... #AST2025
Sára Juhošová's #ICPC2025 paper "Pinpointing the Learning Obstacles of an Interactive Theorem Prover" wins the Distinguished Paper Award. Absolutely fantastic work by Sará! Read the paper here: azaidman.github.io/publications...
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In today's #AST2025 keynote on our new #Fandango fuzzer, I presented ongoing extensions for protocol fuzzing, oracle checking, coverage guidance, much more. Slides now available: conf.researchr.org/details/ast-...
What do you get if you combine #grammars, #constraints, #evolutionary algorithms, and #Python in one? A mighty fuzzer! Check out our latest #FANDANGO work, to appear at #ISSTA2025: publications.cispa.de/articles/sta... To try out Fandango yourself, check out its home page: fandango-fuzzer.github.io
@andreaszeller.bsky.social explains the “coverage glass ceiling”, the idea that because of the limitations in mutating the import and the initial input data, not the entire input space can be explored, thus limiting the coverage potential
@andreaszeller.bsky.social explains that Barton Miller “invented” fuzzing in the 1980s #AST2025. You mutate inputs to see whether the program crashes
@andreaszeller.bsky.social is giving the keynote at #AST2025 on Personalized Fuzzing
“Nederlands kabinet overweegt inzet AI om externe inhuur ict'ers terug te dringen” via @tweakers.net tweakers.net/nieuws/23415... In English: Dutch government wants to cut back on hiring external ICT consultants to reduce costs, instead make more use of AI. Ow boy, hope this goes well…
A big thank you to the IEEE TSE journal and its editors @suchitel.bsky.social and Nenad Medvidović. I had the honour of being associate editor for the past 4 years. I learned a lot while managing 93 manuscripts. Thank you!