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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

AST 2026 - AST 2026

The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) Software pervasiveness in both industry and digital society, as well as the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence...

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 27

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 😰

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 3

This is an estimated number for the CI builds only, so we don't know what happens on the SW devs machines…

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@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...

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

Pre-print: carolin-brandt.de/publications...

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@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

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

Caro Brandt presenting our IEEE TSE paper “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@kjstol.bsky.social presenting “Predicting Attrition among Software Professionals: Antecedents and Consequences of Burnout and Engagement” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/t...

The woman who was fired because she was Jewish and then poisoned herself in Westerbork - Delta

On Friday TU Delft commemorates the victims of the Second World War at the then Technical University of Applied Sciences. Betty Biegel (1886-1943) is the only woman on the remembrance plaque. The stor...

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks you @lfpaganini.bsky.social !

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations @basharnuseibeh.bsky.social !

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations @andreaszeller.bsky.social !

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@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

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@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
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 2

@plago.bsky.social giving a keynote at #ICSE2025 entitled “Software Sustainability and its Engineering: How far have we come?”

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · May 2

🌍 The future of #icse is global!
🇧🇷 ICSE 2026 – Brazil #icse2026
🇮🇪 ICSE 2027 – Ireland #icse2027
🌺 ICSE 2028 – Hawaii #icse2028
We can't wait to see you there! Pack your ideas and your passport. 🧳✈️

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · May 2

Two more days of ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, and already much preparation done for the next three editions in Rio, Dublin, and Hawaii!

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 1

Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 1

Amir’s conclusion slide

Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 1

My former PhD student Cor-Paul Bezemer and his team win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mixed methods studies anti-patterns from Peggy Story, Alessandra Paz Milani, rashina Hoda, and Maria Teresa Baldasarra #ICSE2025

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · Apr 30

- 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

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Identifying Factors Contributing to Bad Days for Software Developers: A Mixed Methods Study

Software development is a dynamic activity that requires engineers to work effectively with tools, processes, and collaborative teams. As a result, the presence of friction can significantly hinder pr...

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