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#software testing Book Oct 2026

Property-Based Testing of Wafer Handling Robots via Model-Based Planning and Fuzzing

This experience paper introduces a property-based testing approach for WHRs, finding 21 previously unknown bugs, including axis limit violations, entanglement issues, and missing interlock checks, and distilled a number of practical lessons learned.

Rui-Yang Xu, Jing-Jing Liang, Guo-Yue Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Syntactic Differencing: Semantic-Aware Scheduling for Cross-Configuration Incremental Builds

SIBS is the first semantics-aware scheduling framework for incremental builds across configurations, addressing both inaccurate cost estimation and the limitations of greedy scheduling, and demonstrates that semantics-aware cost modeling and global scheduling provide substantial and robust efficiency gains across diver...

Xiao-Long Dai, Shan-Shan Li, Jun Lyu et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Toward Automated Search for Verifier-Spending Agentic Workflows: A Vision, Preliminary Evidence, and the Obstacles in the Way

Agentic software-development systems increasingly wrap language models in workflows —repair loops, best-of-N samplers, multi-agent pipelines. We argue for a specific lens on why such structure helps and on how to design it automatically. Our position is that the value of an agentic workflow is the quality it converts a...

A. Spiridonov · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

The Gene Is Not the Gate: Conceptualizing the Semantic Genome of Quantum Software

This work presents QGenome, a semantic foundation for quantum software genomics that establishes a falsifiable framework and a concrete research agenda for gene mining, lineage recovery, cross-layer regression testing and repair, and evidence-grounded quantum software agents.

Jiongchi Yu, Yue Duan, Zi-Ming Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Automated Annotation of Test Types using LLMs: A Multi-LLM Workflow for Machine Learning Test-Related Commits

This analysis focused on their classification performance, stability, agreement with experts, top-2 candidate recovery, and multi-LLM voting workflows (S1-S4) along with a corresponding analysis on Keras.

Asli Sari, Ayse Tosun, G. Alptekin · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Prompt Pipelines as Engineered Artifacts: Regression-Testing a Multi-agent Threat-Modeling Pipeline

The experience suggests that the PromptOps practices recently proposed for general LLM applications transfer directly to security engineering, and that a fixed evaluation corpus with cost-aware metrics is the single most valuable artifact a prompt-pipeline team can maintain.

Eldar Mametov, Andrey Sadovykh, Eugene Zouev et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Using LLM Agents for Security Testing of Compiled Mobile Applications: A Case Study on a Real-World Compiled iOS App

It is concluded that developers should use LLMs at the source-code level to counter adversaries applying the same techniques on decompiled code and research should advance decompilation support for the growing language diversity in the iOS ecosystem.

Fabian Scherf, Florian Magin · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Same Task, Different Fate: Population Structure in Trajectory-Based Analyses of Coding Agents

Coding-agent trajectories are read as evidence about the software process, and analyses pool runs from many different tasks. The task predicts both the behaviour and the outcome, so a pooled estimate mixes a within-task and a between-task channel, and is read as a statement about runs. We quantify that mixing with the...

Simarjot Khanna · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

FitGen: Validation and Guided Repair of LLM Generated Executable Fitness Functions for Search Based Software Testing

FitGen is presented, a validation guided repair framework combining structured prompt design with output, syntax, and semantic validation to automatically diagnose and repair executable fitness functions.

Md Al Muzahid Nayim, Faezeh Rajabi Kouchi, Amit Kumar Sikder et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Whose Specification Did You Test? The Hidden Interpretation Bias in LLM-Generated Test Suites

This work examines three test-generation strategies that vary in coverage and emphasis on ambiguous behaviours and discusses the implications for autonomous software engineering pipelines in which a single model generates both code and tests from the same specification.

Md Mainul Islam · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Does Architecture Matter? Comparing Multi-agent Workflows for Filtering and Prioritizing Static Analysis Findings

The number of exploited software vulnerabilities rises every year, and their impact grows as software systems become ever more interconnected. To detect such vulnerabilities in large codebases, many organizations rely on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools. However, SAST tools can produce high volumes of f...

Linus Bennin, Oshando Johnson, Eric Bodden · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 2, 2026

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

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