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Compact O-Band CWDM Silicon Photonic Receiver Chip Based on Active Polarization Compensation

This paper presents a compact, low-polarization-dependent-loss (PDL) O-band coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) silicon photonic receiver utilizing active coherent combining. To overcome the substantial footprint of conventional polarization-diversity circuits and mitigate dynamic signal fading in practical...

Li-Yong Guo, Song Huang, Han-Ming Yang et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Oct 2026

From Accessibility to Reachability: LLM-Driven Contrastive Accessibility Testing for Android Apps

An LLM-driven testing framework that reformulates accessibility evaluation into an automated reachability problem and effectively uncovers four types of dynamic accessibility defects: non-interactive control, navigation trap, improper focus ordering, and navigation dead zone is presented.

Shen Hu · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Revisiting LLMs on New Feature Implementation in Real-World Software Development Practices

A systematic evaluation of the capability of large language models (LLMs) in new feature implementation, with a task setup strictly aligned with real-world software development practices, shows that new feature implementation of LLMs adhering to real-world world software development practices remains challenges.

J. Li, Ting-Xuan Huang, Tian Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Don’t Retest Everything: Auditable Regression Scoping for Safety-Critical Systems

The results show that CoCoS supports the conservative bounding of regression scopes while preserving compliance-oriented reasoning and providing practical evidence for test planning in safety-critical environments.

Francesco Basciani, Daniele Masti, Patrizio Pelliccione et al. · 0 citations
#software testing Book Oct 2026

Continuous On-Commit Certification Testing of Railway Control Software: An Experience Report

The design enables continuous execution of large certification test suites while preserving reproducibility, traceability, and result analysis and features a multi-runner model that enables efficient on-commit execution of hundreds of certification test sequences.

Jacopo Maltagliati, Salvatore De Simone, G. Denaro · 0 citations
#software testing Book Oct 2026

Quantum Squeeziness: An Information Theoretical Metric for Quantum Software Testability

This work presents the first formalisation of testability for quantum programs, adapting classical concepts to quantum computation by introducing Quantum Squeeziness, an information-theoretic metric inspired by classical squeeziness to quantify how faults are masked and prevented from propagating to observable outcomes...

Avner Bensoussan, H. Menéndez, Mohammad Reza Mousavi · 1 citation
#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

Modern configurable software systems are routinely built and tested across thousands of configuration variants to ensure correctness under diverse settings. Reusing build artifacts across configurations is therefore crucial to reduce redundant effort, yet remains challenging. Existing approaches estimate rebuild cost u...

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

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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.

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.

GPT-Lab Sep 23, 2026

Requirements Don’t Live in Isolation: What We’re Exploring with Req-Space

Requirements in large systems rarely exist in isolation. Their meaning depends on the wider project context - other requirements, policies, decisions, tests, and implementation details. That becomes especially important when AI is used for review, because spotting a possible conflict or gap is only the beginning. ReqSpace explores how AI, visualisation, and connected project context can help reviewers understand those findings, trace the relationships behind them, and focus on the questions that…

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