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#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Curated Semantic Mutants: Multi-purpose Artifacts for Grading and Hinting Student Test Suites

A human-LLM workflow that pairs each curated semantic mutant with an instructor-approved seed phrase for an on-demand LLM expansion, which shows that the curated semantic-mutant set contains a fraction of the mutants a traditional mutation engine produces.

Rebecca Williams Earle, Jonathan Bell · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

How Far Does Replication Pay Off? A Throughput-Area Study of Brute-Force SAT on an ECP5 FPGA

SAT solving is a core computational challenge across hardware verification, electronic design, and planning; an FPGA can evaluate SAT candidates at hardware clock rates without software overhead, enabling sub-microsecond solving on small instances. Yet, the throughput-area tradeoffs of parallel FPGA SAT datapaths remai...

Andrew Bonilla · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

The Mechanisms and Practice of Mutation Testing in Improving Software Quality

This proposed dissertation investigates mutation testing from three complementary perspectives: how mutations interact with program executions and test oracles to produce mutant kills and reveal opportunities for test improvement, and how mutation testing is adopted, configured, sustained, and acted upon in popular ope...

Hang Du · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Next-Token Prediction: Autonomous Verification and Visual Testing in the Agent-First Era (Keynote)

This talk explores how agent-first development platforms like Google Antigravity shift the paradigm from manual test authoring to autonomous software verification, and describes recent advances in autonomous visual testing.

Paige Bailey · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

PyMut4SE: Comprehensive Mutation Testing for Python

PyMut4SE is a novel mutation tool for Python that focuses on a comprehensive set of mutations for any Python project, providing a rich and extensible set of mutation operators, access to mutated source code and its characteristics, detailed execution and behavioral observations, and support for both selective mutation...

Laura Plein, Matthieu Jimenez, Mike Papadakis · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Towards Scalable and Verifiable Automated Translation from C to Safe Rust

Memory-safety bugs are one of the oldest and most common sources of security vulnerabilities, and their modern-day prevalence is a consequence of the widespread use of non-memory-safe languages such as C and C++. Transitioning away from C and C++ to memory-safe languages, namely Rust, to eliminate memory-safety bugs is...

Victor Chen · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Typed Template Fuzzing

Fuzzing finds bugs by testing software behavior with high volumes of input. To create semantically valid inputs for different targets, traditional fuzzers require significant engineering effort. LLM-based fuzzing approaches can be adapted to create inputs for a wide range of software but introduce new issues: every tes...

Lu Maltsis · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

SPINACH: Inferring Properties of Web Applications for Property-Based Testing

The paper asks whether high-level conceptual specifications improve LLM-generated PBT quality and whether they help developers extend and maintain AI-generated systems (RQ2), and reports preliminary results applying Spinach to two open-source applications.

Savitha Ravi, Michael Coblenz · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Decomposing LLM-Based Testing with Agent Skills: A Case Study on Numerical Inconsistencies

LLM-based testing can expose subtle reliability issues in numerical software, but monolithic prompts make it hard to inspect which guidance drives effectiveness. We study whether Agent Skills can make such workflows more explainable by factoring procedural knowledge into composable testing components. Using numerical i...

Yu-Tong Wang, Cindy Rubio-González · 0 citations
#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

CoVerif: An Automated Contract Verifier for Java using Symbolic Execution

Specifying contracts as program behavior using Hoare triples is an established practice in software engineering. Compared to traditional testing approaches, formal verification of these contracts provides stronger guarantees of functional correctness. However, its practical adoption has remained limited since significa...

Aryan Kumar, Alex Toppo, Sandip Ghosal · 0 citations
#software testing Open access Oct 2026

An Empirical Study and Benchmark of Kubernetes Misconfiguration Scanners

Kubernetes is a widely adopted container orchestration framework, yet misconfigurations remain a leading cause of cloud security incidents and a major challenge for practitioners. Automated security scanners are commonly used to detect such misconfigurations, but their effectiveness has not been systematically evaluate...

Haeun Eom, Bohyun Suk, Sungjae Hwang · 0 citations
#software testing Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CrossLangFuzzer: Differential Testing of Cross-Language JVM Compilers

Modern JVM software increasingly integrates multiple programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala, within a single application. Supporting such interoperability requires JVM compilers to perform cross-language compilation while reconciling subtle semantic differences across language boundaries. Errors...

Xiaotian Ma, Qiong Feng, Yi Tian et al. · 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.

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