At #ISSTA this year, the least popular topic was symbolic analysis, with 0/7 submissions accepted. In totally unrelated news, „why don’t you use an LLM for that?“ appears to be the most frequent question asked by reviewers.
The Dean Gerti Kappel at #TUWien giving an enthusiastic opening of #ISSTA with Maria Christakis and reminiscing about #ECOOP s past. 520 registrations - and counting!
“The Devil's Guide to Doing your PhD - 10 tips for despair, dismay, and disappointment” - this was the keynote I gave today at the #ISSTA 2024 doctoral symposium. My slides are now available at https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-devil-s-guide-to-doing-your-phd-10-tips-for-despair-dismay-and-disappointment/271853158 - enjoy!
The Devil's Guide to Doing your PhD - 10 tips for despair, dismay, and disappointment

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On my way to Vienna, visiting ISSTA 2024 and giving a keynote at the doctoral symposium on Tuesday morning. (Sorry, invitation only; will post the full slide deck after the talk.) #ISSTA #DoctoralSymposium

📸 of Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 23-24: ISSTA: Na tonnta

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#ISSTA #MusicPhotography #NewMusic

Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series 23-24: ISSTA: Na tonnta

Explore this photo album by Daryl Feehely on Flickr!

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Happy to be the Publicity Co-Chair for ISSTA 2025!🇳🇴🥳 If you also want to contribute, here is your chance!

📢 #ISSTA is looking for competent and motivated reviewers for its 2025 edition. Nominate yourself (deadline Feb 20) using this form: https://t.co/BAxK2wN1V9.

Nominate yourself as an ISSTA reviewer (deadline: February 20, 2024)

Use this form to nominate YOURSELF for the program committees of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2025). Self-nominations are encouraged! Please also encourage others to self-nominate. While we cannot select all qualified candidates, we will do our best to add new people. Criteria: 1. PhD or similar research experience (or will have PhD by April, 2024) 2. at least two full research papers on software testing and analysis in the main technical track of a top ranked software engineering conference or in a top journal (e.g., ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, TSE, TOSEM, EMSE) After submitting the form you will receive an email confirmation.

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Fuzzing embedded systems! If you’re at #ISSTA or #ECOOP today, drop in at 2:15 pm at G01 and see how we use GDB (yes, the GNU debugger) to fuzz test software running on embedded systems hardware: https://2023.issta.org/details/issta-2023-technical-papers/74/Fuzzing-Embedded-Systems-using-Debug-Interfaces
Fuzzing Embedded Systems using Debug Interfaces (ISSTA 2023 - Technical Papers) - ISSTA 2023

The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems. New for ISSTA 2023: Dual submission deadlines ISSTA 2023 will feature two submission deadlines: An early submission deadline (November 10, 2022) and a regular submission deadline (February 16, 2023). You can choose to submit at either deadline, but papers submitted to the first de ...

If you’re at #ISSTA and looking for a position in 2023 or 2024, talk to me. I have several positions to fill:
➡️ PhD students:
https://jobs.cispa.saarland/jobs/detail/phd-students-1
➡️ PostDocs:
https://jobs.cispa.saarland/jobs/detail/postdoctoral-researchers-3
Check out the #S3 project for topic suggestions: https://cispa.de/s3
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In Seattle, visiting #ISSTA and #ECOOP. Find me
* Monday morning: giving a keynote at the #DEBT workshop on debugging,
* Monday noon: hanging out at the #FUZZING workshop,
* Monday late afternoon: giving advice at the ISSTA Doctoral Symposium,
and at ISSTA & ECOOP all week!