Testing and safety of Autonomous Driving Systems (and autonomous systems in general), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. “Using Cooperative Co-evolutionary Search to Generate Metamorphic Test Cases for Autonomous Driving Systems” Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03843

Testing control systems in CPS A very interesting project at the intersection of control theory and automated software testing, combining metamorphic testing and genetic programming. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

Good news! I was elected to Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Science. I am very honored. Thank you to my nominator and endorsers! www.ae-info.org

Chair (Full Professor) of Software Engineering University of Limerick, Ireland, in close collaboration with the Research Ireland Lero Centre on Software www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ222/c...

Back to BlueSky after one month. Lots of cat pictures. Still boring. ;-)

(1/2) Sakina Fatima just passed her PhD defense at the University of Ottawa, receiving highly positive feedback from the evaluation committee. Title: "Detection, Categorization, and Repair of Flaky Tests using Large Language Models"

(1/2) Sepehr Sharifi successfully defended, with flying colors, his PhD thesis at @uottawa.bsky.social entitled: "Safer Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems". Very important topic as, increasingly, safety-critical systems attempt to make use of AI.

(1/2) Rongqi Pan successfully defended her PhD thesis (at uottawa) entitled: "Black-box Test Suite Minimization". The work is on minimizing system test suites without relying on the analysis of the system production code, which is often not possible or cannot scale.

Amirhossein Zolfagharian just successfully defended, with much praise from the examiners, his PhD thesis: "Safety and Reliability of Deep Reinforcement Learning§ Agents through Testing and Safety Monitoring". His thesis was nominated for an award!

Just did my weekly check on Bluesky. Still boring. Cat pictures, far-left virtue signaling. Not worth more than 15 min weekly. Back to X. See you next week!

Bluesky is so boring. Virtue signaling and cat pictures. Don't expect me to look at it more than once a week. ;-)

Is Milei’s Radical Plan to Save Argentina Working? Interesting video. And an interesting case study in economics many will study in the future ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=57FS...

Congratulations Zohreh Aghababaeyan for passing your PhD defense with flying colors and being nominated for an outstanding PhD dissertation prize! Very proud of you! Zohreh is my first graduating PhD student at the University of Ottawa and my 37th PhD student overall, as main supervisor.