🚀 Mark your calendars 🗓️! The IEEE CASCON 2025 call for contributions and proposals is open. We look forward to your submissions! #CASCON2025 will be held this year at vibrant Toronto, Second Student Centre, York University, 15 Library Lane, Toronto, ON, Canada More details: cascon.ca

SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury & Riddhi More are in Naples, Italy 🇮🇹 attending the 18th IEEE Int’l Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (#ICST2025) where they are presenting two research papers. Dr. Bradbury is also a member of the faculty panel at the ICST Doctoral Symposium.

Today we had a successful 8th IEEE Int’l Workshop on Next Level of Test Automation (#NEXTA2025). Highlights included: ✅ KEYNOTE by Serge Demeyer ✅ TALKS - Influence of Pure & Unit-Like Tests on SBFL - Witness Test Program Generation - Adaptive Testing for LLM-Based Applications ✅ DISCUSSION!

Looking for evidence of data leakage in the #HumanEval code generation #LLM benchmark? Check out our analysis of a subset of HumanEval tasks vs comparable tasks on #ChatGPT, #Claude and #Llama. @riddhimore.bsky.social

Human Brain vs. LLM Agent 🧠 vs. 🤖 Hardware… Consciousness… Learning style… Creativity… - Bang Liu, #SANER2025 Keynote

The Large Language Model (#LLM) Lifecycle from #SANER2025 keynote by Dr. Bang Liu, University of Montreal ➡️ Pre-Training (e.g. data synthesis, model architecture) ➡️ Post-Training (e.g. instruction tuning, bias mitigation) ➡️ Serving (e.g. cloud deployment) ➡️ Utilization(e.g. prompt engineering, RAG)

Yesterday Riddhi More presented our paper “Assessing Data Augmentation-Induced Bias in Training and Testing of Machine Learning Models” at the 1st Int’l Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems (#FAIRNESS2025) in Montreal, Canada. 🇨🇦 Paper preprint, slides & code/data available at: bit.ly/4brEBJm

“Code generation is just the tip of the iceberg towards automated software engineering!!” - Dr. Baishakhi Ray (Columbia University), #SANER2025 Keynote

MSc student Riddhi More & Prof. Jeremy Bradbury are in Montreal, PQ this week attending the IEEE Int’l Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (#SANER2025) and the 1st Int’l Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems (#FAIRNESS2025).

A great keynote by Foutse Khomh (@swatlab.bsky.social) on “Navigating Fairness Challenges in Intelligent Software Systems” at #FAIRNESS2025. I appreciated the emphasis on #AI model transparency, auditing and governance as essential to the development of fair systems that mitigate bias.

Today Dr. Michael Miljanovic presented our latest paper at #SIGCSE2025. The paper titled “How Effective and Efficient Are Student-Written Software Tests?”, is co-authored by Amanda Showler, Michael Miljanovic, and Jeremy Bradbury. 📄: www.sqrlab.ca/publications...

Hello 🦋 world! We're getting ready for IEEE SCAM 2025 in Auckland, New Zealand. conf.researchr.org/home/scam-2025

Thank you to the organizers of the #AI Meets Software Quality Int’l Colloquium for inviting Riddhi More & I to speak on Monday. If you're interested in #LLMs & #flakytests the preprints of the papers presented are available at bit.ly/40OvYUa (FlakyXbert) & bit.ly/4jILzNT (augmentation bias).

Tomorrow Prof. Jeremy Bradbury & MSc student Riddhi More will be presenting "FlakyXbert: A Few-Shot Learning Framework for Detecting and Classifying Flaky Tests" at the AI Meets Software Quality International Colloquium (bit.ly/42DAZ4M) #AI #LLM #testing #flakytests #dataaugmentation #bias

Our paper "Addressing #DataLeakage in #HumanEval Using Combinatorial Test Design" has been accepted for publication at the Int’l Conference on Software Testing, Verification & Validation (#ICST2025), Short Papers, Vision & Emerging Results. co-author: Riddhi More arxiv.org/abs/2412.01526 #benchmark

I'm happy to share our paper "Assessing Data Augmentation-Induced Bias in Training and Testing of Machine Learning Models," has been accepted to the 1st International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems (FAIRNESS 2025), co-located with #SANER2025! #ontariotech @riddhimore.bsky.social

Are you working on #softwaretesting & passionate about test #automation and #AI testing? If so, consider submitting to the 8th IEEE Workshop on the Next level of Test Automation #NEXTA2025, co-located w/ #ICST2025 Submission Date: Jan 10, 2025 [UPDATED!] bit.ly/nexta2025

I’m excited to share that our paper "An Analysis of #LLM Fine-Tuning & Few-Shot Learning for Flaky Test Detection & Classification" has been accepted for publication at the Int’l Conf on Software Testing, Verification & Validation (#ICST2025). This paper is first-authored by @riddhimore.bsky.social

I had a great time today attending the #OntarioTech Cakes & #AI Winter Show-And-Tell event. A great opportunity to engage with researchers from across the university and establish interdisciplinary collaborations. Thanks to @petelewis.bsky.social for organizing! 🍰

The latest episode of the Front Burner podcast is worth a listen for anyone with a connection to Canadian #highered. 👇 Featuring an interview with @alexusherhesa.bsky.social on the current financial crisis facing Canadian universities & colleges. bit.ly/3B1FjiW

Thank you to Prof. Akramul Azim for giving a guest lecture today in my “Applications of #LLMs to Software Engineering” grad course. He talked about his #CASCON2024 paper “FaultLLAMA2: A Fine Tuned Large Language Model for Code Recommendations to Reduce Java Lock Contention” #OntarioTech #concurrency

It was great yesterday to have my colleague Cristiano Politowski speak to our graduate students and share his research experience at the intersection of Software Engineering and Game Development. #OntarioTech #softwareengineering #gamedev @crispolito87.bsky.social

Interested in joining the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab? Find out more at bit.ly/3ARpCe8 #OntarioTech 🇨🇦

Dear Google Labs -- notebookLLM creates nice, sunny podcasts on STEM papers---but... Science, 4real, is -ve & adversarial. Please train another model, with data from actual grad students or faculty, so it creates more grumpy pods, which also criticize scope, methods, results etc of papers? 🔭🐡🧪

I'm happy to share that w/ Pooria Madani, Khalil El-Khatib & Natalija Vlajic we have been awarded a $382,000 grant from the National Cybersecurity Consortium to study "Transformative Adversaries: Leveraging Generative Pretrained Transformers for the Dev. of Next-Gen. Metamorphic Malware Engines"

Really interesting quote from Anthropic CEO Amodei: ”Talent density beats talent mass” (Even if you have more top talent they will be slowed down and not as inspired to be their best if they mainly see less talented/driven people when looking around in the team/org)

If you have your own domain, it's very convenient (and easy) to use it as your Bluesky handle. I just switched to @bugcounting.net, old links should be updated automatically. bsky.social/about/blog/4... h/t @manu.sridharan.net for the tip

Where I work 😊 #OntarioTech

Are you working on #softwaretesting & passionate about test #automation, test generation, and #AI testing? If so, consider submitting to the 8th IEEE Workshop on the Next level of Test Automation - #NEXTA2025, co-located with #ICST2025 Submission Date: Jan 3, 2025 More Info: bit.ly/nexta2025

A Disruptive Research Playbook for Studying Disruptive Innovations Margaret-Anne Storey, Daniel Russo, Nicole Novielli, Takashi Kobayashi and Dong Wang #SEResearch bit.ly/4fYKSxm

Software fairness is multifaceted—it’s technical as much as it is social, and I can’t wait to read your study on these aspects! Submit your paper for the Fairness Workshop at SANER 2025 by Nov 29, and let’s discuss your work in Montreal this March. Don’t miss it! fairnessworkshop.com

I was happy to have Prof. Pooria Madani give a guest lecture today in my Applications of LLMs to Software Engineering graduate course. He presented “Fine-Tuning LLMs for Code Mutation: A New Era of Cyber Threats” — arxiv.org/abs/2410.22293 #OntarioTech @pooriamadani.bsky.social

New paper alert! 📃 ⏰ How Effective and Efficient Are Student-Written Software Tests? - Amanda Showler, Michael Miljanovic, Jeremy Bradbury Proc. of the Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2025) [to appear] Preprint: bit.ly/sigcse2025te... #softwaretesting #CSEd #OntarioTech

I’ve setup an #OntarioTech starter pack. If I’ve missed anyone please let me know! go.bsky.app/FUeKasq

Ontario Tech proudly unveils its future-focused #TechWithAConscience fundraising campaign, highlighting our commitment to ethical leadership and the human impact of research and innovation.

I’m happy to now be on 🦋! 👋🏻 I’m a CS professor at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 At #OntarioTech, I lead the Software Engineering & Education Lab (www.seerlab.ca) where we research applications of #AI, #NLP, #LLMs to #softwareengineering, #softwaretesting & #CSEd.