Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found. www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...

Our paper titled "Clotho: Measuring Task-Specific Pre-Generation Test Adequacy for LLM Inputs" has been accepted into FSE 2026. I am pretty excited about this, so wrote up what it means here: coinse.github.io/2025/12/22/C... TLDR: we can now use surprise adequacy for LLMs, PRE-generation!

Certain albums were always circulating among my close friends back in the days + transition to streaming means that I didn’t even realise some essentials were missing from my collection. I think Lars Grunske would approve my purchase but only in half (because he would go for South of Heaven)…

A happy news to start the day - our work with SAP got accepted into ICSE SEIP 2026. We show that an LLM agent can effectively localise the root causes of SAP HANA crashes, given only crash dumps. It feels great to show that the agentic approach works in a realistic context (35MLoC in this case).

ICST has always took pride in the diversity of workshop it offers - please help us continue the tradition in 2026 :)

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate this thing called ASE 2025 ;) @aseconf.bsky.social @mboehme.bsky.social @llingming.bsky.social

Wishing safe travels to those who are flying into Seoul for @aseconf.bsky.social - see you soon ;)

🎙️ #ASE2025 Keynote Speaker Series (1 of 3) What do symbolic model checking, path profiling, and quantum simulation have in common? 🤔 Find out from Prof. Reps (University of Wisconsin-Madison) in his ASE2025 Keynote “We Will Publish No Algorithm Before Its Time”! conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...

🚨 Do not miss the early registration, which remains open until 15th October!

Meet Soha, another proceedings co-chair at #ASE2025 💫 She’s an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt, and is passionate about all aspects of building reliable programs. ⌨️ Thrilled to have her on board for ASE'25!

Meet Yannic, Proceedings Co-Chair of #ASE2025! He’s helping manage the publication process together with Soha Hussein. 💪 Co-organizer of #FUZZING’26 👨‍💻 Passionate about improving software quality @yannicnoller.bsky.social

The #ASE25 venue, Grand Walkerhill Seoul, is located on the eastern side of Seoul, right next to the Han River. Nearby, you’ll find Achasan Mountain, a lovely spot for a short hike. If you have some free time, take a walk up with your colleagues and enjoy the beautiful panoramic view of Seoul 💙

You can reach the venue by taxi or public bus, or take advantage of the free shuttle bus that runs every 15 minutes from Gangbyeon Station (Line 2) or Gwangnaru Station (Line 5). More info: www.walkerhill.com/grandwalkerh...

Meet Ben, Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair & D&I Chair at #ASE2025 — his research focuses on secure software engineering and yes, he sails 😎⛵!

Here’s our other Program Co-Chair, Lingming Zhang (@llingming.bsky.social) from UIUC! “Playing with software” sounds like the perfect spirit for ASE! :-)

Meet Marcel Böhme (@mboehme.bsky.social), our Program Co-Chair of ASE 2025! 😉 Together with his fellow chair, Lingming Zhang (UIUC), he is overseeing the Research Track submissions.

Applications Open: ASE 2025 Student Volunteers 🕐 ~20 hrs of service during conference week 🎟️ Free ASE registration (SV covers student reg fee; if you have a paper, one co-author must register at full rate) 👕 ASE 2025 T-shirt + more! Please share this with your students and networks! Apply here ⤵️

Meet Sang Kil, one of our NIER Track Co-Chairs for #ASE2025! Seems like we’ve got quite a few runners on the ASE’25 OC team 😉

Canada signed on to ACM OPEN! I'm super happy, this was worrying to a lot of my Canadian colleagues. Now faculty and students at Canadian universities that are part of the consortia can publish Open Access with ACM with no article processing charges. www.acm.org/media-center...

I would like to add that @mboehme.bsky.social runs 15Km pert day only because I let him have my 6Km's worth of running for free 🫢😛

Off to Trondheim. Hope to see many people there!

I've been joking about how I wrote a first-author paper after such a long time. Now the reality is hitting back, and the idea of giving a 10 minute talk is actually a bit daunting, knowing that I am prone to go over time :p

🎉 HUGE NEWS! 🎉 #ASE2025 has received a record-breaking 1,190 submissions – the most EVER for a single-cycle top SE conference! 🤯 Massive thanks to all authors who submitted. Looking forward to what promises to be an unforgettable conference with an incredible program 🔥!

✨️ Now that #ICSE25 is over, it's time to get your papers ready for #ASE25 (30th May)! 📢 Here is what's new: * Major Revision v2.0 * Review criteria for tech. & experience papers * Policy on LLM-assisted Reviews * Auto-bidding (TPMS) * Rapid Response Reliable Reviewers 👇 For more details, read on.

📆 One month to go! The ASE 2025 Research Papers submission deadline is approaching: 30 May. We welcome impactful ideas and results that advance the state of the art in software engineering. 😉 #ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering #CallForPapers

Feature of our #ICLR'25 Spotlight paper, just presented in Singapore. www.mpi-sp.org/81927/news_p...

Can we foresee the unseen in software testing? I’ll share how statistical magic helps us quantify residual risk and make testing results more accountable and reliable✨Thanks for the invite! 🙏 Join my tutorial @ SBST (co-located w/ ICSE) 🖥️ sbft25.github.io 📅 28.04. 14:30 GMT-4 (live on Twitch too)

Here's something that I am genuinely excited about. We propose a graph-like representation for executions of LLM agents called semantic flow. Intuitively speaking, it connects clusters of latent vectors which are embeddings of LLM outputs. Will appear at FSE 2025 IVR track. arxiv.org/abs/2503.10310

The organisers are working very hard to make this a memorable event for everyone. Please send your best work - I hope to see everyone in Seoul in November. You know it is the place to be right now 😎

📢 Call for Papers: #ASE2025! ASE2025 invites submissions for the following upcoming tracks 🔍 Research Papers: 30 May ✨ NIER: 12 Jul ⚒️ Tool Demonstration: 23 Jul 🏢 Industry Showcase: 1 Aug 📄 Journal First: 1 Sep - 🛠 Workshop Proposals: 4 Apr #ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering #Conference #CallForPapers

We are excited to announce the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025)! 🏙️ Join us in the vibrant city of Seoul, South Korea, from Sunday, November 16th, to Thursday, November 20th, 2025. #ASE2025 #SoftwareEngineering #Conference

I totally stand by this.

[From Reddit via Mastodon] We need to work out how we are going to communicate post-internet.

Nominate yourself for the ASE'25 PC! The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering is looking for PC nominations to maximize diversity of perspectives. 🖊️ forms.gle/UtKE4WBTrtUs... 🧑‍💻 conf.researchr.org/track/ase-20...

If LLM agents are truly capable of repository-level tasks, we argue that they should also be able to install a new repository from GitHub and test whether it works. Alas, this is harder than we think. A paper from @coinse.bsky.social that is to appear at SANER 2025: arxiv.org/abs/2412.06294

Is there something going on over at X? What's with this influx of new accounts? :)

573 political scientists in and out of Korea have written and signed a declaration calling for Yoon's immediate impeachment. I've translated it into English with Prof. Jeong Hyun Kim at Yonsei: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

These flags really became a sort of a coping mechanism for people, and I love them.

Star Wars Rebels - Seoul Branch

“National Glucose Level Spike Prevention Society”

The Miskatonic University was there too :)

and of course the famous flying spaghetti monster federation flag

There were a few really notable such flags last night. I will repost a few below :)

Failing to impeach your present (when you have a good reason to do so, obviously) can really wreak your producivity.

Delighted to be co-organising the inaugural CauSE 2025 workshop (Causal Methods in Software Engineering), co-located with FSE in Trondheim. We welcome papers on all things causality and SE! Deadline Feb. 25th. Spread the word! causality-software-engineering.github.io/cause-worksh...

Having an exciting afternoon with @rfeldt.bsky.social here in KAIST, cooking up ideas after ideas until they get really wacky... this is how you go about it, right?

If you'd like to include a #Bluesky icon in some text of your Web page (see example), here's a little HTML/SVG snippet for you that does right that: gist.github.com/andreas-zell...

If you are applying for TT faculty positions this year: * find resources on how to prepare effectively, * start/join groups of peers & share notes, * request and read lots of research statements, and * get lots of feedback on your research statement. Most peers/seniors are ready to help 🤞.