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Andy Zaidman

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Full professor in software engineering @tudelft. Department head. Software tester. Researcher. Teacher. World citizen.

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We have 4 open PhD positions in the Future of Software Engineering (FUSE) lab! Topics: - code review efficiency - predictive software testing - automated code refactoring - engineering productivity metrics (1/2)
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📣📣 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀! We're running a study at TU Delft on 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. We would love your insights! (takes 15 minutes) 👉 lnkd.in/dPPF6-Vq The more voices, the better! Thank you 💙 #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
AI can fool us, warns @developsense.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We need an enormous amount of scrutiny to be sure that GenAI results don’t only look good, but are actually right. @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Testing isn’t the same as quality, testing is an inquiry into software quality @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Testers are the only people in software that consider “trouble first”. @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch testing day
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We have extended the deadline until November 9th, Anywhere on Earth. This just might be your chance to join us at **AST 2026** in Rio de Janeiro! Consider submitting! See: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026
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AST 2026 - AST 2026
The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) Software pervasiveness in both industry and digital society, as well as the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The deadline is just around the corner: you have 4 more days! Submit to Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) and have a chance to meet up with the community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026 (co-located with #ICSE2026) #AST2026 #CallForPapers #softwaretesting cc @mrksbrg.bsky.social
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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
CFP: AST 2026 - Automation of Software Test (co-located with ICSE). Deadline: 26 Oct 2025 (AoE). Seeking strong work in testing/automation. Details: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026
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AST 2026 - AST 2026
The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) Software pervasiveness in both industry and digital society, as well as the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
AST (Automation of Software Test) is back and will again by co-located with ICSE’26 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). We are looking forward to your submissions on anything related to software testing! conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026 #softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026
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AST 2026 - AST 2026
The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) Software pervasiveness in both industry and digital society, as well as the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So, research.com send me an email and I look at the profile that they've created for me... Seems that I connect archaeology and paleontology. I also bring programming languages and operating systems in the mix. Luckily they didn't find out I also do software engineering 😰
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@robertoverdecchia.bsky.social presenting “Energy-Aware Software Testing” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social He is referring to my paper “An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects”, see azaidman.github.io/publications...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Pre-print: carolin-brandt.de/publications...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@enrique.ebarba.com presenting “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social Joint work with Luis Cruz and Thomas Durieux Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10063
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Caro Brandt presenting our IEEE TSE paper “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@kjstol.bsky.social presenting “Predicting Attrition among Software Professionals: Antecedents and Consequences of Burnout and Engagement” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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The woman who was fired because she was Jewish and then poisoned herself in Westerbork - Delta
On Friday TU Delft commemorates the victims of the Second World War at the then Technical University of Applied Sciences. Betty Biegel (1886-1943) is the only woman on the remembrance plaque. The stor...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@plago.bsky.social proposes 10 propositions to wrap up her keynote at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social * Propositions accompany a Dutch PhD thesis to let the PhD reflect on the broader context of their PhD research
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@plago.bsky.social defines software sustainability as follows: “the preservation of the long term and beneficial use of software, and its appropriate evolution, in a context that continuously changes.” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@plago.bsky.social giving a keynote at #ICSE2025 entitled “Software Sustainability and its Engineering: How far have we come?” @icseconf.bsky.social
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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🌍 The future of #icse is global! 🇧🇷 ICSE 2026 – Brazil #icse2026 🇮🇪 ICSE 2027 – Ireland #icse2027 🌺 ICSE 2028 – Hawaii #icse2028 We can't wait to see you there! Pack your ideas and your passport. 🧳✈️
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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Two more days of ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, and already much preparation done for the next three editions in Rio, Dublin, and Hawaii!
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
At 11:45 Amir Deljouyi will present his paper “Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests” at #ICSE2025 in room 214. Joint work with Roham Koohestani & Mali Izadi. Pre-print: azaidman.github.io/publications... @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My former PhD student Cor-Paul Bezemer and his team win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Enrique Barbo Roque, Luis Cruz, and Thomas Durieux from @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025 for their paper “Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption” @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Mixed methods studies anti-patterns from Peggy Story, Alessandra Paz Milani, rashina Hoda, and Maria Teresa Baldasarra #ICSE2025
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Identifying Factors Contributing to ``Bad Days'' for Software Developers: A Mixed-Methods Study” by Jenna Butler, Peggy Storey & friends. Bad days happen often. Major reasons: - lack of control, e.g., your PR was delayed - too many meetings - lack of support - not getting things done (1/2)
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
David Parnas arguing the importance of testing in his @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025 keynote
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
David Parnas continues his #ICSE2025 keynote by saying that AI should actually be called Imitation Intelligence (II), because of (a) Alan’s Turing “Imitation Game” and (b) that AI imitates things that it observes/is trained on. @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“If you have a buggy program, you can fix it or call it AI”, David Parnas during his #ICSE2025 keynote Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Overview of areas of accepted #ICSE2025 papers @icseconf.bsky.social
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Stefan Wagner @stefanwagner.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025
Opening of #icse2025 shows how large ICSE has grown. 1900 participants and 4000 authors of papers. @icseconf
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ICSE (@icseconf@mastodon.social)
7 Posts, 1 Following, 118 Followers · The premier International Conference on Software Engineering (50th anniversary). April 27-May 3, 2025. Official hashtag: #icse2025.
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
David Lo and Corina Pasareanu introducing the program of the 50th anniversary @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#ICSE2025 is starting with general co-chairs @tcltcl.bsky.social and @lionelbriand.bsky.social introducing us to the conference @icseconf.bsky.social
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
At Google, there are more configuration tests than code tests! More information here: homes.cs.washington.edu/~rjust/publ/... #AST2025
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Sára Juhošová's #ICPC2025 paper "Pinpointing the Learning Obstacles of an Interactive Theorem Prover" wins the Distinguished Paper Award. Absolutely fantastic work by Sará! Read the paper here: azaidman.github.io/publications...
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Andreas Zeller @andreaszeller.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In today's #AST2025 keynote on our new #Fandango fuzzer, I presented ongoing extensions for protocol fuzzing, oracle checking, coverage guidance, much more. Slides now available: conf.researchr.org/details/ast-...
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Personalized Fuzzing (AST 2025) - AST 2025
The 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2025) Software pervasiveness in both industry and digital society, as well as the proliferation of Artificial Intelligenc...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Annibale Panichella presenting “Automated Test-Case Generation for REST APIs Using Model Inference Search Heuristic” at #AST2025, work with Clinton Cao and Sicco Verwer
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@andreaszeller.bsky.social explains the “coverage glass ceiling”, the idea that because of the limitations in mutating the import and the initial input data, not the entire input space can be explored, thus limiting the coverage potential
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@andreaszeller.bsky.social explains that Barton Miller “invented” fuzzing in the 1980s #AST2025. You mutate inputs to see whether the program crashes
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@andreaszeller.bsky.social is giving the keynote at #AST2025 on Personalized Fuzzing
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“Nederlands kabinet overweegt inzet AI om externe inhuur ict'ers terug te dringen” via @tweakers.net tweakers.net/nieuws/23415... In English: Dutch government wants to cut back on hiring external ICT consultants to reduce costs, instead make more use of AI. Ow boy, hope this goes well…
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Nederlands kabinet overweegt inzet AI om externe inhuur ict'ers terug te dringen
Het Nederlands kabinet kan besparen op de inhuur van extern ict-personeel door een deel van de werkzaamheden te vervangen door technologieën als AI. Dat adviseren onderzoekers in een rapport in opdrac...
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A big thank you to the IEEE TSE journal and its editors @suchitel.bsky.social and Nenad Medvidović. I had the honour of being associate editor for the past 4 years. I learned a lot while managing 93 manuscripts. Thank you!
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Git exists for 20 years today! github.com/git/git/comm... (through tweakers.net tweakers.net/geek/233660/...)
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Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cell doors spring open uncontrollably in new Belgian prison: the problem is said to be in the software… www-vrt-be.translate.goog/vrtnws/nl/20...
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Celdeuren springen ongecontroleerd open in nieuwe gevangenis Dendermonde: "Moeten deur barricaderen met houten balken"
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Patients miss out on donor kidney due to Eurotransplant software error nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2561...
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Patiënten lopen donornier mis door softwarefout Eurotransplant
Er was een nier beschikbaar, maar twaalf patiënten kregen nooit een aanbod. Minister Agema vindt dat "zeer betreurenswaardig".
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Nature @nature.com · 14/03/2025
Nature research paper: An operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes go.nature.com/3R91F6g
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An operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes - Nature
A new quantum operating system architecture is described that is capable of executing applications on quantum networks in high-level software, which is a step towards bringing quantum network technology to society.
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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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