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Can't wait for these deliberation sessions to be over. I have seen some awful UI in the different systems used in different universities, but the height of bad taste is the one using a gift (🎁) as an icon to mark a student's financial eligibility extension.

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 08/09/2026

Keeping an empty inbox is getting harder. Not because there are more emails, but because constant context switching is tiring. Rules that sort emails into folders help a bit, but there is still too much switching within each folder... and with tiredness comes procrastination. 😅

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

Today, I have the pleasure to be part of the PhD jury of Pierre Martou. Pierre has been working on combinatorial transition testing for dynamically adaptive systems. Funny to be in the jury with Myra Cohen who was part of my PhD jury almost 10 years ago. 😁

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026

Students turning in the Java project we asked them to test and debug for the verification and validation exam. Does not compile because of missing import for assertTrue method. I guess he forgot to ask the agent/LLM. 🤭

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 31/08/2026

Nouvelle semaine. Et déjà des défenses de mémoires en rafale à 8h, 10h et 12h. En ouvrant LinkedIn vendredi fin de journée après une semaine de cours préparatoires, examens, défenses et soumission d’un papier de journal, j’avais l’écran suivant. Je me demande ce que j’aurai ce vendredi. 😅

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 21/08/2026

These weeks are the prep courses in informatics. 4 sessions of 2h each for 2 groups with @bvdose.bsky.social. Too much work on top of resit exams + MSc thesis defenses (guess who is presiding over almost all of the juries this year? ... yep, @bvdose.bsky.social and yt). #aintnorestforthewicked

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Informatics Europe @informatics-europe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Congrats to the IE Software Research Working Group for being part of the team behind the SRIA for the Future of Software! 🚀 A timely initiative aligned with our mission to foster collaboration and shape the future of #Informatics research & education in #Europe. Join us in Sep: tinyurl.com/3pfv5snb

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2026

After a couple of years of trying to publish our results on using LLMs to specify (and test) REST APIs, we finally managed to get a tool demo paper accepted at #ICSME26! 😅 snail.info.unamur.be/publication/...

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RESTSpecIT: REST API Specification Generation with LLM-assisted Request Mutations | SNAIL team

In software engineering, documenting is a time-consuming and error-prone task. This is no exception for REST APIs, which are widely used for client-server communications on the web. The OpenAPI Specif...

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 24/07/2026

Excerpt from the "Author Rights Under ACM Open": "A separate grant of rights to ACM covers what ACM, as the Publisher, may do with the work, which includes [...] the right to license the Work to third parties, such as for training by LLMs, and [...]"

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026

The side effect of teaching interpreted languages such as Python as the first programming language: students are no longer bothered by LaTeX compilation errors as long as it produces a pdf file... 🙃

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Xavier Devroey @xdevroey.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2026

So we meet again, ATmosphere. I miss the news and lively discussions from my research communities, so this time, this account will be (mainly) about software engineering, software testing, and software development research. 😁 Any tips for a good ATmosphere - Fediverse (Mastodon mainly) bridge?

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