The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)
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)…
Kudos to Sungmin Kang and @gabin.bsky.social who lead the project, and thank you to SAP for the support. Preprint available from: arxiv.org/abs/2510.22530
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 :)
Congratulations, well deserved!
Oh my I love this - why was this not known more widely!?
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 😎⛵!
ASE2025 Program Co-Chair Lingming Zhang (he/him), Prof at UIUC 🌽, USA 🇺🇸 🎮 Make a living by playing with software — synthesis, hack, and repair; neural or symbolic.
Here’s our other Program Co-Chair, Lingming Zhang (@llingming.bsky.social) from UIUC! “Playing with software” sounds like the perfect spirit for ASE! :-)
Marcel Böhme (he/him), Scientist at MPI, Germany 🇩🇪 ASE'25 Program Co-Chair 🦾 #FUZZING’26 co-organizer, 🌱 Open Science enthusiast, Father of two daughters, 🏃♂️ 15km every day.
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 🫢😛
In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.
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
