Winter 2025
This term’s seminar will be 1pm Fridays, in Room 928.
- January 10: No meeting
- January 17: Property-Based Testing in Practice, ICSE 2024. Logistics for the term
- Discussion Lead: Chris
- January 24: Cancelled for lack of volunteers
- January 31: Meeting to schedule and plan
- February 7: Typed and Confused: Studying the Unexpected Dangers of Gradual Typing
- Discussion Lead: Chaewon
- February 14: Skipped due to parade closure
- February 21: Test Wars: A Comparative Study of SBST, Symbolic Execution, and LLM-Based Approaches to Unit Test Generation
, this is a preprint of a paper recently accepted to ICST 2025
- Discussion Lead: Amirali
- February 28: RLCoder: Reinforcement Learning for Repository-Level Code Completion, ICSE 2025 preprint.
- Discussion Lead: Jason
- March 7: General discussion of generative AI (LLMs) in SE, anchored around a blog post on technical debt generated by AI and a recent essay speculating how AI will change (but not destroy) software engineering
- Discussion Lead: Ernie
- March 14: Ismail’s thesis defense is planned this day (at our seminar time)