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New TTF for TDL Maintenance
03.03.2025
Dr. Philip Makedonski will be part of a new Testing Task Force (TTF) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for the maintenance and evolution of the Test Description Language (TDL). Details on the project can be found here: Enhancing TDL and TOP to Meet Users’ New Demands (TTF T045).
Poster accepted at HCII 2025
19.02.2025
We are pleased to announce that a poster from our research group has been accepted at the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2025). This year’s conference will take place from June 22nd to 27th in Gothenburg, Sweden. Our accepted poster is:
- Evaluation of Data Sharing in Interaction-Based Emotion Recognition Research by Carina Bieber, Patrick Harms, and Jens Grabowski
Journal First Presentation at ICST 2025
16.12.2024
We are happy to announce that we will present the findings of our journal article A new perspective on the competent programmer hypothesis through the reproduction of real faults with repeated mutations at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2025. Within the article, we explore the competent programmer hypothesis by examining the connection between mutation testing and real-world faults. Through mutation chains, we assess the directness of this connection by recreating faults. The presentation will be part of the Journal-First Papers track of the conference.
Posters and Presentations accepted for the UCAAT 2025
12.12.2024
We are happy to announce that the following presentations and posters with contributions from our group were accepted at the 11th User Conference of Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2025 organised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and hosted by CERTH:
- Importance of Data Sharing for the Validation of Interaction-based Emotion Recognition for User Experience Evaluation
- Representativeness of Deep Learning Mutants in Simulating Real Faults
- Exploring the Landscape of Machine Learning Data Bugs: Frequency, Impacts, and Relationships for Enhanced Automation
- Generating Test Artifacts using Large Language Models
- Documentation Approaches for AI/ML Systems
- ETSI TR103910: Test Methodology and Test Specification for AI-enabled Systems
- TDL Takes on the Edge
- Towards a Harmonized Documentation Scheme for Trustworthy AI
Workshop accepted at MUC 2024
30.07.2024
We are pleased to announce that a workshop from our research group has been accepted at the Mensch und Computer 2024 conference. This year’s conference will take place from September 1st to 4th at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The accepted workshop is:
- Improving UX Evaluation with AI-based Emotion Recognition by Carina Bieber, Patrick Harms, and Carolin Ebermann
Papers accepted at SAM 2024
30.07.2024
We are pleased to announce that two papers from our research group have been accepted at the 16th System Analysis and Modeling Conference (SAM 2024). This year’s conference will take place on September 23rd and 24th, co-located with the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2024) in Linz, Austria.
Our accepted papers are:
- Exploring the Fundamentals of Mutations in Deep Neural Networks by Zaheed Ahmed and Philip Makedonski
- AI-based User Emotion Recognition from Interaction Data: Challenges and Guidelines for Training Data Creation by Carina Bieber, Patrick Harms, Dominick Leppich, and Katrin Proschek
PhD thesis successfully defended
25.03.2024
On 22nd March 2024, our group member Chathurangi Ishara Wickramasinghe successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Controlling Data Streams of IoT Devices in
Smart Homes From User Perspective". Congratulations!
ETSI grant for AI Documentation project
12.03.2024
We are delighted to announce that ETSI has approved our funding application for the AI Documentation project. This project will run for one year and aims to provide a harmonized documentation scheme for trustworthy AI. More details on the project can be found on the project homepage.
Philip Makedonski re-elected as Chair of ETSI TC MTS
02.02.2024
We are happy to announce that Dr. Philip Makedonski has been re-elected as chair of the Technical Committee Methods for Testing and Specification (TC MTS) at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for the period of two years until January 2026.
Paper accepted by STVR Journal
31.01.2024
We are happy to announce that our paper A New Perspective on the Competent Programmer Hypothesis Through the Reproduction of Real Faults with Repeated Mutations
has been recently accepted by the Journal of Software: Testing, Verification and Reliability. Exploring the competent programmer hypothesis, this study examines the connection between mutation testing and real-world faults. By recreating faults through mutation chains, we assess the link's directness. Findings suggest validity of the competent programmer hypothesis yet highlight the need for important mutation operators to generate representative real-world faults.
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