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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · 10h

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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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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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · 14d

October SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Alhanahnah: An empirical evaluation of pre-trained large language models for repairing declarative formal specifications (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · 20d

Finally in York! I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. So many things here connect to the Swedish WASP program. Great training and symposium! @cfaa.bsky.social

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Andy Zaidman @azaidman.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

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#softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026

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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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Sep 4

September SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Aug 3

August SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature publications, both from Karlstad. 1) Ovais Ahmed: It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile (JSS) 2) Ahmed: Smart manufacturing: MLOps-enabled event-driven arch for steel production (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Jul 3

July Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Jongeling: How are informal diagrams used in SE? An exploratory study of open-source and industrial practices. (Softw. Syst. Model.) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Jun 1

June Swe-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Leonardo Horn Iwaya, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · May 28

Checking if the meetups are greener on the other side of the bridge today! In Copenhagen to listen to Microsoft. And others!

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · May 10

Guess I'm not the only one doing #icse25 laundry today?

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · May 1

May Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Linåker: Public sector open source software projects - How is development organized? (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Apr 25

My @icseconf.bsky.social 2025 trip starts now! It's a long one, and despite heading west, I'm relieved I don’t have to set foot in the US this time. Looking forward to meeting the community! #icse25

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TechDebt Conference @techdebtconf.bsky.social · Apr 24

#TechDebt is just around the corner and you do no want to miss the presentation of the 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 on Monday 28 at 14:10! 💪
Zadia Codabux and Neil Ernst will share insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”!
🌎 Check out the full program👇
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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Apr 1

April 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature works. Bucaioni: Model-driven engineering for software architecture (JSS). Jolak: An empirical investigation of the impact of architectural smells on software maintainability (JSS). mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Mar 21

Mostly in town for the #Kent reunion, but took the chance to give a talk at KTH. Technical debt and LLM-driven refactoring. Now musik non stop till slut!

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Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social · Mar 15

Come and discuss #technical #debt in Ottawa in April! @techdebtconf.bsky.social offers presentations from industry (Google, CodeScene, ...) and academia, and is a great opportunity to meet engineers and researchers.

Reg: conf.researchr.org/attending/Te... (Two-day co-located or Single-day fee).

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Welcome to the website of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt 2025. The TechDebt conference series is the premier event to bring together leading software engineering researchers,...

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Mar 2

March 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholars added (both Chalmers): 1) Inayat and 2) Alhanahnah. New signature works: 1) Gallina (MdU) - Towards an ontology for proc. compl. w. legislations. (JSEP) 2) Ovais (KU) - Strengthening Large-Scale Agile Teams (JSEP) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes, maybe! 😀

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Feb 2

February 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Badampudi: Large scale reuse of microservices using CI/CD and InnerSource practices - a case study (EMSE). Research done at Ericsson. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Feb 2

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ah, was looking for such info. Thanks! Good luck solving the issue.

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Jan 17

Returned from the WASP Winter Conf and 10 year jubilee. 600 participants! New PhD student Nadim introduced and Matthias shared AI Act study. Now 2025 can start!

Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Jan 2

Dev? Want to do something meaningful before 2025 really kicks off? Join our AI + code maintainability experiment with Equal Experts, CodeScene, Lund Uni & Dave Farley! Prizes: signed books & AMA session! Info: youtu.be/_zUkNrUp0Ok Signup: form.typeform.com/to/PnVpuZGr

*NEW STUDY* Does Co-Development With AI Assistants Improve Code?

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Markus Borg @mrksbrg.bsky.social · Jan 1

First 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Holmström Olsson: Strategic Digital Product Management: Nine Approaches (IST) (And an infrastructure update due to a breaking NLTK change) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

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