Andy Zaidman
azaidman.bsky.social
Andy Zaidman
@azaidman.bsky.social
Full professor in software engineering @tudelft. Department head. Software tester. Researcher. Teacher. World citizen.
📣📣 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀!

We're running a study at TU Delft on 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. We would love your insights! (takes 15 minutes)
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The more voices, the better!

Thank you 💙

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AI can fool us, warns @developsense.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
@developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We need an enormous amount of scrutiny to be sure that GenAI results don’t only look good, but are actually right.

@developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch Testing Day
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Testers are the only people in software that consider “trouble first”. @developsense.bsky.social at the Dutch testing day
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
So, research.com send me an email and I look at the profile that they've created for me...

Seems that I connect archaeology and paleontology. I also bring programming languages and operating systems in the mix. Luckily they didn't find out I also do software engineering 😰
May 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@robertoverdecchia.bsky.social presenting “Energy-Aware Software Testing” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

He is referring to my paper “An Inconvenient Truth in Software Engineering? The Environmental Impact of Testing Open Source Java Projects”, see azaidman.github.io/publications...
May 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@enrique.ebarba.com presenting “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

Joint work with Luis Cruz and Thomas Durieux

Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10063
May 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Caro Brandt presenting our IEEE TSE paper “Shaken, Not Stirred. How Developers Like Their Amplified Tests” #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@kjstol.bsky.social presenting “Predicting Attrition among Software Professionals: Antecedents and Consequences of Burnout and Engagement” at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@plago.bsky.social proposes 10 propositions to wrap up her keynote at #ICSE2025 @icseconf.bsky.social

* Propositions accompany a Dutch PhD thesis to let the PhD reflect on the broader context of their PhD research
May 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@plago.bsky.social defines software sustainability as follows: “the preservation of the long term and beneficial use of software, and its appropriate evolution, in a context that continuously changes.”

#ICSE2025
@icseconf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@plago.bsky.social giving a keynote at #ICSE2025 entitled “Software Sustainability and its Engineering: How far have we come?”

@icseconf.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025
May 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Amir’s conclusion slide
May 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
At 11:45 Amir Deljouyi will present his paper “Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing the Understandability of Generated Unit Tests” at #ICSE2025 in room 214.

Joint work with Roham Koohestani & Mali Izadi.

Pre-print: azaidman.github.io/publications...

@icseconf.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My former PhD student Cor-Paul Bezemer and his team win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025

@icseconf.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Enrique Barbo Roque, Luis Cruz, and Thomas Durieux from @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social win the distinguished paper award at #ICSE2025 for their paper “Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption”

@icseconf.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Mixed methods studies anti-patterns from Peggy Story, Alessandra Paz Milani, rashina Hoda, and Maria Teresa Baldasarra #ICSE2025
April 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
David Parnas arguing the importance of testing in his @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025 keynote
April 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Overview of areas of accepted #ICSE2025 papers @icseconf.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
David Lo and Corina Pasareanu introducing the program of the 50th anniversary @icseconf.bsky.social #ICSE2025
April 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#ICSE2025 is starting with general co-chairs @tcltcl.bsky.social and @lionelbriand.bsky.social introducing us to the conference @icseconf.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Idea for future work: investigate coverage and mutation testing for configuration tests #AST2025
April 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM