Sapienz Android testing paper wins ISSTA 2026 Impact Paper Award
Ke Mao, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia received the ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA 2026 Most Influential Paper Award for their 2016 research, "Sapienz: multi-objective automated testing for Android applications." The work began at University College London and later influenced automated testing at Meta, according to Meta Engineering.
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