Ke Mao, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia have been recognized with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026 Most Influential Paper Award for their 2016 research, “Sapienz: multi-objective automated testing for Android applications.” The recognition celebrates a decade of impact from work that began at University College London and went on to become testing infrastructure at Meta.
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Sapienz Receives ISSTA 2026 Impact Paper Award
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Sapienz automatically tests apps to find crashes and helps engineers reproduce them in fewer steps, making failures easier to investigate. The original research combined three goals: exploring more of an app, finding more crashes, and reducing the number of steps needed to trigger them. In its evaluation on 1,000 popular Google Play apps, Sapienz found 558 previously unknown crashes.
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