The The ASGAARD Lab has 3 funded positions (2 PhD and 1 MSc) starting Summer or Fall 2021! If you are interested in working on (1) automated quality assurance processes for games and/or (2) software engineering for the modern AI stack, check asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/prospective-st…

Have you ever wondered what the foundations of program analysis are? Don't wait no more. Check out the lecture series that I gave in my undergrad class this semester UAlberta Comp Sci youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Should you Upgrade Official Docker Hub Images in Production Environments? Read about it in Sara Gholami's ICSE NIER'21 paper: asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/should-you-upg… with Hamzeh Khazaei Cor-Paul Bezemer

More great news! Rain's paper "An Empirical Study of Trends of Popular Virtual Reality Games and Their Complaints" was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Games Get the preprint here: asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/an-empirical-s… with Dayi Lin Cor-Paul Bezemer

Super congrats to Markos Viggiato who had his paper "What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?" accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Games journal! Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/markos-paper-w… (with Dayi Lin, abram hindle, Cor-Paul Bezemer)

Super congrats to Quang for his accepted paper "Improving the Discoverability of Indie Games by Leveraging their Similarity to Top-Selling Games Identifying Important Requirements of a Recommender System" at FDG 2023 Conference ! Preprint w cool dataset at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/improving-the-… w Cor-Paul Bezemer

Are you interested in working with The ASGAARD Lab? We have one PhD position available in our exciting new project about software engineering for the modern AI stack. For more info & how to apply, see asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/prospective-st…

“An Empirical Study of Q&A Websites for Game Developers” including a cool flow chart that suggests where to best ask your question was accepted for publication in emsejournal Super congrats Arthur Kamienski Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/an-empirical-s…

For the first time, ICPE 2022 icpe2022.spec.org will have a new Data Challenge track. Cor-Paul Bezemer, David Daly and I will be the track chair of this year. The data is generously provided by MongoDB . Looking forward to your awesome analysis on the data!

Proud to announce that "Improving the Discoverability of Indie Games by Leveraging their Similarity to Top-Selling Games" won a best paper award at FDG 2023 Conference !! Preprint @ asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/improving-the-… by @vungocquang & Cor-Paul Bezemer

The data for the ICPE 2025 ICPE 2022 Data Challenge Track is now up doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… The data is the MongoDB internal performance testing results, from running synthetic performance tests in our CI system. See icpe2022.spec.org/tracks-and-sub… for the call for papers.

Mikael and Chloe's systematic literature survey on Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks in Anomaly Detection is available now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2110.12076

Some great news from the The ASGAARD Lab ! Markos Viggiato's paper “Using Natural Language Processing Techniques to Improve Manual Test Case Descriptions” was accepted in ICSE-SEIP 2022! Preprint available @ asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/using-natural-…

Also, (Twitter-anonymous) Mikael's paper "Studying the Performance Risks of Upgrading Docker Hub Images: A Case Study of WordPress" was accepted at ICPE 2022! Preprint available @ asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/studying-the-p…

Finally, Hao Li's paper "An Empirical Study of Yanked Releases in the Rust Package Registry" was accepted in the @computersociety TSE journal! Preprint available @ asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/an-empirical-s…

Game developers! We are running an anonymous research survey on the current practices, goals, and needs for quality assurance in #gamedev and would love your input. Over $4,000 in random draw prizes. Please spread the word! surveymonkey.com/r/gamedevtesti…

CLIP meets GamePhysics: Towards bug identification in gameplay videos using zero-shot transfer learning abs: arxiv.org/abs/2203.11096 project page: asgaardlab.github.io/CLIPxGamePhysi…

Everyone wake up, new update to Mark’s list of institutions & researchers active in technical games research just dropped.

Cor-Paul Bezemer The ASGAARD Lab 👍👍

Super congrats to @finlaymacklon, taesiri, Stefan and Markos Viggiato who had their paper "Automatically Detecting Visual Bugs in HTML5 <canvas> Games” accepted at ASE 2024! Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/automatically-… (collaboration with Prodigy Education)