Publications

Published

• Victor Crespo-Rodriguez , *Christian Birchler , Neelofar, Aldeida Aleti, Sebastiano Panichella, “The role of road features and vehicle dynamics in cost-effective autonomous vehicles safety testing: Insights from instance space analysis”. Information and Software Technology Volume 195, July 2026.

• Prakash Aryan, Christian Birchler, Tommaso Fulcini, Luigi Sterace, Sebastiano Panichella, “ICST Tool Competition 2026 - CPS-SDC Regression Testing Track. Self-Driving Car Testing Track”. ICST 2026.

• Prakash Aryan, Christian Birchler, Tommaso Fulcini, Luigi Sterace, Sebastiano Panichella, “SBFT Tool Competition 2026 - CPS-SDC Regression Testing Track”. 2026 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT 2026).

• Sebastiano Panichella, Paolo Arcaini, Myra B. Cohen, Aitor Arrieta, “Roadmap for DevOps in Cyber-Physical Systems”. Springer Singapore (2026).
  • Book Chapter

• Christian Birchler, Stefan Klikovits, Mattia Fazzini, Sebastiano Panichella, “ICST Tool Competition 2025 - Self-Driving Car Testing Track,” IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2025, April 2025.
  • IEEE Xplore
  • Preprint

• Ali Javadi, Christian Birchler, “TGen-UQ at the ICST 2025 Tool Competition - UAV Testing Track,” 2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2025, April 2025.
  • IEEE Xplore

• Christian Birchler, Sajad Khatiri, Pooja Rani, Timo Kehrer, and Sebastiano Panichella, “A Roadmap for Simulation-Based Testing of Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Future Direction,” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 34, 5, Article 152, doi: 10.1145/3711906.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint

• Christian Birchler, Tanzil Kombarabettu Mohammed, Pooja Rani, Teodora Nechita, Timo Kehrer, Sebastiano Panichella, “How does Simulation-based Testing for Self-driving Cars match Human Perception?,” In ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), doi: 10.1145/3643768, July 2024.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint

• Sajad Khatiri, Prasun Saurabh, Timothy Zimmermann, Charith Munasinghe, Christian Birchler, Sebastiano Panichella, “SBFT Tool Competition 2024 - CPS-UAV Test Case Generation Track,” In 17th Intl. Wockshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), doi: to appear, April 2024.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint

• Nicolas Erni, Al-Ameen Mohammed Ali Mohammed, Christian Birchler, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Stephan Lukasczyk, Sebastiano Panichella, “SBFT Tool Competition 2024 - Python Test Case Generation Track,” In 17th Intl. Wockshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), doi: to appear, April 2024.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint

• Christian Birchler, Cyrill Rohrbach, Timo Kehrer, Sebastiano Panichella, “SensoDat: Simulation-based Sensor Dataset of Self-driving Cars,” In 21st Intl. Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), doi: 10.1145/3643991.3644891, April 2024.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint
  • Zenodo
  • GitHub

• Timo Blattner, Christian Birchler, Timo Kehrer, Sebastiano Panichella, “Diversity-guided Search Exploration for Self-driving Cars Test Generation through Frenet Space Encoding,” In 17th Intl. Wockshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing (SBFT), doi: to appear, April 2024.
  • ACM Digital Library
  • Preprint

• Christian Birchler, Cyrill Rohrbach, Hyeongkyun Kim, Alessio Gambi, Tianhai Liu, Jens Horneber, Timo Kehrer, Sebastiano Panichella, “TEASER: Simulation-based CAN Bus Regression Testing for Self-driving Cars Software,” In 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00154.
  • IEEE Xplore
  • Preprint
  • TEASER Tool Documentation
  • Submitted GitHub Release

• Christian Birchler, Sajad Khatiri, Bill Bosshard, Alessio Gambi, and Sebastiano Panichella, “Machine Learning-based Test Selection for Simulation-based Testing of Self-driving Cars Software,” Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 28, 71, doi: 10.1007/s10664-023-10286-y, April 2023.
  • Springer

• Christian Birchler, Sajad Khatiri, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Sebastiano Panichella, and Annibale Panichella, “Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments,” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 32, 2, Article 28, doi: 10.1145/3533818, April 2023.
  • ACM Digital Library

• Christian Birchler, Nicolas Ganz, Sajad Khatiri, Alessio Gambi, and Sebastiano Panichella, “Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software,” Science of Computer Programming (SCP), doi: 10.1016/j.scico.2023.102926, 2023.
  • Elsevier

• Christian Birchler, Nicolas Ganz, Sajad Khatiri, Alessio Gambi, and Sebastiano Panichella, “Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software with SDC-Scissor,” In 2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pp. 164-168, doi: 10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00030.
  • IEEE Xplore
  • GitHub

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