Public Talks

ICST 2025 Self-Driving Car Testing Competition

• Title: “ICST Tool Competition 2025 – Self-Driving Car Testing Track”
  • Competition Report Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.09982
  • Slides: https://christianbirchler-org.github.io/sdc-testing-competition/
• Date/Time: Fri 4 Apr 2025
• Location: Naples, Italy

FSE 2024 Research Track

• Title: “How does Simulation-based Testing for Self-driving Cars match Human Perception?”
  • Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643768
• Date/Time: Fri 19 Jul 2024 12:10 - 12:30
• Location: Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

MSR 2024 Data Showcase

• Title: “SensoDat: Simulation-bases Sensor Dataset of Self-driving Cars”
  • Paper Preprint
  • GitHub
• Date/Time: Tue 16 April 2024
• Location: Lisbon, Portugal

ASE 2023 Journal-First Track

• Title: “Machine learning-based test selection for simulation-based testing of self-driving cars software”
  • Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-023-10286-y
• Date/Time: Thu 14 Sep 2023 14:42 - 14:54
• Location: Kirchberg, Luxembourg

ASE 2023 Tool Demonstrations Track

• Title: “TEASER: Simulation-based CAN Bus Regression Testing for Self-driving Cars Software”
  • Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.03279
• Date/Time: Wed 13 Sep 2023 15:30 - 14:42
• Location: Kirchberg, Luxembourg

ICSE 2023 Journal-First Track

• Title: “Single and Multi-objective Test Cases Prioritization for Self-driving Cars in Virtual Environments”
  • Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3533818
• Date/Time: Fri 19 May 2023 17:00 - 17:07
• Location: Melbourne, Australia
• Pitch: Video

Guest Lecture at the University of Bern

• As invited guest speaker with Dr. Sebastiano Panichella at the University of Bern, November 30, 2022, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Title: “Search-based Software Testing”

Master Thesis Presentation

• Master thesis presentation at University of Zurich (UZH) and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
• Title: “Optimized Test Selection for Simulation-based Tests for Self-driving Cars Software”
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Davide Scaramuzza
• Co-supervisor: Dr. Sebastiano Panichella
• Slides

SMILESENG Seminar

• As invited guest speaker with Dr. Sebastiano Panichella at the International Summer School on Search- and Machine Learning-based Software Engineering (SMILESENG), June 22-24, 2022, Córdoba, Spain.
  • “Testing with Fewer Resources: Toward Adaptive Approaches for Cost-effective Test Generation and Selection”

SMILESENG Session

• Work-in-Progress talk at at the International Summer School on Search- and Machine Learning-based Software Engineering (SMILESENG), June 22-24, 2022, Córdoba, Spain.
  • “Regression Testing for Self-driving Cars as Cyber-physical Systems in Virtual Environments”

VoxxedDays Zürich

• Talk at VoxxedDays Zurich 2022.
  • “Cost-effective Simulation-based Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software”

SANER Tool Demonstation

• Tool Demonstration at IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2022.

  • “Cost-effective Simulationbased Test Selection in Self-driving Cars Software with SDC-Scissor”