Sapienz 2016 Android testing paper wins ISSTA 2026 Most Influential Paper Award
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ISSTA 2026 gives its Most Influential Paper Award to Ke Mao, Mark Harman and Yue Jia for their 2016 paper on Sapienz, a multi-objective automated testing tool for Android apps.
In its evaluation of 1,000 Google Play apps, Sapienz found 558 previously unknown crashes, according to Meta. Meta says it deployed Sapienz at scale within 17 months, and that the tool now runs millions of tests daily and surfaces thousands of unique crashes each week.
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AIISSTA 2026 gave its Most Influential Paper Award to the 2016 paper on Sapienz, a multi-objective automated testing tool for Android apps. In its 1,000-app Google Play evaluation, Sapienz found 558 previously unknown crashes, and within 17 months Meta deployed it at scale. Meta says Sapienz now runs millions of tests daily and surfaces thousands of unique crashes each week.
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