The ASGAARD Lab

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

@corpaul @asgaard_lab 👍👍

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

@viggiato's paper “Identifying Similar Test Cases That Are Specified in Natural Language” was accepted for publication in the Transactions on Software Engineering journal! Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/identifying-si… (with @ProdigyGame)

@taesiri and Finlay's paper "CLIP meets GamePhysics: Towards bug identification in gameplay videos using zero-shot transfer learning" was accepted at @msrconf ! Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/clip-meets-gam…

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…

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…

Finally, @HaoLi24342250'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…

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…

Some great news from the @asgaard_lab ! @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-…

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

The data for the @ICPEconf 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.

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

For the first time, ICPE 2022 icpe2022.spec.org will have a new Data Challenge track. @corpaul, @DavidDaly44 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!

“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 @ArthurKamienski Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/an-empirical-s…

Are you interested in working with @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…

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 @FDGconf ! Preprint w cool dataset at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/improving-the-… w @corpaul

Super congrats to @viggiato who had his paper "What Causes Wrong Sentiment Classifications of Game Reviews?" accepted in the @IEEETxnOnGames journal! Preprint available at asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/markos-paper-w… (with @Dr_DayiLin, @abramh, @corpaul)

More great news! Rain's paper "An Empirical Study of Trends of Popular Virtual Reality Games and Their Complaints" was accepted for publication in @IEEETxnOnGames Get the preprint here: asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/an-empirical-s… with @Dr_DayiLin @corpaul

Should you Upgrade Official Docker Hub Images in Production Environments? Read about it in Sara Gholami's @ICSEconf NIER'21 paper: asgaard.ece.ualberta.ca/should-you-upg… with @HamzehKhazaei @corpaul