Call for Papers | Workshop Agentic AI in Software Testing and Automation

Call for Papers of the workshop Agentic AI in Software Testing and Automation (ASTA 2026).

ASTA – Agentic AI in Software Testing and Automation is a workshop focused on autonomous, goal-driven AI agents and agentic systems applied to software testing, verification, and validation. The workshop aims to foster discussion on novel architectures, tools, empirical evidence, and open challenges related to agentic AI for testing.

Tommaso Fulcini and Riccardo Coppola, from the Department of Automation and Computer Science-DAUIN, are among the organisers of the workshop.

Topics
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Agentic and autonomous AI for software testing;
• LLM-based agents as intelligent testers;
• Agentic architectures for test generation, execution, and maintenance;
• Autonomous test agents for web, mobile, embedded, and cyber-physical systems;
• Functional and non-functional testing with agentic systems (e.g., usability, security);
• Test oracle construction using agentic AI;
• Tool orchestration by autonomous testing agents (e.g., fuzzers, debuggers, load testers);
• Empirical evaluations, benchmarks, and case studies of agent-driven testing;
• Evaluation metrics, controllability, reproducibility, and cost-effectiveness of agentic testing approaches.

The workshop is held within the events of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2026), which will take place from 18 to 22 May 2026 in Daejeon (Republicc of Korea).

Deadline for submissions: 6 March 2026.

For more information, please visit the official workshop website or contact Tommaso Fulcini.