issta-related-work
GitHub用于审核ISSTA投稿的创新性与定位。指导作者明确与最接近技术的差异，涵盖ICSE、FSE等兄弟会议文献，规范双盲引用及避免误标会议，确保符合双重提交规则。
触发场景
安装
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-related-work -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "issta-related-work",
"description": "Use when positioning an ISSTA submission against the testing and analysis literature, covering the sibling venues (ICSE, FSE, ASE, ICST, PLDI, CAV), delta-first framing against the nearest technique, double-anonymous self-citation, distinguishing the closest tool baseline, and avoiding the venue-confusion of citing a paper to the wrong conference."
}
ISSTA Related Work
Use this to audit novelty and positioning. ISSTA reviewers know the testing/analysis literature well, so the job is to name the nearest technique and state the delta, not to survey the field. Reopen the current call for any dual-submission and prior-publication rules before advising authors.
Positioning checks
- Separate a genuine technique or measurement contribution from an engineering improvement: a new bug class found, a new property analyzed, a new evaluation of a technique class, or a sharper-but-cheaper analysis.
- Name the single nearest technique and state the delta in one sentence: what it could not do, what yours does, and at what cost. Reviewers look for the closest competitor first.
- Sweep the right venues. Testing and analysis work is spread across ISSTA and its siblings; missing a paper because it was at FSE or CAV rather than ISSTA reads as not knowing the field.
- Keep self-citations double-anonymous: cite your own prior tool in the third person and do not link to an identity-revealing repository.
- Declare any overlap with a prior workshop or preprint version, and do not put duplicate archival work under review.
Literature lanes for testing and analysis
| Lane | Typical venues | What ISSTA reviewers check |
|---|---|---|
| Software-engineering flagships | ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE | Whether the closest SE technique is compared or distinguished |
| Testing-specific venues | ISSTA, ICST, ISSRE | Whether the direct predecessor and its benchmark are used |
| Programming languages / verification | PLDI, POPL, OOPSLA, CAV, TACAS | Whether the analysis's formal neighbours are acknowledged |
| Security testing | S&P, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS | Whether fuzzing/analysis-for-security work is credited where relevant |
A bibliography that cites only ISSTA papers signals to a reviewer that nearer work at FSE, ASE, or CAV was missed — a recognizable weakness that benchmark strength does not repair.
Delta-first positioning vignette
Suppose the paper proposes a directed fuzzer for a specific bug class. Its nearest neighbours: a coverage-guided fuzzer at a security venue with no directedness, a directed symbolic-execution tool at a PL venue that does not scale, and a prior ISSTA fuzzer for a different bug class. The novelty sentence names all three deltas — directedness the coverage fuzzer lacked, scale the symbolic tool lacked, and a different, harder target than the prior ISSTA fuzzer — rather than a generic "we improve on prior fuzzers."
Venue-attribution discipline
- Before citing a paper as ISSTA, confirm the venue on dblp or the ACM DL; many canonical testing/analysis papers (KLEE at OSDI, EvoSuite at ESEC/FSE, Randoop at ICSE) are not ISSTA, and mis-attributing them signals carelessness.
- For a tool everyone knows by name, cite the paper that introduced it, at its actual venue, not the venue where you first encountered it.
- When unsure whether a venue is archival for dual-submission purposes, declare the overlap in the submission form rather than guessing.
Output format
[Novelty] clear / incremental / at-risk
[Closest lanes] <SE / testing / PL-verification / security>
[Nearest 3 works] <work -> venue -> delta>
[Venue-attribution check] <any paper cited to the wrong conference?>
[Archival-overlap risk] none / issues
[Novelty sentence] <ISSTA-ready delta statement>
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