Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Software Quality Assurance

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B2/3 L0 R0215; Zoom Meeting 96002635189

Join Dr. Eman Abdullah AlOmar as she discusses how AI is reshaping software quality assurance and the challenges of building reliable and trustworthy AI systems.

The rapid advancement of AI has transformed software development, yet a critical gap persists between the sophistication of AI models and the reliability of the systems that contain them. This talk addresses that gap by examining how AI is simultaneously reshaping software quality assurance and creating new demands upon it. AI-driven techniques, including LLM-based code generation, ML fault prediction, and neural program repair, are redefining automated testing and verification. At the same time, deploying AI at scale introduces a new class of quality challenges: probabilistic behavior, irreproducible pipelines, and autonomous agents that are difficult to audit or formally verify.

Drawing on recent advances in SE4AI and trustworthy AI, this talk proposes areas where the absence of rigorous software quality practices represents both a risk and a research opportunity. The talk concludes with an open discussion on the future of AI and the role software engineering must play in making it trustworthy, scalable, and accountable.

Presenters

Dr. Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Assistant Professor, Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science (SES), STEVENS Institute of Technology

Brief Biography

Eman Abdullah AlOmar is an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie at the intersection of computing and artificial intelligence, with a focus on software maintenance, software evolution, software refactoring, technical debt, software quality assurance, code review, and documentation. She has received five Best Paper Awards, Best Presentation Awards, and Honorable Mention at IWoR 2019, MSR 2022, MSR 2024, SIGCSE 2024, and ICPC 2025. She has also received the Distinguished Doctoral Research Award at MSR 2023 and the Best Reviewer Award at JSS 2022 and JSS 2023. She is the recipient of the 2024 Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence at Stevens and the 2026 Outstanding Mentor Award, 2026. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier) and regularly serves on program committees across leading software engineering venues.