Geraldine (Widni) Galindo

E-mail:
widni.galindo-gutierrez@cispa.de
Address:
Institut für Softwaretechnologie
Universitätsstr. 38
70569 Stuttgart

I am a PhD student at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, where I am advised by Prof. Dr. Michael Pradel at the University of Stuttgart. My research interests focus on enhancing the quality and efficiency of tests and bug detection in software engineering.

Education and Experiences

PhD student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security - Universität Stuttgart
Since October 2025
Research Assistant at Exact Sciences and Engineering Research Center (CICEI)
Bolivian Catholic University, Bolivia
January 2024 – June 2025
DAAD Scholarship at Universität Passau
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gordon Fraser
September 2024 – November 2024
Master's of Computer Science
Bolivian Catholic University, Bolivia
March 2022 – December 2023
Bachelor's in Systems Engineering
Bolivian Catholic University, Bolivia
February 2017 – February 2022

Publications

Increasing the Effectiveness of Automatically Generated Tests by Improving Class Observability. 2025.
Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Nicolas Jimenez-Fuentes, Alexandre Bergel, Gordon Fraser.
The IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025).
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

Automatically Generating Single-Responsibility Unit Tests. 2025.
Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez. The IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025).

On the use of statistical machine translation for suggesting variable names for decompiled code: The Pharo case. 2024.
Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, Harold Camacho-Jaimes, Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez, Hugo Andrés Neyem, Alexandre Bergel, Stéphane Ducassee Journal of Computer Languages

A manual categorization of new quality issues on automatically-generated tests. 2023.
Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez, Maximiliano Narea Carvajal, Alison Fernandez Blanco, Nicolas Anquetil, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer.
The 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023).

SmallEvoTest: Genetically Created Unit Tests for Smalltalk.. 2023.
Alexandre Bergel, Geraldine Galindo-Gutiérrez, Alison Fernandez-Blanco, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer.
The International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST 2023).