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issta-related-work

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.

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# 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