ICST tool competition 2025 – UAV testing track

Simulation-based testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); however, this area remains underexplored. The UAV Testing Competition aims to engage the software testing community by highlighting UAVs as an emerging and vital domain. This initiative offers a straightforward software platform and representative case studies to ease participants' entry into UAV testing, enabling them to develop their initial test generation tools for UAVs. In this second iteration of the competition, three tools were submitted, assessed, and thoroughly compared against each other, as well as the baseline approach. Our benchmarking framework analyzed their test generation capabilities across three distinct case studies. The resulting test suites were evaluated and ranked based on their failure detection and diversity. This paper provides an overview of the competition, detailing its context, platform, participating tools, evaluation methodology, and key findings.