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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-related-work --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 tes
- Positioning checks
- Literature lanes for testing and analysis
- Delta-first positioning vignette
- Venue-attribution discipline
- Output format
What does the issta-related-work skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-related-work --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.