Preface

Invited Papers

BOOM: Experiences in Language and Tool Design for Distributed Systems (Keynote)
Joseph M. Hellerstein
(University of California at Berkeley, USA)

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The Challenges of Verification and Validation of Automated Planning Systems (Keynote)
Jeremy Frank
(NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

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Big Problems in Industry (Panel)
John Penix
(Google, USA)

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Technical Research Track

Concurrency

Round-Up: Runtime Checking Quasi Linearizability of Concurrent Data Structures
Lu Zhang, Arijit Chattopadhyay, and Chao Wang
(Virginia Tech, USA)

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Constraint-Based Automatic Symmetry Detection
Shao Jie Zhang, Jun Sun, Chengnian Sun, Yang Liu, Junwei Ma, and Jin Song Dong
(Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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Proving MCAPI Executions Are Correct using SMT
Yu Huang, Eric Mercer, and Jay McCarthy
(Brigham Young University, USA)

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Efficient Data Race Prediction with Incremental Reasoning on Time-Stamped Lock History
Malay K. Ganai
(NEC Labs, USA)

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Dynamic Analysis

PIEtrace: Platform Independent Executable Trace
Yonghwi Kwon, Xiangyu Zhang, and Dongyan Xu
(Purdue University, USA)

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Improving Efficiency of Dynamic Analysis with Dynamic Dependence Summaries
Vijay Krishna Palepu, Guoqing Xu, and James A. Jones
(University of California at Irvine, USA)

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Efficient Parametric Runtime Verification with Deterministic String Rewriting
Patrick Meredith and Grigore Roşu
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Identifying Execution Points for Dynamic Analyses
William N. Sumner and Xiangyu Zhang
(Simon Fraser University, Canada; Purdue University, USA)

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Testing

Operator-Based and Random Mutant Selection: Better Together
Lingming Zhang, Milos Gligoric, Darko Marinov , and Sarfraz Khurshid
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Testing Properties of Dataflow Program Operators
Zhihong Xu, Martin Hirzel, Gregg Rothermel, and Kun-Lung Wu
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; IBM Research, USA)

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Bita: Coverage-Guided, Automatic Testing of Actor Programs
Samira Tasharofi, Michael Pradel , Yu Lin, and Ralph E. Johnson
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

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SABRINE: State-Based Robustness Testing of Operating Systems
Domenico Cotroneo, Domenico Di Leo, Francesco Fucci, and Roberto Natella 
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Critiware, Italy)

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Verification

Blitz: Compositional Bounded Model Checking for Real-World Programs
Chia Yuan Cho, Vijay D’Silva, and Dawn Song
(University of California at Berkeley, USA)

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Ranger: Parallel Analysis of Alloy Models by Range Partitioning
Nicolás Rosner, Junaid H. Siddiqui, Nazareno Aguirre, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Marcelo F. Frias
(Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Pakistan; Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina; University of Texas at Austin, USA; Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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Automated Verification of Pattern-Based Interaction Invariants in Ajax Applications
Yuta Maezawa, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshinori Tanabe, and Shinichi Honiden
(University of Tokyo, Japan; Waseda University, Japan; National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

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Software Model Checking for Distributed Systems with Selector-Based, Non-blocking Communication
Cyrille Artho, Masami Hagiya, Richard Potter, Yoshinori Tanabe, Franz Weitl, and Mitsuharu Yamamoto
(AIST, Japan; University of Tokyo, Japan; National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Chiba University, Japan)

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Evolution

A Study of Repetitiveness of Code Changes in Software Evolution
Hoan Anh Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen, and Hridesh Rajan 
(Iowa State University, USA)

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Consistency-Preserving Edit Scripts in Model Versioning
Timo Kehrer, Udo Kelter, and Gabriele Taentzer
(University of Siegen, Germany; Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

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JFlow: Practical Refactorings for Flow-Based Parallelism
Nicholas Chen and Ralph E. Johnson
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Automated Planning for Software Architecture Evolution
Jeffrey M. Barnes, Ashutosh Pandey, and David Garlan
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

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Generation and Synthesis

Automatically Synthesizing SQL Queries from Input-Output Examples
Sai Zhang and Yuyin Sun
(University of Washington, USA)

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SEDGE: Symbolic Example Data Generation for Dataflow Programs
Kaituo Li, Christoph Reichenbach, Yannis Smaragdakis , Yanlei Diao, and Christoph Csallner
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; University of Athens, Greece; University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

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Characteristic Studies of Loop Problems for Structural Test Generation via Symbolic Execution
Xusheng Xiao, Sihan Li, Tao Xie, and Nikolai Tillmann
(North Carolina State University, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)

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Entropy-Based Test Generation for Improved Fault Localization
José Campos, Rui Abreu , Gordon Fraser, and Marcelo d'Amorim
(University of Porto, Portugal; University of Sheffield, UK; Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

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Recommendations

Detecting Bad Smells in Source Code using Change History Information
Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia , and Denys Poshyvanyk
(University of Salerno, Italy; University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy; College of William and Mary, USA)

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Personalized Defect Prediction
Tian Jiang, Lin Tan, and Sunghun Kim
(University of Waterloo, Canada; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

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Automatic Recommendation of API Methods from Feature Requests
Ferdian Thung , Shaowei Wang, David Lo , and Julia Lawall
(Singapore Management University, Singapore; Inria, France; Lip6, France)

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Variability-Aware Performance Prediction: A Statistical Learning Approach
Jianmei Guo, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Sven Apel, Norbert Siegmund, and Andrzej Wąsowski
(University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Passau, Germany; IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Security

A Scalable Approach for Malware Detection through Bounded Feature Space Behavior Modeling
Mahinthan Chandramohan, Hee Beng Kuan Tan, Lionel C. Briand , Lwin Khin Shar, and Bindu Madhavi Padmanabhuni
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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Automatically Partition Software into Least Privilege Components using Dynamic Data Dependency Analysis
Yongzheng Wu, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, and Jin Song Dong
(Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Finding Architectural Flaws using Constraints
Radu Vanciu and Marwan Abi-Antoun
(Wayne State University, USA)

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Debugging

Improving Bug Localization using Structured Information Retrieval
Ripon K. Saha, Matthew Lease, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Dewayne E. Perry
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)

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Leveraging Program Equivalence for Adaptive Program Repair: Models and First Results
Westley Weimer, Zachary P. Fry, and Stephanie Forrest
(University of Virginia, USA; University of New Mexico, USA)

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Detecting and Characterizing Semantic Inconsistencies in Ported Code
Baishakhi Ray, Miryung Kim, Suzette Person, and Neha Rungta
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; NASA Langley Research Center, USA; NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

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Lightweight Control-Flow Instrumentation and Postmortem Analysis in Support of Debugging
Peter Ohmann and Ben Liblit
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

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Resources

Characterizing and Detecting Resource Leaks in Android Applications
Chaorong Guo, Jian Zhang, Jun Yan, Zhiqiang Zhang, and Yanli Zhang
(Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

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Dangling References in Multi-configuration and Dynamic PHP-Based Web Applications
Hung Viet Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, and Tien N. Nguyen
(Iowa State University, USA)

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Dynamically Transforming Data Structures
Erik Österlund and Welf Löwe
(Linnaeus University, Sweden)

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Towards Precise Metrics for Predicting Graph Query Performance
Benedek Izsó, Zoltán Szatmári, Gábor Bergmann , Ákos Horváth, and István Ráth
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

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Specification Mining

TzuYu: Learning Stateful Typestates
Hao Xiao, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Shang-Wei Lin, and Chengnian Sun
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Mining Branching-Time Scenarios
Dirk Fahland, David Lo , and Shahar Maoz 
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Singapore Management University, Singapore; Tel Aviv University, Israel)

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Models and Complexity

Measuring the Structural Complexity of Feature Models
Richard Pohl, Vanessa Stricker, and Klaus Pohl
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

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Scalable Product Line Configuration: A Straw to Break the Camel’s Back
Abdel Salam Sayyad, Joseph Ingram, Tim Menzies, and Hany Ammar
(West Virginia University, USA)

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Experience Track

Experience: Software Analysis

Software Analytics for Incident Management of Online Services: An Experience Report
Jian-Guang Lou, Qingwei Lin , Rui Ding, Qiang Fu, Dongmei Zhang , and Tao Xie
(Microsoft Research, China; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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A Comparative Analysis of Software Architecture Recovery Techniques
Joshua Garcia, Igor Ivkovic, and Nenad Medvidovic 
(University of Southern California, USA; Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

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Towards Contextual and On-Demand Code Clone Management by Continuous Monitoring
Gang Zhang, Xin Peng, Zhenchang Xing, Shihai Jiang, Hai Wang, and Wenyun Zhao
(Fudan University, China; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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The Potential of Polyhedral Optimization: An Empirical Study
Andreas Simbürger, Sven Apel, Armin Größlinger, and Christian Lengauer
(University of Passau, Germany)

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Experience: Testing and Verification

Automated Unit Testing of Large Industrial Embedded Software using Concolic Testing
Yunho Kim, Youil Kim, Taeksu Kim, Gunwoo Lee, Yoonkyu Jang, and Moonzoo Kim
(KAIST, South Korea; Samsung Electronics, South Korea)

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Minimizing CPU Time Shortage Risks in Integrated Embedded Software
Shiva Nejati, Morayo Adedjouma, Lionel C. Briand , Jonathan Hellebaut, Julien Begey, and Yves Clement
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Delphi, Luxembourg)

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Model Based Test Validation and Oracles for Data Acquisition Systems
Daniel Di Nardo, Nadia Alshahwan, Lionel C. Briand , Elizabeta Fourneret, Tomislav Nakić-Alfirević, and Vincent Masquelier
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; SES, Luxembourg)

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Automated Verification of Interactive Rule-Based Configuration Systems
Deepak Dhungana, Ching Hoo Tang, Christoph Weidenbach, and Patrick Wischnewski
(Siemens, Austria; Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany; Logic4Business, Germany)

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New Ideas Track

New Ideas: Adaptation and Transformation

AutoComment: Mining Question and Answer Sites for Automatic Comment Generation
Edmund Wong, Jinqiu Yang, and Lin Tan
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

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Detecting System Use Cases and Validations from Documents
Smita Ghaisas, Manish Motwani, and Preethu Rose Anish
(Tata Consultancy Services, India)

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Multi-user Variability Configuration: A Game Theoretic Approach
Jesús García-Galán, Pablo Trinidad, and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés 
(University of Seville, Spain)

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From Comparison Matrix to Variability Model: The Wikipedia Case Study
Nicolas Sannier, Mathieu Acher, and Benoit Baudry
(University of Rennes 1, France; Inria, France; Irisa, France)

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Learning Effective Query Transformations for Enhanced Requirements Trace Retrieval
Timothy Dietrich, Jane Cleland-Huang, and Yonghee Shin
(DePaul University, USA)

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Environment Rematching: Toward Dependability Improvement for Self-Adaptive Applications
Chang Xu , Wenhua Yang, Xiaoxing Ma, Chun Cao, and Jian Lü
(Nanjing University, China)

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Cloud Twin: Native Execution of Android Applications on the Windows Phone
Ethan Holder, Eeshan Shah, Mohammed Davoodi, and Eli Tilevich
(Virginia Tech, USA)

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SBFR: A Search Based Approach for Reproducing Failures of Programs with Grammar Based Input
Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew , Wei Jin, Roberto Tiella, Alessandro Orso , and Paolo Tonella
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

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New Ideas: Testing and Debugging

Pythia: Generating Test Cases with Oracles for JavaScript Applications
Shabnam Mirshokraie, Ali Mesbah, and Karthik Pattabiraman 
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

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Randomizing Regression Tests using Game Theory
Nupul Kukreja, William G. J. Halfond , and Milind Tambe
(University of Southern California, USA)

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Automated Inference of Classifications and Dependencies for Combinatorial Testing
Cu Duy Nguyen and Paolo Tonella
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

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Adding Context to Fault Localization with Integration Coverage
Higor Amario de Souza and Marcos Lordello Chaim
(University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

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Using Automatically Generated Invariants for Regression Testing and Bug Localization
Parth Sagdeo, Nicholas Ewalt, Debjit Pal, and Shobha Vasudevan
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Class Level Fault Prediction using Software Clustering
Giuseppe Scanniello, Carmine Gravino, Andrian Marcus, and Tim Menzies
(University of Basilicata, Italy; University of Salerno, Italy; Wayne State University, USA; West Virginia University, USA)

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ExPort: Detecting and Visualizing API Usages in Large Source Code Repositories
Evan Moritz, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk , Mark Grechanik, Collin McMillan, and Malcom Gethers
(College of William and Mary, USA; University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; University of Notre Dame, USA; University of Maryland in Baltimore County, USA)

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Flow Permissions for Android
Shashank Holavanalli, Don Manuel, Vishwas Nanjundaswamy, Brian Rosenberg, Feng Shen, Steven Y. Ko, and Lukasz Ziarek
(SUNY Buffalo, USA)

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New Ideas: Models and Requirements

A Pattern-Based Approach to Parametric Specification Mining
Giles Reger, Howard Barringer, and David Rydeheard
(University of Manchester, UK)

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Semi-automatic Generation of Metamodels from Model Sketches
Dustin Wüest, Norbert Seyff, and Martin Glinz
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)

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Assessing the Maturity of Requirements through Argumentation: A Good Enough Approach
Varsha Veerappa and Rachel Harrison
(Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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Natural Language Requirements Quality Analysis Based on Business Domain Models
Annervaz K.M., Vikrant Kaulgud, Shubhashis Sengupta, and Milind Savagaonkar
(Accenture Technology Labs, India)

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Model/Code Co-Refactoring: An MDE Approach
Jens von Pilgrim, Bastian Ulke, Andreas Thies, and Friedrich Steimann
(Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany)

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Recovering Model Transformation Traces using Multi-Objective Optimization
Hajer Saada, Marianne Huchard, Clémentine Nebut, and Houari Sahraoui
(Université Montpellier 2, France; CNRS, France; Université de Montréal, Canada)

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Tool Demonstrations

Model Repair and Transformation with Echo
Nuno Macedo, Tiago Guimarães, and Alcino Cunha 
(HASLab at INESC TEC, Portugal; Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

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Smart Cloud Broker: Finding Your Home in the Clouds
Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Sergei Chichin, Quoc Bao Vo, and Ryszard Kowalczyk
(Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

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OCRA: A Tool for Checking the Refinement of Temporal Contracts
Alessandro Cimatti, Michele Dorigatti, and Stefano Tonetta
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

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The Bounded Model Checker LLBMC
Stephan Falke, Florian Merz, and Carsten Sinz
(KIT, Germany)

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CSeq: A Concurrency Pre-processor for Sequential C Verification Tools
Bernd Fischer , Omar Inverso, and Gennaro Parlato
(Stellenbosch University, South Africa; University of Southampton, UK)

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Automated Testing of Cloud-Based Elastic Systems with AUToCLES
Alessio Gambi, Waldemar Hummer, and Schahram Dustdar
(University of Lugano, Switzerland; Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

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Tool Support for Automatic Model Transformation Specification using Concrete Visualisations
Iman Avazpour, John Grundy, and Lars Grunske
(Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; University of Stuttgart, Germany)

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CCmutator: A Mutation Generator for Concurrency Constructs in Multithreaded C/C++ Applications
Markus Kusano and Chao Wang
(Virginia Tech, USA)

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Crushinator: A Framework towards Game-Independent Testing
Christopher Schaefer, Hyunsook Do, and Brian M. Slator
(North Dakota State University, USA)

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Pex4Fun: A Web-Based Environment for Educational Gaming via Automated Test Generation
Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Halleux, Tao Xie, and Judith Bishop
(Microsoft Research, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Developing Self-Verifying Service-Based Systems
Radu Calinescu, Kenneth Johnson, and Yasmin Rafiq
(University of York, UK)

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TRAM: A Tool for Transforming Textual Requirements into Analysis Models
Keletso J. Letsholo, Liping Zhao, and Erol-Valeriu Chioasca
(University of Manchester, UK)

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iProbe: A Lightweight User-Level Dynamic Instrumentation Tool
Nipun Arora, Hui Zhang, Junghwan Rhee, Kenji Yoshihira, and Guofei Jiang
(NEC Labs, USA)

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Doctoral Symposium

Detecting and Fixing Emergent Behaviors in Distributed Software Systems using a Message Content Independent Method
Fatemeh Hendijani Fard
(University of Calgary, Canada)

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Synthesizing Fault-Tolerant Programs from Deontic Logic Specifications
Ramiro Demasi
(McMaster University, Canada)

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Supporting Bug Investigation using History Analysis
Francisco Servant
(University of California at Irvine, USA)

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Context-Aware Task Allocation for Distributed Agile Team
Jun Lin
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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Preventing Erosion of Architectural Tactics through Their Strategic Implementation, Preservation, and Visualization
Mehdi Mirakhorli
(DePaul University, USA)

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