ESEC/FSE 2013 – Proceedings

2013 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), August 18–26, 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Preface

Keynotes

Producing Software by Integration: Challenges and Research Directions (Keynote)
Paola Inverardi, Marco Autili, Davide Di Ruscio, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Massimo Tivoli
(University of l'Aquila, Italy)

Panels

Empirical Answers to Fundamental Software Engineering Problems (Panel)
Bertrand Meyer, Harald Gall, Mark Harman, and Giancarlo Succi
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ITMO, Russia; Eiffel Software, USA; University of Zurich, Switzerland; University College London, UK; Microsoft Research, UK; Free University of Bozen, Italy)

A Publication Culture in Software Engineering (Panel)
Steven Fraser, Luciano Baresi, Jane Cleland-Huang, Carlo A. Furia, Georges Gonthier, Paola Inverardi, and Moshe Y. Vardi
(CISCO, USA; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; DePaul University, USA; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Microsoft Research, UK; University of L’Aquila, USA; Rice University, USA)

AEC Summary

Artifact Evaluation (Summary)
Alexandre Bergel and Lorenzo Bettini
(University of Chile, Chile; Università di Torino, Italy)

Technical Research

Testing I

Con2colic Testing
Azadeh Farzan, Andreas Holzer, Niloofar Razavi, and Helmut Veith
(University of Toronto, Canada; Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Boosting Concolic Testing via Interpolation
Joxan Jaffar, Vijayaraghavan Murali, and Jorge A. Navas
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; University of Melbourne, Australia)

Dynamic and Variable Software

Adequate Monitoring of Service Compositions
Antonia Bertolino, Eda Marchetti, and Andrea Morichetta
(ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Prediction of Atomic Web Services Reliability Based on K-Means Clustering
Marin Silic, Goran Delac, and Sinisa Srbljic
(University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Scalable Analysis of Variable Software
Jörg Liebig, Alexander von Rhein, Christian Kästner, Sven Apel, Jens Dörre, and Christian Lengauer
(University of Passau, Germany; CMU, USA)

Formal Reasoning

Bayesian Inference using Data Flow Analysis
Guillaume Claret, Sriram K. Rajamani, Aditya V. Nori, Andrew D. Gordon, and Johannes Borgström
(INRIA, France; Microsoft Research, India; Microsoft Research, UK; Uppsala University, Sweden)

Second-Order Constraints in Dynamic Invariant Inference
Kaituo Li, Christoph Reichenbach, Yannis Smaragdakis, and Michal Young
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; University of Athens, Greece; University of Oregon, USA)

Z3-str: A Z3-Based String Solver for Web Application Analysis
Yunhui Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang, and Vijay Ganesh
(Purdue University, USA; University of Waterloo, Canada)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Empirical Studies I

Automated Oracles: An Empirical Study on Cost and Effectiveness
Cu D. Nguyen, Alessandro Marchetto, and Paolo Tonella
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

Sample Size vs. Bias in Defect Prediction
Foyzur Rahman, Daryl Posnett, Israel Herraiz, and Premkumar Devanbu
(UC Davis, USA; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Systems

Finding Incorrect Compositions of Atomicity
Peng Liu, Julian Dolby, and Charles Zhang
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; IBM Research, USA)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Distributed Program Tracing
Diptikalyan Saha, Pankaj Dhoolia, and Gaurab Paul
(IBM Research, India; IIT Kharagpur, India)

Software Development Activities

Will You Still Compile Me Tomorrow? Static Cross-Version Compiler Validation
Chris Hawblitzel, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Kshama Pawar, Hammad Hashmi, Sedar Gokbulut, Lakshan Fernando, Dave Detlefs, and Scott Wadsworth
(Microsoft, USA)

Testing II

Dynodroid: An Input Generation System for Android Apps
Aravind Machiry, Rohan Tahiliani, and Mayur Naik
(Georgia Tech, USA)

Distinguished Artifact

KATCH: High-Coverage Testing of Software Patches
Paul Dan Marinescu and Cristian Cadar
(Imperial College London, UK)

Distinguished Artifact

Termination Proofs from Tests
Aditya V. Nori and Rahul Sharma
(Microsoft Research, India; Stanford University, USA)

Dynamic Analysis

SPLat: Lightweight Dynamic Analysis for Reducing Combinatorics in Testing Configurable Systems
Chang Hwan Peter Kim, Darko Marinov, Sarfraz Khurshid, Don Batory, Sabrina Souto, Paulo Barros, and Marcelo d'Amorim
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Groupon, USA; Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

Effective Dynamic Detection of Alias Analysis Errors
Jingyue Wu, Gang Hu, Yang Tang, and Junfeng Yang
(Columbia University, USA)

Models and Features

Feature Model Extraction from Large Collections of Informal Product Descriptions
Jean-Marc Davril, Edouard Delfosse, Negar Hariri, Mathieu Acher, Jane Cleland-Huang, and Patrick Heymans
(University of Namur, Belgium; DePaul University, USA; University of Rennes I, France; INRIA, France)

N-Way Model Merging
Julia Rubin and Marsha Chechik
(IBM Research, Israel; University of Toronto, Canada)

Compiling Mockups to Flexible UIs
Nishant Sinha and Rezwana Karim
(IBM Research, India; Rutgers University, USA)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Test and Analysis

Making Offline Analyses Continuous
Kıvanç Muşlu, Yuriy Brun, Michael D. Ernst, and David Notkin
(University of Washington, USA; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

Regression Tests to Expose Change Interaction Errors
Marcel Böhme, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, and Abhik Roychoudhury
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Differential Assertion Checking
Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Kenneth L. McMillan, Rahul Sharma, and Chris Hawblitzel
(Microsoft Research, USA; Stanford University, USA)

Maintenance and Evolution

Preventing Database Deadlocks in Applications
Mark Grechanik, B. M. Mainul Hossain, Ugo Buy, and Haisheng Wang
(University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Oracle, USA)

Identifying Message Flow in Distributed Event-Based Systems
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, Gholamreza Safi, William G. J. Halfond, and Nenad Medvidovic
(University of Southern California, USA)

Improving Trace Accuracy through Data-Driven Configuration and Composition of Tracing Features
Sugandha Lohar, Sorawit Amornborvornwong, Andrea Zisman, and Jane Cleland-Huang
(DePaul University, USA; Open University, UK)

Formal Verification

Precision Reuse for Efficient Regression Verification
Dirk Beyer, Stefan Löwe, Evgeny Novikov, Andreas Stahlbauer, and Philipp Wendler
(University of Passau, Germany; ISP RAS, Russia)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Cascading Verification: An Integrated Method for Domain-Specific Model Checking
Fokion Zervoudakis, David S. Rosenblum, Sebastian Elbaum, and Anthony Finkelstein
(University College London, UK; National University of Singapore, Singapore; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Enhancing Symbolic Execution with Built-In Term Rewriting and Constrained Lazy Initialization
Pietro Braione, Giovanni Denaro, and Mauro Pezzè
(University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Model Inference and Synthesis

Mining Behavior Models from Enterprise Web Applications
Matthias Schur, Andreas Roth, and Andreas Zeller
(SAP, Germany; Saarland University, Germany)

Incrementally Synthesizing Controllers from Scenario-Based Product Line Specifications
Joel Greenyer, Christian Brenner, Maxime Cordy, Patrick Heymans, and Erika Gressi
(Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; University of Paderborn, Germany; University of Namur, Belgium; Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Synthesis of Component and Connector Models from Crosscutting Structural Views
Shahar Maoz, Jan Oliver Ringert, and Bernhard Rumpe
(Tel Aviv University, Israel; RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Empirical Studies II

Searching for Better Configurations: A Rigorous Approach to Clone Evaluation
Tiantian Wang, Mark Harman, Yue Jia, and Jens Krinke
(Harbin Institute of Technology, China; University College London, UK)

Diversity in Software Engineering Research
Meiyappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, and Christian Bird
(Queen’s University, Canada; Microsoft Research, USA)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

API Change and Fault Proneness: A Threat to the Success of Android Apps
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(College of William and Mary, USA; University of Sannio, Italy; Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; University of Molise, Italy)

JavaScript

Jalangi: A Selective Record-Replay and Dynamic Analysis Framework for JavaScript
Koushik Sen, Swaroop Kalasapur, Tasneem Brutch, and Simon Gibbs
(UC Berkeley, USA; Samsung Research, USA)

Practical Static Analysis of JavaScript Applications in the Presence of Frameworks and Libraries
Magnus Madsen, Benjamin Livshits, and Michael Fanning
(Aarhus University, Denmark; Microsoft Research, USA; Microsoft, USA)

Source Code and Programming

Explaining Inconsistent Code
Martin Schäf, Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, and Thomas Wies
(United Nations University, China; New York University, USA)

A Statistical Semantic Language Model for Source Code
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, and Tien N. Nguyen
(Iowa State University, USA)

Crossing the Gap from Imperative to Functional Programming through Refactoring
Alex Gyori, Lyle Franklin, Danny Dig, and Jan Lahoda
(University of Illinois, USA; Ball State University, USA; Oregon State University, USA; Oracle, Czech Republic)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Bug Detection

Scalable and Incremental Software Bug Detection
Scott McPeak, Charles-Henri Gros, and Murali Krishna Ramanathan
(Coverity, USA; Indian Institute of Science, India)

Inferring Project-Specific Bug Patterns for Detecting Sibling Bugs
Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang, Tao Xie, and Hong Mei
(Peking University, China; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Mining Succinct Predicated Bug Signatures
Chengnian Sun and Siau-Cheng Khoo
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Artifact Accepted for Presentation

Tool Demonstrations

Tool Demonstrations I

SocialCDE: A Social Awareness Tool for Global Software Teams
Fabio Calefato and Filippo Lanubile
(University of Bari, Italy)

REDACT: Preventing Database Deadlocks from Application-Based Transactions
B. M. Mainul Hossain, Mark Grechanik, Ugo Buy, and Haisheng Wang
(University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Oracle, USA)

aPET: A Test Case Generation Tool for Concurrent Objects
Elvira Albert, Puri Arenas, Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa, and Peter Y. H. Wong
(Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; SLD Fredhopper, Netherlands)

Tool Demonstrations II

RUBRIC: A Flexible Tool for Automated Checking of Conformance to Requirement Boilerplates
Chetan Arora, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Lionel Briand, Frank Zimmer, and Raul Gnaga
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; SES TechCom, Luxembourg)

RiTHM: A Tool for Enabling Time-Triggered Runtime Verification for C Programs
Samaneh Navabpour, Yogi Joshi, Wallace Wu, Shay Berkovich, Ramy Medhat, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, and Sebastian Fischmeister
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

PoMMaDe: Pushdown Model-Checking for Malware Detection
Fu Song and Tayssir Touili
(East China Normal University, China; CNRS, France; University Paris Diderot, France)

Tool Demonstrations III

Jalangi: A Tool Framework for Concolic Testing, Selective Record-Replay, and Dynamic Analysis of JavaScript
Koushik Sen, Swaroop Kalasapur, Tasneem Brutch, and Simon Gibbs
(UC Berkeley, USA; Samsung Research, USA)

RSA-MBT: A Test Tool for Generating Test Artifacts Based on Models
Andrew Diniz da Costa, Ricardo Venieris, Gustavo Carvalho, and Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
(PUC-Rio, Brazil)

USMMC: A Self-Contained Model Checker for UML State Machines
Shuang Liu, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Manchun Zheng, Bimlesh Wadhwa, and Jin Song Dong
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

New Ideas

Analysis and Testing

Extracting URLs from JavaScript via Program Analysis
Qi Wang, Jingyu Zhou, Yuting Chen, Yizhou Zhang, and Jianjun Zhao
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Cornell University, USA)

Data Debugging with Continuous Testing
Kıvanç Muşlu, Yuriy Brun, and Alexandra Meliou
(University of Washington, USA; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

Iterative Test Suites Refinement for Elastic Computing Systems
Alessio Gambi, Antonio Filieri, and Schahram Dustdar
(University of Lugano, Switzerland; University of Stuttgart, Germany; Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Using Fault History to Improve Mutation Reduction
Laura Inozemtseva, Hadi Hemmati, and Reid Holmes
(University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Manitoba, Canada)

Hunting Bugs

A Cost-Effectiveness Criterion for Applying Software Defect Prediction Models
Hongyu Zhang and S. C. Cheung
(Tsinghua University, China; ISCAS, China; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

BugMap: A Topographic Map of Bugs
Jiangtao Gong and Hongyu Zhang
(Tsinghua University, China; ISCAS, China)

Lexical Statistical Machine Translation for Language Migration
Anh Tuan Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen, and Tien N. Nguyen
(Iowa State University, USA)

Code Fragment Summarization
Annie T. T. Ying and Martin P. Robillard
(McGill University, Canada)

Understanding Software Development

Understanding Gamification Mechanisms for Software Development
Daniel J. Dubois and Giordano Tamburrelli
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Toward Understanding the Causes of Unanswered Questions in Software Information Sites: A Case Study of Stack Overflow
Ripon K. Saha, Avigit K. Saha, and Dewayne E. Perry
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Where Is the Business Logic?
Yael Dubinsky, Yishai Feldman, and Maayan Goldstein
(IBM Research, Israel)

Industrial Research

Implementing Sound Software-Engineering Practices in Companies

Precise Range Analysis on Large Industry Code
Shrawan Kumar, Bharti Chimdyalwar, and Ulka Shrotri
(Tata Consultancy Services, India)

Agreements for Software Reuse in Corporations
Thijmen de Gooijer and Heiko Koziolek
(ABB Research, Sweden; ABB Research, Germany)

Good Technology Makes the Difficult Task Easy
Andrey Terekhov
(Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)

Approaches to Quality

ShAir: Extensible Middleware for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Resource Sharing
Daniel J. Dubois, Yosuke Bando, Konosuke Watanabe, and Henry Holtzman
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Toshiba, Japan)

System Reliability Calculation Based on the Run-Time Analysis of Ladder Program
Yu Jiang, Hehua Zhang, Han Liu, Xiaoyu Song, William N. N. Hung, Ming Gu, and Jiaguang Sun
(Tsinghua University, China; Portland State University, USA)

Effective Industry Use of Software-Engineering Tools

h-ubu: An Industrial-Strength Service-Oriented Component Framework for JavaScript Applications
Clement Escoffier, Philippe Lalanda, and Nicolas Rempulsky
(Grenoble University, France; Ubidreams, France)

Design and Optimization of Multi-clocked Embedded Systems using Formal Technique
Yu Jiang, Zonghui Li, Hehua Zhang, Yangdong Deng, Xiaoyu Song, Ming Gu, and Jiaguang Sun
(Tsinghua University, China; Portland State University, USA)

The Economics of Static Analysis Tools
Rahul Kumar and Aditya V. Nori
(Microsoft Research, India)

Doctoral Symposium

Doctoral Papers 1

Fuzzy Service Matching in On-The-Fly Computing
Marie Christin Platenius
(University of Paderborn, Germany)

Doctoral Papers 2

PHRT: A Model and Programmable Tool for Hardware Reengineering Automation
Oleg Nenashev
(Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia)

Doctoral Papers 3

Automotive Architecture Description and Its Quality
Yanja Dajsuren
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

Towards Open Architecture System
Bahtijar Vogel
(Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Doctoral Papers 4

A Framework for Defining the Dynamic Semantics of DSLs
Ulyana Tikhonova
(Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)