ESEC/FSE 2017
2017 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017)
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2017 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), September 4–8, 2017, Paderborn, Germany

ESEC/FSE 2017 – Proceedings

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Frontmatter

Title Page


Message from the Chairs


ESEC/FSE 2017 Organization


Supporters


Invited Papers

The Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Advancement of Science in Cyber Security (Invited Talk)
Laurie Williams
(North Carolina State University, USA)
Verifying the Forecast: How Climate Models Are Developed and Tested (Invited Talk)
Steve Easterbrook
(University of Toronto, Canada)
Software Engineering Research Results in Industrial Practice: A Tale of Two Projects (Invited Talk)
Wolfgang Emmerich
(Zuhlke, UK)
Reflections on the REST Architectural Style and "Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture" (Impact Paper Award)
Roy T. Fielding, Richard N. Taylor, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Michael M. Gorlick, Jim Whitehead, Rohit Khare, and Peyman Oreizy
(Adobe, USA; University of California at Irvine, USA; Bloomberg, USA; University of California at Santa Cruz, USA; Google, USA; Dynamic Variable, USA)

Research Papers

Evolution and Maintenance
Wed, Sep 6, 11:00 - 12:30, Auditorium (Chair: Ivica Crnkovic)

A Fast Causal Profiler for Task Parallel Programs
Adarsh Yoga and Santosh Nagarakatte
(Rutgers University, USA)


 Artifacts Functional
On the Scalability of Linux Kernel Maintainers' Work
Minghui Zhou, Qingying Chen, Audris Mockus, and Fengguang Wu
(Peking University, China; University of Tennessee, USA; Intel, China)
Modeling and Verification of Evolving Cyber-Physical Spaces
Christos Tsigkanos, Timo Kehrer, and Carlo Ghezzi
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Machine Learning
Wed, Sep 6, 11:00 - 12:30, S3 (Chair: Arosha Bandara)

Easy over Hard: A Case Study on Deep Learning
Wei Fu and Tim Menzies
(North Carolina State University, USA)
Finding Near-Optimal Configurations in Product Lines by Random Sampling
Jeho Oh, Don Batory, Margaret Myers, and Norbert Siegmund
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
Revisiting Unsupervised Learning for Defect Prediction
Wei Fu and Tim Menzies
(North Carolina State University, USA)

Program Analysis I
Wed, Sep 6, 11:00 - 12:30, S1+2 (Chair: Sebastian Elbaum)

Loopster: Static Loop Termination Analysis
Xiaofei Xie, Bihuan Chen, Liang Zou, Shang-Wei Lin, Yang Liu, and Xiaohong Li
(Tianjin University, China; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
CodeCarbonCopy
Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, Eric Lahtinen, Anthony Eden, Fan Long, and Martin Rinard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
The Power of "Why" and "Why Not": Enriching Scenario Exploration with Provenance
Tim Nelson, Natasha Danas, Daniel J. Dougherty, and Shriram Krishnamurthi
(Brown University, USA; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)


 Artifacts Reusable Best-Paper Award

Human Aspects
Wed, Sep 6, 14:00 - 15:30, Auditorium (Chair: Jo Attle)

Where Is the Bug and How Is It Fixed? An Experiment with Practitioners
Marcel Böhme, Ezekiel O. Soremekun, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Emamurho Ugherughe, and Andreas Zeller
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; Saarland University, Germany; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; SAP, Germany)


 Artifacts Reusable
Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code
Dan Gopstein, Jake Iannacone, Yu Yan, Lois DeLong, Yanyan Zhuang, Martin K.-C. Yeh, and Justin Cappos
(New York University, USA; Pennsylvania State University, USA; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)


 Best-Paper Award
Measuring Neural Efficiency of Program Comprehension
Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel, Johannes Hofmeister, Christian Kästner, Andrew Begel, Anja Bethmann, and André Brechmann
(University of Passau, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany; North Carolina State University, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)

Handling Failures
Wed, Sep 6, 14:00 - 15:30, S3 (Chair: Fabrizio Pastore)

Bayesian Specification Learning for Finding API Usage Errors
Vijayaraghavan Murali, Swarat Chaudhuri, and Chris Jermaine
(Rice University, USA)
Synergistic Debug-Repair of Heap Manipulations
Sahil Verma and Subhajit Roy
(IIT Kanpur, India)
Failure-Directed Program Trimming
Kostas Ferles, Valentin Wüstholz, Maria Christakis, and Isil Dillig
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Kent, UK)

Process
Wed, Sep 6, 14:00 - 15:30, S1+2 (Chair: Martina Maggio)

Why Modern Open Source Projects Fail
Jailton Coelho and Marco Tulio Valente
(Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Trade-Offs in Continuous Integration: Assurance, Security, and Flexibility
Michael Hilton, Nicholas Nelson, Timothy Tunnell, Darko Marinov, and Danny Dig
(Oregon State University, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)


 Best-Paper Award

Testing Mobile Apps
Wed, Sep 6, 16:00 - 17:30, Auditorium (Chair: Cor-Paul Bezemer)

µDroid: An Energy-Aware Mutation Testing Framework for Android
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand and Sam Malek
(University of California at Irvine, USA)
PATDroid: Permission-Aware GUI Testing of Android
Alireza Sadeghi, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Sam Malek
(University of California at Irvine, USA)


 Artifacts Functional
Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps
Mario Linares-Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, Michele Tufano, Kevin Moran, Massimiliano Di Penta, Christopher Vendome, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, and Denys Poshyvanyk
(Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; University of Lugano, Switzerland; College of William and Mary, USA; University of Sannio, Italy)
Guided, Stochastic Model-Based GUI Testing of Android Apps
Ting Su, Guozhu Meng, Yuting Chen, Ke Wu, Weiming Yang, Yao Yao, Geguang Pu, Yang Liu, and Zhendong Su
(East China Normal University, China; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; University of California at Davis, USA)

Variability Analysis
Wed, Sep 6, 16:00 - 17:30, S1+2 (Chair: Andreas Zeller)

Using Bad Learners to Find Good Configurations
Vivek Nair, Tim Menzies, Norbert Siegmund, and Sven Apel
(North Carolina State University, USA; Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany; University of Passau, Germany)
Attributed Variability Models: Outside the Comfort Zone
Norbert Siegmund, Stefan Sobernig, and Sven Apel
(Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany; WU Vienna, Austria; University of Passau, Germany)
Kmax: Finding All Configurations of Kbuild Makefiles Statically
Paul Gazzillo
(Yale University, USA)
Is There a Mismatch between Real-World Feature Models and Product-Line Research?
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Stephan Mennicke, Jens Meinicke, and Ina Schaefer
(TU Braunschweig, Germany; University of Magdeburg, Germany)


 Artifacts Reusable

Concurrency
Wed, Sep 6, 16:00 - 17:30, S3 (Chair: Dalal Alrajeh)

Adaptively Generating High Quality Fixes for Atomicity Violations
Yan Cai, Lingwei Cao, and Jing Zhao
(Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Harbin Engineering University, China)
AtexRace: Across Thread and Execution Sampling for In-House Race Detection
Yu Guo, Yan Cai, and Zijiang Yang
(Western Michigan University, USA; Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Symbolic Execution of Programmable Logic Controller Code
Shengjian Guo, Meng Wu, and Chao Wang
(Virginia Tech, USA; University of Southern California, USA)
Thread-Modular Static Analysis for Relaxed Memory Models
Markus Kusano and Chao Wang
(Virginia Tech, USA; University of Southern California, USA)

Reactive Systems and Control Theory
Thu, Sep 7, 10:30 - 12:00, Auditorium (Chair: Luciano Baresi)

ARTINALI: Dynamic Invariant Detection for Cyber-Physical System Security
Maryam Raiyat Aliabadi, Amita Ajith Kamath, Julien Gascon-Samson, and Karthik Pattabiraman
(University of British Columbia, Canada; National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)
A Symbolic Justice Violations Transition System for Unrealizable GR(1) Specifications
Aviv Kuvent, Shahar Maoz, and Jan Oliver Ringert
(Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Automated Control of Multiple Software Goals using Multiple Actuators
Martina Maggio, Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Antonio Filieri, and Henry Hoffmann
(Lund University, Sweden; Mälardalen University, Sweden; Imperial College London, UK; University of Chicago, USA)

Empirical Studies
Thu, Sep 7, 10:30 - 12:00, S1+2 (Chair: David Rosenblum)

Why Do Developers Use Trivial Packages? An Empirical Case Study on npm
Rabe Abdalkareem, Olivier Nourry, Sultan Wehaibi, Suhaib Mujahid, and Emad Shihab
(Concordia University, Canada)
Detecting Missing Information in Bug Descriptions
Oscar Chaparro, Jing Lu, Fiorella Zampetti, Laura Moreno, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrian Marcus, Gabriele Bavota, and Vincent Ng
(University of Texas at Dallas, USA; University of Sannio, Italy; Colorado State University, USA; University of Lugano, Switzerland)

Modeling
Thu, Sep 7, 10:30 - 12:00, S3 (Chair: Tim Menzies)

Continuous Variable-Specific Resolutions of Feature Interactions
M. Hadi Zibaeenejad, Chi Zhang, and Joanne M. Atlee
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Model-Level, Platform-Independent Debugging in the Context of the Model-Driven Development of Real-Time Systems
Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Nicolas Hili, and Juergen Dingel
(Queen's University, Canada)


 Artifacts Functional

Distributed Systems
Thu, Sep 7, 14:00 - 15:30, Auditorium (Chair: Stelios Sidirogiou-Doukos)

Cooperative Kernels: GPU Multitasking for Blocking Algorithms
Tyler Sorensen, Hugues Evrard, and Alastair F. Donaldson
(Imperial College London, UK)


 Best-Paper Award
Toward Full Elasticity in Distributed Static Analysis: The Case of Callgraph Analysis
Diego Garbervetsky, Edgardo Zoppi, and Benjamin Livshits
(University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Imperial College London, UK)
Probabilistic Model Checking of Perturbed MDPs with Applications to Cloud Computing
Yamilet R. Serrano Llerena, Guoxin Su, and David S. Rosenblum
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; University of Wollongong, Australia)

Refactoring
Thu, Sep 7, 14:00 - 15:30, S3 (Chair: Premkumar Devambu)

Understanding the Impact of Refactoring on Smells: A Longitudinal Study of 23 Software Projects
Diego Cedrim, Alessandro Garcia, Melina Mongiovi, Rohit Gheyi, Leonardo Sousa, Rafael de Mello, Baldoino Fonseca, Márcio Ribeiro, and Alexander Chávez
(PUC-Rio, Brazil; Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil; Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil)
Cimplifier: Automatically Debloating Containers
Vaibhav Rastogi, Drew Davidson, Lorenzo De Carli, Somesh Jha, and Patrick McDaniel
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Tala Security, USA; Colorado State University, USA; Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Testing I
Thu, Sep 7, 14:00 - 15:30, S1+2 (Chair: Gregg Rothermel)

Craig vs. Newton in Software Model Checking
Daniel Dietsch, Matthias Heizmann, Betim Musa, Alexander Nutz, and Andreas Podelski
(University of Freiburg, Germany)
Fairness Testing: Testing Software for Discrimination
Sainyam Galhotra, Yuriy Brun, and Alexandra Meliou
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)


 Best-Paper Award
The Care and Feeding of Wild-Caught Mutants
David Bingham Brown, Michael Vaughn, Ben Liblit, and Thomas Reps
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)


 Artifacts Reusable
QTEP: Quality-Aware Test Case Prioritization
Song Wang, Jaechang Nam, and Lin Tan
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

Program Analysis II
Thu, Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:30, Auditorium (Chair: Mary Lou Soffa)

Constraint Normalization and Parameterized Caching for Quantitative Program Analysis
Tegan Brennan, Nestan Tsiskaridze, Nicolás Rosner, Abdulbaki Aydin, and Tevfik Bultan
(University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)


 Artifacts Reusable
Generalized Observational Slicing for Tree-Represented Modelling Languages
Nicolas E. Gold, David Binkley, Mark Harman, Syed Islam, Jens Krinke, and Shin Yoo
(University College London, UK; Loyola University Maryland, USA; University of East London, UK; KAIST, South Korea)

Requirements
Thu, Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:30, S3 (Chair: Natalia Juristo)

On Evidence Preservation Requirements for Forensic-Ready Systems
Dalal Alrajeh, Liliana Pasquale, and Bashar Nuseibeh
(Imperial College London, UK; University College Dublin, Ireland; Open University, UK; Lero, Ireland)
BDCI: Behavioral Driven Conflict Identification
Fabrizio Pastore, Leonardo Mariani, and Daniela Micucci
(University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)


 Artifacts Functional

Specification Mining and Synthesis
Thu, Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:30, S1+2 (Chair: Sven Apel)

NoFAQ: Synthesizing Command Repairs from Examples
Loris D'Antoni, Rishabh Singh, and Michael Vaughn
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)
S3: Syntax- and Semantic-Guided Repair Synthesis via Programming by Examples
Xuan-Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Claire Le Goues, and Willem Visser
(Singapore Management University, Singapore; IST Austria, Austria; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Counterexample-Guided Approach to Finding Numerical Invariants
ThanhVu Nguyen, Timos Antonopoulos, Andrew Ruef, and Michael Hicks
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; Yale University, USA; University of Maryland, USA)
Discovering Relational Specifications
Calvin Smith, Gabriel Ferns, and Aws Albarghouthi
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)


 Best-Paper Award

Software Security
Fri, Sep 8, 11:00 - 12:30, Auditorium (Chair: Liliana Pasquale)

Steelix: Program-State Based Binary Fuzzing
Yuekang Li, Bihuan Chen, Mahinthan Chandramohan, Shang-Wei Lin, Yang Liu, and Alwen Tiu
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Fudan University, China)
CodeMatch: Obfuscation Won't Conceal Your Repackaged App
Leonid Glanz, Sven Amann, Michael Eichberg, Michael Reif, Ben Hermann, Johannes Lerch, and Mira Mezini
(TU Darmstadt, Germany)
A Compiler and Verifier for Page Access Oblivious Computation
Rohit Sinha, Sriram Rajamani, and Sanjit A. Seshia
(University of California at Berkeley, USA; Microsoft Research, India)

Mobile Applications
Fri, Sep 8, 11:00 - 12:30, S1+2 (Chair: Lars Grunske)

Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications
Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek
(University of California at Irvine, USA)
OASIS: Prioritizing Static Analysis Warnings for Android Apps Based on App User Reviews
Lili Wei, Yepang Liu, and Shing-Chi Cheung
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Recovering Clear, Natural Identifiers from Obfuscated JS Names
Bogdan Vasilescu, Casey Casalnuovo, and Premkumar Devanbu
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA; University of California at Davis, USA)

Crash Analysis
Fri, Sep 8, 11:00 - 12:30, S3 (Chair: Dirk Beyer)

DESCRY: Reproducing System-Level Concurrency Failures
Tingting Yu, Tarannum S. Zaman, and Chao Wang
(University of Kentucky, USA; University of Southern California, USA)
Reproducing Concurrency Failures from Crash Stacks
Francesco A. Bianchi, Mauro Pezzè, and Valerio Terragni
(University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Automatically Analyzing Groups of Crashes for Finding Correlations
Marco Castelluccio, Carlo Sansone, Luisa Verdoliva, and Giovanni Poggi
(Federico II University of Naples, Italy; Mozilla, UK)

Program Repair
Fri, Sep 8, 14:00 - 15:30, Auditorium (Chair: Alessandro Garcia)

Automatic Inference of Code Transforms for Patch Generation
Fan Long, Peter Amidon, and Martin Rinard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; University of California at San Diego, USA)


 Artifacts Functional
A Feasibility Study of Using Automated Program Repair for Introductory Programming Assignments
Jooyong Yi, Umair Z. Ahmed, Amey Karkare, Shin Hwei Tan, and Abhik Roychoudhury
(Innopolis University, Russia; IIT Kanpur, India; National University of Singapore, Singapore)


 Artifacts Functional
Automatically Diagnosing and Repairing Error Handling Bugs in C
Yuchi Tian and Baishakhi Ray
(University of Virginia, USA)


 Best-Paper Award

Program Comprehension
Fri, Sep 8, 14:00 - 15:30, S1+2 (Chair: Sam Malek)

Are Deep Neural Networks the Best Choice for Modeling Source Code?
Vincent J. Hellendoorn and Premkumar Devanbu
(University of California at Davis, USA)
Understanding the Impact of Support for Iteration on Code Search
Lee Martie, André van der Hoek, and Thomas Kwak
(University of California at Irvine, USA)
LAMP: Data Provenance for Graph Based Machine Learning Algorithms through Derivative Computation
Shiqing Ma, Yousra Aafer, Zhaogui Xu, Wen-Chuan Lee, Juan Zhai, Yingqi Liu, and Xiangyu Zhang
(Purdue University, USA; Nanjing University, China)
More Accurate Recommendations for Method-Level Changes
Georg Dotzler, Marius Kamp, Patrick Kreutzer, and Michael Philippsen
(Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Testing II
Fri, Sep 8, 14:00 - 15:30, S3 (Chair: Satish Chandra)

Regression Test Selection Across JVM Boundaries
Ahmet Celik, Marko Vasic, Aleksandar Milicevic, and Milos Gligoric
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Microsoft, USA)
Measuring the Cost of Regression Testing in Practice: A Study of Java Projects using Continuous Integration
Adriaan Labuschagne, Laura Inozemtseva, and Reid Holmes
(University of Waterloo, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada)
Better Test Cases for Better Automated Program Repair
Jinqiu Yang, Alexey Zhikhartsev, Yuefei Liu, and Lin Tan
(University of Waterloo, Canada)

Industrial Papers

Testing and Security in the Real World
Thu, Sep 7, 10:30 - 12:00, S4 (Chair: Per Runeson)

When Program Analysis Meets Mobile Security: An Industrial Study of Misusing Android Internet Sockets
Wenqi Bu, Minhui Xue, Lihua Xu, Yajin Zhou, Zhushou Tang, and Tao Xie
(East China Normal University, China; New York University Shanghai, China; Pwnzen Infotech, China; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
File-Level vs. Module-Level Regression Test Selection for .NET
Marko Vasic, Zuhair Parvez, Aleksandar Milicevic, and Milos Gligoric
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Microsoft, USA)
Record and Replay for Android: Are We There Yet in Industrial Cases?
Wing Lam, Zhengkai Wu, Dengfeng Li, Wenyu Wang, Haibing Zheng, Hui Luo, Peng Yan, Yuetang Deng, and Tao Xie
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Tencent, China)
Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice: Privacy-Enhanced Filtering of Network Traffic
Roel van Dijk, Christophe Creeten, Jeroen van der Ham, and Jeroen van den Bos
(Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; National Cyber Security Centre, Netherlands; Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)

The State of the Practice
Thu, Sep 7, 14:00 - 15:30, S4 (Chair: Natalia Juristo)

Strong Agile Metrics: Mining Log Data to Determine Predictive Power of Software Metrics for Continuous Delivery Teams
Hennie Huijgens, Robert Lamping, Dick Stevens, Hartger Rothengatter, Georgios Gousios, and Daniele Romano
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; ING Bank, Netherlands; CGI, Netherlands)
Screening Heuristics for Project Gating Systems
Zahy Volf and Edi Shmueli
(Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Natural Language Querying in SAP-ERP Platform
Diptikalyan Saha, Neelamadhav Gantayat, Senthil Mani, and Barry Mitchell
(IBM Research, India; IBM, USA)
Serverless Computing: Economic and Architectural Impact
Gojko Adzic and Robert Chatley
(Neuri Consulting, UK; Imperial College London, UK)

Understanding Software Developers
Thu, Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:30, S4 (Chair: Stefan Sauer)

What Do Software Engineers Care About? Gaps between Research and Practice
Vladimir Ivanov, Alan Rogers, Giancarlo Succi, Jooyong Yi, and Vasilii Zorin
(Innopolis University, Russia)
Reference Architectures and Scrum: Friends or Foes?
Matthias Galster, Samuil Angelov, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, and Dan Tofan
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands; Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Guidelines for Adopting Frontend Architectures and Patterns in Microservices-Based Systems
Holger Harms, Collin Rogowski, and Luigi Lo Iacono
(Funke Digital, Germany; inovex, Germany; Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Improving Understanding of Dynamically Typed Software Developed by Agile Practitioners
Jair García and Kelly Garcés
(Grupo Saberes, Colombia; Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)

Data-Driven Improvement
Fri, Sep 8, 11:00 - 12:30, S4 (Chair: David Shepherd)

Automated Identification of Security Issues from Commit Messages and Bug Reports
Yaqin Zhou and Asankhaya Sharma
(SourceClear, Singapore)
LaChouTi: Kernel Vulnerability Responding Framework for the Fragmented Android Devices
Jingzheng Wu and Mutian Yang
(Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Applying Deep Learning Based Automatic Bug Triager to Industrial Projects
Sun-Ro Lee, Min-Jae Heo, Chan-Gun Lee, Milhan Kim, and Gaeul Jeong
(Chung-Ang University, South Korea; LG Electronics, South Korea)
Static Analysis for Optimizing Big Data Queries
Diego Garbervetsky, Zvonimir Pavlinovic, Michael Barnett, Madanlal Musuvathi, Todd Mytkowicz, and Edgardo Zoppi
(University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)

Joint Industry and Research
Fri, Sep 8, 14:00 - 15:30, S4 (Chair: Steffen Becker)

Automated Testing of Hybrid Simulink/Stateflow Controllers: Industrial Case Studies
Reza Matinnejad, Shiva Nejati, and Lionel C. Briand
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Tool Demonstrations

Dynamic Analysis
Thu, Sep 7, 10:30 - 12:00, S5

QEMU-Based Framework for Non-intrusive Virtual Machine Instrumentation and Introspection
Pavel Dovgalyuk, Natalia Fursova, Ivan Vasiliev, and Vladimir Makarov
(Novgorod State University, Russia)
RunDroid: Recovering Execution Call Graphs for Android Applications
Yujie Yuan, Lihua Xu, Xusheng Xiao, Andy Podgurski, and Huibiao Zhu
(East China Normal University, China; Case Western Reserve University, USA)
RGSE: A Regular Property Guided Symbolic Executor for Java
Hengbiao Yu, Zhenbang Chen, Yufeng Zhang, Ji Wang, and Wei Dong
(National University of Defense Technology, China; Jiangnan Institute of Computing, China)
A Tool for Automated Reasoning about Traces Based on Configurable Formal Semantics
Ferhat Erata, Arda Goknil, Bedir Tekinerdogan, and Geylani Kardas
(Wageningen University, Netherlands; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Ege University, Turkey)
VART: A Tool for the Automatic Detection of Regression Faults
Fabrizio Pastore and Leonardo Mariani
(University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Models
Thu, Sep 7, 14:00 - 15:30, S5

DynAlloy Analyzer: A Tool for the Specification and Analysis of Alloy Models with Dynamic Behaviour
Germán Regis, César Cornejo, Simón Gutiérrez Brida, Mariano Politano, Fernando Raverta, Pablo Ponzio, Nazareno Aguirre, Juan Pablo Galeotti, and Marcelo Frias
(Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina; Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina; University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina)
From Scenario Modeling to Scenario Programming for Reactive Systems with Dynamic Topology
Joel Greenyer, Daniel Gritzner, Florian König, Jannik Dahlke, Jianwei Shi, and Eric Wete
(Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
CLTSA: Labelled Transition System Analyser with Counting Fluent Support
Germán Regis, Renzo Degiovanni, Nicolas D'Ippolito, and Nazareno Aguirre
(Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina; CONICET, Argentina; University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
The MONDO Collaboration Framework: Secure Collaborative Modeling over Existing Version Control Systems
Csaba Debreceni, Gábor Bergmann, Márton Búr, István Ráth, and Dániel Varró
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; MTA-BME Lendület Research Group on Cyber-Physical Systems, Hungary; McGill University, Canada)
Model-Based Privacy and Security Analysis with CARiSMA
Amir Shayan Ahmadian, Sven Peldszus, Qusai Ramadan, and Jan Jürjens
(University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Fraunhofer ISST, Germany)

Misc
Thu, Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:30, S5

Cherry-Picking of Code Commits in Long-Running, Multi-release Software
Panuchart Bunyakiati and Chadarat Phipathananunth
(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Thailand)
ARCC: Assistant for Repetitive Code Comprehension
Wilberto Z. Nunez, Victor J. Marin, and Carlos R. Rivero
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
JoanAudit: A Tool for Auditing Common Injection Vulnerabilities
Julian Thomé, Lwin Khin Shar, Domenico Bianculli, and Lionel C. Briand
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
XSearch: A Domain-Specific Cross-Language Relevant Question Retrieval Tool
Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, and Xuan-Bach D. Le
(Zhejiang University, China; Australian National University, Australia; University of British Columbia, Canada; Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Doctoral Symposium
Tue, Sep 5, 09:00 - 17:00, F0.225

Using Search-Based Software Engineering to Handle the Changes with Uncertainties for Self-Adaptive Systems
Lu Wang
(Xidian University, China)
DRACO: Discovering Refactorings That Improve Architecture using Fine-Grained Co-change Dependencies
Marcos César de Oliveira
(University of Brasília, Brazil)
User- and Analysis-Driven Context Aware Software Development in Mobile Computing
Mai Abusair
(University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Recommender System for Model Driven Software Development
Stefan Kögel
(University of Ulm, Germany)
On the Similarity of Software Development Documentation
Mathias Ellmann
(University of Hamburg, Germany)
Application of Search-Based Software Engineering Methodologies for Test Suite Optimization and Evolution in Mission Critical Mobile Application Development
Andreas Schuler
(University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria)
Summarizing Software Engineering Communication Artifacts from Different Sources
Verena Käfer
(University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Model-Based Dynamic Software Project Scheduling
Natasha Nigar
(University of Birmingham, UK)
System Performance Optimization via Design and Configuration Space Exploration
Chong Tang
(University of Virginia, USA)

Student Research Competition
Thu, Sep 7, 12:00 - 14:00

Suggesting Meaningful Variable Names for Decompiled Code: A Machine Translation Approach
Alan Jaffe
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Practical Symbolic Verification of Regular Properties
Hengbiao Yu
(National University of Defense Technology, China)
FOSS Version Differentiation as a Benchmark for Static Analysis Security Testing Tools
Ivan Pashchenko
(University of Trento, Italy)
DecisionDroid: A Supervised Learning-Based System to Identify Cloned Android Applications
Ayush Kohli
(Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)
Reasons and Drawbacks of using Trivial npm Packages: The Developers' Perspective
Rabe Abdalkareem
(Concordia University, Canada)
Detecting Wearable App Permission Mismatches: A Case Study on Android Wear
Suhaib Mujahid
(Concordia University, Canada)
Automating Traceability Link Recovery through Classification
Chris Mills
(Florida State University, USA)
Improving Performance of Automatic Program Repair using Learned Heuristics
Liam Schramm
(Bard College, USA)

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