ISSTA 2011
2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2011)

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2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2011), July 17–21, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada

ISSTA 2011 – Proceedings

Contents - Abstracts - Authors

Preface

Test Generation I

eXpress: Guided Path Exploration for Efficient Regression Test Generation
Kunal Taneja, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, and Jonathan De Halleux
(North Carolina State University, USA; Microsoft Research, USA)

Statically-Directed Dynamic Automated Test Generation
Domagoj Babić, Lorenzo Martignoni, Stephen McCamant, and Dawn Song
(UC Berkeley, USA)

Automatic Partial Loop Summarization in Dynamic Test Generation
Patrice Godefroid and Daniel Luchaup
(Microsoft Research, USA; University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)

Symbolic Execution with Mixed Concrete-Symbolic Solving
Corina S. Păsăreanu, Neha Rungta, and Willem Visser
(CMU, USA; NASA Ames Research Center, USA; SGT Inc., USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Models

Polyglot: Modeling and Analysis for Multiple Statechart Formalisms
Daniel Balasubramanian, Corina S. Păsăreanu, Michael W. Whalen, Gábor Karsai, and Michael Lowry
(Vanderbilt University, USA; CMU, USA; NASA Ames Research Center, USA; University of Minnesota, USA)

Scalable Analysis of Conceptual Data Models
Matthew J. McGill, Laura K. Dillon, and R. E. K. Stirewalt
(Michigan State University, USA; LogicBlox Inc., USA)

Bounded Verification of Ruby on Rails Data Models
Jaideep Nijjar and Tevfik Bultan
(UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Automated Framework for Formal Operator Task Analysis
Ayesha Yasmeen and Elsa L. Gunter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Analysis of Systems and Binary Code

Efficient, Sensitivity Resistant Binary Instrumentation
Andrew R. Bernat, Kevin Roundy, and Barton P. Miller
(University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)

Recovering the Toolchain Provenance of Binary Code
Nathan Rosenblum, Barton P. Miller, and Xiaojin Zhu
(University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)

Defective Error/Pointer Interactions in the Linux Kernel
Cindy Rubio-González and Ben Liblit
(University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)

Concurrency

Testing Concurrent Programs on Relaxed Memory Models
Jacob Burnim, Koushik Sen, and Christos Stergiou
(UC Berkeley, USA)

Change-Aware Preemption Prioritization
Vilas Jagannath, Qingzhou Luo, and Darko Marinov
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Persuasive Prediction of Concurrency Access Anomalies
Jeff Huang and Charles Zhang
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Program Analysis

Demand-Driven Context-Sensitive Alias Analysis for Java
Dacong Yan, Guoqing Xu, and Atanas Rountev
(Ohio State University, USA)

Path- and Index-sensitive String Analysis Based on Monadic Second-order Logic
Takaaki Tateishi, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp
(IBM Research Tokyo, Japan; IBM Research Watson, USA; IBM Software Group, USA; Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Saving the World Wide Web from Vulnerable JavaScript
Salvatore Guarnieri, Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Julian Dolby, Stephen Teilhet, and Ryan Berg
(IBM Research Watson, USA; University of Washington, USA; IBM Software Group, USA; Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Geometric Encoding: Forging the High Performance Context Sensitive Points-to Analysis for Java
Xiao Xiao and Charles Zhang
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Faults I

Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?
Chris Parnin and Alessandro Orso
(Georgia Tech, USA)

On the Influence of Multiple Faults on Coverage-Based Fault Localization
Nicholas DiGiuseppe and James A. Jones
(UC Irvine, USA)

Minimizing Reproduction of Software Failures
Martin Burger and Andreas Zeller
(Saarland University, Germany)

Detecting Anomalies in the Order of Equally-typed Method Arguments
Michael Pradel and Thomas R. Gross
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Combinatorial and Random Testing

Feedback Driven Adaptive Combinatorial Testing
Emine Dumlu, Cemal Yilmaz, Myra B. Cohen, and Adam Porter
(Sabanci University, Turkey; University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA; University of Maryland, USA)

Using Binary Decision Diagrams for Combinatorial Test Design
Itai Segall, Rachel Tzoref-Brill, and Eitan Farchi
(IBM Research Haifa, Israel)

Adaptive Random Testing: An Illusion of Effectiveness?
Andrea Arcuri and Lionel Briand
(Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; University of Oslo, Norway)

Specification and Optimization

Iterative Refinement of Specification for Component Based Embedded Systems
Muzammil Shahbaz, K. C. Shashidhar, and Robert Eschbach
(University of Sheffield, UK; MPI-SWS, Germany; Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)

Using Automatic Persistent Memoization to Facilitate Data Analysis Scripting
Philip J. Guo and Dawson Engler
(Stanford University, US)

CoDeSe: Fast Deserialization via Code Generation
Milos Gligoric, Darko Marinov, and Sam Kamin
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Faults II

Selecting Peers for Execution Comparison
William N. Sumner, Tao Bao, and Xiangyu Zhang
(Purdue University, USA)

Generating Analyses for Detecting Faults in Path Segments
Wei Le and Mary Lou Soffa
(University of Virginia, USA)

Characterizing Failure-Causing Parameter Interactions by Adaptive Testing
Zhiqiang Zhang and Jian Zhang
(Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

The Use of Mutation in Testing Experiments and its Sensitivity to External Threats
Akbar Siami Namin and Sahitya Kakarla
(Texas Tech University, US)

Test Generation II

Combined Static and Dynamic Automated Test Generation
Sai Zhang, David Saff, Yingyi Bu, and Michael D. Ernst
(University of Washington, USA; Google Inc., USA; UC Irvine, USA)

Generating Parameterized Unit Tests
Gordon Fraser and Andreas Zeller
(Saarland University, Germany)

High Coverage Testing of Haskell Programs
Tristan Allwood, Cristian Cadar, and Susan Eisenbach
(Imperial College Longon, UK; Imperial College London, UK)

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