ISSTA 2017
26th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017)
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26th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017), July 10–14, 2017, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

ISSTA 2017 – Proceedings

 Contents - Abstracts - Authors

Frontmatter

Title Page


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Message from the Chairs


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ISSTA 2017 Conference Organization


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Sponsors


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Technical Papers

Improving Testing

One Test to Rule Them All
Alex Groce, Josie Holmes, and Kevin Kellar
(Northern Arizona University, USA; Pennsylvania State University, USA; Crescent Valley High School, USA)


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Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Test Case Prioritization and Selection in Continuous Integration
Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb, Dusica Marijan, and Morten Mossige
(Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; University of Stavanger, Norway; ABB Robotics, Norway)


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PerfRanker: Prioritization of Performance Regression Tests for Collection-Intensive Software
Shaikh Mostafa, Xiaoyin Wang, and Tao Xie
(University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)


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Compiler-Assisted Test Acceleration on GPUs for Embedded Software
Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan, and Christophe Dubach
(University of Edinburgh, UK)


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Testing

Targeted Property-Based Testing
Andreas Löscher and Konstantinos Sagonas
(Uppsala University, Sweden)


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Generating Unit Tests with Descriptive Names Or: Would You Name Your Children Thing1 and Thing2?
Ermira Daka, José Miguel Rojas, and Gordon Fraser
(University of Sheffield, UK)


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Symbolic Execution

Accelerating Array Constraints in Symbolic Execution
David M. Perry, Andrea Mattavelli, Xiangyu Zhang, and Cristian Cadar
(Purdue University, USA; Imperial College London, UK)


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Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Symbolic Testing Techniques for Transport Protocol Implementations under Packet Dynamics
Wei Sun, Lisong Xu, and Sebastian Elbaum
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)


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Combining Symbolic Execution and Search-Based Testing for Programs with Complex Heap Inputs
Pietro Braione, Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Mattavelli, and Mauro Pezzè
(University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; Imperial College London, UK; University of Lugano, Switerland)


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Concurrency

Efficient Computation of Happens-Before Relation for Event-Driven Programs
Pallavi Maiya and Aditya Kanade
(IISc Bangalore, India)


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Automatic Detection and Validation of Race Conditions in Interrupt-Driven Embedded Software
Yu Wang, Linzhang Wang, Tingting Yu, Jianhua Zhao, and Xuandong Li
(Nanjing University, China; University of Kentucky, USA)


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Monitoring Decentralized Specifications
Antoine El-Hokayem and Yliès Falcone
(Grenoble Alpes University, France; Inria, France; CNRS, France; Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)


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Dynamic Analysis

Effective Online Software Anomaly Detection
Yizhen Chen, Ming Ying, Daren Liu, Adil Alim, Feng Chen, and Mei-Hwa Chen
(SUNY Albany, USA)


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Semi-automated Discovery of Server-Based Information Oversharing Vulnerabilities in Android Applications
William Koch, Abdelberi Chaabane, Manuel Egele, William Robertson, and Engin Kirda
(Boston University, USA; Northeastern University, USA)


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CPR: Cross Platform Binary Code Reuse via Platform Independent Trace Program
Yonghwi Kwon, Weihang Wang, Yunhui Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang, and Dongyan Xu
(Purdue University, USA; IBM Research, USA)


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An Actionable Performance Profiler for Optimizing the Order of Evaluations
Marija Selakovic, Thomas Glaser, and Michael Pradel
(TU Darmstadt, Germany)


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The Web

Testing and Analysis of Web Applications using Page Models
Snigdha Athaiya and Raghavan Komondoor
(IISc Bangalore, India)


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Automated Layout Failure Detection for Responsive Web Pages without an Explicit Oracle
Thomas A. Walsh, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Phil McMinn
(University of Sheffield, UK; Allegheny College, USA)


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Test Execution Checkpointing for Web Applications
Marco Guarnieri, Petar Tsankov, Tristan Buchs, Mohammad Torabi Dashti, and David Basin
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland; EPFL, Switzerland)


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Experience Report

Experience Paper: A Study on Behavioral Backward Incompatibilities of Java Software Libraries
Shaikh Mostafa, Rodney Rodriguez, and Xiaoyin Wang
(University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)


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Program Repair and Patching

Identifying Test-Suite-Overfitted Patches through Test Case Generation
Qi Xin and Steven P. Reiss
(Brown University, USA)


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Impact of Tool Support in Patch Construction
Anil Koyuncu, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Dongsun Kim, Jacques Klein, Martin Monperrus, and Yves Le Traon
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Inria, France; University of Lille, France)


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Automated Repair of Layout Cross Browser Issues using Search-Based Techniques
Sonal Mahajan, Abdulmajeed Alameer, Phil McMinn, and William G. J. Halfond
(University of Southern California, USA; University of Sheffield, UK)


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Fault Localization and Mutation Testing

Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization using PageRank
Mengshi Zhang, Xia Li, Lingming Zhang, and Sarfraz Khurshid
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Texas at Dallas, USA)


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FLUCCS: Using Code and Change Metrics to Improve Fault Localization
Jeongju Sohn and Shin Yoo
(KAIST, South Korea)


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Inferring Mutant Utility from Program Context
René Just, Bob Kurtz, and Paul Ammann
(University of Massachusetts, USA; George Mason University, USA)


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Faster Mutation Analysis via Equivalence Modulo States
Bo Wang, Yingfei Xiong, Yangqingwei Shi, Lu Zhang, and Dan Hao
(Peking University, China)


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Static Analysis

Just-in-Time Static Analysis
Lisa Nguyen Quang Do, Karim Ali, Benjamin Livshits, Eric Bodden, Justin Smith, and Emerson Murphy-Hill
(Fraunhofer IEM, Germany; University of Alberta, Canada; Imperial College London, UK; University of Paderborn, Germany; North Carolina State University, USA)


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Refining Interprocedural Change-Impact Analysis using Equivalence Relations
Alex Gyori, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, and Nimrod Partush
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Microsoft Research, USA; Technion, Israel)


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Boosting the Precision of Virtual Call Integrity Protection with Partial Pointer Analysis for C++
Xiaokang Fan, Yulei Sui, Xiangke Liao, and Jingling Xue
(UNSW, Australia; National University of Defense Technology, China)


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Lightweight Detection of Physical Unit Inconsistencies without Program Annotations
John-Paul Ore, Carrick Detweiler, and Sebastian Elbaum
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)


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Demonstrations

Phriky-Units: A Lightweight, Annotation-Free Physical Unit Inconsistency Detection Tool
John-Paul Ore, Carrick Detweiler, and Sebastian Elbaum
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; University on Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)


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A Suite of Tools for Making Effective Use of Automatically Generated Tests
Josie Holmes and Alex Groce
(Pennsylvania State University, USA; Northern Arizona University, USA)


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ReDeCheck: An Automatic Layout Failure Checking Tool for Responsively Designed Web Pages
Thomas A. Walsh, Gregory M. Kapfhammer, and Phil McMinn
(University of Sheffield, UK; Allegheny College, USA)


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CUT: Automatic Unit Testing in the Cloud
Alessio Gambi, Sebastian Kappler, Johannes Lampel, and Andreas Zeller
(Saarland University, Germany)


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XFix: An Automated Tool for the Repair of Layout Cross Browser Issues
Sonal Mahajan, Abdulmajeed Alameer, Phil McMinn, and William G. J. Halfond
(University of Southern California, USA; University of Sheffield, UK)


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THEMIS: A Tool for Decentralized Monitoring Algorithms
Antoine El-Hokayem and Yliès Falcone
(Grenoble Alpes University, France; Inria, France; CNRS, France; Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)


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JFIX: Semantics-Based Repair of Java Programs via Symbolic PathFinder
Xuan-Bach D. Le, Duc-Hiep Chu, David Lo, Claire Le Goues, and Willem Visser
(Singapore Management University, Singapore; IST, Austria; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)


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ArtForm: A Tool for Exploring the Codebase of Form-Based Websites
Ben Spencer, Michael Benedikt, Anders Møller, and Franck van Breugel
(University of Oxford, UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; York University, Canada)


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ParTeCL: Parallel Testing using OpenCL
Vanya Yaneva, Ajitha Rajan, and Christophe Dubach
(University of Edinburgh, UK)


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Verifying Digital Systems with MATLAB
Lennon Chaves, Iury Bessa, Lucas Cordeiro, Daniel Kroening, and Eddie Lima
(Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil; University of Oxford, UK; Samsung Electronics, Brazil)


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SealTest: A Simple Library for Test Sequence Generation
Sylvain Hallé and Raphaël Khoury
(Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada)


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GitcProc: A Tool for Processing and Classifying GitHub Commits
Casey Casalnuovo, Yagnik Suchak, Baishakhi Ray, and Cindy Rubio-González
(University of California at Davis, USA; University of Virginia, USA)


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Caret-HM: Recording and Replaying Android User Sessions with Heat Map Generation using UI State Clustering
Dmitry Nurmuradov and Renee Bryce
(University of North Texas, USA)


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LabPal: Repeatable Computer Experiments Made Easy
Sylvain Hallé
(Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada)


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Doctoral Symposium

Analysis

Consistency Checking in Requirements Analysis
Jaroslav Bendík
(Masaryk University, Czech Republic)


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Inferring Page Models for Web Application Analysis
Snigdha Athaiya
(IISc Bangalore, India)


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Path Cost Analysis for Side Channel Detection
Tegan Brennan
(University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)


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Modeling and Learning

Automatically Inferring and Enforcing User Expectations
Jenny Hotzkow
(Saarland University, Germany)


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Understanding Intended Behavior using Models of Low-Level Signals
Deborah S. Katz
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


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Version Space Learning for Verification on Temporal Differentials
Mark Santolucito
(Yale University, USA)


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Testing

Data Flow Oriented UI Testing: Exploiting Data Flows and UI Elements to Test Android Applications
Nataniel P. Borges Jr.
(Saarland University, Germany)


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Dynamic Tainting for Automatic Test Case Generation
Björn Mathis
(Saarland University, Germany)


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Mapping Hardness of Automated Software Testing
Carlos Oliveira
(Monash University, Australia)


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Oracle Problem in Software Testing
Gunel Jahangirova
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; University College London, UK)


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