2019
Papers that received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award:
Empirical Review of Java Program Repair Tools: A Large-Scale Experiment on 2 141 Bugs and 23 551 Repair Attempts Thomas Durieux, Fernanda Madeiral, Matias Martinez, and Rui Abreu
Generating Automated and Online Test Oracles for Simulink Models with Continuous and Uncertain Behaviors Claudio Menghi, Shiva Nejati, Khouloud Gaaloul, and Lionel Briand
The Importance of Accounting for Real-World Labelling When Predicting Software Vulnerabilities Matthieu Jimenez, Renaud Rwemalika, Mike Papadakis, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon, and Mark Harman
Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports Oscar Chaparro, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Jing Lu, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Massimiliano Di Penta, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Vincent Ng
A Framework for Writing Trigger-Action Todo Comments in Executable Format Pengyu Nie, Rishabh Rai, Junyi Jessy Li, Sarfraz Khurshid, Raymond J. Mooney, and Milos Gligoric
A Statistics-based Performance Testing Methodology for Cloud Applications Sen He, Glenna Manns, John Saunders, Wei Wang, Lori Pollock, and Mary Lou Soffa
List of accepted papers of the main research track:
Concolic Testing for Models of State-Based Systems Reza Ahmadi and Juergen Dingel (Queen’s University, Canada) Article Search
Target-Driven Compositional Concolic Testing with Function Summary Refinement for Effective Bug Detection Yunho Kim, Shin Hong, and Moonzoo Kim (KAIST, South Korea; Handong Global University, South Korea) Article Search, Info
Generating Automated and Online Test Oracles for Simulink Models with Continuous and Uncertain Behaviors Claudio Menghi, Shiva Nejati, Khouloud Gaaloul, and Lionel C. Briand (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Article Search,
Lifting Datalog-Based Analyses to Software Product Lines Ramy Shahin, Marsha Chechik, and Rick Salay (University of Toronto, Canada) Article Search
An Empirical Study of Real-World Variability Bugs Detected by Variability-Oblivious Tools Austin Mordahl, Jeho Oh, Ugur Koc, Shiyi Wei, and Paul Gazzillo (University of Texas at Dallas, USA; University of Texas at Austin, USA; University of Maryland, USA; University of Central Florida, USA) Article Search,
Principles of Feature Modeling Damir Nešić, Jacob Krüger, Ștefan Stănciulescu, and Thorsten Berger (KTH, Sweden; University of Magdeburg, Germany; ABB, Switzerland; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Preprint, Info
Understanding GCC Builtins to Develop Better Tools Manuel Rigger, Stefan Marr, Bram Adams, and Hanspeter Mössenböck (JKU Linz, Austria; University of Kent, UK; Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) Preprint,
Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports Oscar Chaparro, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Jing Lu, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Massimiliano Di Penta, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Vincent Ng (College of William and Mary, USA; University of Texas at Dallas, USA; University of Sannio, Italy) Preprint, Info
A Learning-Based Approach for Automatic Construction of Domain Glossary from Source Code and Documentation Chong Wang, Xin Peng, Mingwei Liu, Zhenchang Xing, Xuefang Bai, Bing Xie, and Tuo Wang (Fudan University, China; Australian National University, Australia; Peking University, China) Preprint
On Using Machine Learning to Identify Knowledge in API Reference Documentation Davide Fucci, Alireza Mollaalizadehbahnemiri, and Walid Maalej (University of Hamburg, Germany) Article Search,
Generating Query-Specific Class API Summaries Mingwei Liu, Xin Peng, Andrian Marcus, Zhenchang Xing, Wenkai Xie, Shuangshuang Xing, and Yang Liu (Fudan University, China; University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Australian National University, Australia) Preprint
Semantic Relation Based Expansion of Abbreviations Yanjie Jiang, Hui Liu, and Lu Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Peking University, China) Article Search
Diversity-Based Web Test Generation Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Filippo Ricca, and Paolo Tonella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; USI Lugano, Switzerland; University of Genoa, Italy) Article Search
Web Test Dependency Detection Matteo Biagiola, Andrea Stocco, Ali Mesbah, Filippo Ricca, and Paolo Tonella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; USI Lugano, Switzerland; University of British Columbia, Canada; University of Genoa, Italy) Article Search
Testing Scratch Programs Automatically Andreas Stahlbauer, Marvin Kreis, and Gordon Fraser (University of Passau, Germany) Article Search
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Compiler Errors in Continuous Integration Chen Zhang, Bihuan Chen, Linlin Chen, Xin Peng, and Wenyun Zhao (Fudan University, China) Preprint
A Statistics-Based Performance Testing Methodology for Cloud Applications Sen He, Glenna Manns, John Saunders, Wei Wang, Lori Pollock, and Mary Lou Soffa (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; University of Virginia, USA; University of Delaware, USA) Article Search,
How Bad Can a Bug Get? An Empirical Analysis of Software Failures in the OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform Domenico Cotroneo, Luigi De Simone, Pietro Liguori, Roberto Natella, and Nematollah Bidokhti (Federico II University of Naples, Italy; FutureWei Technologies, USA) Article Search,
Towards More Efficient Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Combinatorial Test Generation Jinkun Lin, Shaowei Cai, Chuan Luo, Qingwei Lin, and Hongyu Zhang (Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Microsoft Research, China; University of Newcastle, Australia) Article Search
Compiler Bug Isolation via Effective Witness Test Program Generation Junjie Chen, Jiaqi Han, Peiyi Sun, Lingming Zhang, Dan Hao, and Lu Zhang (Tianjin University, China; Peking University, China; University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Article Search
Concolic Testing with Adaptively Changing Search Heuristics Sooyoung Cha and Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, South Korea) Article Search
Symbolic Execution-Driven Extraction of the Parallel Execution Plans of Spark Applications Luciano Baresi, Giovanni Denaro, and Giovanni Quattrocchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy; University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Article Search
Generating Effective Test Cases for Self-Driving Cars from Police Reports Alessio Gambi, Tri Huynh, and Gordon Fraser (University of Passau, Germany; Saarland University, Germany; CISPA, Germany) Article Search
Preference-Wise Testing for Android Applications Yifei Lu, Minxue Pan, Juan Zhai, Tian Zhang, and Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Article Search
Bisecting Commits and Modeling Commit Risk during Testing Armin Najafi, Peter C. Rigby, and Weiyi Shang (Concordia University, Canada) Article Search
White-Box Testing of Big Data Analytics with Complex User-Defined Functions Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Shaghayegh Mardani, Madanlal Musuvathi, and Miryung Kim (University of California at Los Angeles, USA; Microsoft Research, USA) Article Search
Empirical Review of Java Program Repair Tools: A Large-Scale Experiment on 2,141 Bugs and 23,551 Repair Attempts Thomas Durieux, Fernanda Madeiral, Matias Martinez, and Rui Abreu (University of Lisbon, Portugal; INESC-ID, Portugal; Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil; Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, France) Preprint, Info,
iFixR: Bug Report driven Program Repair Anil Koyuncu, Kui Liu, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Dongsun Kim, Martin Monperrus, Jacques Klein, and Yves Le Traon (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Furiosa A.I., South Korea; KTH, Sweden) Article Search,
Exploring and Exploiting the Correlations between Bug-Inducing and Bug-Fixing Commits Ming Wen, Rongxin Wu, Yepang Liu, Yongqiang Tian, Xuan Xie, Shing-Chi Cheung, and Zhendong Su (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; Xiamen University, China; Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Sun Yat-sen University, China; ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Article Search, Info
Effects of Explicit Feature Traceability on Program Comprehension Jacob Krüger, Gül Çalıklı, Thorsten Berger, Thomas Leich, and Gunter Saake (University of Magdeburg, Germany; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany; METOP, Germany) Preprint,
What the Fork: A Study of Inefficient and Efficient Forking Practices in Social Coding Shurui Zhou, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Christian Kästner (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Article Search, Info
ServDroid: Detecting Service Usage Inefficiencies in Android Applications Wei Song, Jing Zhang, and Jeff Huang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China; Texas A&M University, USA) Preprint, Info
Together Strong: Cooperative Android App Analysis Felix Pauck and Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) Article Search, Info,
A Framework for Writing Trigger-Action Todo Comments in Executable Format Pengyu Nie, Rishabh Rai, Junyi Jessy Li, Sarfraz Khurshid, Raymond J. Mooney, and Milos Gligoric (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Article Search
Decomposing the Rationale of Code Commits: The Software Developer’s Perspective Khadijah Al Safwan and Francisco Servant (Virginia Tech, USA) Article Search, Info,
Model-Based Testing of Breaking Changes in Node.js Libraries Anders Møllerand Martin Toldam Torp (Aarhus University, Denmark) Preprint, Info
Monitoring-Aware IDEs Jos Winter, Maurício Aniche, Jürgen Cito, and Arie van Deursen (Adyen, Netherlands; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Preprint
Going Big: A Large-Scale Study on What Big Data Developers Ask Mehdi Bagherzadeh and Raffi Khatchadourian (Oakland University, USA; City University of New York, USA) Article Search
Why Aren’t Regular Expressions a Lingua Franca? An Empirical Study on the Re-use and Portability of Regular Expressions James C. Davis, Louis G. Michael IV, Christy A. Coghlan, Francisco Servant, and Dongyoon Lee (Virginia Tech, USA) Preprint,
Nodest: Feedback-Driven Static Analysis of Node.js Applications Benjamin Barslev Nielsen, Behnaz Hassanshahi, and François Gauthier (Oracle Labs, Australia; Aarhus University, Denmark) Article Search
Effective Error-Specification Inference via Domain-Knowledge Expansion Daniel DeFreez, Haaken Martinson Baldwin, Cindy Rubio-González, and Aditya V. Thakur (University of California at Davis, USA) Article Search,
DeepStellar: Model-Based Quantitative Analysis of Stateful Deep Learning Systems Xiaoning Du, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Lei Ma, Yang Liu, and Jianjun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Kyushu University, Japan; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China) Article Search
REINAM: Reinforcement Learning for Input-Grammar Inference Zhengkai Wu, Evan Johnson, Wei Yang, Osbert Bastani, Dawn Song, Jian Peng, and Tao Xie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; University of Texas at Dallas, USA; University of Pennsylvania, USA; University of California at Berkeley, USA) Article Search, Info
Boosting Operational DNN Testing Efficiency through Conditioning Zenan Li, Xiaoxing Ma, Chang Xu, Chun Cao, Jingwei Xu, and Jian Lü (Nanjing University, China) Article Search
A Comprehensive Study on Deep Learning Bug Characteristics Md Johirul Islam, Giang Nguyen, Rangeet Pan, and Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University, USA) Article Search
Just Fuzz It: Solving Floating-Point Constraints using Coverage-Guided Fuzzing Daniel Liew, Cristian Cadar, Alastair F. Donaldson, and J. Ryan Stinnett (Imperial College London, UK; Mozilla, USA) Article Search,
Cerebro: Context-Aware Adaptive Fuzzing for Effective Vulnerability Detection Yuekang Li, Yinxing Xue, Hongxu Chen, Xiuheng Wu, Cen Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Haijun Wang, and Yang Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China) Article Search
iFixFlakies: A Framework for Automatically Fixing Order-Dependent Flaky Tests August Shi, Wing Lam, Reed Oei, Tao Xie, and Darko Marinov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Article Search
Binary Reduction of Dependency Graphs Christian Gram Kalhauge and Jens Palsberg (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Article Search,
AggrePlay: Efficient Record and Replay of Multi-threaded Programs Ernest Pobee and W. K. Chan (City University of Hong Kong, China) Article Search
The Review Linkage Graph for Code Review Analytics: A Recovery Approach and Empirical Study Toshiki Hirao, Shane McIntosh, Akinori Ihara, and Kenichi Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan; McGill University, Canada; Wakayama University, Japan) Preprint,
Mitigating Power Side Channels during Compilation Jingbo Wang, Chungha Sung, and Chao Wang (University of Southern California, USA) Preprint
Maximal Multi-layer Specification Synthesis Yanju Chen, Ruben Martins, and Yu Feng (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Article Search
Phoenix: Automated Data-Driven Synthesis of Repairs for Static Analysis Violations Rohan Bavishi, Hiroaki Yoshida, and Mukul R. Prasad (University of California at Berkeley, USA; Fujitsu Labs, USA) Article Search
Black Box Fairness Testing of Machine Learning Models Aniya Aggarwal, Pranay Lohia, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey, and Diptikalyan Saha (IBM Research, India) Article Search
Java Reflection API: Revealing the Dark Side of the Mirror Felipe Pontes, Rohit Gheyi, Sabrina Souto, Alessandro Garcia, and Márcio Ribeiro (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil; State University of Paraíba, Brazil; PUC-Rio, Brazil; Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil) Article Search
A Conceptual Replication of Continuous Integration Pain Points in the Context of Travis CI David Gray Widder, Michael Hilton, Christian Kästner, and Bogdan Vasilescu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Article Search, Info
Ethnographic Research in Software Engineering: A Critical Review and Checklist He Zhang, Xin Huang, Xin Zhou, Huang Huang, and Muhammad Ali Babar (Nanjing University, China; University of Adelaide, Australia) Article Search
Achilles’ Heel of Plug-and-Play Software Architectures: A Grounded Theory Based Approach Joanna C. S. Santos, Adriana Sejfia, Taylor Corrello, Smruthi Gadenkanahalli, and Mehdi Mirakhorli (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Preprint, Info
Latent Error Prediction and Fault Localization for Microservice Applications by Learning from System Trace Logs Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Dewei Liu, Qilin Xiang, and Chuan He (Fudan University, China; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Singapore Management University, Singapore) Preprint
The Importance of Accounting for Real-World Labelling When Predicting Software Vulnerabilities Matthieu Jimenez, Renaud Rwemalika, Mike Papadakis, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon, and Mark Harman (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; University College London, UK; Facebook, UK) Article Search
Detecting Concurrency Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Yan Cai, Biyun Zhu, Ruijie Meng, Hao Yun, Liang He, Purui Su, and Bin Liang (Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Renmin University of China, China) Article Search
Locating Vulnerabilities in Binaries via Memory Layout Recovering Haijun Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Shang-Wei Lin, Yun Lin, Yuekang Li, Shengchao Qin, Yang Liu, and Ting Liu (Shenzhen University, China; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Teesside University, UK; Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) Article Search
Storm: Program Reduction for Testing and Debugging Probabilistic Programming Systems Saikat Dutta, Wenxian Zhang, Zixin Huang, and Sasa Misailovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Article Search
NullAway: Practical Type-Based Null Safety for Java Subarno Banerjee, Lazaro Clapp, and Manu Sridharan (University of Michigan, USA; Uber Technologies, USA; University of California at Riverside, USA) Article Search,
Automatically Detecting Missing Cleanup for Ungraceful Exits Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Tingting Yu, Xiangke Liao, and Ji Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China; University of Kentucky, USA) Article Search
Finding and Understanding Bugs in Software Model Checkers Chengyu Zhang, Ting Su, Yichen Yan, Fuyuan Zhang, Geguang Pu, and Zhendong Su (East China Normal University, China; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; MPI-SWS, Germany) Article Search
A Segmented Memory Model for Symbolic Execution Timotej Kapus and Cristian Cadar (Imperial College London, UK) Article Search,
Releasing Fast and Slow: An Exploratory Case Study at ING Elvan Kula, Ayushi Rastogi, Hennie Huijgens, Arie van Deursen, and Georgios Gousios (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; ING Bank, Netherlands) Preprint
SAR: Learning Cross-Language API Mappings with Little Knowledge Nghi D. Q. Bui, Yijun Yu, and Lingxiao Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore; Open University, UK) Preprint, Info,
Robust Log-Based Anomaly Detection on Unstable Log Data Xu Zhang, Yong Xu, Qingwei Lin, Bo Qiao, Hongyu Zhang, Yingnong Dang, Chunyu Xie, Xinsheng Yang, Qian Cheng, Ze Li, Junjie Chen, Xiaoting He, Randolph Yao, Jian-Guang Lou, Murali Chintalapati, Furao Shen, and Dongmei Zhang (Microsoft Reseach, China; Nanjing University, China; University of Newcastle, Australia; Microsoft, USA; Tianjin University, China) Article Search
Pinpointing Performance Inefficiencies in Java Pengfei Su, Qingsen Wang, Milind Chabbi, and Xu Liu (College of William and Mary, USA; Scalable Machines Research, USA) Article Search
Understanding Flaky Tests: The Developer’s Perspective Moritz Eck, Fabio Palomba, Marco Castelluccio, and Alberto Bacchelli (University of Zurich, Switzerland; Mozilla, UK) Article Search
SEntiMoji: An Emoji-Powered Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering Zhenpeng Chen, Yanbin Cao, Xuan Lu, Qiaozhu Mei, and Xuanzhe Liu (Peking University, China; University of Michigan, USA) Preprint