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22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014), November 16–21, 2014, Hong Kong, China

FSE 2014 – Proceedings

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Frontmatter

Cover
Title Page
Message from the Chairs
Committees
Sponsors

Keynote

Omlet: A Revolution against Big-Brother Social Networks (Invited Talk)
Monica S. Lam
(Stanford University, USA)

Award Talks

From Software Engineering to Software Systems (Invited Talk)
Alexander L. Wolf
(Imperial College London, UK)
Ten Years with Evidence-Based Software Engineering. What Is It? Has It Had Any Impact? What’s Next? (Invited Talk)
Magne Jørgensen
(Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)

Perspectives from Industry
Thu, Nov 20, 15:30 - 17:00, Auditorium (Chair: Wolfgang Emmerich)

Experiences Developing Tools for Developers (Invited Talk)
John Penix
(Google, USA)
Are You Getting Traction? Tales from the Tech Transfer Trenches (Invited Talk)
Satish Chandra
(Samsung Electronics, USA)
Data Hard with a Vengeance (Invited Talk)
Thomas Zimmermann
(Microsoft Research, USA)

Technical Research

Helping and Understanding Developers
Tue, Nov 18, 10:40 - 12:20, Auditorium (Chair: Martin Robillard)

Developers’ Code Context Models for Change Tasks
Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd, Katja Kevic, Will Snipes, and Christoph Bräunlich
(University of Zurich, Switzerland; ABB Research, USA)
Software Developers’ Perceptions of Productivity
André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, and Thomas Zimmermann
(University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of British Columbia, Canada; Microsoft Research, USA)
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Enablers, Inhibitors, and Perceptions of Testing in Novice Software Teams
Raphael Pham, Stephan Kiesling, Olga Liskin, Leif Singer, and Kurt Schneider
(Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; University of Victoria, Canada)
Feedback Generation for Performance Problems in Introductory Programming Assignments
Sumit Gulwani, Ivan Radiček, and Florian Zuleger
(Microsoft Research, USA; Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
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Debugging and Refactoring
Tue, Nov 18, 10:40 - 12:20, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Satish Chandra)

Test Case Purification for Improving Fault Localization
Jifeng Xuan and Martin Monperrus
(INRIA, France; University of Lille, France)
Automatically Generated Patches as Debugging Aids: A Human Study
Yida Tao, Jindae Kim, Sunghun Kim, and Chang Xu
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; Nanjing University, China)
A Foundation for Refactoring C with Macros
Jeffrey L. Overbey, Farnaz Behrang, and Munawar Hafiz
(Auburn University, USA)
Vector Abstraction and Concretization for Scalable Detection of Refactorings
Narcisa Andreea Milea, Lingxiao Jiang, and Siau-Cheng Khoo
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Static Analysis
Tue, Nov 18, 13:30 - 15:10, Auditorium (Chair: Jianjun Zhao)

FlowTwist: Efficient Context-Sensitive Inside-Out Taint Analysis for Large Codebases
Johannes Lerch, Ben Hermann, Eric Bodden, and Mira Mezini
(TU Darmstadt, Germany; Fraunhofer SIT, Germany)
ORBS: Language-Independent Program Slicing
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Syed Islam, Jens Krinke, and Shin Yoo
(Loyola University Maryland, USA; University College London, UK)
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JSAI: A Static Analysis Platform for JavaScript
Vineeth Kashyap, Kyle Dewey, Ethan A. Kuefner, John Wagner, Kevin Gibbons, John Sarracino, Ben Wiedermann, and Ben Hardekopf
(University of California at Santa Barbara, USA; Harvey Mudd College, USA)
A Path-Sensitively Sliced Control Flow Graph
Joxan Jaffar and Vijayaraghavan Murali
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Mining Software Repositories
Tue, Nov 18, 13:30 - 15:10, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Thomas Zimmermann)

Let's Talk About It: Evaluating Contributions through Discussion in GitHub
Jason Tsay, Laura Dabbish, and James Herbsleb
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github
Baishakhi Ray, Daryl Posnett, Vladimir Filkov, and Premkumar Devanbu
(University of California at Davis, USA)
Mining Preconditions of APIs in Large-Scale Code Corpus
Hoan Anh Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, and Hridesh Rajan
(Iowa State University, USA)
Automatic Mining of Specifications from Invocation Traces and Method Invariants
Ivo Krka, Yuriy Brun, and Nenad Medvidovic
(Google, Switzerland; University of Massachusetts, USA; University of Southern California, USA)

Formal Methods and Verification
Tue, Nov 18, 15:30 - 17:10, Auditorium (Chair: Tevfik Bultan)

Counterexample Guided Abstraction Refinement of Product-Line Behavioural Models
Maxime Cordy, Patrick Heymans, Axel Legay, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Bruno Dawagne, and Martin Leucker
(University of Namur, Belgium; INRIA, France; University of Lübeck, Germany)
Powering the Static Driver Verifier using Corral
Akash Lal and Shaz Qadeer
(Microsoft Research, India; Microsoft Research, USA)
Verifying CTL-Live Properties of Infinite State Models using an SMT Solver
Amirhossein Vakili and Nancy A. Day
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Efficient Runtime-Enforcement Techniques for Policy Weaving
Richard Joiner, Thomas Reps, Somesh Jha, Mohan Dhawan, and Vinod Ganapathy
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; GrammaTech, USA; IBM Research, India; Rutgers University, USA)

Regression Testing
Tue, Nov 18, 15:30 - 17:10, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Willem Visser)

Techniques for Improving Regression Testing in Continuous Integration Development Environments
Sebastian Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel, and John Penix
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; Google, USA)
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Balancing Trade-Offs in Test-Suite Reduction
August Shi, Alex Gyori, Milos Gligoric, Andrey Zaytsev, and Darko Marinov
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Identifying the Characteristics of Vulnerable Code Changes: An Empirical Study
Amiangshu Bosu, Jeffrey C. Carver, Munawar Hafiz, Patrick Hilley, and Derek Janni
(University of Alabama, USA; Auburn University, USA; Providence College, USA; Lewis & Clark College, USA)

Improving Recommender Systems
Wed, Nov 19, 10:40 - 12:20, Auditorium (Chair: Nenad Medvidovic)

On the Localness of Software
Zhaopeng Tu, Zhendong Su, and Premkumar Devanbu
(University of California at Davis, USA)
Learning Natural Coding Conventions
Miltiadis Allamanis, Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, and Charles Sutton
(University of Edinburgh, UK; University College London, UK; Microsoft Research, USA)
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How Should We Measure Functional Sameness from Program Source Code? An Exploratory Study on Java Methods
Yoshiki Higo and Shinji Kusumoto
(Osaka University, Japan)
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The Plastic Surgery Hypothesis
Earl T. Barr, Yuriy Brun, Premkumar Devanbu, Mark Harman, and Federica Sarro
(University College London, UK; University of Massachusetts, USA; University of California at Davis, USA)

Concurrency and Parallelism
Wed, Nov 19, 10:40 - 12:20, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Sarfraz Khurshid)

Grail: Context-Aware Fixing of Concurrency Bugs
Peng Liu, Omer Tripp, and Charles Zhang
(Wuhan University, China; IBM Research, USA; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
AI: A Lightweight System for Tolerating Concurrency Bugs
Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Shan Lu, Shanxiang Qi, Jinglei Ren, and Weimin Zheng
(Tsinghua University, China; University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Retrofitting Concurrency for Android Applications through Refactoring
Yu Lin, Cosmin Radoi, and Danny Dig
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Oregon State University, USA)
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Sherlock: Scalable Deadlock Detection for Concurrent Programs
Mahdi Eslamimehr and Jens Palsberg
(University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

Self Adaptation and Repair / Program Analysis Applications
Wed, Nov 19, 13:30 - 15:10, Auditorium (Chair: Sebastian Uchitel)

Search-Based Synthesis of Equivalent Method Sequences
Alberto Goffi, Alessandra Gorla, Andrea Mattavelli, Mauro Pezzè, and Paolo Tonella
(University of Lugano, Switzerland; Saarland University, Germany; Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Beyond the Rainbow: Self-Adaptive Failure Avoidance in Configurable Systems
Jacob Swanson, Myra B. Cohen, Matthew B. Dwyer, Brady J. Garvin, and Justin Firestone
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Semantics-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Comparison with Applications to Software Plagiarism Detection
Lannan Luo, Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu
(Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Focus-Shifting Patterns of OSS Developers and Their Congruence with Call Graphs
Qi Xuan, Aaron Okano, Premkumar Devanbu, and Vladimir Filkov
(University of California at Davis, USA; Zhejiang University of Technology, China)

Symbolic Execution
Wed, Nov 19, 13:30 - 15:10, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Charles Zhang)

How We Get There: A Context-Guided Search Strategy in Concolic Testing
Hyunmin Seo and Sunghun Kim
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Solving Complex Path Conditions through Heuristic Search on Induced Polytopes
Peter Dinges and Gul Agha
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Statistical Symbolic Execution with Informed Sampling
Antonio Filieri, Corina S. Păsăreanu, Willem Visser, and Jaco Geldenhuys
(University of Stuttgart, Germany; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; NASA Ames Research Center, USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
SymJS: Automatic Symbolic Testing of JavaScript Web Applications
Guodong Li, Esben Andreasen, and Indradeep Ghosh
(Fujitsu Labs, USA; Aarhus University, Denmark)

Software Documentation
Wed, Nov 19, 15:30 - 16:45, Auditorium (Chair: Jane Cleland-Huang)

Selection and Presentation Practices for Code Example Summarization
Annie T. T. Ying and Martin P. Robillard
(McGill University, Canada)
Mining Idioms from Source Code
Miltiadis Allamanis and Charles Sutton
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Automatic Generation of Release Notes
Laura Moreno, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, Andrian Marcus, and Gerardo Canfora
(University of Texas at Dallas, USA; University of Sannio, Italy; University of Molise, Italy)

Web Apps
Wed, Nov 19, 15:30 - 16:45, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Luciano Baresi)

Discovering Refactoring Opportunities in Cascading Style Sheets
Davood Mazinanian, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Ali Mesbah
(Concordia University, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada)
SAFEWAPI: Web API Misuse Detector for Web Applications
SungGyeong Bae, Hyunghun Cho, Inho Lim, and Sukyoung Ryu
(KAIST, South Korea; Samsung Electronics, South Korea)
Building Call Graphs for Embedded Client-Side Code in Dynamic Web Applications
Hung Viet Nguyen, Christian Kästner, and Tien N. Nguyen
(Iowa State University, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Architecture and Design
Thu, Nov 20, 10:40 - 12:20, Auditorium (Chair: James Herbsleb)

Sketches and Diagrams in Practice
Sebastian Baltes and Stephan Diehl
(University of Trier, Germany)
Architecture Challenges for Internal Software Ecosystems: A Large-Scale Industry Case Study
Klaus-Benedikt Schultis, Christoph Elsner, and Daniel Lohmann
(Siemens, Germany; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Variable-Specific Resolutions for Feature Interactions
Cecylia Bocovich and Joanne M. Atlee
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
An Empirical Study on Program Comprehension with Reactive Programming
Guido Salvaneschi, Sven Amann, Sebastian Proksch, and Mira Mezini
(TU Darmstadt, Germany; Lancaster University, UK)

Mobile Apps
Thu, Nov 20, 10:40 - 12:20, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Antonio Carzaniga)

Apposcopy: Semantics-Based Detection of Android Malware through Static Analysis
Yu Feng, Saswat Anand, Isil Dillig, and Alex Aiken
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Stanford University, USA)
Detecting Energy Bugs and Hotspots in Mobile Apps
Abhijeet Banerjee, Lee Kee Chong, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Abhik Roychoudhury
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; Linköping University, Sweden)
EvoDroid: Segmented Evolutionary Testing of Android Apps
Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Sam Malek
(George Mason University, USA)
Prioritizing the Devices to Test Your App on: A Case Study of Android Game Apps
Hammad Khalid, Meiyappan Nagappan, Emad Shihab, and Ahmed E. Hassan
(Queen's University, Canada; Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; Concordia University, Canada)
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Testing and Oracles
Thu, Nov 20, 13:30 - 15:10, Auditorium (Chair: Prem Devanbu)

Improving Oracle Quality by Detecting Brittle Assertions and Unused Inputs in Tests
Chen Huo and James Clause
(University of Delaware, USA)
On the Efficiency of Automated Testing
Marcel Böhme and Soumya Paul
(Saarland University, Germany; National University of Singapore, Singapore)
An Empirical Analysis of Flaky Tests
Qingzhou Luo, Farah Hariri, Lamyaa Eloussi, and Darko Marinov
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Are Mutants a Valid Substitute for Real Faults in Software Testing?
René Just, Darioush Jalali, Laura Inozemtseva, Michael D. Ernst, Reid Holmes, and Gordon Fraser
(University of Washington, USA; University of Waterloo, Canada; University of Sheffield, UK)

Evolution and Maintenance
Thu, Nov 20, 13:30 - 15:10, Hall 4-7 (Chair: Massimiliano Di Penta)

No Issue Left Behind: Reducing Information Overload in Issue Tracking
Olga Baysal, Reid Holmes, and Michael W. Godfrey
(Université de Montréal, Canada; University of Waterloo, Canada)
Panning Requirement Nuggets in Stream of Software Maintenance Tickets
Senthil Mani, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Vibha Singhal Sinha, and Premkumar Devanbu
(IBM Research, India; University of California at Davis, USA)
Learning to Rank Relevant Files for Bug Reports using Domain Knowledge
Xin Ye, Razvan Bunescu, and Chang Liu
(Ohio University, USA)
Querying Sequential Software Engineering Data
Chengnian Sun, Haidong Zhang, Jian-Guang Lou, Hongyu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Dongmei Zhang, and Siau-Cheng Khoo
(University of California at Davis, USA; Microsoft Research, China; National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tool Demonstrations
Tue, Nov 18, 17:15 - 18:00, Auditorium

Tsmart-GalsBlock: A Toolkit for Modeling, Validation, and Synthesis of Multi-clocked Embedded Systems
Yu Jiang, Hehua Zhang, Huafeng Zhang, Xinyan Zhao, Han Liu, Chengnian Sun, Xiaoyu Song, Ming Gu, and Jiaguang Sun
(Tsinghua University, China; University of California at Davis, USA)
A Tool Suite for the Model-Driven Software Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems
Stefan Dziwok, Christopher Gerking, Steffen Becker, Sebastian Thiele, Christian Heinzemann, and Uwe Pohlmann
(University of Paderborn, Germany; Fraunhofer IPT, Germany)
XMLMate: Evolutionary XML Test Generation
Nikolas Havrikov, Matthias Höschele, Juan Pablo Galeotti, and Andreas Zeller
(Saarland University, Germany)
Video Info
CHOReOSynt: Enforcing Choreography Realizability in the Future Internet
Marco Autili, Davide Di Ruscio, Amleto Di Salle, and Alexander Perucci
(University of L'Aquila, Italy)
RaPiD: A Toolkit for Reliability Analysis of Non-deterministic Systems
Lin Gui, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Truong Khanh Nguyen, and Jin Song Dong
(National University of Singapore, Singapore; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Video Info
Aalta: An LTL Satisfiability Checker over Infinite/Finite Traces
Jianwen Li, Yinbo Yao, Geguang Pu, Lijun Zhang, and Jifeng He
(East China Normal University, China; Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Omen+: A Precise Dynamic Deadlock Detector for Multithreaded Java Libraries
Malavika Samak and Murali Krishna Ramanathan
(Indian Institute of Science, India)
Archie: A Tool for Detecting, Monitoring, and Preserving Architecturally Significant Code
Mehdi Mirakhorli, Ahmed Fakhry, Artem Grechko, Matteusz Wieloch, and Jane Cleland-Huang
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; DePaul University, USA)
Linking Sketches and Diagrams to Source Code Artifacts
Sebastian Baltes, Peter Schmitz, and Stephan Diehl
(University of Trier, Germany)
BumbleBee: A Refactoring Environment for Spreadsheet Formulas
Felienne Hermans and Danny Dig
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Oregon State University, USA)
RefDistiller: A Refactoring Aware Code Review Tool for Inspecting Manual Refactoring Edits
Everton L. G. Alves, Myoungkyu Song, and Miryung Kim
(University of Texas at Austin, USA; Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil; University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Critics: An Interactive Code Review Tool for Searching and Inspecting Systematic Changes
Tianyi Zhang, Myoungkyu Song, and Miryung Kim
(University of California at Los Angeles, USA; University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Video Info
ConceptCloud: A Tagcloud Browser for Software Archives
Gillian J. Greene and Bernd Fischer
(Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Titan: A Toolset That Connects Software Architecture with Quality Analysis
Lu Xiao, Yuanfang Cai, and Rick Kazman
(Drexel University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA)
BugLocalizer: Integrated Tool Support for Bug Localization
Ferdian Thung, Tien-Duy B. Le, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, and David Lo
(Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Doctoral Symposium

Technical Presentations 1
Mon, Nov 17, 10:00 - 10:30, Meeting Room 4

Diagnose Crashing Faults on Production Software
Rongxin Wu
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Technical Presentations 2
Mon, Nov 17, 11:00 - 12:30, Meeting Room 4

Integrating Approaches for Feature Implementation
Benjamin Behringer
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; htw saar, Germany)
Numerical Program Analysis and Testing
Zheng Gao
(University College London, UK)
Traceability and Model Checking to Support Safety Requirement Verification
Shuanglong Kan
(Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Dealing with Uncertainty in Verification of Nondeterministic Systems
Yamilet R. Serrano Llerena
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Technical Presentations 3
Mon, Nov 17, 14:00 - 15:30, Meeting Room 4

Static Analysis Driven Performance and Energy Testing
Abhijeet Banerjee
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Autonomous Compliance Monitoring of Non-functional Properties
Marc Brünink
(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Detecting, Isolating, and Enforcing Dependencies among and within Test Cases
Jonathan Bell
(Columbia University, USA)
Improving the Software Testing Skills of Novices during Onboarding through Social Transparency
Raphael Pham
(Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Technical Presentations 4
Mon, Nov 17, 16:00 - 16:30, Meeting Room 4

Minimizing Software Conflicts through Proactive Detection of Conflicts and Task Scheduling
Bakhtiar Khan Kasi
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Student Research Competition Posters
Tue, Nov 18, 18:00 - 20:30, Pre-function Hall

Detecting and Preventing the Architectural Roots of Bugs
Lu Xiao
(Drexel University, USA)
Estimating the Effectiveness of Spectrum-Based Fault Localization
Shuo Song
(Nanjing University, China)
Managing Lots of Models: The FaMine Approach
David Wille
(TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Social Network Analysis in Open Source Software Peer Review
Xin Yang
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Towards a Theory of Architectural Styles
Diego Marmsoler
(TU München, Germany)
Software Programmer Management: A Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction Framework for Optimal Task Assignment
Harry Raymond Joseph
(TU München, Germany)

Visions and Challenges
Thu, Nov 20, 09:00 - 10:20, Auditorium

Methodology and Culture: Drivers of Mediocrity in Software Engineering?
Marian Petre and Daniela Damian
(Open University, UK; University of Victoria, Canada)
Known Unknowns: Testing in the Presence of Uncertainty
Sebastian Elbaum and David S. Rosenblum
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Speculative Reprogramming
Marc Palyart, Gail C. Murphy, Emerson Murphy-Hill, and Xavier Blanc
(University of British Columbia, Canada; North Carolina State University, USA; University of Bordeaux, France)
A Variability Perspective of Mutation Analysis
Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Maxime Cordy, Mike Papadakis, Axel Legay, and Pierre-Yves Schobbens
(University of Namur, Belgium; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; INRIA, France)
Mining Micro-practices from Operational Data
Minghui Zhou and Audris Mockus
(Peking University, China; University of Tennessee, USA; Avaya Labs, USA)
Achieving Lightweight Trustworthy Traceability
Jane Cleland-Huang, Mona Rahimi, and Patrick Mäder
(DePaul University, USA; TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Software Maintenance like Maintenance in Other Engineering Disciplines
Gustavo Villavicencio
(Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero, Argentina)

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