The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference series is the premier research forum for automated software engineering. Each year, it brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss foundations, techniques, and tools for automating the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. ASE 2019 invites high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results.
Tue 12 NovDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:30 30m | Welcome from the Chairs Research Papers | ||
09:00 60mTalk | Re-engineering Software Engineering for a Data-centric World Research Papers Miryung Kim University of California, Los Angeles | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Testing and CoverageResearch Papers / Demonstrations / Journal First Presentations / Industry Showcase at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Jonathan Bell George Mason University | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Automatic Self-Validation for Code Coverage Profilers Research Papers Yibiao Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Zhiqiang Zuo Nanjing University, China, Yang Wang Nanjing University, Hao Sun Unaffiliated, Hongmin Lu Nanjing University, Yuming Zhou Nanjing University, Baowen Xu Nanjing University Pre-print | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Efficient Test Generation Guided by Field Coverage Criteria Research Papers Ariel Godio Dept. of Software Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Valeria Bengolea Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Pablo Ponzio Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Nazareno Aguirre Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Marcelo F. Frias Dept. of Software Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | AI and SEResearch Papers / Journal First Presentations / Demonstrations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Kaiyuan Wang Google, Inc. | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Assessing the Generalizability of code2vec Token Embeddings Research Papers Hong Jin Kang School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, David Lo Singapore Management University Pre-print | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Multi-Modal Attention Network Learning for Semantic Source Code Retrieval Research Papers Yao Wan Zhejiang University, Jingdong Shu Zhejiang University, Yulei Sui University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Guandong Xu University of Technology, Sydney, Zhou Zhao Zhejiang University, Jian Wu Zhejiang University, philip yu University of Illinois at Chicago | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Experience Paper: Search-based Testing in Automated Driving Control ApplicationsACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Research Papers Christoph Gladisch Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Thomas Heinz Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Christian Heinzemann Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Jens Oehlerking Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Anne von Vietinghoff Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Tim Pfitzer Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH | ||
12:00 10mTalk | AutoFocus: Interpreting Attention-based Neural Networks by Code Perturbation Research Papers Nghi D. Q. Bui Singapore Management University, Singapore, Yijun Yu The Open University, UK, Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University Pre-print | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Mobile 1Demonstrations / Research Papers / Journal First Presentations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Marouane Kessentini University of Michigan | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Test Transfer Across Mobile Apps Through Semantic Mapping Research Papers Jun-Wei Lin University of California, Irvine, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand University of California, Irvine, Sam Malek University of California, Irvine | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Test Migration Between Mobile Apps with Similar Functionality Research Papers | ||
11:20 20mTalk | DaPanda: Detecting Aggressive Push Notification in Android Apps Research Papers Tianming Liu Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Li Li Monash University, Australia, Guangdong Bai Griffith University, Yao Guo Peking University, Guoai Xu Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Testing and VerificationResearch Papers / Demonstrations / Industry Showcase at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Systematically Covering Input Structure Research Papers Nikolas Havrikov CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Pre-print | ||
14:00 20mTalk | SEGATE: Unveiling Semantic Inconsistencies between Code and Specification of String Inputs Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Detecting Error-Handling Bugs without Error Specification Input Research Papers Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Tingting Yu University of Kentucky, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology, China, Ji Wang National University of Defense Technology, Xiaodong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Yunhuai Liu Peking University | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Grading-Based Test Suite Augmentation Research Papers Jonathan Osei-Owusu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Angello Astorga University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Liia Butler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tao Xie Peking University, Geoffrey Challen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Natural Language and Human AspectsResearch Papers / Demonstrations / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Discovering, Explaining and Summarizing Controversial Discussions in Community Q&A Sites Research Papers Xiaoxue Ren Zhejiang University, Zhenchang Xing Australia National University, Xin Xia Monash University, Guoqiang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University, JianLing Sun Zhejiang University Pre-print | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Automating App Review Response Generation Research Papers Cuiyun Gao Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jichuan Zeng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xin Xia Monash University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Irwin King The Chinese University of Hong Kong Pre-print | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Automatic Generation of Pull Request DescriptionsACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Research Papers Zhongxin Liu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Monash University, Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide, David Lo Singapore Management University, Shanping Li Zhejiang University Pre-print | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Mobile 2Research Papers / Journal First Presentations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Myra Cohen Iowa State University | ||
13:40 20mTalk | A Qualitative Analysis of Android Taint-Analysis Results Research Papers Linghui Luo Paderborn University, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM, Johannes Späth Fraunhofer IEM Pre-print File Attached | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Goal-Driven Exploration for Android Applications Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:20 20mTalk | RANDR: Record and Replay for Android Applications via Targeted Runtime Instrumentation Research Papers Onur Sahin Boston University, Assel Aliyeva Boston University, Hariharan Mathavan Boston University, Ayse Coskun Boston University, Manuel Egele Boston University, USA | ||
15:00 20mTalk | MalScan: Fast Market-Wide Mobile Malware Scanning by Social-Network Centrality Analysis Research Papers Yueming Wu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiaodi Li University of Texas at Dallas, Deqing Zou Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wei Yang University of Texas at Dallas, Xin Zhang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Testing and VisualizationDemonstrations / Research Papers / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Amin Alipour University of Houston | ||
16:00 20mTalk | History-Guided Configuration Diversification for Compiler Test-Program GenerationACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Research Papers Junjie Chen Tianjin University, Guancheng Wang Peking University, Dan Hao Peking University, Yingfei Xiong Peking University, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Lu Zhang Peking University | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Data-Driven Compiler Testing and Debugging Research Papers Junjie Chen Tianjin University | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Targeted Example Generation for Compilation Errors Research Papers Umair Z. Ahmed National University of Singapore, Renuka Sindhgatta Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Nisheeth Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Amey Karkare IIT Kanpur Link to publication Pre-print | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Code and Artifact AnalysisJournal First Presentations / Research Papers at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Sarah Nadi University of Alberta | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Emotions Extracted from Text vs. True Emotions –An Empirical Evaluation in SE Context Research Papers Yi Wang Rochester Institute of Technology | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Learning from Examples to Find Fully Qualified Names of API Elements in Code Snippets Research Papers C M Khaled Saifullah Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Muhammad Asaduzzaman Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab, Queen's University, Canada, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan Pre-print | ||
17:00 20mTalk | Inferring Program Transformations From Singular Examples via Big Code Research Papers Jiajun Jiang Peking University, Luyao Ren Peking University, Yingfei Xiong Peking University, Lingming Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas Link to publication Pre-print | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | SecurityDemonstrations / Research Papers / Journal First Presentations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Julia Rubin University of British Columbia | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Performance-Boosting Sparsification of the IFDS Algorithm with Applications to Taint AnalysisACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Research Papers Dongjie He University of New South Wales; Institute of Computing Technology, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haofeng Li Institute of Computing Technology, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lei Wang Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Haining Meng Institute of Computing Technology, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hengjie Zheng Institute of Computing Technology, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jie Liu University of New South Wales, Shuangwei Hu vivo AI Lab, Lian Li Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jingling Xue UNSW Sydney | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Characterizing Android App Signing Issues Research Papers Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Hongxuan Liu Peking University, Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University, Guozhu Meng Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yao Guo Peking University | ||
16:40 20mTalk | OAuthLint: An Empirical Study on OAuth Bugs in Android Applications Research Papers Tamjid Al Rahat University of Virginia, Yu Feng University of California, Santa Barbara, Yuan Tian University of Virginia Pre-print | ||
Wed 13 NovDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:30 30mAwards | ASE Award Ceremony Research Papers | ||
09:00 60mTalk | The Human Dimension of Cloud Computing Research Papers Yuanyuan Zhou University of California, San Diego | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Program RepairResearch Papers / Demonstrations / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Yingfei Xiong Peking University | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Apricot: A Weight-Adaptation Approach to Fixing Deep Learning Models Research Papers | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Re-factoring based Program Repair applied to Programming Assignments Research Papers Yang Hu The University of Texas at Austin, Umair Z. Ahmed National University of Singapore, Sergey Mechtaev University College London, Ben Leong National University of Singapore, Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore Pre-print | ||
11:20 20mTalk | InFix: Automatically Repairing Novice Program Inputs Research Papers Madeline Endres University of Michigan, Georgios Sakkas University of California, San Diego, Benjamin Cosman University of California at San Diego, USA, Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego, Westley Weimer University of Michigan Pre-print | ||
12:10 10mTalk | Understanding Automatically-Generated Patches Through Symbolic Invariant Differences Research Papers Padraic Cashin Arizona State University, Cari Martinez University of New Mexico, Stephanie Forrest Arizona State University, Westley Weimer University of Michigan Pre-print | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Cloud and Online ServicesJournal First Presentations / Research Papers / Demonstrations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Dan Hao Peking University | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Understanding Exception-Related Bugs in Large-Scale Cloud Systems Research Papers Haicheng Chen The Ohio State University, Wensheng Dou Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Feng Qin Ohio State University, USA Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:00 20mTalk | iFeedback: Exploiting User Feedback for Real-time Issue Detection in Large-Scale Online Service Systems Research Papers Wujie Zheng Tencent, Inc., Haochuan Lu Fudan University, Yangfan Zhou Fudan University, Jianming Liang Tencent, Haibing Zheng Tencent, Yuetang Deng Tencent, Inc. | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Continuous Incident Triage for Large-Scale Online Service Systems Research Papers Junjie Chen Tianjin University, Xiaoting He Microsoft, Qingwei Lin Microsoft Research, China, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Dan Hao Peking University, Feng Gao Microsoft, Zhangwei Xu Microsoft, Yingnong Dang Microsoft Azure, Dongmei Zhang Microsoft Research, China | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Verification and Bug DetectionDemonstrations / Research Papers at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Raghavan Komondoor Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Mutation Analysis for Coq Research Papers Ahmet Celik The University of Texas at Austin, Karl Palmskog University of Texas at Austin, Marinela Parovic The University of Texas at Austin, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias MINES ParisTech, Milos Gligoric The University of Texas at Austin | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Verifying Arithmetic in Cryptographic C Programs Research Papers Jiaxiang Liu Shenzhen University, Xiaomu Shi Shenzhen University, Ming-Hsien Tsai Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Bow-Yaw Wang Academia Sinica, Bo-Yin Yang Academia Sinica Pre-print | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Model checking embedded control software using OS-in-the-loop CEGAR Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Get rid of inline assembly through verification-oriented lifting Research Papers Frédéric Recoules CEA LIST, Sébastien Bardin CEA LIST, Richard Bonichon CEA LIST, Laurent Mounier Université Grenoble Alpes, Marie-Laure Potet Université Grenoble Alpes DOI Pre-print | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Systems and LocalizationIndustry Showcase / Research Papers / Demonstrations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Combining Spectrum-Based Fault Localization and Statistical Debugging: An Empirical Study Research Papers Jiajun Jiang Peking University, Ran Wang Peking University, Yingfei Xiong Peking University, Xiangping Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Lu Zhang Peking University Pre-print | ||
14:00 20mTalk | SCMiner: Localizing System-Level Concurrency Faults from Large System Call Traces Research Papers Tarannum Shaila Zaman University of Kentucky, Xue Han University of Kentucky, Tingting Yu University of Kentucky Pre-print File Attached | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Root Cause Localization for Unreproducible Builds via Causality Analysis over System Call Tracing Research Papers Zhilei Ren Dalian University of Technology, Changlin Liu Case Western Reserve University, Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University, He Jiang School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Tao Xie Peking University | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Configurations and VariabilityJournal First Presentations / Research Papers at Hillcrest Chair(s): Shin Hwei Tan | ||
13:40 20mTalk | ACTGAN: Automatic Configuration Tuning for Software Systems with Generative Adversarial Networks Research Papers Liang Bao School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University, Xin Liu Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Fangzheng Wang School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University, Baoyin Fang School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University | ||
14:20 20mTalk | V2: Fast Detection of Configuration Drift in Python Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Feature-Interaction Aware Configuration Prioritization for Configurable Code Research Papers Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Hoan Anh Nguyen Amazon, Ngoc Tran University of Texas at Dallas, Hieu Tran The University of Texas at Dallas, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | PredictionResearch Papers / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Xin Xia Monash University | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Predicting Licenses for Changed Source Code Research Papers Xiaoyu Liu Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Liguo Huang Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205, Jidong Ge State Key Laboratory for Novel Software and Technology, Nanjing University, Vincent Ng Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083-0688 | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Empirical evaluation of the impact of class overlap on software defect prediction Research Papers Lina Gong China University of Mining and Technology, Shujuan Jiang China University of Mining and Technology, Rongcun Wang China University of Mining and Technology, Li Jiang China University of Mining and Technology | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Combining Program Analysis and Statistical Language Model for Code Statement Completion Research Papers Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Yi Li New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Shaohua Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | API and RenamingResearch Papers / Journal First Presentations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio | ||
16:00 20mTalk | CodeKernel: A Graph Kernel based Approach to the Selection of API Usage Examples Research Papers Xiaodong Gu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Sunghun Kim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Machine Learning Based Automated Method Name Recommendation: How Far Are We Research Papers Lin Jiang beijing university of posts and telecommunication, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology, He Jiang School of Software, Dalian University of Technology Link to publication Pre-print | ||
16:40 20mTalk | MARBLE: Mining for Boilerplate Code to Identify API Usability Problems Research Papers Daye Nam Carnegie Mellon University, Amber Horvath Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew Macvean Google, Inc., Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
17:00 20mTalk | DIRE: A Neural Approach to Decompiled Identifier Renaming Research Papers Jeremy Lacomis Carnegie Mellon University, Pengcheng Yin Carnegie Mellon University, Edward J. Schwartz Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Miltiadis Allamanis Microsoft Research, Cambridge, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:00 - 17:50 | PerformanceResearch Papers / Demonstrations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Tim Menzies North Carolina State University | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Accurate Modeling of Performance Histories for Evolving Software Systems Research Papers Stefan Mühlbauer Bauhaus-University Weimar, Sven Apel Saarland University, Norbert Siegmund Bauhaus-University Weimar Pre-print | ||
16:20 20mTalk | An Industrial Experience Report on Performance-Aware Refactoring on a Database-centric Web Application Research Papers Boyuan Chen York University, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang York University, Paul Matos Copywell Inc., Michael Lacaria Copywell Inc. Authorizer link Pre-print | ||
16:40 20mTalk | An Experience Report of Generating Load Tests Using Log-recovered Workloads at Varying Granularities of User Behaviour Research Papers Jinfu Chen Jiangsu University, Weiyi Shang Concordia University, Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, Yong Wang Alibaba Group, Jiangbin Lin Alibaba Group Pre-print | ||
17:00 10mTalk | How Do API Selections Affect the Runtime Performance of Data Analytics Tasks? Research Papers Yida Tao Shenzhen University, Shan Tang Shenzhen University, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, Zhiwu Xu Shenzhen University, Shengchao Qin University of Teesside | ||
17:10 10mTalk | Demystifying Application Performance Management Libraries for Android Research Papers Yutian Tang The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xian Zhan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hao Zhou The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Zhou Xu Wuhan University, Yajin Zhou Zhejiang University, Qiben Yan Michigan State University | ||
17:30 20mTalk | ReduKtor: How We Stopped Worrying About Bugs in Kotlin Compiler Research Papers Daniil Stepanov Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Marat Akhin Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University / JetBrains Research, Mikhail Belyaev Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University Pre-print | ||
Thu 14 NovDisplayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change
08:30 - 10:00 | |||
08:45 15m | ASE 2020 Announcement Research Papers | ||
09:00 60mTalk | Automated Debug & Profiling of AAA Games Research Papers Mathieu Nayrolles Ubisoft Montreal | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | ConcurrencyResearch Papers / Demonstrations at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Elena Sherman Boise State University | ||
10:40 20mTalk | MAP-Coverage: a Novel Coverage Criterion for Testing Thread-Safe Classes Research Papers Zan Wang College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Yingquan Zhao Tianjin University, Shuang Liu College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore, Xiang Chen School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Huarui Lin College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Automating Non-Blocking Synchronization In Concurrent Data Abstractions Research Papers Jiange Zhang University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Qing Yi University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Damian Dechev University of Central Florida Pre-print | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Automating CUDA Synchronization via Program Transformation Research Papers Mingyuan Wu Southern University of Science and Technology, Lingming Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas, Cong Liu Eindhoven University of Technology, Shin Hwei Tan , Yuqun Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Efficient Transaction-Based Deterministic Replay for Multi-threaded Programs Research Papers Ernest Bota Pobee City University of Hong Kong, Xiupei Mei City University of Hong Kong, Wing-Kwong Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Deep ModelsResearch Papers / Demonstrations at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Nazareno Aguirre Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Wuji: Automatic Online Combat Game Testing Using Evolutionary Deep Reinforcement LearningACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Research Papers Yan Zheng Tianjin University, Xiaofei Xie Nanyang Technological University, Ting Su ETH Zurich, Lei Ma Kyushu University, Jianye Hao Tianjin University, Zhaopeng Meng Tianjin University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Ruimin Shen Fuxi AI Lab in Netease, Yinfeng Chen Fuxi AI Lab in Netease, Changjie Fan Fuxi AI Lab in Netease Link to publication Pre-print | ||
11:00 20mTalk | A Study of Oracle Approximations in Testing Deep Learning Libraries Research Papers | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Property Inference for Deep Neural Networks Research Papers Divya Gopinath Carnegie Mellon University, Hayes Converse The University of Texas at Austin, Corina S. Pasareanu Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center, Ankur Taly Google | ||
11:40 20mTalk | An Empirical Study towards Characterizing Deep Learning Development and Deployment across Different Frameworks and Platforms Research Papers Qianyu Guo Tianjin University, Sen Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Xiaofei Xie Nanyang Technological University, Lei Ma Kyushu University, Qiang Hu Kyushu University, Japan, Hongtao Liu Tianjin University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University, Xiaohong Li TianJin University Pre-print | ||
10:40 - 12:20 | Refactoring and Software ProductionResearch Papers / Industry Showcase / Demonstrations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Cyrille Artho KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | ||
10:40 20mTalk | RefBot: Intelligent Software Refactoring Bot Research Papers Vahid Alizadeh University of Michigan, Mohamed Amine Ouali University of Michigan, Marouane Kessentini University of Michigan, Meriem Chater University of Michigan | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Automated Refactoring to Reactive Programming Research Papers | ||
12:10 10mTalk | Empirical Study of Programming to an Interface Research Papers Benoit Verhaeghe INRIA, Christopher Fuhrman École de technologie supérieure, Nicolas Anquetil INRIA, Latifa Guerrouj École de Technologie Supérieure, Stéphane Ducasse INRIA Lille Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Program AnalysisResearch Papers / Demonstrations at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Debreach: Mitigating Compression Side Channels via Static Analysis and Transformation Research Papers Brandon Paulsen University of Southern California, Chungha Sung University of Southern California, Peter Peterson University of Minnesota Duluth, Chao Wang USC | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Fine-grain memory object representation in symbolic execution Research Papers Martin Nowack Imperial College London | ||
14:20 20mTalk | RENN: Efficient Reverse Execution with Neural-Network-assisted Alias Analysis Research Papers Dongliang Mu Nanjing University, Wenbo Guo The Pennsylvania State University, Alejandro Cuevas The Pennsylvania State University, Yueqi Chen The Pennsylvania State University, Jinxuan Gai The Pennsylvania State University, Xinyu Xing The Pennsylvania State University, Bing Mao Nanjing University, Chengyu Song UC Riverside | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Batch Alias Analysis Research Papers Pre-print | ||
13:40 - 15:20 | Models and LogsResearch Papers / Demonstrations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Timo Kehrer Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Statistical Log Differencing Research Papers Lingfeng Bao Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nimrod Busany Tel Aviv University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University Pre-print | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Logzip: Extracting Hidden Structures via Iterative Clustering for Log Compression Research Papers Jinyang Liu Sun Yat-Sen University, Jieming Zhu Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Shilin He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pinjia He ETH Zurich, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-Sen University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Code-First Model-Driven Engineering: On the Agile Adoption of MDE Tooling Research Papers Artur Boronat University of Leicester | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Size and Accuracy in Model Inference Research Papers Nimrod Busany Tel Aviv University, Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University, Yehonatan Yulazari Tel Aviv University Pre-print | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Emerging DomainsDemonstrations / Journal First Presentations / Research Papers at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Improving the Decision-Making Process of Self-Adaptive Systems by Accounting for Tactic Volatility Research Papers Jeffrey Palmerino Rochester Institute of Technology, Qi Yu Rochester Institute of Technology, Travis Desell University of North Dakota, Daniel Krutz Rochester Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing for Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences Research Papers Yuqi Chen Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Chris Poskitt Singapore University of Technology and Design, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore, Sridhar Adepu Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Fan Zhang Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Lab, and Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, China DOI Pre-print File Attached | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Untangling and MergingResearch Papers at Cortez 2&3 Chair(s): Iftekhar Ahmed University of California at Irvine, USA | ||
16:00 20mTalk | The Impact of Structure on Software Merging: Semistructured versus Structured Merge Research Papers Guilherme Cavalcanti Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Paulo Borba Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Georg Seibt University of Passau, Sven Apel Saarland University Pre-print | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Semistructured Merge in JavaScript Systems Research Papers Alberto Trindade Tavares Federal University of Pernambuco, Paulo Borba Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Guilherme Cavalcanti Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Sérgio Soares Federal University of Pernambuco Pre-print | ||
16:40 20mTalk | CLCDSA: Cross Language Code Clone Detection using Syntactical Features and API Documentation Research Papers Kawser Nafi University of Saskatchewan, Tonny Shekha Kar University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan | ||
17:00 20mTalk | B2SFinder: Detecting Open-Source Software Reuse in COTS Software Research Papers Muyue Feng Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zimu Yuan Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Feng Li Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Gu Ban Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang Xiao Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shiyang Wang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qian Tang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, He Su Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chendong Yu University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiahuan Xu Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Aihua Piao Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingling Xue UNSW Sydney, Wei Huo Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
17:20 20mTalk | CoRA: Decomposing and Describing Tangled Code Changes for Reviewer Research Papers Min Wang Peking University, Zeqi Lin Microsoft Research, China, Yanzhen Zou Peking University, Bing Xie Peking University | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Software DevelopmentResearch Papers / Journal First Presentations / Industry Showcase / Demonstrations at Hillcrest Chair(s): Hitesh Sajnani Microsoft | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Cautious Adaptation of Defiant Components Research Papers Paulo Maia State University of Ceará, Lucas Vieira State University of Ceará, Matheus Chagas State University of Ceará, Yijun Yu The Open University, UK, Andrea Zisman The Open University, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University (UK) & Lero (Ireland) | ||
17:00 20mTalk | Active Hotspot: An Issue-Oriented Model to Monitor Software Evolution and Degradation Research Papers Qiong Feng Drexel University, Yuanfang Cai Drexel University, Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Di Cui Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University, Hongzhou Fang Drexel University | ||
17:20 10mTalk | Automated Trainability Evaluation for Smart Software Functions Research Papers Ilias Gerostathopoulos Technical University of Munich, Stefan Kugele Technical University of Munich, Christoph Segler BMW Group Research, New Technologies, Innovations, Tomas Bures Charles University, Czech Republic, Alois Knoll Technical University of Munich Pre-print | ||
Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
The IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Conference series is the premier research forum for automated software engineering. Each year, it brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss foundations, techniques, and tools for automating the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. ASE 2019 invites high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results.
Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:
- Automated reasoning techniques
- Component-based service-oriented systems
- Cloud computing
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Configuration management
- Data mining for software engineering
- Domain modeling and meta-modeling
- Empirical software engineering
- Human-computer interaction
- Knowledge acquisition and management
- Mobile app development
- Maintenance and evolution
- Model-driven development
- Program synthesis & transformations, automated defect repair
- Program comprehension
- Reverse engineering and re-engineering
- Recommender systems for software engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Specification languages
- Software analysis
- Software architecture and design
- Software product line engineering
- Software visualization
- Software security and trust; data privacy
- Testing, verification, and validation
Three categories of submissions are solicited:
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Technical Research Papers should describe innovative research in automating software development activities or automated support to users engaged in such activities. They should describe a novel contribution to the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature. Where a submission builds upon previous work of the author(s), the novelty of the new contribution must be clearly described with respect to the previous work but the author identity should not be revealed, i.e., prior work should be referenced in the third person, to reflect the double-blind review policy. Papers should also clearly discuss how the results were validated.
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Experience Papers should describe a significant experience in applying automated software engineering technology and should carefully identify and discuss important lessons learned, so that other researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of special interest are experience papers that report on industrial applications of automated software engineering.
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New Ideas Papers should describe novel research directions in automating software development activities or automated support to users engaged in such activities. New ideas submissions are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation and not fully validated, but are argued to be plausible.
SUBMISSION
Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically through the ASE 2019 HotCRP submission site.
All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).
Papers submitted to ASE 2019 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere when being considered for ASE 2019. Authors should be aware of the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ.
To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences, affiliated with ACM or IEEE, with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the ACM or IEEE, to detect violations of these policies.
Technical Research Papers and Experience Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including figures) plus up to 2 pages that contain ONLY references. Exceeding this limit will be grounds for rejection without review. Experience papers should contain the words “experience paper” in the abstract to ensure that they are evaluated in the right category.
New Ideas Papers must not exceed 4 pages (including figures AND references).
Supplementary material can be uploaded via the HotCRP site, but PC members have no obligation to look at the supplementary material.
ASE 2019 will again pursue a double-blind review process. If you have any questions, please see FAQs and/or contact the PC chairs at ase19-chairs@lip6.fr. Authors are encouraged to double check the conflicts of interest on their papers in HotCRP shortly after the submission deadline.
All submissions must be in English.
Submissions that do not adhere to these limits or that violate the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to use the HotCRP format checker on their submissions. Note that the format checker is not perfect. In particular, it can complain about small fonts in figures, footnotes, or references. As long as the main text follows the requested format, and the figures are readable, the paper will not be rejected for format violations. If you have any concerns, please contact the program chairs at ase19-chairs@lip6.fr.
ACCEPTED PAPERS
We strongly encourage authors of accepted papers to archive the research artifacts, including code and data, associated with their ASE papers. Software Heritage (presented in a keynote at ASE 2018) requires only providing a URL to an existing archive: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/08/05/saving-and-referencing-research-software-in-software-heritage/ Other often used solutions, focusing on data, include Figshare (https://figshare.com/) and Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/).
For example, here is one webpage that describes how to release the data: https://ineed.coffee/5205/how-to-disclose-data-for-double-blind-review-and-make-it-archived-open-data-upon-acceptance/
FAQs on Double Blind
If you have questions not answered below, please contact the program chairs at ase19-chairs@lip6.fr
Q: Why Double Blind?
There are many reasons for a submission track to employ a double-blind review process – not the least being the considerable number of requests to do so from the community. For more information on motivation for double-blind reviewing, see Claire Le Goues’ very well argued, referenced, and evidenced blog posting in favor of double-blind review processes for Software Engineering conferences. See also a list of double-blind resources from Robert Feldt, as well as a more formal study of the subject by Moritz Beller and Alberto Bacchelli.
Q: How to prepare your paper for double-blind reviewing?
You must make every reasonable effort to honor the double-blind review process, but you do not need to guarantee that your identity is undiscoverable. The double-blind aspect of the review process is not to set up an adversarial identity-discovery process. Essentially, the guiding principle should be to maximize the number of people who could plausibly be authors, subject to the constraint that no change is made to any technical details of the work. Therefore, you should ensure that the reviewers are able to read and review your paper without needing to know who any of the authors are. Specifically, this involves at least adhering to the following three points:
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Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page. If you have acknowledgements, do not mention any names or organizations.
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Refer to your own work in the third person. You should not change the names of your own previously published tools, approaches, or systems, because this would clearly compromise the review process; it would also violate the constraint that “no change is made to any technical details of the work”. Instead, refer to the authorship or provenance of tools, approaches, or systems in the third person, so that it is credible that another author could have written your paper.
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If possible, do not rely on supplementary material (your web site, your GitHub repository, your YouTube channel, a companion technical report or thesis) in the paper. Such material might reveal author identities. It is possible to post a link to an anonymous GitHub repository, but the repository should be checked carefully for any information that could reveal author identity, and it could be helpful to warn the reader that accessing the repository could reveal author identity. It is also possible to submit supplementary material with the paper, but again it is necessary to check the material carefully for anything that can reveal author identity.
Q: Can I disseminate non-blinded version of my submitted work by discussing it with colleagues, giving talks, publishing it at arXiv, etc.?
You can discuss and present your work that is under submission at small meetings (e.g., job talks, visits to research labs, a Dagstuhl or Shonan meeting), but you should avoid broadly advertising it in a way that reaches the reviewers even if they are not searching for it. For example, you should not discuss your work with members of the program committee, publicize your work on mailing lists or media that are widely shared and can reach the program committee, or post the submitted work on arXiv or a similar site just shortly before submitting to the conference. One option is to make a tech report at your institution, which allows someone to cite the work, if need be, like arXiv, but doesn’t have the same degree of visibility.
Q: I published a previous version of my work on arXiv or as a tech report at my institution. Do I need to cite it, and if so how?
A paper on arXiv or a tech report is not a publication. If there is a need to cite the old version because it contains some important information that is not in the submission, then the previous version can be cited anonymously, if a normal citation would reveal the names of the authors. If the submission completely subsumes the previous version, then there is no need to cite the previous version at all.
Q: I previously published an earlier version of this work elsewhere than arXiv. What should I do about citing that previous work?
If the previous work is published in a peer-reviewed venue, then it should be cited, but in the third person so that it is not revealed that the cited work and the submitted paper share one or more authors. This would include posters, but only if the poster is accompanied by a paper in the conference proceedings. Posters that are not represented in the proceedings can be ignored.
Q: What about a PhD or master’s thesis?
It’s perfectly fine to publish work arising from a PhD or master’s degree, and there’s no need to cite it in a submission that is undergoing double-blind review because prior dissertation publication does not compromise novelty. In the final camera-ready version of the paper, please do cite the dissertation to acknowledge its contribution.
In general, the guideline is that the author’s job is to ensure that the submission is readable and reviewable, without the reviewers needing to know the identities of the submission’s authors. You do not need to make it impossible for the reviewers to discover the authors’ identities. The referees will be trying hard not to discover the authors’ identities, so they will likely not be searching the web to check whether there is a tech report or other unpublished material related to this work.
This FAQ is based on guidelines for double-blind reviewing from ASE 2018 (http://www.ase2018.com/?p=author_instructions) and ICSE 2019 (https://2019.icse-conferences.org/track/icse-2019-Submitting-to-ICSE2019-Q-A).
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| Mon 5 Aug 2019 Author notification |
| Mon 13 May 2019 Submission deadline |
| Mon 6 May 2019 Abstract deadline |
Julia LawallProgram Co-Chair
Inria/LIP6
Darko MarinovProgram Co-Chair
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
Nazareno Aguirre
Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto
Argentina
Iftekhar Ahmed
University of California at Irvine, USA
United States
Amin Alipour
University of Houston
United States
Cyrille Artho
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Alberto Bacchelli
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Gabriele Bavota
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Switzerland
Jonathan Bell
George Mason University
United States
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
SnT, University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Marcel Böhme
Monash University
Australia
Haipeng Cai
Washington State University, USA
United States
Marsha Chechik
University of Toronto
Canada
Feifei Chen
Deakin University
Australia
Maria Christakis
MPI-SWS
Germany
Jürgen Cito
MIT
United States
James Clause
University of Delaware
United States
Lucas C. Cordeiro
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Christoph Csallner
University of Texas at Arlington
United States
Coen De Roover
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Massimiliano Di Penta
University of Sannio
Italy
Matthew B Dwyer
University of Virginia
United States
Nicolás D’Ippolito
Dept. of Computer Science FCEyN, University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jean-Rémy Falleri
Bordeaux INP
France
Bernd Fischer
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
Gordon Fraser
University of Passau
Germany
Marcelo F. Frias
Dept. of Software Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Joshua Garcia
University of California, Irvine
United States
Michael Goedicke
paluno The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology
Mark Grechanik
University of Illinois at Chicago
Paul Grünbacher
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Austria
Jianmei Guo
Alibaba Group
China
Robert J. Hall
AT&T Labs Research
Dan Hao
Peking University
China
Hideaki Hata
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Japan
Emily Hill
Drew University
United States
Paola Inverardi
University of L'Aquila
Italy
René Just
University of Washington, USA
Massila Kamalrudin
UTeM
Timo Kehrer
Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin
Germany
Marouane Kessentini
University of Michigan
United States
Sarfraz Khurshid
University of Texas at Austin
United States
Raghavan Komondoor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
India
Christian Kästner
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Claire Le Goues
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Bo Li
UIUC
Yang Liu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Singapore
David Lo
Singapore Management University
Singapore
Jian-Guang Lou
Microsoft Research
Jie M. Zhang
University College London, UK
United Kingdom
Lei Ma
Kyushu University
Japan
Shane McIntosh
McGill University
Canada
Sergey Mechtaev
University College London
Tim Menzies
North Carolina State University
United States
Naouel Moha
Université du Québec à Montréal
Sarah Nadi
University of Alberta
Canada
Maleknaz Nayebi
Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Hoan Anh Nguyen
Amazon
United States
Tung Nguyen
Auburn University
United States
Chris Parnin
NCSU
United States
Karthik Pattabiraman
University of British Columbia
Sebastian Proksch
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Corina S. Păsăreanu
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center
Hridesh Rajan
Iowa State University
United States
Baishakhi Ray
Columbia University, New York
United States
Christoph Reichenbach
Lund University
José Miguel Rojas
University of Leicester, UK
United Kingdom
Chanchal K. Roy
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Julia Rubin
University of British Columbia
Canada
Ripon Saha
Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.
Houari Sahraoui
Université de Montréal
Canada
Ina Schaefer
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Germany
Bonita Sharif
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
United States
David C. Shepherd
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States
Elena Sherman
Boise State University
United States
Junaid Haroon Siddiqui
Chengnian Sun
Waterloo University
Jun Sun
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Singapore
Emma Söderberg
Lund University
Sweden
Gabriele Taentzer
Universität Marburg
Germany
Shin Hwei Tan
Yuan Tian
Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Canada
Bogdan Vasilescu
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Michael Vierhauser
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Austria
Kaiyuan Wang
Google, Inc.
United States
Weihang Wang
University at Buffalo, SUNY
United States
Xiaoyin Wang
University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
United States
Michael Whalen
Amazon Web Services and the University of Minnesota
United States
Xin Xia
Monash University
Australia
Xusheng Xiao
Case Western Reserve University
United States
Zhenchang Xing
Australia National University
Australia
Yingfei Xiong
Peking University
China
Shin Yoo
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
South Korea
Tingting Yu
University of Kentucky
United States
Vadim Zaytsev
Raincode Labs, Belgium
Belgium
Hongyu Zhang
The University of Newcastle
Australia
Lingming Zhang
The University of Texas at Dallas
United States
Lu Zhang
Peking University
China
Jianjun Zhao
Kyushu University
Japan
Minghui Zhou
Peking University
China
Marcelo d'Amorim
Federal University of Pernambuco
Brazil