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FSE 2016- Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
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“Womenomics” and gender-inclusive software: what software engineers need to know (invited talk)
Building a socio-technical theory of coordination: why and how (outstanding research award)
Correct or usable? the limits of traditional verification (impact paper award)
SESSION: Showcases
Continuous deployment of mobile software at facebook (showcase)
Model, execute, and deploy: answering the hard questions in end-user programming (showcase)
Making invisible things visible: tracking down known vulnerabilities at 3000 companies (showcase)
Developer workflow at google (showcase)
SESSION: Research Papers
Titanium: efficient analysis of evolving alloy specifications
Mining performance specifications
Designing minimal effective normative systems with the help of lightweight formal methods
Proteus: computing disjunctive loop summary via path dependency analysis
A cross-tool communication study on program analysis tool notifications
Factors influencing code review processes in industry
Foraging and navigations, fundamentally: developers’ predictions of value and cost
How to break an API: cost negotiation and community values in three software ecosystems
Python predictive analysis for bug detection
Crash consistency validation made easy
Discovering bug patterns in JavaScript
Detecting sensitive data disclosure via bi-directional text correlation analysis
Multi-representational security analysis
String analysis for side channels with segmented oracles
WebRanz: web page randomization for better advertisement delivery and web-bot prevention
A discrete-time feedback controller for containerized cloud applications
Keep it SIMPLEX: satisfying multiple goals with guarantees in control-based self-adaptive systems
Automated change impact analysis between SysML models of requirements and design
Parameter-free probabilistic API mining across GitHub
API deprecation: a retrospective analysis and detection method for code examples on the web
When should internal interfaces be promoted to public?
POLLUX: safely upgrading dependent application libraries
Extracting instruction semantics via symbolic execution of code generators
Efficient generation of inductive validity cores for safety properties
Correctness witnesses: exchanging verification results between verifiers
SMT-based verification of parameterized systems
On-the-fly decomposition of specifications in software model checking
On well-separation of GR(1) specifications
Lightweight specification and analysis of dynamic systems with rich configurations
Gray links in the use of requirements traceability
Understanding and detecting wake lock misuses for Android applications
DiagDroid: Android performance diagnosis via anatomizing asynchronous executions
Causal impact analysis for app releases in google play
Static DOM event dependency analysis for testing web applications
On-demand strong update analysis via value-flow refinement
Call graph construction for Java libraries
Revamping JavaScript static analysis via localization and remediation of root causes of imprecision
What would users change in my app? summarizing app reviews for recommending software changes
API code recommendation using statistical learning from fine-grained changes
TIPMerge: recommending experts for integrating changes across branches
Interactive and guided architectural refactoring with search-based recommendation
Can testedness be effectively measured?
A large-scale empirical comparison of static and dynamic test case prioritization techniques
Analyzing the validity of selective mutation with dominator mutants
An extensive study of static regression test selection in modern software evolution
PerfGuard: binary-centric application performance monitoring in production environments
Python probabilistic type inference with natural language support
Detecting and fixing precision-specific operations for measuring floating-point errors
Build system with lazy retrieval for Java projects
iGen: dynamic interaction inference for configurable software
BinGo: cross-architecture cross-OS binary search
Relationship-aware code search for JavaScript frameworks
Code relatives: detecting similarly behaving software
Understanding and generating high quality patches for concurrency bugs
Anti-patterns in search-based program repair
Semi-supervised verified feedback generation
WATERFALL: an incremental approach for repairing record-replay tests of web applications
Efficiency of projectional editing: a controlled experiment
ECHO: instantaneous in situ race detection in the IDE
Detecting table clones and smells in spreadsheets
Flow-sensitive composition of thread-modular abstract interpretation
A deployable sampling strategy for data race detection
Online shared memory dependence reduction via bisectional coordination
Parallel data race detection for task parallel programs with locks
Paradise unplugged: identifying barriers for female participation on stack overflow
Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors
Effectiveness of code contribution: from patch-based to pull-request-based tools
Isomorphic regression testing: executing uncovered branches without test augmentation
Directed test generation to detect loop inefficiencies
SESSION: Visions and Reflections
Designing for dystopia: software engineering research for the post-apocalypse
Disrupting developer productivity one bot at a time
Training the future workforce through task curation in an OSS ecosystem
Reaching the masses: a new subdiscipline of app programmer education
Studying developer gaze to empower software engineering research and practice
DeepSoft: a vision for a deep model of software
Budgeted testing through an algorithmic lens
Reasoning with imprecise privacy preferences
SESSION: Industrial Papers
Bing developer assistant: improving developer productivity by recommending sample code
Cluster-based test suite functional analysis
A portable interface for runtime energy monitoring
Learning for test prioritization: an industrial case study
Combinatorial generation of structurally complex test inputs for commercial software applications
Automated test input generation for Android: are we really there yet in an industrial case?
SESSION: Tool Demonstrations
NonDex: a tool for detecting and debugging wrong assumptions on Java API specifications
TIPMerge: recommending developers for merging branches
Time-travel debugging for JavaScript/Node.js
PUMConf: a tool to configure product specific use case and domain models in a product line
T2API: synthesizing API code usage templates from English texts with statistical translation
JBSE: a symbolic executor for Java programs with complex heap inputs
ARdoc: app reviews development oriented classifier
Hunter: next-generation code reuse for Java
BigDebug: interactive debugger for big data analytics in Apache Spark
Visualizing code and coverage changes for code review
End-to-end memory behavior profiling with DINAMITE
Validate your SPDX files for open source license violations
FSX: a tool for fine-grained incremental unit test generation for C/C++ programs
SESSION: Doctoral Symposium
Automating repetitive code changes using examples
Understanding and improving continuous integration
Guided code synthesis using deep neural networks
Generating interactive web pages from storyboards
Understanding behavioural patterns in JavaScript
Regression testing of web applications using Record/Replay tools
Supporting change in product lines within the context of use case-driven development and testing
Input-sensitive performance testing
On the utility of dominator mutants for mutation testing
SESSION: Graduate Submissions
Effective assignment and assistance to software developers and reviewers
RABIEF: range analysis based integer error fixing
Fine-grained binary code authorship identification
Identifying participants for collaborative merge
Cozy: synthesizing collection data structures
Constraint-based event trace reduction
Automatic trigger generation for end user written rules for home automation
Hotspot symbolic execution of floating-point programs
Evaluation of fault localization techniques
How should static analysis tools explain anomalies to developers?
Combining bug detection and test case generation
SmartDebug: an interactive debug assistant for Java
Static loop analysis and its applications
Social health cues developers use when choosing open source packages
Finding and breaking test dependencies to speed up test execution
Automatic performance testing using input-sensitive profiling
SESSION: Undergraduate Submissions
Enforcing correct array indexes with a type system
Discovering additional violations of Java API invariants
Preventing signedness errors in numerical computations in Java
Atlas: an intelligent, performant framework for web-based grid computing