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The microservice paradigm is a popular software development pattern that breaks down a large application into smaller, independent services. While this approach offers several advantages, such as scalability, agility, and flexibility, it also introduces new security challenges. T…
Trigger-action programming (TAP) is a widely used development paradigm that simplifies the Internet of Things (loT) automation. However, the exceptional interactions between automation applications may result in interferences, such as conflicts and infinite loops, which cause und…
MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) compiler infrastructure has gained popularity in recent years to support the construction of many compilers. Instead of designing a new IR with a single abstraction for each domain, MLIR compiler infrastructure provides systematic pa…
The exponential growth of social media platforms has brought about a revolution in communication and content dissemination in human society. Nevertheless, these platforms are being increasingly misused to spread toxic content, including hate speech, malicious advertising, and por…
The prevalence and severity of software configuration-induced issues have driven the design and development of a number of detection and diagnosis techniques. Many of these techniques need to perform static taint analysis on configuration-related variables to analyze the data flo…
As basic elements in program, variables convey essential information that is critical for program comprehension and maintenance. However, understanding the meanings of variables in program is not always easy for developers, since poor-quality variable names are prevalent while su…
Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious consequences. Recent advances in automat…
Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technique that has been applied to more and more areas such as gaming, remote conference, and education. Since VR user interface has very different characteristics compared with traditional graphic user interface (GUI), VR applications also req…
Logs are prevalent in modern cloud systems and serve as a valuable source of information for system maintenance. Over the years, a lot of research and industrial efforts have been devoted to the field of log-based anomaly detection. Through analyzing the limitations of existing a…
Commit message generation (CMG) is a challenging task in automated software engineering that aims to generate natural language descriptions of code changes for commits. Previous methods all start from the modified code snippets, outputting commit messages through template-based, …
On open source software (OSS) platforms such as GitHub, forking and accepting pull-requests is an important approach for OSS projects to receive contributions, especially from external contributors who cannot directly commit into the source repositories. Having a large number of …
Automated code vulnerability detection has gained increasing attention in recent years. The deep learning (DL)-based methods, which implicitly learn vulnerable code patterns, have proven effective in vulnerability detection. The performance of DL-based methods usually relies on t…
Highly configurable systems enable customers to flexibly configure the systems in diverse deployment environments. The flexibility of configurations also poses challenges for performance testing. On one hand, there exist a massive number of possible configurations; while on the o…
Automated Program Repair (APR) aspires to automatically generate patches for an input buggy program. Traditional APR tools typically focus on specific bug types and fixes through the use of templates, heuristics, and formal specifications. However, these techniques are limited in…
Many open source projects provide good first issues (GFIs) to attract and retain newcomers. Although several automated GFI recommenders have been proposed, existing recommenders are limited to recommending generic GFIs without considering differences between individual newcomers.…
A physical simulation engine (PSE) is a software system that simulates physical environments and objects. Modern PSEs feature both forward and backward simulations, where the forward phase predicts the behavior of a simulated system, and the backward phase provides gradients (gui…
The widespread adoption of DNNs in NLP software has highlighted the need for robustness. Researchers proposed various automatic testing techniques for adversarial test cases. However, existing methods suffer from two limitations: weak error-discovering capabilities, with success …
Automated program repair (APR) approaches suffer from long patch validation time, which limits their practical application and receives relatively low attention. The patch validation process repeatedly executes tests to filter patches, and has been recognized as the dual of mutat…
Decompilation is a widely used process for reverse engineers to significantly enhance code readability by lifting assembly code to a higher-level C-like language, pseudo-code. Nevertheless, the process of compilation and stripping irreversibly discards high-level semantic informa…
The reuse and distribution of open-source software must be in compliance with its accompanying open-source license. In modern packaging ecosystems, maintaining such compliance is challenging because a package may have a complex multi-layered dependency graph with many packages, a…