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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) have extensively been investigated in research and have frequently been applied in practice for over 20 years. While DSLs have been attributed improvements in terms of productivity, maintainability, and taming accidental complexity, surprisingly, …
This industry case study explores where and how Design Thinking supports software development teams in their endeavour to create innovative software solutions. Design Thinking has found its way into software companies ranging from startups to SMEs and multinationals. It is mostly…
Deep Learning (DL) has achieved tremendous success in many cutting-edge applications. However, the state-of-the-art DL systems still suffer from quality issues. While some recent progress has been made on the analysis of feed-forward DL systems, little study has been done on the …
In the past decade, research on test-suite-based automatic program repair has grown significantly. Each year, new approaches and implementations are featured in major software engineering venues. However, most of those approaches are evaluated on a single benchmark of bugs, which…
Flaky tests are software tests that exhibit a seemingly random outcome (pass or fail) despite exercising unchanged code. In this work, we examine the perceptions of software developers about the nature, relevance, and challenges of flaky tests.
To protect the privacy and search sensitive data leaks, we must solve multiple challenges (e.g., applicability, portability, and scalability) for developing an appropriate taint analysis for distributed systems.We hence present DistTaint, a dynamic taint analysis for distributed …
As in other software domains, information flow security is a fundamental aspect of code security in distributed systems. However, most existing solutions to information flow security are limited to centralized software. For distributed systems, such solutions face multiple challe…
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the run-time environment for smart contracts and its vulnerabilities may lead to serious problems to the Ethereum ecology. With lots of techniques being continuously developed for the validation of smart contracts, the testing of EVM remains chal…
Using API reference documentation like JavaDoc is an integral part of software development. Previous research introduced a grounded taxonomy that organizes API documentation knowledge in 12 types, including knowledge about the Functionality, Structure, and Quality of an API. We s…
Autonomous driving carries the promise to drastically reduce the number of car accidents; however, recently reported fatal crashes involving self-driving cars show that such an important goal is not yet achieved. This calls for better testing of the software controlling self-driv…
As software architecture design is evolving to a microservice paradigm, RESTful APIs are being established as the preferred choice to build applications. In such a scenario, there is a shift towards a growing market of APIs where providers offer different service levels with tail…
As software architecture design is evolving to a microservice paradigm, RESTful APIs are being established as the preferred choice to build applications. In such a scenario, there is a shift towards a growing market of APIs where providers offer different service levels with tail…
Program repair techniques can dramatically reduce the cost of program debugging by automatically generating program fixes. Although program repair has been already successful with several classes of faults, it also turned out to be quite limited in the complexity of the fixes tha…
As Agile principles and values become an integral part of the soft-ware development culture, development processes experience significant changes. Requirements engineering, an individual phase occurring at the beginning of the traditional development, is distributed between vario…
Software package distributions form large dependency networks maintained by large communities of contributors. My PhD research will consist of analysing the evolution of the socio-technical congruence of these package dependency networks, and studying its impact on the health of …
Software product line engineering (SPLE) aims at increasing productivity by following the principles of variability and organized reuse. Combining the discipline with model-driven software engineering (MDSE) seeks to intensify this effect by raising the level of abstraction. Typi…
Agile/XP (Extreme Programming) software teams are expected to follow a number of specific practices in each iteration, such as estimating the effort (”points”) required to complete user stories, properly using branches and pull requests to coordinate merging multiple contributors…
Data-intensive scalable computing (DISC) systems such as Google’s MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark are being leveraged to process massive quantities of data in the cloud. Modern DISC applications pose new challenges in exhaustive, automatic testing because they consist …
Source code comments are important for any software, but the basic patterns of writing comments across domains and programming languages remain unclear. In this paper, we take a first step toward understanding differences in commenting practices by analyzing the comment density o…
Performance bugs (PBugs) are often hard to detect due to their non fail-stop symptoms. Existing debugging techniques can only detect PBugs with known patterns (e.g. inefficient loops). The key reason behind this incapability is the lack of a general test oracle. Here, we argue th…