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Software testing is one of the costliest stages in the software development life cycle. One approach to reducing the test execution cost is to group changes and test them as a batch (i.e. batch testing). However, when tests fail in a batch, commits in the batch need to be re-test…
Matlab/Simulink is a development and simulation language that is widely used by the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) industry to model dynamical systems. There are two mainstream approaches to verify CPS Simulink models: model testing that attempts to identify failures in models by ex…
Feature models are arguably one of the most intuitive and successful notations for modeling the features of a variant-rich software system. Feature models help developers to keep an overall understanding of the system, and also support scoping, planning, development, variant deri…
Enterprise software vendors often need to support their customer companies to customize the enterprise software products deployed on-premises of customers. But when software vendors are migrating their products to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), deep customization that …
Natural language elements, e.g., todo comments, are frequently used to communicate among developers and to describe tasks that need to be performed (actions) when specific conditions hold on artifacts related to the code repository (triggers), e.g., from the Apache Struts project…
Node.js provides the ability to write JavaScript programs for the server-side and has become a popular language for developing web applications. Node.js allows direct access to the underlying filesystem, operating system resources, and databases, but does not provide any security…
The way software is produced is very similar to an artistic and creative process. This fact is well known and has been acknowledged from the very early era of computers.
This work studies the static structure of deep neural network models using white box based approach and utilizes that knowledge to find the susceptible classes which can be misclassified easily. With the knowledge of susceptible classes, our work has proposed to retrain the model…
In this paper, we propose a novel method to determine a software's modules without knowledge of its architectural structure, and empirically validate the method's performance. We cluster files by combining document embeddings, generated with the Doc2Vec algorithm, and the call gr…
Recent years have seen the development of numerous tools for the analysis of taint flows in Android apps. Taint analyses aim at detecting data leaks, accidentally or by purpose programmed into apps. Often, such tools specialize in the treatment of specific features impeding preci…
Testing is a very important activity whose purpose is to ensure software quality. Recent studies have studied the effects of test-related factors (e.g., code coverage) on software code quality, showing that they have good predictive power on post-release defects. Despite these st…
Deterministic replay presents challenges and often results in high memory and runtime overheads. Previous studies deterministically reproduce program outputs often only after several replay iterations or may produce a non-deterministic sequence of output to external sources. In t…
Developers of widely used Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) implement and test the Java Reflection API based on a Javadoc, which is specified using a natural language. However, there is limited knowledge on whether Java Reflection API developers are able to systematically reveal i) un…
Software testing is an important phase in the software development process, aiming at locating faults in artifacts, and achieve some confidence that the software behaves according to specification. There exists many software testing techniques applied to debugging, fault-localiza…
Forking projects provides a straightforward method for developers to reuse existing source code and tailor it to their own application scenarios, which can significantly reduce developers' burden. However, this process makes forked projects (upstream projects and their forks) sha…
C programs can use compiler builtins to provide functionality that the C language lacks. On Linux, GCC provides several thousands of builtins that are also supported by other mature compilers, such as Clang and ICC. Maintainers of other tools lack guidance on whether and which bu…
The concepts of decision forces and the decision forces viewpoint were proposed to help software architects to make architectural decisions more transparent and the documentation of their rationales more explicit. However, practical experience reports and guidelines on how to use…
Communicating the rationale behind decisions is essential for the success of software engineering projects. In particular, understanding the rationale of code commits is an important and often difficult task. We posit that part of such difficulty lies in rationale often being tre…
Lambdas as anonymous functions have gained significant prominence in programming languages such as Java, C++, Python and so on as developers tend to use them. With the dominant use of Python as backend language in many projects and large number of open source projects available, …
Through a set of well-defined interfaces, plug-and-play architectures enable additional functionalities to be added or removed from a system at its runtime. However, plug-ins can also increase the application’s attack surface or introduce untrusted behavior into the system. In th…