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Continuous Integration (CI) is a widely-adopted software engineering practice. Despite its undisputed benefits, like higher software quality and improved developer productivity, mastering CI is not easy. Among the several barriers when transitioning to CI, developers need to face…
Many program-analysis based tools require precise points-to/alias information only for some program variables. To meet this requirement efficiently, there have been many works on demand-driven analyses that perform only the work necessary to compute the points-to or alias informa…
A popular recommendation to programmers in object-oriented software is to "program to an interface, not an implementation" (PTI). Expected benefits include increased simplicity from abstraction, decreased dependency on implementations, and higher flexibility. Yet, interfaces must…
Code retrieval techniques and tools have been playing a key role in facilitating software developers to retrieve existing code fragments from available open-source repositories given a user query (e.g., a short natural language text describing the functionality for retrieving a p…
Emotion awareness research in SE context has been growing in recent years. Currently, researchers often rely on textual communication records to extract emotion states using natural language processing techniques. However, how well these extracted emotion states reflect people's …
Precise pointer analysis is desired since it is a core technique to find memory defects. There are several dimensions of pointer analysis precision, flow sensitivity, context sensitivity, field sensitivity and path sensitivity. For static analysis tools utilizing pointer analysis…
In the app releasing process, Android requires all apps to be digitally signed with a certificate before distribution. Android uses this certificate to identify the author and ensure the integrity of an app. However, a number of signature issues have been reported recently, threa…
Code review is an important mechanism for code quality assurance both in open source software and industrial software. Reviewers usually suffer from numerous, tangled and loosely related code changes that are bundled in a single commit, which makes code review very difficult. In …
Concurrent programs must be thoroughly tested, as concurrency bugs are notoriously hard to detect. Code coverage criteria can be used to quantify the richness of a test suite (e.g., whether a program has been tested sufficiently) or provide practical guidelines on test case gener…
Code comment generation is a crucial task in the field of automatic software development. Most previous neural comment generation systems used an encoder-decoder neural network and encoded only information from source code as input. Software reuse is common in software developmen…
We present PTracer, a Linux kernel patch trace bot based on an improved PatchNet. PTracer continuously monitors new patches in the git repository of the mainline Linux kernel, filters out unconcerned ones, classifies the rest as bug-fixing or non bug-fixing patches, and reports b…
Ensure the correctness of safety critical systems play a key role in the worldwide software engineering. Over the past years we have been helping CASCO Signal Ltd which is the Chinese biggest high speed railway company to develop high speed railway safety critical software. We ha…
Malware scanning of an app market is expected to be scalable and effective. However, existing approaches use either syntax-based features which can be evaded by transformation attacks or semantic-based features which are usually extracted by performing expensive program analysis.…
While CUDA has been the most popular parallel computing platform and programming model for general purpose GPU computing, CUDA synchronization undergoes significant challenges for GPU programmers due to its intricate parallel computing mechanism and coding practices. In this pape…
Until 2017, Android smartphones occupied approximately 87% of the smartphone market. The vast market also promotes the development of Android malware. Nowadays, the number of malware targeting Android devices found daily is more than 38,000. With the rapid progress of mobile appl…
Deep neural network (DNN) has been widely applied to safety-critical scenarios such as autonomous vehicle, security surveillance, and cyber-physical control systems. Yet, the incorrect behaviors of DNNs can lead to severe accidents and tremendous losses due to hidden defects. In …
Code coverage as the primitive dynamic program behavior information, is widely adopted to facilitate a rich spectrum of software engineering tasks, such as testing, fuzzing, debugging, fault detection, reverse engineering, and program understanding. Thanks to the widespread appli…
In recent years, the extensive application of the Python language has made its analysis work more and more valuable. Many static analysis algorithms need to rely on the construction of call graphs. In this paper, we did a comparative empirical analysis of several widely used Pyth…
Quality control is a challenge of crowdsourcing, especially in software testing. As some unprofessional workers involved, low-quality yieldings may hinder crowdsourced testing from satisfying requesters' requirements. Therefore, it is in demand to assist crowdworkers to raise bug…
The fragmentation issue spreads over multiple mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, mobile web, and WeChat, which hinders test scripts from running across platforms. To reduce the cost of adapting scripts for various platforms, some existing tools apply conventional computer vis…