ASE 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
ASE 2011: 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference
On Automated Software Engineering

Sunday–Saturday • November 6–12, 2011
Oread, Lawrence, Kan.

Conference Schedule

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Monday, November 7, 2011

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.Registration
8 – 9 a.m.Breakfast
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.Tutorial – Java Pathfinder
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tutorial – Schema-based Program Synthesis and the AutoBayes System

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.Registration
8 – 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tutorial – Incremental Evaluation of Model Queries over EMF Models: A Tutorial on EMF-IncQuery?
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Tutorial – Modularizing Crosscutting Concerns with Ptolemy
1:30 – 5 p.m. Tutorial – The Use of Text Retrieval Techniques in Software Engineering
1:30 – 5 p.m.Tutorial – xSA: eXtreme Software Analytics – Marriage of eXtreme Computing and Software Analytics

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.Registration
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. Welcome & Keynote: Wikipedia and How to Use It for Semantic Document Representation
Ian Witten
10 – 10:30 a.m. Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Concurrent Sessions
1.

Testing I

Session Chair: Mary Jean Harrold

  • Automated Web Application Testing Using Search Based Software Engineering
    Nadia Alshahwan and Mark Harman
  • Auto-Locating and Fix-Propagating for HTML Validation Errors to PHP Server-side Code
    Hung Nguyen, Hoan Nguyen, Tung Nguyen and Tien Nguyen
  • Scaling Up Automated Test Generation: Automatically Generating Maintainable Regression Unit Tests for Programs
    Brian Robinson, Michael Ernst, Jeff Perkins, Vinay Augustine and Nuo Li
2.

Models

Session Chair: Lars Grunske

  • A Rule-Based Approach to the Semantic Lifting of Model Differences in the Context of Model Versioning
    Timo Kehrer, Udo Kelter and Gabriele Taentzer
  • A Model-driven Framework for Guided Design Space Exploration
    Ábel Hegedüs, Ákos Horváth, István Ráth and Dániel Varró
  • Automated Extraction of Architecture-Level Performance Models of Distributed Component-Based Systems
    Fabian Brosig, Nikolaus Huber and Samuel Kounev
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 – 3 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
1.

Software Model Checking

Session Chair: Sarfraz Khurshid

  • Identifying Future Field Accesses in Exhaustive State Space Traversal
    Pavel Parizek and Ondrej Lhotak
  • Model Checking Distributed Systems by Combining Caching and Process Checkpointing
    Watcharin Leungwattanakit, Cyrille Artho, Masami Hagiya Yoshinori Tanabe and Mitsuharu Yamamoto
  • Supporting Domain-Specific State Space Reductions through Local Partial-Order Reduction
    Peter Bokor, Johannes Kinder, Marco Serafini and Neeraj Suri
2.

Documentation, Traceability and Program Understanding

Session Chair: Houari Sahraoui

  • Improving Automated Documentation to Code Traceability by Combining Retrieval Techniques
    Xiaofan Chen and John Grundy
  • Iterative Mining of Resource-Releasing Specifications
    Qian Wu, Guangtai Liang, Qianxiang Wang, Tao Xie and Hong Mei
  • Flexible Design Pattern Detection Based on Feature Types
    Ghulam Rasool and Patrick Mäder
3 – 3:30 p.m.Break
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.Concurrent Sessions
  1. Short Paper Presentations
  2. Short Paper Presentations
  3. Short Paper Presentations
  4. Tool Demos
5:30 – 8 p.m.Reception
6 – 8 p.m.Steering Committee Meeting

Thursday, November 10, 2011

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.Registration
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 – 10 a.m.Keynote: Unifying Testing and Analysis through Behavioral Coverage
Matthew Dwyer
10 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Analysis, Verification and Validation

Session Chair: Charles Pecheur

  • Scalable and Precise Symbolic Analysis for Atomicity Violations
    Malay Ganai
  • DC2: A Framework for Scalable, Scope-Bounded Software Verification
    Franjo Ivancic, Gogul Balakrishnan, Aarti Gupta, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Naoto Maeda, Hiroki Tokuoka, Takashi Imoto and Yoshiaki Miyazaki
  • Formalizing HW/SW Interface Specifications
    Juncao Li, Fei Xie, Thomas Ball, Vladimir Levin and Con McGarvey
  • Safe Asynchronous Multicore Memory Operations
    Matko Botincan, Mike Dodds, Alastair F. Donaldson, and Matthew J. Parkinson
10:30 a.m. – Noon

Testing II

Session Chair: Tao Xie

  • Heap Cloning: Enabling Dynamic Symbolic Execution of Java Programs
    Saswat Anand and Mary Jean Harrold
  • Automatic Generation of Load-Tests
    Pingyu Zhang, Sebastian Elbaum and Matthew Dwyer
  • Symbolic Search-Based Testing
    Arthur Baars, Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Kiran Lakhotia, Phil McMinn, Paolo Tonella and Tanja Vos
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 – 3 p.m.Concurrent Sessions:
1.

Product Lines, Knowledge Acquisition and Software Processes

Session Chair: Tim Menzies

  • A Performance Comparison of Contemporary Algorithmic Approaches for Automated Analysis Operations on Feature Models
    Richard Pohl, Kim Lauenroth and Klaus Pohl
  • Finding Relevant Answers in Software Forums
    Swapna Gottipati, David Lo and Jing Jiang
  • Software Process Evaluation: A Machine Learning Approach
    Ning, Chen, Steven Hoi and Xiaokui Xiao
2.

Software Maintenance I

Session Chair: Reiko Heckel

  • Towards More Accurate Retrieval of Duplicate Bug Reports
    Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo and Jing Jiang
  • A Topic-based Approach for Narrowing the Search Space of Buggy Files from a Bug Report
    Anh Nguyen, Tung Nguyen, Jafar Al-Kofahi, Hung Nguyen and Tien Nguyen
  • Specifying and Detecting Meaningful Changes in Programs
    Yijun Yu, Thein Tun and Bashar Nuseibeh
3 – 3:30 p.m.Break
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.Poster Sessions and Tool Demos
7 – 10 p.m.Banquet

Friday, November 11, 2011

8 a.m. – NoonRegistration
8 – 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 – 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
1.

Prediction and Ecological Inference

Session Chair: Ivica Crnkovic

  • Local vs Global Models for Effort Estimation and Defect Prediction
    Tim Menzies, Andrew Butcher, Andrian Marcus, Thomas Zimmermann and David Cok
  • Capacity Planning for Event-based Systems Using Automated Performance Predictions
    Christoph Rathfelder, Samuel Kounev and David Evans
  • Ecological Inference in Empirical Software Engineering
    Daryl Posnett, Vladimir Filkov and Premkumar Devanbu
2.

Software Maintenance II

Session Chair: Andrew Ireland

  • Self-Adaptive Software Meets Control Theory: A Preliminary Approach Supporting Reliability Requirements
    Antonio Filieri, Carlo Ghezzi, Alberto Leva and Martina Maggio
  • Generalizing Evolutionary Coupling with Stochastic Dependencies
    Sunny Wong and Yuanfang Cai
  • Differential Precondition Checking: A Lightweight, Reusable Analysis for Refactoring Tools
    Jeffrey Overbey and Ralph Johnson
10:30 – 11 a.m. Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Concurrent Sessions
1.

Testing III

Session Chair: Jamie Andrews

  • Automated Documentation Inference to Explain Failed Tests
    Sai Zhang, Cheng Zhang and Michael Ernst
  • Generating Program Inputs for Database Application Testing
    Kai Pan, Xintao Wu and Tao Xie
  • Prioritizing Tests for Fault Localization through Ambiguity Group Reduction
    Alberto Gonzalez Sanchez, Rui Abreu, Hans-Gerhard Gross and Arjan J.C. van Gemund
2.

Debugging

Session Chair: David Lo

  • Precomputing Possible Configuration Error Diagnoses
    Ariel Rabkin and Randy Katz
  • Optimal Divide & Query
    David Insa and Josep Silva
  • Localizing SQL Faults in Database Applications
    Sarah Clark, Jake Cobb, Gregory Kapfhammer, James Jones and Mary Jean Harrold
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Keynote & Closing

Saturday, November 12, 2011

8 a.m. – NoonRegistration
8 – 9 a.m.Breakfast
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.Workshops
  1. Java Pathfinder Workshop 2011
  2. MALETS 2011: International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering
  3. SoSMD 2011: Workshop on Infrastructure, Tools and Technologies for Systems of Medical Devices


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