Wed 28 Oct 2015 18:00 - 21:00 at Admiral and Reflections - Posters Chair(s): Sam Guyer, Patrick Lam

Developers use configuration options to tailor systems to different platforms. This configurability gives rise to an exponential configuration space and traditional tools (e.g., gcc) check only one configuration at a time. As a result, developers introduce configuration-related issues (i.e., bad smells and faults) that appear only when we select certain configuration options. By interviewing 40 developers and performing a survey with 202 developers, we find that configuration-related issues are harder to detect and more critical than issues that appear in all configurations. Furthermore, we propose a strategy to detect configuration-related issues and an approach to improve code quality (remove bad smells in preprocessor directives using a catalogue of refactorings). We found 131 faults and 500 bad smells in 40 real configurable systems, including Apache and libssh, ranging from 2.6 KLOC to 1.5 MLOC.

Wed 28 Oct

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18:00 - 21:00
PostersStudent Research Competition at Admiral and Reflections
Chair(s): Sam Guyer Tufts University, Patrick Lam University of Waterloo, Canada
18:00
3h
Talk
Efficient Support for Strong Semantics in Transactional and Non-transactional Programs
Student Research Competition
Aritra Sengupta Ohio State University
18:00
3h
Talk
Automatic Array Property Detection Via Static Analysis
Student Research Competition
18:00
3h
Talk
KinEdit: A Tool to Help Developers Refactor Manually
Student Research Competition
Josh Terrell California Polytechnic University
18:00
3h
Talk
Finding Bugs in Spreadsheets Using Reference Counting
Student Research Competition
Nima Joharizadeh University of California, Davis
18:00
3h
Talk
Viser: Providing Serializability in Hardware With Simplified Cache Coherence
Student Research Competition
Swarnendu Biswas Ohio State University, USA
18:00
3h
Talk
Concurrency Control for Multithreaded Reactive Programming
Student Research Competition
Ragnar Mogk Technische Universität Darmstadt
18:00
3h
Talk
Gradual Mode Types for Energy-Aware Programming
Student Research Competition
Anthony Canino SUNY Binghamton
18:00
3h
Talk
Race-driven UI-level Test Generation for JavaScript-based Web Applications
Student Research Competition
18:00
3h
Talk
Contributions of the Under-Appreciated: Gender Bias in an Open-Source Ecology
Student Research Competition
Andrew Kofink North Carolina State University
18:00
3h
Talk
Safely Evolving Configurable Systems
Student Research Competition
Flavio Medeiros Federal University of Campina Grande
18:00
3h
Talk
SIRe: An Efficient Snapshot Isolation-based Memory Model for Detecting and Tolerating Region Conflicts
Student Research Competition
Minjia Zhang Ohio State University, USA
18:00
3h
Talk
The Oprop Verification Tool: Object Propositions in Action
Student Research Competition
Nistor Ligia Carnegie Mellon University