ISSTA 2008 Schedule
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Tuesday, July 22
- 08:45am - 09:00am
- Opening
- 09:00am - 10:00am
- Keynote
- The Real Value of Testing
Jim Larus, Microsoft Research
- The Real Value of Testing
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Coffee Break
- 10:30am - 12:30pm
- Session 1 - Symbolic and Concrete Execution
- Proofs from Tests
Nels Beckman, Aditya Nori, Sriram Rajamani and Rob Simmons - Combining Unit-level Symbolic Execution and System-level
Concrete Execution for Testing NASA Software
Corina Pasareanu, Peter Mehlitz, David Bushnell, Karen Gundy-Burlet, Michael Lowry, Suzette Person and Mark Pape - Testing for Buffer Overflows with Length Abstraction
Ru-Gang Xu, Patrice Godefroid and Rupak Majumda - Efficient Solving of Structural Constraints
Bassem Elkarablieh, Darko Marinov and Sarfraz Khurshid
- Proofs from Tests
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm
- Lunch Break
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Session 2 - Regression Testing
- Using Sensitivity Analysis to Create Simplified Economic Models for Regression Testing
Hyunsook Do and Gregg Rothermel - Effective and Scalable Software Compatibility Testing
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif Memon and Adam Porter - Configuration-Aware Regression Testing: An Empirical Study of Sampling and Prioritization
Xiao Qu, Myra Cohen and Gregg Rothermel
- Using Sensitivity Analysis to Create Simplified Economic Models for Regression Testing
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm
- Coffee Break
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Session 3 - Case Studies
- Finding Errors in .NET with Feedback-Directed Random Testing
Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu Lahiri and Thomas Ball - Customization Change Impact Analysis for ERP Professionals via Program Slicing
Nurit Dor, Tal Lev-Ami, Shay Litvak, Mooly Sagiv and Dror Weiss - Finding Bugs in Java Native Interface Programs
Goh Kondoh and Tamiya Onodera
- Finding Errors in .NET with Feedback-Directed Random Testing
- 6:30pm
- Reception
Wednesday, July 23
- 08:45am - 09:00am
- Awards
- 09:00am - 10:00am
- Keynote
- Cooperative Debugging With Five Hundred Million Test Cases
Ben Liblit, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cooperative Debugging With Five Hundred Million Test Cases
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Coffee Break
- 10:30am - 12:30pm
- Session 4 - Metrics and Threads
- A Metric for Software Readability
Raymond Buse and Westley Weimer - Comparing Software Metrics Tools
Rüdiger Lincke, Jonas Lundberg and Welf Löwe - Dynamic Recognition of Synchronization Operations for Improved Data Race Detection
Chen Tian, Vijay Nagarajan, Rajiv Gupta and Sriraman Tallam - Racer: Effective race detection using AspectJ
Eric Bodden and Klaus Havelund
- A Metric for Software Readability
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm
- Lunch Break
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Session 5 - Fault Localization
- Fault Localization using Value Replacement
Dennis Jeffrey, Neelam Gupta and Rajiv Gupta - AFID: An Automated Fault Identification Tool
Alex Edwards, Sebastien Worms, Rahul Vaidya and Brian Demsky - The Probabilistic Program Dependence Graph and its Application to Fault Diagnosis
George Baah, Andy Podgurski and Mary Jean Harrold
- Fault Localization using Value Replacement
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm
- Coffee Break
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Session 6 - Static Analysis
- Practical Pluggable Types for Java
Matthew Papi, Mahmood Ali, Telmo Luis Correa Jr., Jeff Perkins and Michael Ernst - Verifying Dereference Safety via Expanding-Scope Analysis
Alexey Loginov, Eran Yahav, Satish Chandra, Stephen Fink, Noam Rinetzky and Mangala Gowri Nanda - Merging Equivalent Contexts for Scalable Heap-Cloning-Based Context-Sensitive Points-to Analysis
Guoqing Xu and Atanas Rountev
- Practical Pluggable Types for Java
Thursday, July 24
- 08:45am - 09:00am
- About ISSTA 2009
- 9:00am - 10:30am
- Session 7 - Web and Security
- Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Real-world Electronic Voting Systems
Davide Balzarotti, Greg Banks, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Richard Kemmerer, William Robertson, Fredrik Valeur and Giovanni Vigna - Dynamic Test Input Generation for Web Applications
Gary Wassermann, Dachuan Yu, Ajay Chander, Dinakar Dhurjati, Hiroshi Inamura and Zhendong Su - Finding Bugs in Dynamic Web Applications
Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, Danny Dig, Amit Paradkar and Michael Ernst.
- Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Real-world Electronic Voting Systems
- 10:30am - 11:00am
- Coffee Break
- 11:00am - 12:30pm
- Session 8 - Inference
- Automatic Documentation Inference for Exceptions
Raymond Buse and Westley Weimer - Universal Symbolic Execution and its Application to Likely Data Structure Invariant Generation
Yamini Kannan and Koushik Sen - Dynamic Inference of Data Preconditions over Predicates by Tree Learning
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Swarat Chaudhuri, Franjo Ivancic and Aarti Gupta
- Automatic Documentation Inference for Exceptions
- 12:30pm - 12:45pm
- Closing and Farewell




