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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia
Thu 24 Sep 2020 08:00 - 08:20 at Koala - Verification and Testing Chair(s): Jun Sun

Today, a plethora of different software verification tools exist. When having a concrete verification task at hand, software developers thus face the problem of algorithm selection. Existing algorithm selectors for software verification typically use handpicked program features together with (1) either manually designed selection heuristics or (2) machine learned strategies. While the first approach suffers from not being transferable to other selection problems, the second approach lacks interpretability, i.e., insights into reasons for choosing particular tools.

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to algorithm selection for software verification. Our approach employs representation learning together with an attention mechanism. Representation learning circumvents feature engineering, i.e., avoids the handpicking of program features. Attention permits a form of interpretability of the learned selectors. We have implemented our approach and have experimentally evaluated and compared it with existing approaches. The evaluation shows that representation learning does not only outperform manual feature engineering, but also enables transferability of the learning model to other selection tasks.

Thu 24 Sep

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08:00 - 09:00
Verification and TestingTool Demonstrations / Industry Showcase / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Jun Sun Singapore Management University
08:00
20m
Talk
Attend and Represent: A Novel View on Algorithm Selection for Software Verification
Research Papers
Cedric Richter Paderborn University, Germany, Heike Wehrheim Paderborn University
08:20
20m
Talk
Lightweight MBT Testing for National e-Health Portal in Norway
Industry Showcase
Davrondzhon Gafurov Norsk Helsenett SF, Margrete Sunde Grovan Norsk Helsenett SF, Margrete Sunde Grovan Norsk Helsenett SF
08:40
10m
Talk
Speeding up GUI Testing by On-Device Test Generation
Tool Demonstrations
Nataniel Borges Jr. CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Jenny Rau CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA, Germany
08:50
10m
Talk
PerfCI: A Toolchain for Automated Performance Testing during Continuous Integration of Python Projects
Tool Demonstrations
Omar Javed Università della Svizzera italiana, Joshua Heneage Dawes University of Manchester and CERN, Marta Han University of Zagreb and CERN, Giovanni Franzoni CERN, Andreas Pfeiffer CERN, Giles Reger University of Manchester, Walter Binder University of Lugano, Switzerland