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ASE 2021
Sun 14 - Sat 20 November 2021 Australia
Thu 18 Nov 2021 22:20 - 22:40 at Kangaroo - Analysis III Chair(s): Jifeng Xuan

Reasoning on immutability is important for preventing bugs, e.g., in multi-threaded software. So far, static analysis to infer immutability properties has mostly focused on individual objects and references. Reasoning about fields and entire classes, while significantly simpler, has gained less attention. Even a consistently used terminology is missing, which makes it difficult to implement analyses that rely on immutability information. We propose a model for class and field immutability that unifies terminology for immutability flavors considered by previous work and covers new levels of immutability to handle lazy initialization and immutability dependent on generic type parameters. We implement CiFi, a set of modular, collaborating analyses for different flavors of immutability, inferring the properties defined in our model and propose a benchmark of representative test cases for class and field immutability. We use the benchmark to showcase CiFi’s precision and recall, in comparison to state of the art, and use CiFi to study the prevalence of immutability in real-world libraries, showcasing the practical quality and relevance of our model.

Thu 18 Nov

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22:00 - 23:00
Analysis IIINIER track / Research Papers at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University
22:00
20m
Talk
Binary Diffing as a Network Alignment Problem via Belief Propagation
Research Papers
Elie Mengin SAMM, EA 4543 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Fabrice Rossi CEREMADE, CNRS, UMR 7534 - Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University
22:20
20m
Talk
CiFi: Versatile Analysis of Class and Field ImmutabilityACM Distinguished Paper
Research Papers
Tobias Roth Technische Universität Darmstadt, Dominik Helm Technische Universität Darmstadt, Michael Reif Technische Universität Darmstadt, Mira Mezini Technische Universität Darmstadt
22:40
10m
Talk
Assessing Robustness of ML-Based Program Analysis Tools using Metamorphic Program Transformations
NIER track
Leonhard Applis Delft University of Technology, Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pre-print
22:50
10m
Talk
Defeating program analysis techniques via Ambiguous Translation
NIER track
Chijung Jung University of Virginia, Doowon Kim University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY, Yunhui Zheng IBM Research, Kyu Hyung Lee University of Georgia, Yonghwi Kwon University of Virginia