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ASE 2021
Sun 14 - Sat 20 November 2021 Australia
Wed 17 Nov 2021 18:00 - 19:00 at Kangaroo - Keynote - Andreas Zeller Chair(s): Dan Hao

Abstract:

Notebooks – rich, interactive documents that join together code, documentation, and outputs – are all the rage with data scientists. But can they be used for actual software development? In this talk, I share experiences from authoring two interactive textbooks – fuzzingbook.org and debuggingbook.org – and show how notebooks not only serve for exploring and explaining code and data, but also how they can be used as software modules, integrating self-checking documentation, tests, and tutorials all in one place. The resulting software focuses on the essential, is well-documented, highly maintainable, easily extensible, and has a much higher shelf life than the "duct tape and wire” prototypes frequently found in research and beyond.

Biography:

Andreas Zeller is faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and professor for Software Engineering at Saarland University, both in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research on automated debugging, mining software archives, specification mining, and security testing has won several awards for its impact in academia and industry. Zeller is an ACM Fellow, an IFIP Fellow, an ERC Advanced Grant Awardee, and holds an ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.

Wed 17 Nov

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

18:00 - 19:00
Keynote - Andreas ZellerPlenary at Kangaroo
Chair(s): Dan Hao Peking University
18:00
60m
Keynote
Illustrated Code: Building Software in a Literate Way
Plenary
K: Andreas Zeller CISPA, S: Dan Hao Peking University