We share our experience in developing Code Understanding Linter, an automated code review tool based on language models of code. We introduce several ideas to make the tool be more practical, including combining two different language models, filtering meaningless outputs from the model, and generating developer-friendly diagnosis messages by interpreting the outputs from the model. On top of those ideas, we describe the design and implementation of an automated code review tool to detects variable-misuse defects in Python codes and suggest how to fix them. We evaluated the tool with a set of code repositories in Samsung Electronics, which contains real-world Python codes. Our experiment proves that our tool can discover hidden defects in the real-world codes, but the false positive rate is far higher than we expected. After manually investigating every false positives, we discuss the limitations of the language models and possible solutions.
Wed 12 OctDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
13:30 - 15:30 | Technical Session 14 - Bug Prediction and LocalizationJournal-first Papers / Research Papers / NIER Track / Industry Showcase at Banquet A Chair(s): David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
13:30 20mResearch paper | How Useful is Code Change Information for Fault Localization in Continuous Integration? Research Papers An Ran Chen Concordia University, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University | ||
13:50 20mIndustry talk | Code Understanding Linter to Detect Variable Misuse Industry Showcase Yeonhee Ryou Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Sangwoo Joh Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Joonmo Yang Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Sujin Kim Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Youil Kim Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics | ||
14:10 20mPaper | Static Data-Flow Analysis for Software Product Lines in C Journal-first Papers Philipp Dominik Schubert Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University, Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida, Zachary Patterson University of Texas at Dallas, Julian Braha University of Central Florida, Fabian Schiebel Fraunhofer IEM, Ben Hermann Technical University Dortmund, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas, Eric Bodden University of Paderborn; Fraunhofer IEM DOI | ||
14:30 10mVision and Emerging Results | Boosting Spectrum-Based Fault Localization for Spreadsheets with Product Metrics in a Learning ApproachVirtual NIER Track Adil mukhtar Graz University of Technology, Birgit Hofer Graz University of Technology, Dietmar Jannach University of Klagenfurt, Franz Wotawa Graz University of Technology, Konstantin Schekotihin University of Klagenfurt | ||
14:40 20mResearch paper | Evolving Ranking-Based Failure Proximities for Better Clustering in Fault IsolationVirtual Research Papers Yi Song School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China, Xihao Zhang School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Quanming Liu School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Ruizhi Gao Sonos Inc. | ||
15:00 20mPaper | Leveraging structural properties of source code graphs for just-in-time bug predictionVirtual Journal-first Papers Md Nadim University of Saskatchewan, Debajyoti Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan |