ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Wed 30 Oct 2024 11:45 - 12:00 at Carr - Log and trace; failure and fault Chair(s): Yiming Tang

Existing fault localization techniques typically analyze static information and run-time profiles of faulty software programs, and subsequently calculate suspiciousness values for each program entity. Such strategies typically have overbroad information to be analyzed and lead to unsatisfactory results. Exception is a widely-used programming language feature. It is closely related to the execution status during the execution of programs, and thus can be incorporated into automatic fault localization techniques for better effectiveness. Based on this intuition, we propose EXPECT, a novel fault localization technique that makes use of exception information, a valuable source of data for fault localization while being often ignored in previous research. Specifically, EXPECT first constructs exception trigger streams (including exception trigger information and execution traces), and then localizes faults by tracing bifurcation points between different exception trigger streams. Moreover, the tie-breaking problem can be also benefited from the use of exception trigger streams. Experimental results demonstrate the advantages of EXPECT: it achieves as high as 38.26% improvements in localizing faults regarding the Exam metric in comparison to the state-of-the-art fault localization technique, and it reduces the scales of ties in existing FL methods by up to 99.08%.

Wed 30 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Log and trace; failure and faultResearch Papers / Industry Showcase at Carr
Chair(s): Yiming Tang Rochester Institute of Technology
10:30
15m
Talk
Demonstration-Free: Towards More Practical Log Parsing with Large Language Models
Research Papers
Yi Xiao , Van-Hoang Le The University of Newcastle, Hongyu Zhang Chongqing University
10:45
15m
Talk
Unlocking the Power of Numbers: Log Compression via Numeric Token Parsing
Research Papers
Siyu Yu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Yifan Wu Peking University, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China, Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
11:00
15m
Talk
Towards Synthetic Trace Generation of Modeling Operations using In-Context Learning Approach
Research Papers
Vittoriano Muttillo University of Teramo, Claudio Di Sipio University of l'Aquila, Riccardo Rubei University of L'Aquila, Luca Berardinelli Johannes Kepler University Linz, MohammadHadi Dehghani Johannes Kepler University Linz
11:15
15m
Talk
DeployFix: Dynamic Repair of Software Deployment Failures via Constraint Solving
Industry Showcase
Haoyu Liao East China Normal University, Jianmei Guo East China Normal University, Bo Huang East China Normal University, Yujie Han East China Normal University, Dingyu Yang Zhejiang University, Kai Shi Alibaba Group, Jonathan Ding Intel, Guoyao Xu Alibaba Group, Guodong Yang Alibaba Group, Liping Zhang Alibaba Group
11:30
15m
Talk
FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs
Research Papers
Dharun Anandayuvaraj Purdue University, Matthew Campbell Purdue University, Arav Tewari Purdue University, James C. Davis Purdue University
DOI Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
Do not neglect what's on your hands: localizing software faults with exception trigger streamACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Xihao Zhang School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Yi Song School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Xiaoyuan Xie Wuhan University, Qi Xin Wuhan University, Chenliang Xing School of Computer Science, Wuhan University