ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov 2025 16:20 - 16:30 at Grand Hall 2 - Bug Understanding 2

Reliability management in cloud service systems is challenging due to the cascading effect of failures. Error wrapping, a practice prevalent in modern microservice development, enriches errors with context at each layer of the function call stack, constructing an error chain that describes a failure from its technical origin to its business impact. However, this also presents a significant traceability problem when recovering the complete error propagation path from the final log message back to its source. Existing approaches are ineffective at addressing this problem. To fill this gap, we present ErrorPrism in this work for automated reconstruction of error propagation paths in production microservice systems. ErrorPrism performs static analysis on service code repositories to build a function call graph and map log strings to relevant candidate functions. This significantly reduces the path search space for subsequent analysis. Then, ErrorPrism employs an LLM agent to perform an iterative backward search to accurately reconstruct the complete, multi-hop error path. Evaluated on 67 production microservices at ByteDance, ErrorPrism achieves 97.0% accuracy in reconstructing paths for 102 real-world errors, outperforming existing static analysis and LLM-based approaches. ErrorPrism provides an effective and practical tool for root cause analysis in industrial microservice systems.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 17 Nov

Displayed time zone: Seoul change

16:00 - 17:00
Bug Understanding 2Industry Showcase / NIER Track at Grand Hall 2
16:00
10m
Talk
A Characterization Study of Bugs in LLM Agent Workflow Orchestration Frameworks
Industry Showcase
Ziluo Xue Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yanjie Zhao Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shenao Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Kai Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
16:10
10m
Talk
Debugging the Undebuggable: Why Multi-Fault Programs Break Debugging and Repair Tools
NIER Track
Omar I. Al-Bataineh Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
16:20
10m
Talk
ErrorPrism: Reconstructing Error Propagation Paths in Cloud Service Systems
Industry Showcase
Junsong Pu School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Yichen LI ByteDance, Zhuangbin Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Jinyang Liu ByteDance, Zhihan Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jianjun Chen Bytedance, Rui Shi Bytedance, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University, Tieying Zhang ByteDance
16:30
10m
Talk
Fault Injection for Simulink-based CPS Models: Insights and Future Directions
NIER Track
Drishti Yadav University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Claudio Mandrioli University of Luxembourg, Ezio Bartocci TU Wien, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg
16:40
10m
Talk
How Does ChatGPT Make Assumptions When Creating Erroneous Programs?
NIER Track
Sadia Jahan University of Texas at San Antonio, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio
16:50
10m
Talk
Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks
NIER Track
Ruofan Lu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yichen LI ByteDance, Yintong Huo Singapore Management University, Singapore