Debugging can be much facilitated if one can identify the evolution commit that introduced the bug leading to a detected failure (aka. bug-inducing commit, BIC). Although one may, in theory, locate BICs by executing the detected failing test on various historical commit versions, it is impractical when the test cannot be executed on the historical commit versions. On the other hand, existing static techniques often assume the availability of additional information such as patches and bug reports, or the applicability of predefined heuristics like commit chronology. However, these approaches are ineffective when such assumptions do not hold, which are often the case in practice. To address these limitations, we propose SemBIC to identify the BIC of a bug by statically tracking the semantic changes in the execution path prescribed by the failing test across successive historical commit versions. Our insight is that the greater the semantic changes a commit introduces concerning the failing execution path of a target bug, the more likely it is to be the BIC. We evaluate the performance of SemBIC on a benchmark containing 199 real-world bugs from 12 open-source projects. We found that SemBIC can identify BICs with high accuracy – it ranks the BIC as top 1 for 80 out of 199 bugs, and achieves an MRR of 0.494, outperforming the state-of-the-art technique by 17.6% and 8.1%, respectively.
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16:00 - 18:00 | MSR 1Industry Papers / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers / Journal First at Aurora B Chair(s): Andrew Begel Carnegie Mellon University | ||
16:00 20mTalk | On Refining the SZZ Algorithm with Bug Discussion Data Journal First Pooja Rani University of Zurich, Fernando Petrulio University of Zurich, Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich | ||
16:20 20mTalk | SemBIC: Semantic-aware Identification of Bug-inducing Commits Research Papers Xiao Chen The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hengcheng Zhu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jialun Cao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shing-Chi Cheung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology DOI | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Evaluating SZZ Implementations: An Empirical Study on the Linux Kernel Journal First Yunbo Lyu Singapore Management University, Hong Jin Kang University of Sydney, Ratnadira Widyasari Singapore Management University, Singapore, Julia Lawall Inria, David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
17:00 10mTalk | HyperSeq: A Hyper-Adaptive Representation for Predictive Sequencing of States Ideas, Visions and Reflections | ||
17:10 10mTalk | LLMs for Defect Prediction in Evolving Datasets: Emerging Results and Future Directions Ideas, Visions and Reflections Umamaheswara Sharma B National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Farhan Chonari National Institute of Technology Calicut, Gokul K Anilkumar National Institute of Technology Calicut, Saikiran Konchada National Institute of Technology Calicut | ||
17:20 20mTalk | ROSE LCOM Tools Industry Papers Kenneth Lamar University of Central Florida, Peter Pirkelbauer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Zachary Painter University of Central Florida, Damian Dechev University of Central Florida | ||
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