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ICSE 2022
Sun 8 - Fri 27 May 2022
Tue 10 May 2022 13:15 - 13:20 at ICSE room 2-odd hours - Variability and Product Lines 2 Chair(s): Candy Pang
Wed 11 May 2022 05:20 - 05:25 at ICSE room 3-odd hours - Tools and Configurations Chair(s): Robert Chatley

Detecting and understanding reasons for defects and inadvertent behavior in software is challenging due to their increasing complexity. In configurable software systems, the combinatorics that arises from the multitude of features a user might select from adds a further layer of complexity. We introduce the notion of feature causality, which is based on counterfactual reasoning and inspired by the seminal definition of actual causality by Halpern and Pearl. Feature causality operates at the level of system configurations and is capable of identifying features and their interactions that are the reason for emerging functional and non-functional properties. We present various methods to explicate these reasons, in particular well-established notions of responsibility and blame that we extend to the feature-oriented setting. Establishing a close connection of feature causality to prime implicants, we provide algorithms to effectively compute feature causes and causal explications. By means of an evaluation on a wide range of configurable software systems, including community benchmarks and real-world systems, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach: We illustrate how our notion of causality facilitates to identify root causes, estimate the effects of features, and detect feature interactions.

Tue 10 May

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13:00 - 14:00
Variability and Product Lines 2Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 2-odd hours
Chair(s): Candy Pang MacEwan University
13:00
5m
Talk
Transfer Learning Across Variants and Versions: The Case of Linux Kernel Size
Journal-First Papers
Hugo Martin Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Mathieu Acher Univ. Rennes 1, Inria, IRISA, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Juliana Alves Pereira PUC-Rio, Luc Lesoil IRISA, Jean-Marc Jézéquel Univ Rennes - IRISA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, France
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13:05
5m
Talk
SugarC: Scalable Desugaring of Real-World Preprocessor Usage into Pure C
Technical Track
Zachary Patterson University of Texas at Dallas, Zenong Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas, Brent Pappas University of Central Florida, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas, Paul Gazzillo University of Central Florida
Pre-print Media Attached
13:10
5m
Talk
On the Benefits and Limits of Incremental Build of Software Configurations: An Exploratory Study
Technical Track
Georges Aaron RANDRIANAINA Université de Rennes 1, IRISA, Xhevahire Tërnava Université de Rennes 1, INRIA/IRISA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, France, Mathieu Acher Univ. Rennes 1, Inria, IRISA, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Pre-print Media Attached
13:15
5m
Talk
Causality in Configurable Software Systems
Technical Track
Clemens Dubslaff TU Dresden, Kallistos Weis Saarland University, Christel Baier TU Dresden, Germany, Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print Media Attached
13:20
5m
Talk
A Scalable t-wise Coverage Estimator
Technical Track
Eduard Baranov Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Sourav Chakraborty Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) , Kolkata, India, Axel Legay Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Kuldeep S. Meel National University of Singapore, N. V. Vinodchandran University of Nebraska-Lincoln
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
13:25
5m
Talk
On Debugging the Performance of Configurable Software Systems: Developer Needs and Tailored Tool Support
Technical Track
Miguel Velez Carnegie Mellon University, Pooyan Jamshidi University of South Carolina, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print Media Attached

Wed 11 May

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05:00 - 06:00
Tools and ConfigurationsTechnical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at ICSE room 3-odd hours
Chair(s): Robert Chatley Imperial College London
05:00
5m
Talk
Challenges in Applying Continuous Experimentation: A Practitioners’ Perspective
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Kevin Anderson Delft University of Technology, Denise Visser bol.com, Jan-Willem Mannen ING, Yuxiang Jiang Delft University of Technology, Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
DOI Pre-print
05:05
5m
Talk
Reflekt: a Library for Compile-Time Reflection in Kotlin
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Anastasiia Birillo JetBrains Research, Elena Lyulina JetBrains Research, Maria Malysheva JetBrains Research;Saint Petersburg State University, Vladislav Tankov JetBrains, ITMO University, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research; HSE University
Pre-print Media Attached
05:10
5m
Talk
ARCLIN: Automated API Mention Resolution for Unformatted Texts
Technical Track
Yintong Huo The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Hongming Zhang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
05:15
5m
Talk
On the Benefits and Limits of Incremental Build of Software Configurations: An Exploratory Study
Technical Track
Georges Aaron RANDRIANAINA Université de Rennes 1, IRISA, Xhevahire Tërnava Université de Rennes 1, INRIA/IRISA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, France, Mathieu Acher Univ. Rennes 1, Inria, IRISA, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Pre-print Media Attached
05:20
5m
Talk
Causality in Configurable Software Systems
Technical Track
Clemens Dubslaff TU Dresden, Kallistos Weis Saarland University, Christel Baier TU Dresden, Germany, Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print Media Attached
05:25
5m
Talk
A Scalable t-wise Coverage Estimator
Technical Track
Eduard Baranov Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Sourav Chakraborty Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) , Kolkata, India, Axel Legay Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Kuldeep S. Meel National University of Singapore, N. V. Vinodchandran University of Nebraska-Lincoln
DOI Pre-print Media Attached

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Tue 10 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00 at ICSE room 2-odd hours - Variability and Product Lines 2 Chair(s): Candy Pang
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Wed 11 May 2022 05:00 - 06:00 at ICSE room 3-odd hours - Tools and Configurations Chair(s): Robert Chatley
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