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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia

Logging in software development plays a crucial role in bug-fixing, maintaining the code and operating the application. Logs are hints created by human software developers that aim to help human developers and operators in identifying root causes for application bugs or other misbehaviour types. They also serve as a bridge between the Devs and the Ops, allowing the exchange of information. The rise of the DevOps paradigm with the CI/CD pipelines led to a significantly higher number of deployments per month and consequently increased the logging requirements. In response, AI-enabled methods for IT operation (AIOps) are introduced to automate the testing and run-time fault tolerance to a certain extent. However, using logs tailored for human understanding to learn (automatic) AI methods poses an ill-defined problem: AI algorithms need no hints but structured, precise and indicative data. Until now, AIOps researchers adapt the AI algorithms to the properties of the existing human-centred data (e.g., log sentiment), which are not always trivial to model. By pointing out the discrepancy, we envision that there exists an alternative approach: the logging can be adapted such that the produced logs are better tailored towards the strengths of the AI-enabled methods. In response, in this vision paper, we introduce auto-logging, which devises the idea of how to automatically insert log instructions into the code that can better suit AI-enabled methods as end-log consumers.

Fri 19 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
Heterogeneous Anomaly Detection for Software Systems via Semi-supervised Cross-modal Attention
Technical Track
Cheryl Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tianyi Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Yongqiang Yang Huawei Technologies, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models
Technical Track
Toufique Ahmed University of California at Davis, Supriyo Ghosh Microsoft, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Xuchao Zhang Microsoft, Saravanakumar Rajmohan Microsoft 365
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Eadro: An End-to-End Troubleshooting Framework for Microservices on Multi-source Data
Technical Track
Cheryl Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tianyi Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-print
11:45
15m
Talk
LogReducer: Identify and Reduce Log Hotspots in Kernel on the Fly
Technical Track
Guangba  Yu Sun Yat-Sen University, Pengfei Chen Sun Yat-Sen University, Pairui Li Tencent Inc., Tianjun Weng Tencent Inc., Haibing Zheng Tencent, Yuetang Deng Tencent, Zibin Zheng School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
TraceArk: Towards Actionable Performance Anomaly Alerting for Online Service Systems
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Zhengran Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology, Yuqun Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology, Yong Xu Microsoft Research, Minghua Ma Microsoft Research, Bo Qiao Microsoft Research, Wentao Zou , Qingjun Chen , Meng Zhang , Xu Zhang Microsoft Research, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Xuedong Gao , Hao Fan , Saravan Rajmohan Microsoft 365, Qingwei Lin Microsoft Research, Dongmei Zhang Microsoft Research
12:15
7m
Talk
ActivFORMS: A Formally-Founded Model-Based Approach to Engineer Self-Adaptive Systems
Journal-First Papers
Danny Weyns KU Leuven, M. Usman Iftikhar KU Leuven / Linnaeus University
12:22
7m
Talk
Auto-Logging: AI-centred Logging Instrumentation
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Jasmin Bogatinovski Technical University Berlin, Odej  Kao Technische Universität Berlin
Pre-print