Dockerfile flakiness—unpredictable temporal build failures caused by external dependencies and evolving environments—undermines deployment reliability and increases debugging overhead. Unlike traditional Dockerfile issues, flakiness occurs without modifications to the Dockerfile itself, complicating its resolution. In this work, we present the first comprehensive study of Dockerfile flakiness, featuring a nine-month analysis of 8,132 Dockerized projects, revealing that around 10% exhibit flaky behavior. We propose a taxonomy categorizing common flakiness causes, including dependency errors and server connectivity issues. Existing tools fail to effectively address these challenges due to their reliance on pre-defined rules and limited generalizability. To overcome these limitations, we introduce FLAKIDOCK, a novel repair framework combining static and dynamic analysis, similarity retrieval, and an iterative feedback loop powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). Our evaluation demonstrates that FLAKIDOCK achieves a repair accuracy of 73.55%, significantly surpassing state-of-the-art tools and baselines.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Analysis 3Research Track / Journal-first Papers at 212 Chair(s): Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba | ||
14:00 15mTalk | Boosting Path-Sensitive Value Flow Analysis via Removal of Redundant Summaries Research Track Yongchao WANG Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yuandao Cai Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
14:15 15mTalk | Dockerfile Flakiness: Characterization and Repair Research Track Taha Shabani University of British Columbia, Noor Nashid University of British Columbia, Parsa Alian University of British Columbia, Ali Mesbah University of British Columbia | ||
14:30 15mTalk | Evaluating Garbage Collection Performance Across Managed Language Runtimes Research Track Yicheng Wang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wensheng Dou Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yu Liang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yi Wang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wei Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jun Wei Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tao Huang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Module-Aware Context Sensitive Pointer Analysis Research Track Haofeng Li SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Chenghang Shi SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Jie Lu SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Lian Li Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zixuan Zhao Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd File Attached | ||
15:00 15mTalk | An Empirical Study on Reproducible Packaging in Open-Source Ecosystems Research Track Giacomo Benedetti University of Genoa, Oreofe Solarin Case Western Reserve University, Courtney Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Greg Tystahl NCSU, William Enck North Carolina State University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Alexandros Kapravelos NCSU, Alessio Merlo CASD - School of Advanced Defense Studies, Luca Verderame University of Genoa | ||
15:15 15mTalk | T-Rec: Fine-Grained Language-Agnostic Program Reduction Guided by Lexical Syntax Journal-first Papers Zhenyang Xu University of Waterloo, Yongqiang Tian Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mengxiao Zhang , Jiarui Zhang University of Waterloo, Puzhuo Liu Ant Group & Tsinghua University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo |