ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wed 15 Apr 2026 14:45 - 15:00 at Oceania VIII - Architecture and Design 1 Chair(s): Klaus Schmid

Microservices’ inherent complexity creates significant troubleshooting challenges, particularly in user request analysis. While nonintrusive distributed tracing addresses this by monitoring cross-service execution without code instrumentation, current frameworks still exhibit critical deficiencies: Current approaches suffer from language-dependent instrumentation that restricts multienvironment adaptability and kernel-to-user space data transfers, introducing prohibitive overhead. Furthermore, their inability to model request causality in concurrent environments frequently produces distorted traces, particularly under asynchronous execution patterns. To address these limitations, we propose DeepTrace, a non-intrusive distributed tracing framework for microservices that leverages method-level delay distribution estimation to optimize trace reconstruction. DeepTrace employs a hybrid architecture combining kernel and user-space processing: low-complexity protocol parsing is offloaded to the kernel via eBPF to minimize overhead, while user-space components handle computationally intensive protocol analysis. The framework integrates cross-correlation method delay distributions with method relationship constraints, enabling precise causal inference for trace reconstruction. This approach ensures both efficiency in data collection and accuracy in modeling request causality across concurrent execution paths. Our testbed results indicate that, compared to state-of-the-art frameworks (e.g., DeepFlow, TreaceWeaver), DeepTrace reduces collection overhead by 89% with a 51% accuracy improvement.

Wed 15 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Architecture and Design 1Research Track / New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) / SE In Practice (SEIP) at Oceania VIII
Chair(s): Klaus Schmid University of Hildesheim
14:00
15m
Talk
Metronome: Differentiated Delay Scheduling for Serverless FunctionsVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Zhuangbin Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Juzheng Zheng School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
14:15
15m
Talk
An Enterprise Marketplace for Unified Access to Multi-Cloud and Enterprise Products in a Large Banking Infrastructure
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Richard CASETTA BNP Paribas, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, Thomas BRISBOUT BNP Paribas, Jean-François TUR BNP Paribas, Mariam Barry BNP Paribas, Julien VEYBEL BNP Paribas, Jean-Michel GARCIA BNP Paribas, Nils GESBERT Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, Pierre GENEVES Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG
14:30
15m
Talk
CCLInsight: Unveiling Insights in GPU Collective Communication Libraries via Primitive-Centric Analysis
Research Track
Liuyao Dai University of California, Merced, Adam Weingram University of California, Merced, Weicong Chen University of California, Merced, Xiaoyi Lu UC Merced
14:45
15m
Talk
FlowScope: Non-Intrusive Distributed Tracing with Method-Level Delay Estimation for Microservices TroubleshootingVirtual Attendance
Research Track
gyt Tsinghua University, Han Zhang Tsinghua University, Zhiheng Wu Tsinghua University, Yahui Li Tsinghua University,China, Jilong Wang Tsinghua university, Xia Yin Tsinghua University
15:00
15m
Talk
LogFold: Compressing Logs with Structured Tokens and Hybrid EncodingVirtual Attendance
Research Track
Shiwen Shan Sun Yat-sen University, Yintong Huo Singapore Management University, Singapore, Hongzhan Zhong Sun Yat-sen University, Zhining Wang Sun Yat-sen University, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Zibin Zheng Sun Yat-sen University
Media Attached
15:15
15m
Talk
Large Language Model powered Test Driver Generation for High-performance Computing Library
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Ziran He National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Guofeng Zhang College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Meixi Liu National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Zhenbang Chen College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology