Same Same But Different: Preventing Refactoring Attacks on Software Plagiarism Detection
Plagiarism detection in programming education faces growing challenges due to increasingly sophisticated obfuscation techniques, particularly automated refactoring-based attacks. While code plagiarism detection systems used in education practice are resilient against basic obfuscation, they struggle against structural modifications that preserve program behavior, especially caused by refactoring-based obfuscation. This paper presents a novel and extensible framework that enhances state-of-the-art detectors by leveraging code property graphs and graph transformations to counteract refactoring-based obfuscation. Our comprehensive evaluation of real-world student submissions, obfuscated using both algorithmic and AI-based obfuscation attacks, demonstrates a significant improvement in detecting plagiarized code.
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16:00 - 17:30 | Education 9Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) / Research Track at Oceania VI Chair(s): Stephan Krusche Technical University of Munich | ||
16:00 15mTalk | On the Role and Impact of GenAI Tools in Software Engineering Education Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) Qiaolin Qin Polytechnique Montréal, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Rodrigo Spinola Virginia Commonwealth University | ||
16:15 15mTalk | Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on r/learnprogramming Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) Alif Al Hasan Case Western Reserve University, Subarna Saha , Mia Mohammad Imran Missouri University of Science and Technology Pre-print | ||
16:30 15mTalk | From Struggle to Success: Unveiling Students’ Emotional Journeys during Capstone ProjectsDistinguished Paper Award Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) Wardah Naeem Awan LUT University, Maria Paasivaara LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland, Peter Gloor Massachusetts Institute of Technology SDM | ||
16:45 15mTalk | Same Same But Different: Preventing Refactoring Attacks on Software Plagiarism Detection Research Track Robin Maisch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Larissa Schmid KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Timur Sağlam Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Nils Niehues Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Pre-print | ||