Automated Large-scale Multi-language Dynamic Program Analysis in the Wild
Today’s availability of open-source software is overwhelming, and the number of free, ready-to-use software components in package repositories such as NPM, Maven, or SBT is growing exponentially. In this paper we address two straightforward yet important research questions: would it be possible to develop a tool to automate dynamic program analysis on public open-source software at a large scale? Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, would such a tool be useful? We answer the first question by introducing NAB, a tool to execute large-scale dynamic program analysis of open-source software in the wild. NAB is fully-automatic, language-agnostic, and can scale dynamic program analyses on open-source software up to thousands of projects hosted in code repositories. Using NAB, we analyzed more than 56K Node.js, Java, and Scala projects. Using the data collected by NAB we were able to (1) study the adoption of new language constructs such as JavaScript Promises, (2) collect statistics about bad coding practices in JavaScript, and (3) identify Java and Scala task-parallel workloads suitable for inclusion in a domain-specific benchmark suite. We consider such findings and the collected data an affirmative answer to the second question.
Thu 18 JulDisplayed time zone: Belfast change
13:30 - 15:10 | |||
13:30 20mResearch paper | Deep Static Modeling of invokedynamic Research Papers DOI Media Attached | ||
13:50 20mResearch paper | Automated Large-scale Multi-language Dynamic Program Analysis in the Wild Research Papers Alex Villazón Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia, Haiyang Sun Università della Svizzera italiana, Andrea Rosà University of Lugano, Switzerland, Eduardo Rosales University of Lugano, Switzerland, Daniele Bonetta Oracle Labs, Isabella Defilippis Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), Sergio Oporto Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), Walter Binder University of Lugano, Switzerland DOI Media Attached | ||
14:10 20mResearch paper | MagpieBridge: A General Approach to Integrating Static Analyses into IDEs and Editors Research Papers Linghui Luo Paderborn University, Julian Dolby IBM Research, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:30 20mResearch paper | Reasoning About Foreign Function Interfaces Without Modelling the Foreign Language Research Papers Alexi Turcotte Northeastern University, Ellen Arteca Northeastern University, Gregor Richards University of Waterloo DOI Media Attached | ||
14:50 20mResearch paper | Multiverse Debugging: Non-deterministic Debugging for Non-deterministic Programs Research Papers Carmen Torres Lopez Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Robbert Gurdeep Singh Universiteit Gent, Belgium, Stefan Marr University of Kent, Elisa Gonzalez Boix Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Christophe Scholliers Universiteit Gent, Belgium DOI Media Attached |