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Preface
General Chair
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil
Program Chairs
Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Shin Yoo University College London, UK
Organizing Committee
Sina Shamshiri University of Sheffield, UK
Allysson Allex de Paula Araújo Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil
Program Committee
Enrique Alba University of Málaga, Spain
Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Giuliano Antoniol Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Andrea Arcuri Schlumberger & Simula Research Laboratory,
Norway
Leonardo Bottaci University of Hull, UK
Betty Cheng Michigan State University, USA
Francisco Chicano University of Málaga, Spain
Myra Cohen University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy
Arilo Claudio Dias-Neto Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
X Conference Organization
External Reviewers
Kenyo Faria Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
Eduardo Freitas Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
Damiano Torre Carleton University, Canada
Shuai Wang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Zhihong Xu University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Conference Organization XI
Steering Committee
Mark Harman (Chair) University College London, UK
Andrea Arcuri Schlumberger & Simula Research Laboratory,
Norway
Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy
Gordon Fraser University of Sheffield, UK
Mel Ó Cinnéide University College Dublin, Ireland
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil
Joachim Wegener Berner and Mattner, Germany
David White University of Glasgow, UK
Yuanyuan Zhang University College London, UK
XII Conference Organization
Sponsors
Keynote Addresses
Intrinsic Software Redundancy:
Applications and Challenges
(Extended Abstract)
Mauro Pezzè
of good design practice. Our work shows that this form of redundancy can be
automatically synthetized by means of search-based techniques [4], and can be
successfully exploited in many ways, including the automatic generation of self-
healing mechanisms [5] and of semantic oracles [6].
Redundancy is present at many abstraction levels, here we discuss it refer-
ring to redundancy at method call level. We say that two methods are redundant
when their execution is both different and produces equivalent results. Results
are equivalent when both the output and the final state are indistinguishable
from an external observer viewpoint, as formalised with the concept of obser-
vational equivalence [7]. Executions are different when they involve different
statements or the same statements but in different order.
Redundancy is intrinsically present in software systems due to modern design
practice. Design for reusability often leads to the same functionality implemented
in different methods to improve compatibility with different uses, as it happened
in containers that provide different methods to add one or more elements to the
container. Performance optimisation frequently results in different methods im-
plementing the same functionality, albeit with different, optimised code, like the
trove4J library that duplicates many of the functionalities offered by the stan-
dard Java containers. Backward compatibility is obtained by keeping the old
versions of the reimplemented functionalities thus offering redundant methods.
Redundancy is massively present in modern software systems: Our manual in-
spection of several popular libraries including Apache Ant, Google Guava, Joda
Time, Eclipse SWT, graphstream and Lucene identified over 4,700 redundant
methods, with an average of 5 redundant methods per class.
Intrinsic redundancy can be exploited to build self-healing mechanisms. Once
identified a set of redundant methods, we can automatically deploy a mechanism
that substitutes a failing method with a redundant one to avoid the failure. We
call such approach automatic workaround. The design of automatic workarounds
requires a mechanism to reveal failures, we rely on assertions embedded in the
code, a method to roll back to a correct state, we rely on an optimised rollback
mechanism, and a method to execute a redundant method, we rely on a source
to source code transformation [8, 5].
Another interesting application of intrinsic redundancy is the automatic syn-
thesis of semantically relevant test oracles. The increasing availability of au-
tomated test cases exacerbates the need of automated oracles, and the cost
pressure of software development calls for automatically generated oracles. Or-
acles that can be easily generated automatically, such as implicit oracles, can
only reveal simple failures, like unhandled exceptions, while oracles derived from
formal specifications can reveal failures that depend on the program semantics,
but require formal specifications that are expensive to produce. We exploit the
intrinsic redundancy of software systems to automatically generate test oracles
that can reveal failures related to the program semantics by cloning the program
state before executing a method call, executing the original call on the original
state and the corresponding redundant call on the cloned state, and comparing
the results. In this way we can reveal discrepancies between the executions of
Intrinsic Software Redundancy: Applications and Challenges XVII
methods that should produce equivalent results and reveal failures related to the
program semantics. We call such oracles cross-checking oracles [6].
The automatic synthesis of both self-healing mechanisms and automated or-
acles requires a set of redundant program elements as input. We can automati-
cally synthetize redundant methods without expensive formal specifications by
exploiting search-based techniques. We use a genetic algorithm for synthetizing
a method call equivalent to a given method for an initial scenario (usually one
or few test cases). We then look for a counterexample that, if found, gives us
a new scenario to search for a redundant method, and, if not found, confirms
the redundancy of the original and the identified method. We can automatically
synthetize a large amount of redundant methods by applying the approach to
all methods in the target software system.
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