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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">2/28/2024 update-this is being cancelled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Title:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Towards Practical Software Quality Assurance Techniques via<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Automated Support of the Development and Usage Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Bio:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Austin Mordahl is a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">is in the area of Software Engineering. Specifically, he focuses on advancing the state-of-the-art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">in automated software quality assurance techniques (e.g., static program analysis and fuzz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">testing) through various techniques such as machine learning, and software testing and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">debugging. He regularly publishes at the top-tier software engineering conferences and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">journals, such as ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, and EMSE. He was a recipient of the prestigious<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Eugene McDermott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Graduate Research Fellowship in 2020. Moreover, he won the ACM Student Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Competition at ICSE 2019. More information is available at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Automated software quality assurance approaches are an important guardrail against the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">proliferation of bugs and security issues in software. However, challenges like unreliable results,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">difficulty in configuration, and high false positive rates prevent many of these techniques from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">seeing widespread adoption. In this talk, I will present my work aimed at breaking these barriers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">to the usage of automated software quality assurance techniques, with a specific focus on static<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">analysis. My work improves automated software quality assurance techniques along various<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">dimensions throughout their development and usage processes; specifically, with regard to their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">reliability, usability, and applicability. First, I will share my experience improving the reliability of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">static analysis tools through the development of an automated testing and debugging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">framework, enabled by a novel theoretical model of static analysis tools’ configuration spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">This framework has allowed the detection of dozens of bugs in popular static analysis tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Second, I will detail the work that aims to improve usability by adapting machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">models to automate tedious, manual tasks in the usage process of static analysis tools,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">including configuring these tools for specific target programs and classifying false positives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Finally, I will provide my vision for the future of automatic software quality assurance techniques,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">which involves the improvement of the development and usage processes through automated,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">adaptive, and explainable techniques that provide a seamless developer and user experience. I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">will touch on three concrete research projects I plan to undertake in the next 5 years towards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">this vision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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