In order to unify the different groups within SSE and merge our expertise from different domains, we have decided to have weekly discussions in form of presentation of papers selected by academia members and research fellows.
The reading group also awards a PORG (Prize for Outstanding Reading Group talk). Every speaker qualifies for this prize and there are no official criteria for picking winners. Prizes are awarded based on feedback from the audience. The final decision who is given this award rests with Prof. Mark Harman, head of the Software Systems Engineering group. Below you can find a list of past winners along with points for why they were awarded the prize.
Next Session:
Date: 19th of June 2013
Title: Conflicts and opinion clashes in Wikipedia
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Room: Foster Court 114
Reader: Taha Yasseri
Date | Reader | Reason |
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28/11/12 | Kiran Lakhotia |
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Upcoming Session:
Date | Title | Reason | Reader |
|---|---|---|---|
19/06/13 | Conflicts and opinion clashes in Wikipedia | Taha Yasseri | |
26/06/13 | No Reading Group | ||
03/07/13 | Efficiency and Early Fault Detection with Lower and Higher Strength Combinatorial Interaction Testing | Justyna Petke | |
10/07/13 | Dan Haitao | ||
Paper Pool:
The paper pool contains a list of papers that have been suggested for the reading group. If you would like to add a paper to the pool, or present a paper from the pool, please email Kiran (k.lakhotia@cs.ucl.ac.uk).
Title | Reason | Suggested By |
|---|---|---|
L. Sugandha, A. Sorowit, Z. Andrea, C. Jane Improving trace accuracy through data-driven configuration and composition of tracing features | Mark Harman | |
M. Nagappan, T. Zimmermann, C. Bird Diversity in Software Engineering Research | Mark Harman | |
S. Hao, D. Li, W. G. J. Halfond, R. Govindan Estimating Mobile Application Energy Consumption using Program Analysis | Mark Harman | |
K. S. Button, J. P. A. Ioannidis, C. Mokrysz, B. A. Nosek, J. Flint, E. S. J. Robinson, M. R. Munafo Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience | Well worth a look for anyone who uses statistical techniques to investigate SE problems | Mark Harman |
C. Bird, T. Zimmermann Assessing the Value of Branches with What-if Analysis , FSE 2012. | Paper about SPLs. | Mark Harman |
A. Carzaniga, A. Gorla, A. Mattavelli, N. Perino, M. Pezze, Automatic Recovery from Runtime Failures , ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
S. Thummalapenta, K. Vasanta Lakshmi, S. Sinha, N. Sinha, S. Chandra, Test Generation for Web Applications: A Business Rule Perspective , ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
B. Khan Kasi, A. Sarma, Cassandra: Proactive Conflict Minimization through Optimized Task Scheduling, ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
M. Whalen, G. Gay, D. You, M. Heimdahl, M. Staats, Observable Modified Condition/Decision Coverage, ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
G. Bortis, A. van der Hoek, PorchLight: A Tag-based Approach to Bug Triaging, ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
R. Pham, L. Singer, O. Liskin, F. Figueira Filho, K. Schneider, Creating a Shared Understanding of Testing Culture on a Social Coding Site, ICSE 2013, to appear. | This paper is a new ICSE 2013 paper. | Mark Harman |
A. Arcuri and L. Briand, A Practical Guide for Using Statistical Tests to Assess Randomized Algorithms in Software Engineering, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), ed. by -, pp. 1 - 10 , IEEE (ISBN: 978-1-4503-0445-0 ), 2011. | This paper gives valuable practical advice on inferential statistics. | Mark Harman |
Gordon Fraser, Andrea Arcuri, Whole Test Suite Generation, IEEE TSE, to appear. |
| Mark Harman |
S. Subashini, V.Kavitha, A survey on security issues in service delivery models of cloud computing, Journal of Network and Computer Applications 34(1), pp. 1-11, 2011. | This is a survey paper on cloud security testing which is a very promising area in testing and a very flashy subject ATM. | Mustafa Bozkurt |
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows, In Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. | A paper that I think would work well to "connect" different SSE subgroups. | Licia Capra |
I. Kwan and D. Damian, The hidden experts in software-engineering communication (NIER track), Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSEÕ11), Hawaii, 2011. | This is a NIER paper at ICSE. I could not find a follow up, but I would recommend reading it anyway, even if it's work in progress. To me it was a highlight of ICSE 2011 | Licia Capra |
Dave Parnas and Paul Clements, A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It. | A classic that everybody should have read. | Anthony Finkelstein |
Don Knuth, The Errors of TEX. | A classic that everybody should have read. | Anthony Finkelstein |
Richard Selby, Vic Basili and F. Terry Baker, Cleanroom Software Development: An Empirical Evaluation. | A classic that everybody should have read. | Anthony Finkelstein |
Robillard M., Walker R., Zimmermann T, Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, IEEE Software, 27(4), pp. 80-86, 2010 | There's been a bit of talk about applying recsys to se so an overview paper might be good. | Chris Smith |
Jonathan Heusser, Pasquale Malacaria, Quantifying information leaks in software, ACSAC 2010. | This is the first paper to analyse QIF in programs which are not toy programs. It reports on using the CBMC model checker to estimate bounds on the flow capacity of channels within the Linux Kernel that could leak confidential information (channels that should't be there). It uses the same techniques to analyse the effectiveness of subsequent security patches. The presentation of the supporting theory is, I think quite easy to digest. | David Clark |
Michael Clarkson, Fred Schneider, Quantification of Integrity, CSFS, 2010. | This is the first paper to analyse integrity using a QIF approach. One aspect of the paper is that in taking an information theoretic view it comes up with a new formal result about the relationship between confidentiality and integrity. Integrity is traditionally seen as the dual of confidentiality as a security property. This paper separates integrity into two sub properties: taint and suppression. Via this separation the paper demonstrates that integrity is an incomplete dual of confidentiality. Another aspect of the paper is that the analysis of the suppression aspect of integrity produces an information theoretic foundation for anonymising information in databases. | David Clark |
Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Ekaterina Vladislavleva, Una-May O'Reilly, Knowledge mining sensory evaluation data: genetic programming, statistical techniques, and swarm optimization, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: 13(1), 103-133, 2012. |
| Bill Langdon |
Xiao Gang, Southey Finnegan, Holte Robert C., Wilkinson Dana, Software testing by active learning for commercial games, Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2, 2005. |
| Shin Yoo |
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabel, Premkumar Devanbu On the naturalness of software |
| Emmanuel Letier |
Buhnova, B. ; Grunske, L. ; Koziolek, A. ; Meedeniya, I. Software Architecture Optimization Methods: A Systematic Literature Review |
| Emmanuel Letier |
Past Sessions:
Date | Title | Reader |
|---|---|---|
12/05/13 | Managing Non-functional Uncertainty via Model-Driven Adaptivity | Federica Sarro |
05/06/13 | Fan Wu | |
22/05/13 | No Reading Group | |
15/05/13 | No Reading Group | |
08/05/13 | KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs | Syed Islam |
24/04/13 | No Reading Group | |
01/05/13 | David Clark | |
17/04/13 | Estimating Mobile Application Energy Consumption Using Program Analysis | Yue Jia |
10/04/13 | "Not My Bug!" and Other Reasons for Software Bug Report Reassignments | Kiran Lakhotia |
27/03/13 | Guest speaker: Analysis and Testing of Concurrent Programs | Zdenek Letko |
20/03/13 | Guest speaker: An Approach for Variability Management of Reliability Models in Software Product Lines | Genaina Rodrigues |
13/03/13 | Kelly Androutsopoulos | |
06/03/13 | Giovanni Quattrone | |
20/02/13 | Distilling GeneChips with Genetic Programming on the Emerald GPU supercomputer | William Langdon |
06/02/13 | David Stefan | |
23/01/13 | Kiran Lakhotia | |
09/01/13 | Interaction-Based Test-Suite Minimization, Dale Blue, Itai Segall, Rachel Tzoref-Brill, Aviad Zlotnick International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'13) | Justyna Petke |
19/12/12 | No Reading Group | SSE Christmas Dinner |
12/12/12 | Video talk | |
05/12/12 | How do software architects consider non-functional requirements: An exploratory study | Yuanyuan Zhang |
28/11/12 | It’s not a Bug, it’s a Feature: On the Data Quality of Bug Databases | Kiran Lakhotia |
21/11/12 | Mark Harman | |
14/11/12 | Justyna Petke | |
07/11/12 | Shin Yoo | |
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