Wed 7 Nov 2018 14:37 - 15:00 at Horizons 5 - Software Analysis II Chair(s): Myra Cohen

Source code clones are categorized into four types of increasing difficulty of detection, ranging from purely textual (Type-1) to purely semantic (Type-4). Most clone detectors reported in the literature work well up to Type-3, which accounts for syntactic differences. In between Type-3 and Type-4, however, there lies a spectrum of clones that, although still exhibiting some syntactic similarities, are extremely hard to detect – the Twilight Zone. Most clone detectors reported in the literature fail to operate in this zone. We present Oreo, a novel approach to source code clone detection that not only detects Type-1 to Type-3 clones accurately, but is also capable of detecting harder-to-detect clones in the Twilight Zone. Oreo is built using a combination of machine learning, information retrieval, and software metrics. We evaluate the recall of Oreo on BigCloneBench, and perform manual evaluation for precision. Oreo has both high recall and precision. More importantly, it pushes the boundary in detection of clones with moderate to weak syntactic similarity in a scalable manner

Wed 7 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

13:30 - 15:00
Software Analysis IIResearch Papers / Journal-First at Horizons 5
Chair(s): Myra Cohen Iowa State University
13:30
22m
Talk
A Systematic Evaluation of Static API-Misuse Detectors
Journal-First
Sven Amann Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hoan Nguyen Iowa State University, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt
DOI
13:52
22m
Talk
Do Android Taint Analysis Tools Keep Their Promises?
Research Papers
Felix Pauck Paderborn University, Germany, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM, Heike Wehrheim Paderborn University
14:15
22m
Talk
Neural-Augmented Static Analysis of Android Communication
Research Papers
Jinman Zhao University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Aws Albarghouthi University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vaibhav Rastogi University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin, Madison, Damien Octeau University of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State University
14:37
22m
Talk
Oreo: Detection of Clones in the Twilight Zone
Research Papers
Vaibhav Saini University of California at Irvine, USA, Farima Farmahinifarahani University of California at Irvine, USA, Yadong Lu University of California at Irvine, USA, Pierre Baldi University of California at Irvine, USA, Crista Lopes