ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the
State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis
(SOAP 2014)
Edinburgh, UK, June 2014, Co-located with PLDI 2014
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Schedule


09:00-09:05
Welcome & Introduction
09:05-10:00 Invited Talk by Mayur Naik
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Paper Presentations - Session 1
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Invited Talk by Eric Bodden
14:30-15:30 Paper Presentations - Session 2
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30 Small-group discussions
16:30-17:00 Discussion summaries and closing

Invited talk by Mayur Naik  - 9:05-10:00

Mayur NaikLarge-Scale Configurable Static Analysis

Large-Scale Configurable Static Analysis

demonstrated the ability to prove non-trivial properties of realworld programs. This ability in turn has applications to emerging software challenges in security, software-defined networking, cyber-physical systems, and beyond. The diversity of such applications necessitates adapting the underlying program analyses to client needs, in aspects of scalability, applicability, and accuracy. Today's program analyses, however, do not provide useful tuning knobs. This talk presents a general computer-assisted approach to effectively adapt program analyses to diverse clients.

The approach has three key ingredients. First, it poses optimization problems that expose a large set of choices to adapt various aspects of an analysis, such as its cost, the accuracy of its result, and the assumptions it makes about missing information. Second, it solves those optimization problems by new search algorithms that efficiently navigate large search spaces, reason in the presence of noise, interact with users, and learn across programs. Third, it comprises a program analysis platform that facilitates users to specify and compose analyses, enables search algorithms to reason about analyses, and allows using large-scale computing resources to parallelize analyses.



Mayur Naik is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. His research interests lie at the intersection of the areas of programming languages and software engineering, with an emphasis on improving programmer productivity and software quality on modern computing platforms such as parallel, mobile, and cloud computing. He is the author of Chord, a widely-used program analysis platform for Java. He has also contributed to various program analysis-based systems, including Dynodroid (an input generation system for Android apps), CloneCloud (a mobile-cloud computing system for Android apps), CBI (a framework for remote monitoring and statistical debugging of C programs), CalFuzzer (a tool for testing multi-threaded Java programs), and SLAM (a model checker for C programs). He is the recipient of a PLDI distinguished paper award, an NSF CAREER award, a Google faculty research award, an ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award, and a Microsoft graduate fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and was a research scientist at Intel Labs Berkeley.

Session 1 - 10:30-12:00


A Software Product Line for Static Analyses - The OPAL Framework(Michael Eichberg and Ben Hermann)
Explicit and Symbolic Techniques for Fast and Scalable Points-to Analysis(Edgar Pek and Madhusudan Parthasarathy)
Android Taint Flow Analysis for App Sets (William Klieber, Lori Flynn, Amar Bhosale, Limin Jia and Lujo Bauer)

Invited talk by Eric Bodden  - 13:30-14:30

EricHow to build the perfect swiss-army knife, and keep it sharp? - Challenges for the Soot program-analysis framework in the light of past, current and future demands

Some program-analysis frameworks have been around for a long time, with Soot alone having been around for more than one decade. Over the years, demand on such frameworks have changed drastically, stressing the flexibility of frameworks such as Soot to their limit. What were those demands back then and how did they impact the design of Soot? What are the current demands and what architectural and methodological changes do they demand? What has the Soot community done to address these challenges? What remains to be solved? This talk means to address these questions to open the debate about the future evolution of Soot and other static-analysis frameworks.

Eric Bodden is a professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT where he leads the Secure Software Engineering Group. He has been an active contributor to and maintainer of Soot for many years. His research centers around various topics in static analysis, dynamic analysis, and software engineering with a growing focus on security topics.

Session 2 - 14:30-15:30


Dynamic Slicing with Soot (Arian Treffer and Matthias Uflacker)
TS4J: A Fluent Interface for Defining and Computing Typestate Analyses (Eric Bodden)

Proposed groups for small-group discussions - 16:00-16:30

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