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ECOOP 2016
Sun 17 - Fri 22 July 2016 Rome, Italy
Fri 22 Jul 2016 14:45 - 15:10 at Auditorium Loyola - Session 8 Chair(s): Matthias Keil, Eric Jul
Modern software applications are highly configurable, allowing configuration options to be changed even during program execution. When dynamic configuration updating is implemented incorrectly, program errors can result. These program errors occur primarily when stale data—computed from old configurations—or inconsistent data—computed from different configurations—are used. We introduce Staccato, the first tool designed to detect these errors. Staccato uses a dynamic analysis in the style of taint analysis to find the use of stale configuration data in Java programs. It supports concurrent programs running on commodity JVMs. In some cases, Staccato can provide automatic bug avoidance and semi-automatic repair when errors occur.

We evaluated Staccato on 3 open-source applications that support complex reconfigurability. Staccato found multiple errors in all of them. Staccato requires only modest annotation overhead and has moderate performance overhead.

Fri 22 Jul

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13:30 - 15:20
Session 8Research Track at Auditorium Loyola
Chair(s): Matthias Keil University of Freiburg, Eric Jul Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
13:30
25m
Talk
Composing Interfering Abstract Protocols
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Filipe Militão Carnegie Mellon University & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Luís Caires FCT / Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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13:55
25m
Talk
Fine-grained Language Composition: A Case Study[AEC approved]
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Edd Barrett King's College London, Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick King's College London , Lukas Diekmann King's College London, Laurence Tratt King's College London
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14:20
25m
Talk
One Way to Select Many[AEC approved]
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Jaakko Järvi Texas A&M University, Sean Parent Adobe Systems, Inc.
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14:45
25m
Talk
Staccato: A Bug Finder for Dynamic Configuration Updates[AEC approved]
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John Toman University of Washington, Dan Grossman University of Washington, USA
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15:10
10m
Adjourn
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