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📢 If you liked the #IEEESCAM2021 accepted papers, and want to learn more, don't forget to attend the virtual conference (September 27-28, 2021). ⏰ Early registration rate is available for 2 more days, until September 4, 2021! #IEEESCAM

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📝 New article IST Journal "Featherweight assisted vulnerability discovery" by dave binkley, Leon Moonen (🦋 moved to Bluesky @leonmoonen.com), Sibren Isaacman #MLonCode #ml4code #ml4se 👉 Get your copy at doi.org/10.1016/j.infs…

📜 Context Predicting source code #vulnerability helps to focus attention on areas that need to be examined with more scrutiny. Assuming that function names reflect purpose and thus vulnerability risk, earlier work trained a #DNN to highlight possible vulnerabilities.

🤔 Motivation However, DNNs are difficult to interpret and expensive & data hungry to train. We address this in a featherweight approach that uses identifier splitting to examine if the names of vulnerable functions are more likely to contain certain “dangerous words”.

💡 Findings We #empirically evaluate our approach and find that “dangerous words” make up a significant part of what the DNN learns to find. Moreover, our featherweight predictor requires orders of magnitude less training data and can learn from a single project.

If you are wondering what these dangerous words look like, the following is an overview of the most and least dangerous words for some of the systems analyzed:

Hey! Did you know that we have several tracks that you can submit your work on software maintenance and evolution to? Today’s spotlight is on the research track. #icsme2022 (1/5)

Interested? Submissions are due March 25th! Learn more at cyprusconferences.org/icsme2022/call… #icsme2022 (5/5)

An email exchange with the nice IEEE ICSME 2025 crowd led to the following blurb. May be useful to some. I tried to keep it short and to the point. Could be/should be extended, but then it's not short anymore :-)

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Professor Shane McIntosh has received an Early Researcher Award to develop self-sustaining software build systems, which have the potential to change the way software is developed. Congratulations, Shane! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shane-mci…

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This is why so many protest pipelines.

want to argue the merits of a review rebuttal phase? here's some data! icsme.github.io/rebut.html #icsme

Happy to share the pre-print (soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…) and link to our recently-published Journal of Systems and Software article (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) on Quasi-Static Executable Slicing, a hybrid of dynamic observation-based and static closure slicing! Joint work w/ Quentin Stiévenart dave binkley