BENEVOL 2021

The 20th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop

's-Hertogenbosch,Virtually, 7-8 December 2021

Keynote

Vladimir Kovalenko

Beyond Code: Towards Intelligent Collaboration Tools

Program

Technical Papers
Presentation Abstracts

Date Time Event
7
Tuesday
December, 2021
 13:00 - 13:10 Welcome - Dario Di Nucci and Gemma Catolino
13:10 - 14:30
13:10 Focal Methods for C/C++ via LLVM: Steps Towards Faster Mutation Testing - abstract Sten Vercammen, Serge Demeyer and Lars Van Roy
13:30 HPath: Resilient Locators for GUI-based Tests - link Renaud Rwemalika
13:50 Towards Mutation Testing of Simulink Models - abstract Joanna Kisaakye, Onur Kilincceker and Serge Demeyer
14:10 On the Use of Commit-Relevant Mutants - link Miloš Ojdanić, Wei Ma, Thomas Laurent, Thierry Titcheu Chekam, Anthony Ventresque, and Mike Papadakis
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 16:05
14:45 Hunting Bugs: Towards an Automated Approach to Identify What Change Caused a Bug - abstract Michel Maes Bermejo, Alexander Serebrenik, Micael Gallego, Francisco Gortazar, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles
15:05 Within-project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics - link Stefano Dalla Palma and Fabio Palomba
15:25 Patched Clones and Missed Patches Between Upstream and Divergent Forks Repositories - abstract Poedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen, John Businge, Brent van Bladel, Serge Demeyer and Coen De Roover
15:45 Watch out for Extrinsic Bugs! A Case Study of their Impact in Just-In-Time Bug Prediction Models on the OpenStack project - link Gema Rodríguez-Pérez, Meiyappan Nagappan and Gregorio Robles
16:05 - 16:20 Break
16:20 - 17:40
16:20 The Interplay Between Automatic Generation and Human Exploration in Developer-Centric Test Amplification - link Carolin Brandt
16:40 Predictive Modelling of Socio-Technical Health in Evolving Software Packaging Ecosystems - abstract Pooya Rostami Mazrae
17:00 I want to Invest in an OSS project: Shall I hire Insiders or Outsiders? - abstract Vahid Etemadi, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles
17:20 A first case study about key socio-technical software indicators at Forem - link Nicolas Riquet, Xavier Devroey and Benoît Vanderose
17:40 - 18:00 Day One Closing - Damian A. Tamburri
8
Wednesday
December, 2021
13:00 - 13:10 Day Two Intro - Gemma Catolino
13:10- 14:00 Vladimir Kovalenko's Keynote - SC: Gemma Catolino
Beyond Code: Towards Intelligent Collaboration Tools
14:00 - 14:10 Break
14:10 - 15:10
14:10 Extracting Concepts Emerging from Software Code, Documentation and Tests - abstract Zaki Pauzi and Andrea Capiluppi
14:30 Stack Overflow Posts as Source of Library Features - link Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Eleni Constantinou and Coen De Roover
14:50 Automated Recovery of Issue-Commit Links Leveraging Both Textual and Non-textual Data - link Pooya Rostami Mazrae
15:10 - 15:20 Break
15:20 - 16:40
15:20 Using Program Dependence Graphs to Detect Misunderstandings of Ansible’s Variable Precedence and Expression Evaluation Semantics - link Ruben Opdebeeck and Coen De Roover
15:40 VaryMinions, Identifying Variants in Event Logs with RNNs - link Sophie Fortz, Paul Temple, Xavier Devroey, Patrick Heymans, and Gilles Perrouin
16:00 Mining Instantiation Patterns for Java Framework Applications Observatories - link Yunior Pacheco, Ahmed Zerouali, and Coen De Roover
16:20 Developing and Applying Custom Static Analysis Tools for Industrial Multi-Language Code Bases - abstract Dennis R. Dams, Jeroen Ketema, Pepijn Kramer, Arjan J. Mooij, and Andrei Radulescu
16:40 - 16:50 Break
16:50 - 17:50
16:50 A Curated Dataset of Bots in Github Repositories - abstract Natarajan Chidambaram and Tom Mens
17:10 On the impact of GitHub Actions on CI services in GitHub - link Mehdi Golzadeh
17:30 Reuse and Maintenance Practices among Variant Forks in Three Software Ecosystems - link John Businge and Openja Moses
17:50 - 18:00 Closing, Next Benevol - Damian A. Tamburri

Organization

Damian Tamburri
Damian A. Tamburri

Jheronimus Academy of Data Science

Dario Di Nucci
Dario Di Nucci

Jheronimus Academy of Data Science

Gemma Catolino
Gemma Catolino

Jheronimus Academy of Data Science

Program Committee

Call for papers

The goal of BENEVOL is to bring together researchers who are working in the field of software evolution and maintenance. BENEVOL offers an informal forum to meet and to discuss new ideas, important problems and obtained research results.

BENEVOL accepts submissions in two categories:

Technical papers (max 4 pages main text + 1 page of references) will undergo a mild yet constructive review. We explicitly solicit papers in the early stages of research, which are still rather rough around the edges and would benefit from feedback from the community. Technical papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, assessing whether they are within the scope of BENEVOL (i.e., software maintenance and evolution) and meet its quality criteria. Authors will be asked to improve their paper and submit a camera ready version that will be published in the CEUR-WS.org workshop proceedings.

Presentation abstracts (max 1 page) report on research results that have already been published, or that are ready to be submitted to a conference or a journal. They will only be reviewed for relevance, and will not be included in the BENEVOL proceedings. When accepted, the 1-pagers will be made available on the website of the workshop. Of particular interest are summaries that try to provoke discussion, initiate challenging new avenues, etc.

Submission Guidelines

All submission must conform to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines For Conference Proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format; must use the A4 page size and must add page-numbers at the bottom. Technical papers, when properly formatted, must not exceed four (4) pages main text + one (1) page of references, while presentation abstracts should not exceed one (1) page. This limit includes the main text, figures, tables, and appendices.

Submit your paper via EasyChair. Mark the category it belongs to, i.e., a technical paper or a presentation abstract. You can upload incremental versions of your paper so do not wait until the last minute to submit.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline - Technical Papers: Fri November 5, 2021 AoE Fri November 12, 2021 AoE
  • Submission deadline - Presentation Abstracts: Fri November 12, 2021 AoE
  • Author notification: Wed November 24, 2021 AoE
  • Registration deadline: Always Open
  • Camera ready deadline: Mon December 13, 2021 AoE

Proceedings

BENEVOL 2021 proceedings are available on CEUR-ws.

Sponsored by:

CEUR-WS