Awards

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

• A Longitudinal Analysis of Bloated Java Dependencies
  César Soto-Valero, Thomas Durieux, and Benoit Baudry
• AlloyMax: Bringing Maximum Satisfaction to Relational Specifications
  Changjian Zhang, Ryan Wagner, Pedro Orvalho, David Garlan, Vasco Manquinho, Ruben Martins, and Eunsuk Kang
• Bias in Machine Learning Software: Why? How? What to Do?
  Joymallya Chakraborty, Suvodeep Majumder, and Tim Menzies
• Efficient Module-Level Dynamic Analysis for Dynamic Languages with Module Recontextualization
  Nikos Vasilakis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Veit Heller, and Martin C. Rinard
• Probabilistic Delta Debugging
  Guancheng Wang, Ruobing Shen, Junjie Chen, Yingfei Xiong, and Lu Zhang
• Semantic Bug Seeding: A Learning-Based Approach for Creating Realistic Bugs
  Jibesh Patra and Michael Pradel
• SmartCommit: A Graph-Based Interactive Assistant for Activity-Oriented Commits
  Bo Shen, Wei Zhang, Christian Kästner, Haiyan Zhao, Zhao Wei, Guangtai Liang, and Zhi Jin
• Vet: Identifying and Avoiding UI Exploration Tarpits
  Wenyu Wang, Wei Yang, Tianyin Xu, and Tao Xie

Best Artifact Award

• DIFFBASE: A Differential Factbase for Effective Software Evolution Management
  Xiuheng Wu, Chenguang Zhu, and Yi Li
• Feature Trace Recording
  Paul Maximilian Bittner, Alexander Schultheiß, Thomas Thüm, Timo Kehrer, Jeffrey M. Young, and Lukas Linsbauer

ACM Student Research Competition Award

Graduate Category

• [Gold] Discovering Repetitive Code Changes in ML Systems
  Malinda Dilhara
• [Silver] A General Approach to Modeling Java Framework Behaviors
  Linghui Luo
• [Bronze] Mitigating Security Attacks in Kubernetes Manifests for Security Best Practices Violation
  Shazibul Islam Shamim

Undergraduate Category

• [Gold] Accelerating Redundancy-Based Program Repair via Code Representation Learning and Adaptive Patch Filtering
  Chen Yang
• [Silver] SMT Solver Testing with Type and Grammar Based Mutation
  Jiwon Park
• [Bronze] PorkFuzz: Testing Stateful Software-Defined Network Applications with Property Graphs
  Chaofan Shou

Distinguished Reviewer Award

• Venera Arnaoudova
• Antonia Bertolino
• Myra Cohen
• Davide Di Ruscio
• Gordon Fraser
• Rene Just
• Nicole Novielli
• Bogdan Vasilescu
• Yingfei Xiong
• Lu Zhang

Test of Time Award

Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Harald C. Gall, and Premkumar T. Devanbu

Honorable Mention:

Managing Performance vs. Accuracy Trade-offs with Loop Perforation
Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, Sasa Misailovic, Henry Hoffmann, and Martin C. Rinard