Thu 18 Jul 2024 16:00 - 16:18 at Acerola - Log Analysis and Debugging Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli

Logging practices have been extensively investigated to assist developers in writing appropriate logging statements for documenting software behaviors. Although numerous automatic logging approaches have been proposed, their performance remains unsatisfactory due to the constraint of the single-method input, without informative programming context outside the method. Specifically, we identify three inherent limitations with single-method context: limited static scope of logging statements, inconsistent logging styles, and missing type information of logging variables. To tackle these limitations, we propose SCLogger, the first contextualized logging statement generation approach with inter-method static contexts. First, SCLogger extracts inter-method contexts with static analysis to construct the contextualized prompt for language models to generate a tentative logging statement. The contextualized prompt consists of an extended static scope and sampled similar methods, ordered by the chain-of-thought (COT) strategy. Second, SCLogger refines the access of logging variables by formulating a new refinement prompt for language models, which incorporates detailed type information of variables in the tentative logging statement. The evaluation results show that SCLogger surpasses the state-of-the-art approach by 8.7% in logging position accuracy, 32.1% in level accuracy, 19.6% in variable precision, and 138.4% in text BLEU-4 score. Furthermore, SCLogger consistently boosts the performance of logging statement generation across a range of large language models, thereby showcasing the generalizability of this approach.

Thu 18 Jul

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16:00 - 18:00
Log Analysis and DebuggingResearch Papers / Industry Papers at Acerola
Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg
16:00
18m
Talk
Go Static: Contextualized Logging Statement Generation
Research Papers
Yichen LI The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yintong Huo The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Renyi Zhong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhihan Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jinyang Liu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junjie Huang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jiazhen Gu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
16:18
18m
Talk
DeSQL: Interactive Debugging of SQL in Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
Research Papers
Sabaat Haroon Virginia tech, Chris Brown Virginia Tech, Muhammad Ali Gulzar Virginia Tech
16:36
18m
Talk
DTD: Comprehensive and Scalable Testing for Debuggers
Research Papers
Hongyi Lu Southern University of Science and Technology/Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhibo Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shuai Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fengwei Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
16:54
9m
Talk
Decoding Anomalies! Unraveling Operational Challenges in Human-in-the-Loop Anomaly Validation
Industry Papers
Dong Jae Kim Concordia University, Steven Locke , Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Andrei Toma ERA Environmental Management Solutions, Sarah Sajedi ERA Environmental Management Solutions, Steve Sporea , Laura Weinkam
17:03
18m
Talk
A Critical Review of Common Log Data Sets Used for Evaluation of Sequence-based Anomaly Detection Techniques
Research Papers
Max Landauer AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Florian Skopik AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Markus Wurzenberger AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
17:21
18m
Research paper
LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache
Research Papers
Zhihan Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jinyang Liu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zhuangbin Chen School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Yichen LI The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Junjie Huang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yintong Huo The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Jiazhen Gu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI Pre-print
17:39
18m
Talk
TraStrainer: Adaptive Sampling for Distributed Traces with System Runtime StateDistinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Haiyu Huang Sun Yat-sen University, Xiaoyu Zhang HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD., Pengfei Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Zilong He Sun Yat-sen University, Zhiming Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Guangba  Yu Sun Yat-sen University, Hongyang Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Chen Sun Huawei
Pre-print