Thu 18 Jul 2024 14:54 - 15:12 at Acerola - Empirical Studies 3 Chair(s): Shane McIntosh

Modern software engineering establishes software supply chains and relies on tools and libraries to improve productivity. However, reusing external software in a project presents a security risk when the source of the component is unknown or the consistency of a component cannot be verified. The SolarWinds attack serves as a popular example in which the injection of malicious code into a library affected thousands of customers and caused a loss of billions of dollars. Reproducible builds present a mitigation strategy, as they can confirm the origin and consistency of reused components. A large reproducibility community has formed for Debian, but the reproducibility of the Maven ecosystem, the backbone of the Java supply chain, remains understudied in comparison. Reproducible Central is an initiative that curates a list of reproducible Maven libraries, but the list is limited and challenging to maintain. Our research aims to support these efforts in the Maven ecosystem through automation. We investigate the feasibility of automatically finding the source code of a library from its Maven release and recovering information about the original release environment. Our tool, AROMA, can obtain this critical information from the artifact and the source repository through several heuristics and we use the results for reproduction attempts of Maven packages. Overall, our approach achieves an accuracy of up to 99.5 when compared to the existing manual approach. In some instances, we even detected flaws in the manually maintained list, such as broken repository links. We demonstrate our ability to successfully reproduce new packages and have contributed some of them to the Reproducible Central repository. Additionally, we highlight actionable insights, outline future work in this area, and make our dataset and tools available to the public.

Thu 18 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
Empirical Studies 3Research Papers / Journal First at Acerola
Chair(s): Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
14:00
18m
Talk
Understanding the Impact of APIs Behavioral Breaking Changes on Client Applications
Research Papers
Dhanushka Jayasuriya University of Auckland, Valerio Terragni University of Auckland, Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
14:18
18m
Talk
Analyzing the BizDev Interface in an Enterprise Context: A Case of Developers Acting in Business
Journal First
Breno de França UNICAMP, Caique Moreira Instituto de Computação - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
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14:36
18m
Talk
Silent Bugs in Deep Learning Frameworks: An Empirical Study of Keras and TensorFlow
Journal First
Florian Tambon Polytechnique Montréal, Amin Nikanjam École Polytechnique de Montréal, Le An Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Giuliano Antoniol Polytechnique Montréal
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14:54
18m
Talk
AROMA: Automatic Reproduction of Maven Artifacts
Research Papers
Mehdi Keshani Delft University of Technology, Tudor-Gabriel Velican Delft University of Technology, Gideon Bot Delft University of Technology, Sebastian Proksch Delft University of Technology
15:12
18m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Task Infections in Ansible Scripts
Journal First
Akond Rahman Auburn University, Dibyendu Brinto Bose Graduate Student, Yue Zhang Auburn University, Rahul Pandita GitHub, Inc.
Link to publication Authorizer link Pre-print