online talk "Localization of Unreproducible Builds"

[Nicolò Balzarotti]

Hi,

will a recording of the talk be available elsewhere?
I cannot use zoom but I'm interested in this talk.

Thanks,
Nicolò

Martin Monperrus <martin.monperrus at gnieh.org> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> You are warmly invited to attend the online talk:
>
> Localization of Unreproducible Builds
> Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13h CET
> https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/62157301631​
>
> Best regards,
>
> --Martin Monperrus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
>
> # Title
> Localization of Unreproducible Builds
>
> # Speaker
> Jifeng Xuan, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
>
> # Abstract
> Reproducibility is the ability of recreating identical binaries under 
> pre-defined build environments. Due to the need of quality assurance and 
> the benefit of better detecting attacks against build environments, the 
> practice of reproducible builds has gained popularity in many 
> open-source software repositories such as Debian and Bitcoin. However, 
> identifying the unreproducible issues remains a labour intensive and 
> time-consuming challenge. In this talk, we introduce a technique called 
> RepLoc of localizing the problematic files for unreproducible builds. 
> RepLoc features a query augmentation component that utilizes the 
> information extracted from the build logs, and a heuristic rule-based 
> filtering component that narrows the search scope. By integrating the 
> two components with a weighted file ranking module, RepLoc is able to 
> automatically produce a ranked list of files that are helpful in 
> locating the problematic files for the unreproducible builds. We have 
> implemented a prototype and conducted extensive experiments over 671 
> real-world unreproducible Debian packages in four different categories. 
> After introducing the localization of unreproducible builds, the talk 
> presents several of our efforts that address the reproduction of 
> software behaviors.
>
> # Bio
> Jifeng Xuan is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan 
> University, China. He received the B.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree from 
> Dalian University of Technology, China. He was previously a postdoctoral 
> researcher at the INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France. He has published over 
> 60 papers in software engineering. His work won the ACM SIGSOFT 
> Distinguished Paper Award and the ESI Highly-cited Papers. He was 
> elected by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China 
> Association for Science and Technology (CAST); he has won the 
> Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of the China Computer Federation 
> (CCF). He is a PC member of several conferences, including ASE, ISSTA, 
> SANER. He is a reviewer of several journals, including TSE, TOSEM, TKDE, 
> TEVC, TMIS, TSC, TRE. His research interests include software testing 
> and debugging, software data analysis, and search-based software 
> engineering. Please visit his research group, CSTAR, 
> http://cstar.whu.edu.cn/