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Fri 13 Nov 2020 01:07 - 01:08 at Virtual room 1 - Empirical

Mining software repositories (MSR) has been shown effective for extracting data used to improve various software engineering tasks, including code completion, code repair, code search, and code summarization. Despite a large body of work on MSR, researchers have focused almost exclusively on repositories that contain code written in imperative programming languages, such as Java and C/C++. Unlike prior work, in this paper, we focus on mining publicly available hardware descriptions (HDs) written in hardware description languages (HDLs), such as VHDL. HDLs have unique syntax and semantics compared to popular imperative languages, and learning-based tools available to hardware designers are well behind those used in other application domains. We assembled large HD corpora consisting of source code written in several HDLs and report on their characteristics. Our language model evaluation reveals that HDs possess a high level of naturalness similar to software written in imperative languages. Further, by utilizing our corpora, we built several deep learning models for automated code completion in VHDL; our models take into account unique characteristics of HDLs, including similarities of nearby concurrent signal assignment statements, in-built concurrency, and the frequently used signal types. These characteristics led to more effective neural models, achieving a BLEU score of 37.3, an 8-14-point improvement over rule-based and neural baselines.

Fri 13 Nov

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01:00 - 01:30
01:00
2m
Talk
A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effects of Embedded Computer Language Switching
Research Papers
P. Merlin Uesbeck University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA, Cole S. Peterson University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Bonita Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Andreas Stefik University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA
DOI
01:03
1m
Talk
BugsInPy: A Database of Existing Bugs in Python Programs to Enable Controlled Testing and Debugging Studies
Tool Demos
Ratnadira Widyasari Singapore Management University, Singapore, Sheng Qin Sim Singapore Management University, Singapore, Camellia Lok Singapore Management University, Singapore, Haodi Qi Singapore Management University, Singapore, Jack Phan Singapore Management University, Singapore, Qijin Tay Singapore Management University, Singapore, Constance Tan Singapore Management University, Singapore, Fiona Wee Singapore Management University, Singapore, Jodie Ethelda Tan Singapore Management University, Singapore, Yuheng Yieh Singapore Management University, Singapore, Brian Goh Singapore Management University, Singapore, Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University, Hong Jin Kang Singapore Management University, Singapore, Thong Hoang Singapore Management University, Singapore, David Lo Singapore Management University, Eng Lieh Ouh Singapore Management University, Singapore
DOI
01:05
1m
Talk
Do Code Review Measures Explain the Incidence of Post-Release Defects? Case Study Replications and Bayesian Networks
Journal First
Andrey Krutauz Concordia University, Tapajit Dey Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Peter Rigby Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Audris Mockus University of Tennessee - Knoxville
01:07
1m
Talk
On the Naturalness of Hardware Descriptions
Research Papers
Jaeseong Lee University of Texas at Austin, USA, Pengyu Nie University of Texas at Austin, USA, Junyi Jessy Li University of Texas at Austin, USA, Milos Gligoric University of Texas at Austin
DOI
01:09
1m
Talk
Understanding Build Issue Resolution in Practice: Symptoms and Fix Patterns
Research Papers
Yiling Lou Peking University, China, Zhenpeng Chen Peking University, China, Yanbin Cao Peking University, China, Dan Hao Peking University, China, Lu Zhang Peking University, China
DOI
01:11
1m
Talk
Understanding Type Changes in Java
Research Papers
Ameya Ketkar Oregon State University, USA, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Canada, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, USA
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
01:13
17m
Talk
Conversations on Empirical 2
Paper Presentations
Cole S. Peterson University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Pengyu Nie University of Texas at Austin, USA, Ratnadira Widyasari Singapore Management University, Singapore, Peter Rigby Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Yiling Lou Peking University, China, M: Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland