Date	Topic (tentative)	Notes	Reading For This Lecture
Th 08/24/23	Course Introduction		HW0 Specification
Sat 08/26/23	(None; this is a saturday)	HW0 due
T 08/29/23	SE Research Overview, Proposals, and Presentations		Wikipedia's Software Development Process HW1 Specification The Heilmeier Catechism Does double-blind review system work well? The Myth of Double-Blind Review Revisited: ACL vs. EMNLP"
Th 08/31/23	Program Analysis, Testing, and Repair I		Sections 2.0 to 2.5 of Henderson's Software Engineering at Google [Google] Wikipedia's Quality Assurance Wikipedia's Static Program Analysis Wikipedia's Dynamic Program Analysis Wikipedia's Basic Block Wikipedia's Data-flow Analysis Wikipedia's Profiling Wikipedia's Software Testing Wikipedia's Code Coverage Wikipedia's Mutation Testing Wikipedia's Test Data Generation "How did mutation testing improve code review feedback by over 60% for over 10,000 code authors at Google?" Find out in: Petrovic and Ivankovic's State of Mutation Testing at Google [Google] Ayewah et al.'s Experiences Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs [Google] <"Where do invariants come from?" Find out in: Ernst et al.'s The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants "How does Microsoft find bugs in critical device drivers?" Find out in: Ball et al.'s A Decade of Software Model Checking with SLAM [Microsoft] "What are deployment challenges for static analysis?" Find out in: Bessey et al.'s A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World [Coverity] Musuvathi et al.'s Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs [Microsoft] Optional: "How can we detect locking bugs?" Find out in: Savage et al.'s Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs [Digital] Read up to, but not including, "Program Specific Checkers" in Zeller's Fuzzing: Breaking Things with Random Inputs "Can fuzz testing find security bugs?" Find out in: Godefroid et al.'s Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing [Microsoft]
09/03/23	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW1 due
T 09/05/23	Program Analysis, Testing, and Repair II
Th 09/07/23	Guest Lecture: Prof. Kevin Leach Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Note: This lecture will be in person at the scheduled lecture time .	Software Security: Malware Analysis
T 09/12/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: [Ayewah2008] Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs. Presentation 2: [Weimer2010] Automatic Program Repair with Evolutionary Computation
Th 09/14/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Memon2017] Taming Google-Scale Continuous Testing Presentation 2: *[Parnin2011] Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?
T 09/19/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Feng2023] Efficiency Matters: Speeding Up Automated Testing with GUI Rendering Inference Presentation 2: *[Zhao2023] Demystifying Privacy Policy of Third-Party Libraries in Mobile Apps
Th 09/21/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Shin2010] Evaluating Complexity, Code Churn, and Developer Activity Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities Presentation 2:*[Tian2022] Learning to Construct Better Mutation Faults
T 09/26/23	Human Factors I: Overview, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods		Begel and Zimmermann's Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering [Microsoft] "How does measurement bias relate to software?" Find out in: Mytkowicz et al.'s Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!" [IBM] Don't want to read the Mytkowicz paper? Watch the video instead! Floyd et al.'s Decoding the representation of code in the brain: An fMRI study of code review and expertise Krueger et al.'s Neurological divide: an fMRI study of prose and code writing. Huang et al.'s Biases and Difference in Code Review Using Medical Imaging and Eye-Tracking: Genders, Humans, and Machines
Th 09/28/23	Human Factors II: Medical Imaging and Analysis	Given by: Zachary Karas
T 10/03/23	Presentations: Mid-Research Proposal	YueKe Zhang & Xiaohan Wang; Yuxin Hu & Weiheng Qiu; David Gao; Zihan Fang; Jeffery Pan; Azar Hasan.
Th 10/05/23	Presentations: Mid-Research Proposal	Chi Huynh; Sandhya Vankataramaiah & Arpit Ojha ; Manda Li; Surya Chand Rayala & Sunny Ashutoshbhai Bhatt ; Runxuan Yu; Dung Nguyen.
T 10/10/23	Presentations: Mid-Research Proposal	Jackson Rusch; Mary Stirling Brown ; Rohan Kola ; Zoe Luther & Alexy Skoutnev ; Qiantong Wang ; Tito Ebiwonjumi.
Th 10/12/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Huang2019] Distilling Neural Representations of Data Structure Manipulation using fMRI and fNIRS Presentation 2: *[Busjahn2015] Eye Movements in Code Reading: Relaxing the Linear Order
10/15/23	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW2 due
T 10/17/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1:*[Dell2012] "Yours is Better!" Participant Response Bias in HCI Presentation 2:*[Behroozi2022] Asynchronous Technical Interviews: Reducing the Effect of Supervised Think-Aloud on Communication Ability
Th 10/19/23	(None; Fall break)
T 10/24/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Murphy-Hill2019] Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet? Presentation 2: *[vanBreukelen2023] "STILL AROUND": Experiences and Survival Strategies of Veteran Women Software Developers.
Th 10/26/23	AI4SE	Given by: Yifan Zhang (Prof. Huang is out of town for ESEM)
T 10/31/23	Guest Lecture	Given by: Prof. Wes Weimer
Th 11/02/23	Open Source Software		What is open source?
T 11/7/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: [Hindle2022] On the Naturalness of Software Presentation 2: *[Guo2021] GraphCodeBERT: Pre-Training Code Representations with Data Flow
Th 11/09/23	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1:*[Fang2023] A Four-Year Study of Student Contribution to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention Presentation 2:*[Terrel2017] Gender Difference and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women versus Men
T 11/14/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	YueKe Zhang & Xiaohan Wang; Yuxin Hu & Weiheng Qiu; David Gao;
Th 11/16/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	Zihan Fang; Jeffery Pan; Azar Hasan
T 11/21/23	(None; Thanksgiving holiday)
Th 11/23/23	(None; Thanksgiving holiday)
T 11/28/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	Chi Huynh; Sandhya Vankataramaiah & Arpit Ojha ; Manda Li;
Th 11/30/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	Surya Chand Rayala & Sunny Ashutoshbhai Bhatt ; Runxuan Yu; Dung Nguyen;
T 12/05/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	Jackson Rusch; Mary Stirling Brown ; Rohan Kola ;
Th 12/07/23	Final-Proposal Presentations	Zoe Luther & Alexy Skoutnev ; Qiantong Wang ; Tito Ebiwonjumi. HW3 due