Date	Topic (tentative)	Notes	Reading For This Lecture
Th 08/22/24	Course Introduction		HW0 Specification
T 08/27/24	SE Research Overview; Basic Research Methodology and Skills		Wikipedia's Software Development Process The Heilmeier Catechism Does double-blind review system work well? The Myth of Double-Blind Review Revisited: ACL vs. EMNLP"
Th 08/29/24	SE Research Overview; Basic Research Methodology and Skills
T 09/03/24	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]
Th 09/05/24	Program Analysis, Testing, and Repair II
Sun 09/08/24	(None; this is a saturday)	HW0 due
T 09/10/24	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
Th 09/12/24	Program Analysis, Testing, and Repair III
09/15/24	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW1 due
T 09/17/24	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 09/19/24	Human Factors II: Measures and Analysis
T 09/24/24	AI&SE: AI4SE, SE4AI
Th 09/26/24	Open Source Software		What is open source?
T 10/01/24	Research Project Selection Guidance
Th 10/03/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[LeGoues2012] A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 bugs for $8 Each Presentation 2:*[Terrel2017] Gender Difference and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women versus Men
T 10/08/24	Presentations: Mid-Research Proposal x 6	Presenting order:	Sreynit Khatt Ruiqing Lan, Tanvi Hadgaonkar, Tutku Nazli Haowen Yao, Kun Chen, Xindong Zheng Cai Lemieux Mack, Tiancheng He Noah Dahle Yuze Gao, Zhenyu Liu, Zhiting Zhou
Th 10/10/24	(None; Fall break)
T 10/15/24	Presentations: Mid-Research Proposal x 6	Presenting order:	Jiahao Zhang, Zixuan Liu Mel Krusniak Syed Ali, Muhammad Rahman, Arnav Chahal Qinwen Ge, Xueqi Chen Jialin Yue, Jieyu Li, Zhengyi Lu Shreeya Arora, Carol He, Marcus Kamen
Th 10/17/24	mid-proposal presentation x 3 + Paper Presentation x1		Ian Miller Sodabe Bandali Yizhou Guo, Kun Peng, Yan Zhang Presentation 1:*[Luo2014] An Empirical Analysis of Flaky Test
10/20/24	(None; this is a Sunday)	HW2 due
T 10/22/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1:*[Sun2024] ACAV: A Framework for Automatic Causality Analysis in Autonomous Vehicle Accident Recordings Presentation 2:*[Parnin2011] Are Automated Debugging Techniques Actually Helping Programmers?
Th 10/24/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Wardat2022] DeepDiagnosis: Automatically Diagnosing Faults and Recommending Actionable Fixes in Deep Learning Programs Presentation 2: *[Fang2023] A Four-Year Study of Student Contribution to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention
T 10/29/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Karas2024] A Tale of Two Comprehensions? Analyzing Student Programmer Atention during Code Summarization Presentation 2: *[Zhang2024] EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization
Th 10/31/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Burnett2016] GenderMag: A Method for Evaluating Software’s Gender Inclusiveness Presentation 2: *[Kou2024] Do Large Language Models Pay Similar Attention Like Human Programmers When Generating Code?
T 11/05/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Huang2024] Your Code Secret Belongs to Me: Neural Code Completion Tools Can Memorize Hard-Coded Credentials Presentation 2: *[Ahmed2024] Causal Relationships and Programming Outcomes: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Experiment
Th 11/07/24	Paper Presentations		Presentation 1: *[Rafi2022] Towards Automatic Oracle Prediction of Object Placements in Augmented Reality Testing Presentation 2: *[Kazemitabaar2024] How Novices Use LLM-Based Code Generators to Solve CS1 Coding Tasks in a Self-Paced Learning Environment
T 11/12/24	Presentations: Final Research Proposal x 3	Presenting order:	Sreynit Khatt Ruiqing Lan, Tanvi Hadgaonkar, Tutku Nazli Haowen Yao, Kun Chen, Xindong Zheng
Th 11/14/24	Presentations: Final Research Proposal x 3	Presenting order:	Cai Lemieux Mack, Tiancheng He Noah Dahle Yuze Gao, Zhenyu Liu, Zhiting Zhou
T 11/19/24	Presentations: Final Research Proposal x 3	Presenting order:	Jiahao Zhang, Zixuan Liu Mel Krusniak Syed Ali, Muhammad Rahman, Arnav Chahal
Th 11/21/24	Presentations: Final Research Proposal x 3	Presenting order:	Qinwen Ge, Xueqi Chen Jialin Yue, Jieyu Li, Zhengyi Lu Shreeya Arora, Carol He, Marcus Kamen
T 11/26/24	(None; Thanksgiving holiday)
Th 11/28/24	(None; Thanksgiving holiday)
T 12/03/24	Presentations: Final Research Proposal x 3	Presenting order:	Ian Miller Sodabe Bandali Yizhou Guo, Kun Peng, Yan Zhang
Wed 12/04/24	Last Day of Class of Vanderbilt, no lectures for us	HW3 due