CYSEC Researchers successful at ECOOP 2016

Prof. Michael Pradel and Jibesh Patra from Software Lab won the Distinguished Poster Award at ECOOP 2016. The paper „Language-Independent Fuzz Testing with Probabilistic, Generative Models“ presents Genesis, a generic approach for generating structured data without an a priori known model. The key idea is to exploit a given corpus of example data to automatically infer a probabilistic, generative model that creates new data with properties similar to the corpus. Using the Genesis-generated JavaScript programs for differential testing of web browsers, the authors find various inconsistencies, including browser bugs, unimplemented language features, and browser-specific behavior that developers should be aware of.

The European Conference on Object Oriented Programming is a scientific meeting dedicated to the study of object-oriented technologies broadly construed. ECOOP 2016 was held at Rome, Italy, from July 17 to July 22, 2016