Comparing Fuzzing Techniques

Dear former course participants,

Thank you for your interest in software testing and debugging! We're developing Alhazen, a tool that automatically finds out when and why your program fails. We are heavily relying on your opinion as professional developers. Please take part in our user study to help us tie our approach to your needs:

    https://tinyurl.com/debuggingstudy

Thanks a lot!

Andreas Zeller + Team

Dear all,

    Due to the Global Climate Strike taking place on 20th September, of which CISPA is a part of, we will have our main presentation on October 8th 2 PM to 6 PM. As before, we will have 20 minutes per presentation, with a few minutes for questions. For those who can't make it on October 8th, please let us know in advance so that we may schedule a presentation on 20th September, during the morning hours. Please get in touch with us regarding the contents of the topic for the final presentation.

Regards,
Rahul & Andreas

Dear all,

     For the final presentation, we are planning conducting all presentations on a single day. The schedule will be from 9 AM to 1 PM, and 2 PM to 6 PM, 20 minutes per presentation, with a few minutes of questions. Please indicate your availability in the doodle poll below.

https://doodle.com/poll/7uhr2qabkfq4i2mv

Once we have a date that is acceptable to the majority, we will schedule individual presentation slots.

Regards,

Rahul & Andreas

Dear all,

Our next seminar meeting will take place on July 5 (13:30, as usual).  We will have one last project presentation (from last week) and can spend some time discussing open evaluation issues.  We're all still very excited about your last results!

In this meeting, we will also distribute and fill out evaluation sheets for the seminar.  Should you not be able to join on Friday, and pass by CISPA anyway, you can also pick up a sheet in Rahul's office (CISPA, Room 206) and fill it out right away.

Looking forward to see you, and best wishes,

Andreas + Rahul

Dear all,

as announced in the last news and discussed on Friday:

• On June 21 and June 28 (this Friday and the Friday after), we would like to see intermediate results from your work in a 5-minute presentation, followed by 5 minutes of joint discussion and feedback.  This will guide the next steps of your work.
• The preferred way to present would be right out of a Jupyter notebook, using the built-in slide generator.  As an alternative, you can submit your presentation as a PDF file via the CMS system the day before your presentation.

The schedule of talks is as follows (13:30, seminar room):

• Friday, June 21: Marius, Canberk, Mirabdulla, Abilash, Banji
• Friday, June 28: Johannes, Akbar, Annabelle, Sebastian.

Looking forward to your first results,

Andreas + Rahul

Dear all,

We hope all of you are doing well in your projects.  We have a series of upcoming seminar meetings to discuss progress and possible issues.

• On June 14 (tomorrow), we meet for discussing potential problems with your respective projects. This is an optional service meeting; if you don't have any problems, you don't have to come. Still, your presence will be appreciated as we will also talk about the next meetings.
• On June 21 and June 28 (next week and the week after), we would like to see intermediate results from your work in a 5-minute presentation, followed by 5 minutes of joint discussion and feedback.  This will guide the next steps of your work.
• The preferred way to present would be right out of a Jupyter notebook, using the built-in slide generator.  As an alternative, you can submit your presentation as a PDF file via the CMS system the day before your presentation.
• We will schedule talk slots during tomorrow's meeting and announce them separately.

Looking forward to see you, and let us know if you have any questions,

Andreas + Rahul

Hello Students,

We have updates on the CSS and HTML grammars. The CSS grammar is available at https://gist.github.com/vrthra/72cfafff238057a833ac13e12c37fe01 and the HTML grammar is available at https://gist.github.com/vrthra/f9392ab35751aa8960aeeb2de437f866 . These are meant to be over-approximations of the real grammar. That is, it should be able to parse a superset of valid HTML and CSS documents. However, there are some notable absences such as Unicode and non-printable characters. If you find that either of the grammars are missing any required part, please let us know (or even better: fix it, and send us a PR).

Regards,

Rahul

Dear all,

as of today noon, all of you should have had a 1:1 meeting regarding your particular evaluation / comparison task.  If you haven't done so already, please send us a mail describing your task in a handful of bullet points; this is to ensure we are all on the same boat.

As presented to most of you already, we will be preparing a set of evaluation subjects (HTML and CSS grammars and subjects) most of you can use in your evaluation; more on this on Friday.  If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us!

Looking forward to see you next week, and best wishes,

Andreas + Rahul

Dear all,