SPLASH 2026
Sun 4 - Fri 9 October 2026 Oakland, California, United States
co-located with SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 5 Oct 2026 11:42 - 12:00 at East Hall 1 - Debugging and Fault Localization

Reasoning about the correctness of distributed systems is a significant challenge, with precise correctness specifications serving as an essential prerequisite to verification. However, identifying and formulating specifications remains a major hurdle for developers in practice. Specy addresses this challenge by automatically learning specifications from observable \emph{event traces} generated by message exchanges in distributed systems. The system employs a specialized grammar tailored for event-based specifications, incorporating support for quantifiers over events – a capability essential for capturing the complex behavioral patterns inherent in distributed protocols. Specy utilizes a novel learning procedure that combines grammar-based enumerative search with dynamic learning from event traces, providing effective control over the specification search. We evaluated Specy on established distributed protocols and industrial case studies, demonstrating its ability to successfully learn important protocol specifications. Specy can discover previously unidentified specifications overlooked by developers, automatically derive inductive invariants that were previously constructed manually for verification purposes, and, through run-time monitoring in production systems, reveal gaps in testing coverage – highlighting opportunities to leverage specifications in practice.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Mon 5 Oct

Displayed time zone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) change

10:30 - 12:00
Debugging and Fault LocalizationOOPSLA at East Hall 1
10:30
18m
Talk
Debugging Debugging Information Using Dynamic Call Trees
OOPSLA
J. Ryan Stinnett King's College London, Stephen Kell King's College London
DOI Pre-print
10:48
18m
Talk
Automated Debugging of Datalog Programs
OOPSLA
Jiashen Wei Nanjing University, China, Baoyuan Luo Nanjing University, China, Runshuo Xie Nanjing University, China, Yun Qi Nanjing University, Yiyu Zhang Nanjing University, Xizao Wang Nanjing University, Xintao Niu Nanjing University, Zhiqiang Zuo Nanjing University
11:06
18m
Talk
Accurate Residues for Floating-Point Debugging
OOPSLA
Yumeng He University of Utah, Pavel Panchekha University of Utah
11:24
18m
Talk
Prosecutor: Bayesian Counterfactual Fault Localization
OOPSLA
Sara Baradaran University of Southern California, Yifei Huang University of Southern California, Wei Le Iowa State University, Mukund Raghothaman University of Southern California
11:42
18m
Talk
Specy: Learning Specifications for Distributed Systems from Event Traces
OOPSLA
Mike He Princeton University, Ankush Desai Snowflake, Aishwarya Jagarapu Amazon Web Services, Doug Terry LinkedIn, Sharad Malik Princeton University, Aarti Gupta Princeton University
Pre-print