SOAP 2022: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis

Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java, and other programming languages, have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, various analysis frameworks have been developed to provide techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance.

SOAP 2022 aims to bring together the members of the program analysis community to share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis.

For SOAP 2022, we invite contributions from researchers and practitioners working with program analysis. We are particularly interested in exciting analysis framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results or work in progress.

We encourage submissions by industrial participants, including tool demonstration submissions.

The workshop format will continue its tradition of lively discussions on extensions of existing frameworks, the development of novel analyses and tools, and how program analysis is used in real-world scenarios.

The expected format of the workshop will be: a full-day workshop, on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 (TBC), with:

• 3 invited talks by leading members of the program analysis community,
• presentations of all accepted refereed papers, and
• time for discussion.

Keynote Speakers

Static Analysis for Data Scientists

Caterina Urban

Using static analysis to scale security at Meta

Francesco Logozzo

Program Analysis for the Optimization and Verification of (Ethereum) Smart Contracts

Elvira Albert

Accepted Papers

Call for Papers

SOAP 2022 aims to bring together the members of the program analysis community to share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis.

For SOAP 2022, we invite contributions from researchers and practitioners working with program analysis. We are particularly interested in exciting analysis framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results or work in progress. We will also focus on the state of the practice for program analysis by encouraging submissions by industrial participants, including tool demonstration submissions.

Type of Submissions

Possible submissions include, but are not limited to:

• A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and performance.

• A new research tool, data, and other artifacts, that showcase early implementations of novel program analysis concepts, as well as mature prototypes.

• A description of a novel analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains.

• A report describing an innovative tool built on top of an existing framework.

• A compelling use case for a feature that is not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature.

• An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs.

• An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework.

• A description of a program analysis tool and screenshots of the main parts of the demo.

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Format

Submissions should be four to six-page papers (excluding references) and should be formatted according to the two-column ACM proceedings format. Each reference must list all authors of the paper. The citations should be in numerical style, e.g., [52].

Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author.

The ACM class \documentclass[sigplan,screen]{acmart} should be used in order to ensure the expected default settings and correct colors.

Submissions will be processed with easychair.