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PLDI 2021
Sun 20 - Sat 26 June 2021 PLDI

This second edition of the Infer Practitioners Workshop gathers together developers and researchers working with the Infer static analysis platform. Infer enables anyone to write their own scalable inter-procedural static analysis for C, C++, Objective-C, and Java source code in only a few lines of code. Infer is deployed at several companies where it helps developers write better code. Inside Facebook, thousands of code changes are analysed every month by Infer, leading to thousands of bugs being found and fixed before they reach the codebase. Infer is also being used in academia, both as a research tool and a teaching medium.

The goal of the workshop is to share knowledge about how to use and modify Infer in industrial and academic contexts.

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09:00 - 11:45
Session 1Infer Practitioners at Infer Practitioners
Chair(s): Dino Distefano Facebook London
09:00
40m
Talk
Journey to null safety for Java at Facebook. An experience report.
Infer Practitioners
Artem Pianykh Facebook London, Mitya Lyubarskiy Facebook London
09:40
15m
Live Q&A
Q&A 1
Infer Practitioners

09:55
40m
Talk
Classifying and Prioritizing Facebook Infer's Warnings
Infer Practitioners
Sofia Reis Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID, João Francisco Roberto Martins Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID, João F. Ferreira INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
10:35
15m
Live Q&A
Q&A 2
Infer Practitioners

10:50
40m
Talk
Compositional checking of safety temporal properties
Infer Practitioners
Radu Grigore Facebook
11:30
15m
Live Q&A
Q&A 3
Infer Practitioners

13:30 - 16:15
Session 2Infer Practitioners at Infer Practitioners
Chair(s): Ezgi Çiçek Facebook London
13:30
40m
Talk
Differential Cost Analysis with Infer and Possible Extensions for Concrete Cost Analysis
Infer Practitioners
Đorđe Žikelić IST Austria, Pauline Bolignano Amazon, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang University of Colorado at Boulder; Amazon
14:10
15m
Live Q&A
Q&A 4
Infer Practitioners

14:25
40m
Talk
Interactive Static Performance Analysis with Infer in the IDE
Infer Practitioners
Jürgen Cito TU Wien and Facebook
15:05
15m
Live Q&A
Q&A 5
Infer Practitioners

Call for Presentations

We welcome contributed technical talks around a range of Infer-related topics, including but not limited to:

  • new analyses implemented in Infer or using the results of existing Infer analyses
  • Infer’s core components, eg its analysis scheduler, language frontends, …
  • experience reports, for instance use of Infer in academic research, industry, or teaching

Please email your talk proposals to Jules Villard at jul-at-fb.com. Suggested format: title + one paragraph description.