Manuel Rigger
ETH Zurich, CNB H 101
Universitätstrasse 6
Switzerland, 8006 Zurich
Universitätstrasse 6
Switzerland, 8006 Zurich
Manuel Rigger is a postdoctoral researcher in the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab at ETH Zurich, mentored by Zhendong Su. He is working on programming language implementation, software reliability, and systems. In his recent work, he has been focusing on automatically testing Database Management Systems, part of which he found over 400 bugs in widely-used systems such as SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and CockroachDB. He completed his PhD at Johannes Kepler University Linz, mentored by Hanspeter Mössenböck, where he worked on the safe and efficient execution of unsafe languages (project Sulong). Part of his work was integrated into Oracle’s GraalVM to support the execution of LLVM IR on this platform.
Contact: manuel.rigger@inf.ethz.ch
News (all)
| Oct 7, 2020 | I was invited to present our DBMS-testing work to Databricks in a virtual talk, hosted by Reynold Xin, on October 29. |
| Aug 15, 2020 | Our paper “Testing Database Engines via Pivoted Query Synthesis” was accepted at OSDI. |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Our papers “Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning” and “Fast Linear Programming through Transprecision Computing on Small and Sparse Data” were conditionally accepted at OOPSLA 2020. |
| Jun 23, 2020 | I was invited to present our DBMS-testing work to the Hyper and Salesforce DBMS teams in a virtual talk, hosted by Tobias Mühlbauer, on July 7. |
| Jun 18, 2020 | I was invited to present our DBMS testing work to the IMDEA Software Institute in a virtual talk, hosted by Marco Guarnieri, on July 2. |
Main Projects
Selected Publications (all)
| OSDI 2020 |
Testing Database Engines via Pivoted Query Synthesis Manuel Rigger, Zhendong Su 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 20), Banff, Alberta, Canada (AR: 17%) [pdf] |
| OOPSLA 2020 |
Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning Manuel Rigger, Zhendong Su OOPSLA, Illinois, United States (AR: 36%) [pdf] |
| ESEC/FSE 2020 |
Detecting Optimization Bugs in Database Engines via Non-Optimizing Reference Engine Construction Manuel Rigger, Zhendong Su Proceedings of the 2020 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Sacramento, California, United States (AR: 28%) [pdf] |
| ESEC/FSE 2019 |
Understanding GCC Builtins to Develop Better Tools Manuel Rigger, Stefan Marr, Bram Adams, Hanspeter Mössenböck Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Tallinn, Estonia (AR: 24%) [pdf] [doi] [slides] [ACM authorizer link] |
| ASPLOS 2018 |
Sulong, and Thanks for All the Bugs: Finding Errors in C Programs by Abstracting from the Native Execution Model Manuel Rigger, Roland Schatz, Rene Mayrhofer, Matthias Grimmer, Hanspeter Mössenböck Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Williamsburg, VA, USA (AR: 18%) [pdf] [bibtex] [doi] [slides] [ACM authorizer link] |
Activities
Organization
-
2021:
ISSTA (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
-
2020:
ECOOP (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
-
2019:
Programming (Demo Chair), ECOOP (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
-
2018:
ManLang [previously PPPJ] (Publicity Co-Chair)
PC Member
-
2020:
MPLR, DLS, MoreVMs, POPL (Artifact Evaluation Committee), ASPLOS (External Review Committee Member)
-
2019:
MPLR, ICOOOLPS, ICW, MoreVMs
-
2018:
ECOOP and ISSTA DS
-
2017:
ECOOP DS
Journal Reviewing
External Reviewer/Subreviewer
Awards and Honours
- Awarded a JKU Early Research Achievement Award 2019 by Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nominee for the GI doctoral thesis award by the Department of Computer Science at JKU Linz, Austria
- ACM Student Research Competition Winner at Programming'18 in the graduate category
Recent Talks (all)
-
Salesforce and Tableau 2020: Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Tobias Muehlbauer)
-
IMDEA Software Institute 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Marco Guarnieri)
-
Saarland University 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Sven Apel)
Teaching
Fall 2020
- Compiler Design (TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
Spring 2020
- Research Topics in Software Engineering (Co-Lecturer)
- Data Modelling and Databases (TA)
Fall 2019
- Compiler Design (Lead TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
(Co-)supervised Theses
ETH Zurich
Bachelor Students
-
Tim Matter (in progress)
-
Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub]
-
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub]
-
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
- 2021: ISSTA (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
- 2020: ECOOP (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
- 2019: Programming (Demo Chair), ECOOP (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair)
- 2018: ManLang [previously PPPJ] (Publicity Co-Chair)
PC Member
-
2020:
MPLR, DLS, MoreVMs, POPL (Artifact Evaluation Committee), ASPLOS (External Review Committee Member)
-
2019:
MPLR, ICOOOLPS, ICW, MoreVMs
-
2018:
ECOOP and ISSTA DS
-
2017:
ECOOP DS
Journal Reviewing
External Reviewer/Subreviewer
Awards and Honours
- Awarded a JKU Early Research Achievement Award 2019 by Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nominee for the GI doctoral thesis award by the Department of Computer Science at JKU Linz, Austria
- ACM Student Research Competition Winner at Programming'18 in the graduate category
Recent Talks (all)
-
Salesforce and Tableau 2020: Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Tobias Muehlbauer)
-
IMDEA Software Institute 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Marco Guarnieri)
-
Saarland University 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Sven Apel)
Teaching
Fall 2020
- Compiler Design (TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
Spring 2020
- Research Topics in Software Engineering (Co-Lecturer)
- Data Modelling and Databases (TA)
Fall 2019
- Compiler Design (Lead TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
(Co-)supervised Theses
ETH Zurich
Bachelor Students
-
Tim Matter (in progress)
-
Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub]
-
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub]
-
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
- 2020: MPLR, DLS, MoreVMs, POPL (Artifact Evaluation Committee), ASPLOS (External Review Committee Member)
- 2019: MPLR, ICOOOLPS, ICW, MoreVMs
- 2018: ECOOP and ISSTA DS
- 2017: ECOOP DS
Journal Reviewing
External Reviewer/Subreviewer
Awards and Honours
- Awarded a JKU Early Research Achievement Award 2019 by Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nominee for the GI doctoral thesis award by the Department of Computer Science at JKU Linz, Austria
- ACM Student Research Competition Winner at Programming'18 in the graduate category
Recent Talks (all)
-
Salesforce and Tableau 2020: Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Tobias Muehlbauer)
-
IMDEA Software Institute 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Marco Guarnieri)
-
Saarland University 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Sven Apel)
Teaching
Fall 2020
- Compiler Design (TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
Spring 2020
- Research Topics in Software Engineering (Co-Lecturer)
- Data Modelling and Databases (TA)
Fall 2019
- Compiler Design (Lead TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
(Co-)supervised Theses
ETH Zurich
Bachelor Students
-
Tim Matter (in progress)
-
Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub]
-
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub]
-
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
External Reviewer/Subreviewer
Awards and Honours
- Awarded a JKU Early Research Achievement Award 2019 by Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nominee for the GI doctoral thesis award by the Department of Computer Science at JKU Linz, Austria
- ACM Student Research Competition Winner at Programming'18 in the graduate category
Recent Talks (all)
-
Salesforce and Tableau 2020: Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Tobias Muehlbauer)
-
IMDEA Software Institute 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Marco Guarnieri)
-
Saarland University 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Sven Apel)
Teaching
Fall 2020
- Compiler Design (TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
Spring 2020
- Research Topics in Software Engineering (Co-Lecturer)
- Data Modelling and Databases (TA)
Fall 2019
- Compiler Design (Lead TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
(Co-)supervised Theses
ETH Zurich
Bachelor Students
-
Tim Matter (in progress)
-
Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub]
-
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub]
-
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
Awards and Honours
- Awarded a JKU Early Research Achievement Award 2019 by Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Nominee for the GI doctoral thesis award by the Department of Computer Science at JKU Linz, Austria
- ACM Student Research Competition Winner at Programming'18 in the graduate category
Recent Talks (all)
-
Salesforce and Tableau 2020: Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Tobias Muehlbauer)
-
IMDEA Software Institute 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Marco Guarnieri)
-
Saarland University 2020: Three Tales on Finding Logic Bugs in Database Management Systems (hosted by Sven Apel)
Teaching
Fall 2020
- Compiler Design (TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
Spring 2020
- Research Topics in Software Engineering (Co-Lecturer)
- Data Modelling and Databases (TA)
Fall 2019
- Compiler Design (Lead TA)
- Software Engineering Seminar (TA)
(Co-)supervised Theses
ETH Zurich
Bachelor Students
-
Tim Matter (in progress)
-
Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub]
-
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub]
-
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
- Tim Matter (in progress)
- Bachmann Jules: Detecting Correctness Regression Bugs in DBMS
-
Jonas Müntener: A Reduction Tool for SQL
[GitHub] -
Attila Hirschi: Using Solvers to Provide Actionable Feedback to Developers for SQL Queries
[GitHub] -
Andrin Bertschi: A PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
[GitHub] [website] [Twitter] - Antonio Russo: Incorporating Machine-level Coverage Information in Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Master Students
-
Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
-
Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
-
Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
-
Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
- Patrick Stäuble (in progress)
- Dylan Wolff: Value Mutation Testing for SMT Solvers
- Hannes Pfammatter: Investigating the Effects of Unsafe Compiler Optimizations for Numerical Code
- Lilian Boesch: Automatically Testing GraalVM (in progress)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Bachelor Students
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub]
[website]
-
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub]
-
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub]
-
Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
-
Thomas Pointhuber: The Cicro Benchmarking Suite
[GitHub] [website] -
Florian Aufreiter: A Random Test Case Generator for Java Bytecode
[GitHub] -
Sebastian Kloibhofer: A Class File Reducer for Debugging Java-Bytecode-Based Tools
[GitHub] - Daniel Pekarek: Implementing Inline Assembly Support for Sulong
-
Mario Kahlhofer: A Bytecode Interpreter for Lambdas and Streams in Java
[Twitter]
Master Students
-
Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub]
[paper]
[Twitter]
-
Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper]
[website]
[Twitter]
- Daniel Pekarek: A Truffle-based Interpreter for x86 Binary Code
-
Raphael Mosaner: On-stack Replacement in Truffle Interpreters for Non-structured Languages
[GitHub] [paper] [Twitter] - Josef Haider: An ECMAScript 2015-Compliant Automata-based Regular Expression Engine for Graal.js
-
Jacob Kreindl: Source-Level Debugging Support for an LLVM-IR Interpreter
[paper] [website] [Twitter]