The popularity of object-oriented programming has led to the wide use of container libraries. It is important for the reliability of these containers that they are tested adequate...
Willem Visser, Corina S. Pasareanu, Radek Pel&aacu...
Programmers have long used assertions to characterize properties of code. An assertion violation signals a corruption in the program state. At such a state, it is standard to term...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Ivan Garcia, Yuk Lai Suen, Sar...
This paper presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input,...
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, ...
We show how model checking and symbolic execution can be used to generate test inputs to achieve structural coverage of code that manipulates complex data structures. We focus on ...
Willem Visser, Corina S. Pasareanu, Sarfraz Khursh...
This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "return-oriented programming" -- a technique by which WX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully cr...
Erik Buchanan, Ryan Roemer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan ...