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PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Null dereference analysis in practice
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...
Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Accurate Interprocedural Null-Dereference Analysis for Java
Null dereference is a commonly occurring defect in Java programs, and many static-analysis tools identify such defects. However, most of the existing tools perform a limited inter...
Mangala Gowri Nanda, Saurabh Sinha
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Automated Bug Neighborhood Analysis for Identifying Incomplete Bug Fixes
—Although many static-analysis techniques have been developed for automatically detecting bugs, such as null dereferences, fewer automated approaches have been presented for anal...
Mijung Kim, Saurabh Sinha, Carsten Görg, Hina...
SEFM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Nullness Analysis in Boolean Form
Attempts to dereference null result in an exception or a segmentation fault. Hence it is important to know those program points where this might occur and prove the others (or the...
Fausto Spoto
IEE
2008
120views more  IEE 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Reducing the use of nullable types through non-null by default and monotonic non-null
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
Patrice Chalin, Perry R. James, Frédé...