Statistical debugging aims to automate the process of isolating bugs by profiling several runs of the program and using statistical analysis to pinpoint the likely causes of failu...
Trishul M. Chilimbi, Ben Liblit, Krishna K. Mehra,...
We describe a new technique for finding potential buffer overrun vulnerabilities in security-critical C code. The key to success is to use static analysis: we formulate detection...
David Wagner, Jeffrey S. Foster, Eric A. Brewer, A...
Complex interactions and the distributed nature of wireless sensor networks make automated testing and debugging before deployment a necessity. A main challenge is to detect bugs ...
Raimondas Sasnauskas, Olaf Landsiedel, Muhammad Ha...
In large software development projects, when a programmer is assigned a bug to fix, she typically spends a lot of time searching (in an ad-hoc manner) for instances from the past ...
B. Ashok, Joseph M. Joy, Hongkang Liang, Sriram K....
Programming language specifications mandate static and dynamic analyses to preclude syntactic and semantic errors. Although individual languages are usually well-specified, comp...
Byeongcheol Lee, Ben Wiedermann, Martin Hirzel, Ro...