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EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Binary Device Drivers with RevNIC
This paper presents a technique that helps automate the reverse engineering of device drivers. It takes a closed-source binary driver, automatically reverse engineers the driver...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fluent temporal logic for discrete-time event-based models
Fluent model checking is an automated technique for verifying that an event-based operational model satisfies some state-based declarative properties. The link between the event-b...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Symbolic mining of temporal specifications
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...
Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
HAMPI: a solver for string constraints
Many automatic testing, analysis, and verification techniques for programs can be effectively reduced to a constraint-generation phase followed by a constraint-solving phase. Th...
Adam Kiezun, Vijay Ganesh, Philip J. Guo, Pieter H...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient online validation with delta execution
Software systems are constantly changing. Patches to fix bugs and patches to add features are all too common. Every change risks breaking a previously working system. Hence admini...
Joseph Tucek, Weiwei Xiong, Yuanyuan Zhou