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KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
An automated approach for finding variable-constant pairing bugs
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
Julia L. Lawall, David Lo
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Which warnings should I fix first?
Automatic bug-finding tools have a high false positive rate: most warnings do not indicate real bugs. Usually bug-finding tools assign important warnings high priority. However, t...
Sunghun Kim, Michael D. Ernst
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Unified Architectural Support for Soft-Error Protection or Software Bug Detection
In this paper we propose a unified architectural support that can be used flexibly for either soft-error protection or software bug detection. Our approach is based on dynamically...
Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zhou
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
An empirical analysis of the FixCache algorithm
The FixCache algorithm, introduced in 2007, effectively identifies files or methods which are likely to contain bugs by analyzing source control repository history. However, many ...
Caitlin Sadowski, Chris Lewis 0002, Zhongpeng Lin,...
AADEBUG
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Automated bug isolation via program chipping
This paper introduces program chipping, a simple yet effective technique to isolate bugs. This technique automatically removes or chips away parts of a program so that the part t...
Chad D. Sterling, Ronald A. Olsson