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SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
ASTEC: a new approach to refactoring C
The C language is among the most widely used in the world, particularly for critical infrastructure software. C programs depend upon macros processed using the C preprocessor, but...
Bill McCloskey, Eric A. Brewer
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tracking pointers with path and context sensitivity for bug detection in C programs
This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S. Lam
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
SherLog: error diagnosis by connecting clues from run-time logs
Computer systems often fail due to many factors such as software bugs or administrator errors. Diagnosing such production run failures is an important but challenging task since i...
Ding Yuan, Haohui Mai, Weiwei Xiong, Lin Tan, Yuan...
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Identifying bug signatures using discriminative graph mining
Bug localization has attracted a lot of attention recently. Most existing methods focus on pinpointing a single statement or function call which is very likely to contain bugs. Al...
Hong Cheng, David Lo, Yang Zhou, Xiaoyin Wang, Xif...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...