A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Pointer analysis statically approximates the heap pointer structure during a program execution in order to track heap objects or to establish alias relations between references, a...
Lennart Beringer, Robert Grabowski, Martin Hofmann
Proving that particular methods within a code base are functionally pure--deterministic and side-effect free--would aid verification of security properties including function inve...
Matthew Finifter, Adrian Mettler, Naveen Sastry, D...
Modern enterprise systems support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Although RBAC allows restricting access to privileged operations, a deployer may actually intend to restrict ac...
Paolina Centonze, Gleb Naumovich, Stephen J. Fink,...
Static program checking tools can find many serious bugs in software, but due to analysis limitations they also frequently emit false error reports. Such false positives can easi...
Ted Kremenek, Ken Ashcraft, Junfeng Yang, Dawson R...