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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Profile-guided program simplification for effective testing and analysis
Many testing and analysis techniques have been developed for inhouse use. Although they are effective at discovering defects before a program is deployed, these techniques are oft...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Exception-Chain Analysis: Revealing Exception Handling Architecture in Java Server Applications
Although it is common in large Java programs to rethrow exceptions, existing exception-flow analyses find only single exceptionflow links, thus are unable to identify multiple-lin...
Chen Fu, Barbara G. Ryder
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Associating synchronization constraints with data in an object-oriented language
Concurrency-related bugs may happen when multiple threads access shared data and interleave in ways that do not correspond to any sequential execution. Their absence is not guaran...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Julian Dolby
POPL
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Mutatis mutandis: safe and predictable dynamic software updating
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
NDSS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing
Fuzz testing is an effective technique for finding security vulnerabilities in software. Traditionally, fuzz testing tools apply random mutations to well-formed inputs of a progr...
Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Moln...