Automatic tools for finding software errors require knowledge of the rules a program must obey, or “specifications,” before they can identify bugs. We present a method that ...
Mining software repositories for bug detection requires accurate techniques of identifying bug-fix revisions. There have been many researches to find exact bug-fix revisions. Howe...
In May 2009, Google conducted a company wide FindBugs “fixit”. Hundreds of engineers reviewed thousands of FindBugs warnings, and fixed or filed reports against many of the...
Data races occur when multiple threads are about to access the same piece of memory, and at least one of those accesses is a write. Such races can lead to hard-to-reproduce bugs t...
Incorrect thread synchronization often leads to concurrency bugs that manifest nondeterministically and are difficult to detect and fix. Past work on detecting concurrency bugs ...