ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
Since web applications are easily accessible, and often store a large amount of sensitive user information, they are a common target for attackers. In particular, attacks that foc...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
We introduce the concept of “residual investigation” for program analysis. A residual investigation is a dynamic check installed as a result of running a static analysis that ...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
Manual debugging is driven by experiments—test runs that narrow down failure causes by systematically confirming or excluding individual factors. The BUGEX approach leverages t...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
We introduce a static detector, Saber, for detecting memory leaks in C programs. Leveraging recent advances on sparse pointer analysis, Saber is the first to use a full-sparse va...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
Recent research has suggested that a large class of software bugs fall into the category of inconsistencies, or cases where two pieces of program code make incompatible assumption...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
A static analysis design is sufficient if it can prove the property of interest with an acceptable number of false alarms. Ultimately, the only way to confirm that an analysis d...
VSTTE
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
2012
Springer
A piece of code in a computer program is infeasible if it cannot be part of any normally-terminating execution of the program. We develop an algorithm for the automatic detection o...
VSTTE
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
2012
Springer
Motivated by the problem of deciding verification conditions for the verification of functional programs, we present new decision procedures for automated reasoning about functio...
VMCAI
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
2012
Springer
We describe a course on the semantics of a simple imperative programming language and on applications to compilers, type systems, static analyses and Hoare logic. The course is ent...