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KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
An automated approach for finding variable-constant pairing bugs
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
Julia L. Lawall, David Lo
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Memories of bug fixes
The change history of a software project contains a rich collection of code changes that record previous development experience. Changes that fix bugs are especially interesting, ...
Sunghun Kim, Kai Pan, E. James Whitehead Jr.
TSE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Privately Finding Specifications
Buggy software is a reality and automated techniques for discovering bugs are highly desirable. A specification describes the correct behavior of a program. For example, a file mus...
Westley Weimer, Nina Mishra
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
StressTest: an automatic approach to test generation via activity monitors
The challenge of verifying a modern microprocessor design is an overwhelming one: Increasingly complex micro-architectures combined with heavy time-to-market pressure have forced ...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M. Austin
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automatically finding patches using genetic programming
Automatic repair of programs has been a longstanding goal in software engineering, yet debugging remains a largely manual process. We introduce a fully automated method for locati...
Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues, S...