Program bugs remain a major challenge for software developers and various tools have been proposed to help with their localization and elimination. Most present-day tools are base...
It is time for us to focus on sound analyses for our critical systems software--that is, we must focus on analyses that ensure the absence of defects of particular known types, ra...
Zachary R. Anderson, Eric A. Brewer, Jeremy Condit...
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 ...
Software flaws in native methods may defeat Java’s guarantees of safety and security. One common kind of flaws in native methods results from the discrepancy on how exceptions...
In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However, these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and u...