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2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Preventing Overflow Attacks by Memory Randomization
Buffer overflow is known to be a common memory vulnerability affecting software. It is exploited to gain various kinds of privilege escalation. C and C++ are very commonly used to ...
Vivek Iyer, Amit Kanitkar, Partha Dasgupta, Raghun...
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Change Bursts as Defect Predictors
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Pinpointing the Subsystems Responsible for the Performance Deviations in a Load Test
—Large scale systems (LSS) contain multiple subsystems that interact across multiple nodes in sometimes unforeseen and complicated ways. As a result, pinpointing the subsystems t...
Haroon Malik, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Calibrating Probabilistic GUI Testing Models Based on Experiments and Survival Analysis
—Models abstract reality. Although abstract, such models can capture the essence of real world phenomena as long as they are sufficiently accurate. The development of new techni...
Cristiano Bertolini, Alexandre Mota, Eduardo Aranh...
ISSRE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A Large-Scale Industrial Case Study on Architecture-Based Software Reliability Analysis
—Architecture-based software reliability analysis methods shall help software architects to identify critical software components and to quantify their influence on the system r...
Heiko Koziolek, Bastian Schlich, Carlos G. Bilich