Exception analysis and points-to analysis are typically done in complete separation. Past algorithms for precise exception analysis (e.g., pairing throw clauses with catch stateme...
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Techniques for test-case prioritization re-order test cases to increase their rate of fault detection. When there is a fixed time budget that does not allow the execution of all ...
Lu Zhang, Shan-Shan Hou, Chao Guo, Tao Xie, Hong M...
Many automatic testing, analysis, and verification techniques for programs can be effectively reduced to a constraint-generation phase followed by a constraint-solving phase. Th...
Adam Kiezun, Vijay Ganesh, Philip J. Guo, Pieter H...
Bug localization has attracted a lot of attention recently. Most existing methods focus on pinpointing a single statement or function call which is very likely to contain bugs. Al...
Hong Cheng, David Lo, Yang Zhou, Xiaoyin Wang, Xif...