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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining Security-Sensitive Operations in Legacy Code Using Concept Analysis
This paper presents an approach to statically retrofit legacy servers with mechanisms for authorization policy enforcement. The approach is based upon the observation that securit...
Vinod Ganapathy, Dave King 0002, Trent Jaeger, Som...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
UML/Analyzer: A Tool for the Instant Consistency Checking of UML Models
Large design models contain tens of thousands of model elements. Designers easily get overwhelmed maintaining the consistency of such design models over time. Not only is it hard ...
Alexander Egyed
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Predicting Faults from Cached History
We analyze the version history of 7 software systems to predict the most fault prone entities and files. The basic assumption is that faults do not occur in isolation, but rather ...
Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, E. James Whitehead...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Path-Sensitive Inference of Function Precedence Protocols
Function precedence protocols define ordering relations among function calls in a program. In some instances, precedence protocols are well-understood (e.g., a call to pthread mut...
Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Ananth Grama, Suresh Ja...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Presentations by Programmers for Programmers
A common form of live technical presentation is that given by programmers for a programming audience during conferences, demonstrations, code reviews, and tutorials. Such presenta...
Li-Te Cheng, Michael Desmond, Margaret-Anne D. Sto...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation
We present a technique that improves random test generation by incorporating feedback obtained from executing test inputs as they are created. Our technique builds inputs incremen...
Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ern...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Adaptive Online Program Analysis
Analyzing a program run can provide important insights about its correctness. Dynamic analysis of complex correctness properties, however, usually results in significant run-time ...
Matthew B. Dwyer, Alex Kinneer, Sebastian G. Elbau...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Randomized Differential Testing as a Prelude to Formal Verification
Most flight software testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory relies on the use of hand-produced test scenarios and is executed on systems as similar as possible to actual mission...
Alex Groce, Gerard J. Holzmann, Rajeev Joshi
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Korat: A Tool for Generating Structurally Complex Test Inputs
This paper describes the Korat tool for constraint-based generation of structurally complex test inputs for Java programs. Korat takes (1) an imperative predicate that specifies t...
Aleksandar Milicevic, Sasa Misailovic, Darko Marin...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Refactoring for Parameterizing Java Classes
Type safety and expressiveness of many existing Java libraries and their client applications would improve, if the libraries were upgraded to define generic classes. Efficient and...
Adam Kiezun, Michael D. Ernst, Frank Tip, Robert M...