The goal of the Parfait project is to find bugs in C source code in a scalable and precise way. To this end, Parfait was designed as a framework with layers of sound program anal...
Cristina Cifuentes, Nathan Keynes, Lian Li, Bernha...
Abstract. The build architecture of legacy C/C++ software systems, groups program files in directories to represent logical components. The interfaces of these components are loos...
Homayoun Dayani-Fard, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, P...
We present a context- and path-sensitive algorithm for detecting memory leaks in programs with explicit memory management. Our leak detection algorithm is based on an underlying e...
The adoption of distributed version control (DVC), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC?...
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abra...
Analyzing historical information can show how a software system evolved into its current state, which parts of the system are stable and which have changed more. However, historic...