Statistical debugging uses lightweight instrumentation and statistical models to identify program behaviors that are strongly predictive of failure. However, most software is most...
with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...
Models based on system calls are a popular and common approach to characterize the run-time behavior of programs. For example, system calls are used by intrusion detection systems...
Andrea Lanzi, Davide Balzarotti, Christopher Krueg...
Software engineers often inspect program differences when reviewing others' code changes, when writing check-in comments, or when determining why a program behaves differentl...