Advances in recent years have made it possible in some cases to locate a bug (the source of a failure) automatically. But debugging is also about correcting bugs. Can tools do thi...
Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller, Bertrand Meyer
Calling context--the set of active methods on the stack--is critical for understanding the dynamic behavior of large programs. Dynamic program analysis tools, however, are almost ...
SUDS is a powerful infrastructure for creating dynamic bug detection tools. It contains phases for both static analysis and dynamic instrumentation allowing users to create tools ...
In May 2009, Google conducted a company wide FindBugs “fixit”. Hundreds of engineers reviewed thousands of FindBugs warnings, and fixed or filed reports against many of the...
Many static and dynamic analyses have been developed to improve program quality. Several of them are well known and widely used in practice. It is not entirely clear, however, how ...