This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
Software engineering researchers have long been interested in where and why bugs occur in code, and in predicting where they might turn up next. Historical bug-occurence data has ...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John ...
Bug tracking systems are valuable assets for managing maintenance activities. They are widely used in open-source projects as well as in the software industry. They collect many d...
Giuliano Antoniol, Kamel Ayari, Massimiliano Di Pe...
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...
Fixing concurrency bugs (or crugs) is critical in modern software systems. Static analyses to find crugs such as data races and atomicity violations scale poorly, while dynamic a...
Guoliang Jin, Aditya V. Thakur, Ben Liblit, Shan L...