It is difļ¬cult to determine the cost effectiveness of program analysis tools because we cannot evaluate them in the same environment where we will be using the tool. Tool evalua...
A number of effective error detection tools have been built in recent years to check if a program conforms to certain design rules. An important class of design rules deals with s...
Michael C. Martin, V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S....
In run-time safety analysis the executions of a concurrent program are monitored and analyzed with respect to safety properties. Similar to testing, run-time analysis is quite eļ¬...
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a programās user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...
Programs use rules to dictate or constrain specific decisions or actions. These rules have typically been tested, revised, and updated continuously; therefore, they represent a su...