Software defects significantly reduce system dependability. Among various types of software bugs, semantic and concurrency bugs are two of the most difficult to detect. This pape...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Chongfeng Hu, Xiao Ma, Weiha...
For its high overall cost during product development, program debugging is an important aspect of system development. Debugging is a hard and complex activity, especially in time-...
Taint analysis, a form of information-flow analysis, establishes whether values from untrusted methods and parameters may flow into security-sensitive operations. Taint analysis...
Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Manu S...
Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
We present a statistical debugging algorithm that isolates bugs in programs containing multiple undiagnosed bugs. Earlier statistical algorithms that focus solely on identifying p...
Ben Liblit, Mayur Naik, Alice X. Zheng, Alexander ...