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AOSD
2007
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns
Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they often wa...
David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L...
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CAV
2008
Springer
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15 years 27 days ago
Reducing Concurrent Analysis Under a Context Bound to Sequential Analysis
This paper addresses the analysis of concurrent programs with shared memory. Such an analysis is undecidable in the presence of multiple procedures. One approach used in recent wor...
Akash Lal, Thomas W. Reps
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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Precise memory leak detection for java software using container profiling
A memory leak in a Java program occurs when object references that are no longer needed are unnecessarily maintained. Such leaks are difficult to understand because static analyse...
Guoqing Xu, Atanas Rountev
CCS
2006
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
EXE: automatically generating inputs of death
This paper presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input,...
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, ...
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ICCAD
2001
IEEE
84views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2001»
15 years 7 months ago
Stars in VCC: Complementing Simulation with Worst-Case Analysis
tems. STARS manipulates abstract representations of system components to obtain upper bounds on the number of various events in the system, as well as a bound on the response time....
Felice Balarin