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More and more distributed software systems are being developed and deployed today. Like other software, distributed software systems also need very strong quality assurance support. Distributed software is often very large/complex, has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Xiaoqin Fu

Bug finding tools can find defects in software source code us- ing an automated static analysis. This automation may be able to reduce the time spent for other testing and review activities. For this we need to have a clear understanding of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Jan Jürjens , Claudia Koller , Peter Trischberger

Due to increasingly complex software design and rapid iterative development, code defects and security vulnerabilities are prevalent in modern software. In response, programmers rely on static analysis tools to regularly scan their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Anant Kharkar , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Matthew Jin , Xiaoyu Liu , Xin Shi , Colin Clement , Neel Sundaresan

Debugging is an essential part of software maintenance and evolution since it allows software developers to analyze program execution step by step. Understanding a program is required to fix potential flaws, alleviate bottlenecks, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tim Kräuter , Harald König , Adrian Rutle , Yngve Lamo

Debugging is an unavoidable and most crucial aspect of software development life cycle. Especially when it comes the turn of embedded one. Due to the requirements of low code size and less resource consumption, the embedded softwares need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee , Banibrata Bag

In software practice, static analysis tools remain an integral part of detecting defects in software and there have been various tools designed to run the analysis in different programming languages like Java, C++, and Python. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jones Yeboah , Saheed Popoola

In this paper, we present a novel marriage of static and dynamic analysis. Given a large code base with many functions and a mature test suite, we propose using static analysis to find functions 1) with assertions or other evident…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Mohammad Amin Alipour , Alex Groce , Chaoqiang Zhang , Anahita Sanadaji , Gokul Caushik

Dynamic program slicing can significantly reduce the code developers need to inspect by narrowing it down to only a subset of relevant program statements. However, despite an extensive body of research showing its usefulness, dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Bogdan Alexandru Stoica , Swarup K. Sahoo , James R. Larus , Vikram S. Adve

Since decade understanding of programs has become a compulsory task for the students as well as for others who are involved in the process of developing software and providing solutions to open problems. In that aspect showing the problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum

Static analysis is a powerful tool for detecting security vulnerabilities and other programming problems. Global taint tracking, in particular, can spot vulnerabilities arising from complicated data flow across multiple functions. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yiu Wai Chow , Max Schäfer , Michael Pradel

Apart from forming the backbone of compiler optimization, static dataflow analysis has been widely applied in a vast variety of applications, such as bug detection, privacy analysis, program comprehension, etc. Despite its importance,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zewen Sun , Yujin Zhang , Duanchen Xu , Yiyu Zhang , Yun Qi , Yueyang Wang , Yi Li , Zhaokang Wang , Yue Li , Xuandong Li , Zhiqiang Zuo , Qingda Lu , Wenwen Peng , Shengjian Guo

Security attacks targeting smart contracts have been on the rise, which have led to financial loss and erosion of trust. Therefore, it is important to enable developers to discover security vulnerabilities in smart contracts before…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Asem Ghaleb , Karthik Pattabiraman

Static code analysis tools are designed to aid software developers to build better quality software in less time, by detecting defects early in the software development life cycle. Even the most experienced developer regularly introduces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Manuel Arenaz , Xavier Martorell

Static data-flow analysis has proven its effectiveness in assessing security of applications. One major challenge it faces is scalability to large software. This issue is even exacerbated when additional limitations on computing and storage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mohamed Nassim Seghir

Predicting program behavior without execution is a critical task in software engineering. Existing models often fall short in capturing the dynamic dependencies among program elements. To address this, we present CodeFlow, a novel machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Cuong Chi Le , Hoang Nhat Phan , Huy Nhat Phan , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Asynchrony has become an inherent element of JavaScript, as an effort to improve the scalability and performance of modern web applications. To this end, JavaScript provides programmers with a wide range of constructs and features for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Benjamin Livshits

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve your code and increase its strength to withstand security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Manas Gaur

Static analysis, the process of examining code without executing it, is crucial for identifying software issues. Yet, static analysis is hampered by its complexity and the need for customization for different targets. Traditional static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yu Hao , Weiteng Chen , Ziqiao Zhou , Weidong Cui

Data-flow analysis is a critical component of security research. Theoretically, accurate data-flow analysis in binary executables is an undecidable problem, due to complexities of binary code. Practically, many binary analysis engines offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nicolaas Weideman , Sima Arasteh , Mukund Raghothaman , Jelena Mirkovic , Christophe Hauser

In the domain of Software Engineering, program analysis and understanding has been considered to be a very challenging task since decade, as it demands dedicated time and efforts. The analysis of source code may occasionally be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Safeeullah Soomro , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Zainab Alansari , Mahdi H Miraz