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Static analyzers can reason about the properties and behaviors of programs and detect various issues without executing them. Hence, they should extract the necessary information to understand the analyzed program well. Annotation has been a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Huaien Zhang , Yu Pei , Shuyun Liang , Shin Hwei Tan

Context: Developers design test suites to automatically verify that software meets its expected behaviors. Many dynamic analysis techniques are performed on the exploitation of execution traces from test cases. However, in practice, there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Jifeng Xuan , Benoit Cornu , Matias Martinez , Benoit Baudry , Lionel Seinturier , Martin Monperrus

Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and detect deviations from the project coding guidelines. Given their importance, linters are often introduced to classrooms to educate students on how to detect and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Salma Abdullah AlOmar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

Modern organizations increasingly rely on log data and monitoring signals to protect products against account takeovers and abuse, yet integrating security analytics into fast-moving Agile workflows remains challenging. While it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Arpit Thool , Chris Brown

System call filtering is widely used to secure programs in multi-tenant environments, and to sandbox applications in modern desktop software deployment and package management systems. Filtering rules are hard to write and maintain manually,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Gaspard Thévenon , Kevin Nguetchouang , Kahina Lazri , Alain Tchana , Pierre Olivier

This study examined code issue detection and revision automation by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o into software development workflows. A static code analysis framework detects issues such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Seyed Moein Abtahi , Akramul Azim

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers. As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps, malware writers regularly update their attack mechanisms to hide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyu Sun , Xiao Chen , Li Li , Haipeng Cai , John Grundy , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

Data leakage is a well-known problem in machine learning. Data leakage occurs when information from outside the training dataset is used to create a model. This phenomenon renders a model excessively optimistic or even useless in the real…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Filip Drobnjaković , Pavle Subotić , Caterina Urban

This paper proposes an approach for a tool-agnostic and heterogeneous static code analysis toolchain in combination with an exchange format. This approach enhances both traceability and comparability of analysis results. State of the art…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Matthias Kern , Ferhat Erata , Markus Iser , Carsten Sinz , Frederic Loiret , Stefan Otten , Eric Sax

Many Android applications collect data from users. When they do, they must protect this collected data according to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important since the European Union rolled out the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mugdha Khedkar

Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in debugging, and have matured enough to be adopted by industry. However, one critical issue with existing techniques is that, while developers want rationales for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Sungmin Kang , Bei Chen , Shin Yoo , Jian-Guang Lou

Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Digregorio , Roberto Alessandro Bertolini , Francesco Panebianco , Mario Polino

Debugging ML software (i.e., the detection, localization and fixing of faults) poses unique challenges compared to traditional software largely due to the probabilistic nature and heterogeneity of its development process. Various methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Haoye Tian , Bach Le , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Shane McIntosh

Software organizations want to be able to base their decisions on the latest set of available data and the real-time analytics derived from them. In order to support "real-time enterprise" for software organizations and provide information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Silverio Martínez-Fernández , Petar Jovanovic , Xavier Franch , Andreas Jedlitschka

[Background] Nowadays, there is a massive growth of data volume and speed in many types of systems. It introduces new needs for infrastructure and applications that have to handle streams of data with low latency and high throughput.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Alexandre Vianna , Waldemar Ferreira , Kiev Gama

Tizen is a new Linux-based open source platform for consumer devices including smartphones, televisions, vehicles, and wearables. While Tizen provides kernel-level mandatory policy enforcement, it has a large collection of libraries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Daniel Song , Jisheng Zhao , Michael Burke , Dragoş Sbîrlea , Dan Wallach , Vivek Sarkar

Aspects of frameworks, such as inversion of control and the structure of framework applications, require developers to adjust their debugging strategies as compared to debugging sequential programs. However, the benefits and challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Zack Coker , David Gray Widder , Claire Le Goues , Christopher Bogart , Joshua Sunshine

Agile development is conventional these days and with the passage of time software developers are rapidly moving from Waterfall to Agile development. Agile methods focus on delivering executable code quickly by increasing the responsiveness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Attique Ur Rehman , Ali Nawaz , Muhammad Abbas

Web applications written in JavaScript are regularly used for dealing with sensitive or personal data. Consequently, reasoning about their security properties has become an important problem, which is made very difficult by the highly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Martin Lester , Luke Ong , Max Schaefer

Paper addresses the process of dynamic data flow analysis using virtual code integration (VCI), often refered to as dynamic binary rewriting. This article will try to demonstrate all of the techniques that were applied in the SpiderPig…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-04 Piotr Bania