English
Related papers

Related papers: The Strengths and Behavioral Quirks of Java Byteco…

200 papers

Decompiling Rust binaries is challenging due to the language's rich type system, aggressive compiler optimizations, and widespread use of high-level abstractions. In this work, we conduct a benchmark-driven evaluation of decompilation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixu Zhou

This tool demonstration presents a research toolkit for a language model of Java source code. The target audience includes researchers studying problems at the granularity level of subroutines, statements, or variables in Java. In contrast…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chia-Yi Su , Aakash Bansal , Vijayanta Jain , Sepideh Ghanavati , Collin McMillan

State of the art analyzers in the Logic Programming (LP) paradigm are nowadays mature and sophisticated. They allow inferring a wide variety of global properties including termination, bounds on resource consumption, etc. The aim of this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Elvira Albert , Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa , Laurent Hubert , German Puebla

Many debugging tools rely on compiler-produced metadata to present a source-language view of program states, such as variable values and source line numbers. While this tends to work for unoptimised programs, current compilers often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-08 J. Ryan Stinnett , Stephen Kell

We address the problem of automatic decompilation, converting a program in low-level representation back to a higher-level human-readable programming language. The problem of decompilation is extremely important for security researchers.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Omer Katz , Yuval Olshaker , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

Following code style conventions in software projects is essential for maintaining overall code quality. Adhering to these conventions improves maintainability, understandability, and extensibility. Additionally, following best practices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Alvari Kupari , Nasser Giacaman , Valerio Terragni

In the past couple of decades, significant research efforts have been devoted to the prediction of software bugs (i.e., defects). In general, these works leverage a diverse set of metrics, tools, and techniques to predict which classes,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ehsan Mashhadi , Shaiful Chowdhury , Somayeh Modaberi , Hadi Hemmati , Gias Uddin

The ability to identify authors of computer programs based on their coding style is a direct threat to the privacy and anonymity of programmers. While recent work found that source code can be attributed to authors with high accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aylin Caliskan , Fabian Yamaguchi , Edwin Dauber , Richard Harang , Konrad Rieck , Rachel Greenstadt , Arvind Narayanan

Decisions on which classes to refactor are fraught with difficulty. The problem of identifying candidate classes becomes acute when confronted with large systems comprising hundreds or thousands of classes. In this paper, we describe a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Richard Wheeldon , Steve Counsell

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

Large-scale code reuse significantly reduces both development costs and time. However, the massive share of third-party code in software projects poses new challenges, especially in terms of maintenance and security. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 César Soto-Valero , Deepika Tiwari , Tim Toady , Benoit Baudry

Although writing code seems trivial at times, problems arise when humans misinterpret what the code actually does. One of the potential causes are "atoms of confusion", the smallest possible patterns of misinterpretable source code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chris Langhout , Maurício Aniche

Developers spend a large portion of their time and effort on comprehending source code. While many studies have investigated how developers approach these comprehension tasks and what factors influence their success, less is known about how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Chak Shun Yu , Christoph Treude , Maurício Aniche

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code recommendation, duplicate code, plagiarism, malware, and smell…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Mohammad Ramezani , Chanchal Roy , Masoud Ekhtiarzadeh

Many internal software metrics and external quality attributes of Java programs correlate strongly with program size. This knowledge has been used pervasively in quantitative studies of software through practices such as normalization on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Cristina V. Lopes , Joel Ossher

Reverse Engineering(RE) has been a fundamental task in software engineering. However, most of the traditional Java reverse engineering tools are strictly rule defined, thus are not fault-tolerant, which pose serious problem when noise and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zhiming Li , Qing Wu , Kun Qian

Programming courses can be challenging for first year university students, especially for those without prior coding experience. Students initially struggle with code syntax, but as more advanced topics are introduced across a semester, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Valdemar Švábenský , Maciej Pankiewicz , Jiayi Zhang , Elizabeth B. Cloude , Ryan S. Baker , Eric Fouh

Static program analysis tools are often required to work with only a small part of a program's source code, either due to the unavailability of the entire program or the lack of need to analyze the complete code. This makes it challenging…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Piyush Gupta , Nikita Mehrotra , Rahul Purandare

In this work, we developed an algorithm for detecting code quality issues in the templates of online programming tasks, validated it, and conducted an empirical study on the dataset of student solutions. The algorithm consists of analyzing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Anastasiia Birillo , Elizaveta Artser , Yaroslav Golubev , Maria Tigina , Hieke Keuning , Nikolay Vyahhi , Timofey Bryksin

Plagiarism is a commonly encountered problem in the academia. While there are several tools and techniques to efficiently determine plagiarism in text, the same cannot be said about source code plagiarism. To make the existing systems more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vasishtha Sriram Jayapati , Ajay Venkitaraman