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Static analysis is a growing application of software engineering, leading to a range of essential security tools, bug-finding tools, as well as software verification. Recent years show an increase of universal static analysis tools that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Avi Hayoun , Veselin Raychev , Jack Hair

In the past decades, static analysis has thrived in software, facilitating applications in bug detection, security, and program understanding. These advanced analyses are largely underpinned by general-purpose static analysis frameworks,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Qinlin Chen , Nairen Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Jiacai Cui , Tian Tan , Xiaoxing Ma , Chang Xu , Jian Lu , Yue Li

Java 7 introduced programmable dynamic linking in the form of the invokedynamic framework. Static analysis of code containing programmable dynamic linking has often been cited as a significant source of unsoundness in the analysis of Java…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-09 George Fourtounis , Yannis Smaragdakis

Static analysis is an essential component of many modern software development tools. Unfortunately, the ever-increasing complexity of static analyzers makes their coding error-prone. Even analysis tools based on rigorous mathematical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Daniela Ferreiro , Ignacio Casso , Jose F. Morales , Pedro López-García , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into startup evaluation represents a significant technological shift, yet the academic research underpinning this transition remains methodologically fragmented. Existing studies often employ…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Seyed Mohammad Ali Jafari , Ali Mobini Dehkordi , Ehsan Chitsaz , Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

When engaging in strategic decision-making, we are frequently confronted with overwhelming information and data. The situation can be further complicated when certain pieces of evidence contradict each other or become paradoxical. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Caesar Wu , Yuan-Fang Li , Jian Li , Jingjing Xu , Bouvry Pascal

Designing a static analysis is generally a substantial undertaking, requiring significant expertise in both program analysis and the domain of the program analysis, and significant development resources. As a result, most program analyses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Colin S. Gordon

The increasing use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in DevOps leads to benefits in speed and reliability of deployment operation, but extends to infrastructure challenges typical of software systems. IaC scripts can contain defects that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Michele Chiari , Michele De Pascalis , Matteo Pradella

Eliminating vulnerabilities from low-level code is vital for securing software. Static analysis is a promising approach for discovering vulnerabilities since it can provide developers early feedback on the code they write. But, it presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Bhargava Shastry , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

Static analysis tools are commonly used to detect defects before the code is released. Previous research has focused on their overall effectiveness and their ability to detect defects. However, little is known about the usage patterns of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Georgios Liargkovas , Evangelia Panourgia , Diomidis Spinellis

Today's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the software industry are faced with major challenges. While having to work efficiently using limited resources they have to perform quality assurance on their code to avoid the risk of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mario Gleirscher , Dmitriy Golubitskiy , Maximilian Irlbeck , Stefan Wagner

Previous work has shown that one can often greatly speed up static analysis by computing data flows not for every edge in the program's control-flow graph but instead only along definition-use chains. This yields a so-called sparse static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Kadiray Karakaya , Eric Bodden

Notebooks provide an interactive environment for programmers to develop code, analyse data and inject interleaved visualizations in a single environment. Despite their flexibility, a major pitfall that data scientists encounter is…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Pavle Subotić , Lazar Milikić , Milan Stojić

Static analysis remains one of the most popular approaches for detecting and correcting poor or vulnerable program code. It involves the examination of code listings, test results, or other documentation to identify errors, violations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fitzroy D. Nembhard , Marco M. Carvalho

Over the years, static taint analysis emerged as the analysis of choice to detect some of the most common web application vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection (SQLi) and cross-site scripting (XSS)~\cite{OWASP}. Furthermore, from an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Nicholas Allen , François Gauthier , Alexander Jordan

Static analysis is the analysis of a program without executing it, usually carried out by an automated tool. Symbolic execution is a popular static analysis technique used both in program verification and in bug detection software. It works…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gabor Horvath , Reka Kovacs , Zoltan Porkolab

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

The escalating complexity of software systems and accelerating development cycles pose a significant challenge in managing code errors and implementing business logic. Traditional techniques, while cornerstone for software quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Gang Fan , Xiaoheng Xie , Xunjin Zheng , Yinan Liang , Peng Di

This paper elaborates the use of static source code analysis in the context of data protection. The topic is important for software engineering in order for software developers to improve the protection of personal data during software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kalle Hjerppe , Jukka Ruohonen , Ville Leppänen

Java reflection has been increasingly used in a wide range of software. It allows a software system to inspect and/or modify the behaviour of its classes, interfaces, methods and fields at runtime, enabling the software to adapt to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Yue Li , Tian Tan , Jingling Xue