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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…

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Mobile applications are being used every day by more than half of the world's population to perform a great variety of tasks. With the increasingly widespread usage of these applications, the need arises for efficient techniques to test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ariel Rosenfeld , Odaya Kardashov , Orel Zang

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm commonly used for solving challenging search and optimization problems. The modeling languages of ASP are supported by sophisticated solving algorithms (solvers)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zach Hansen

Identifying dependency call graphs of multilanguage software systems using static code analysis is challenging. The different languages used in developing today's systems often have different lexical, syntactical, and semantic rules that…

Almost every software system provides configuration options to tailor the system to the target platform and application scenario. Often, this configurability renders the analysis of every individual system configuration infeasible. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Flávio Medeiros , Christian Kästner , Márcio Ribeiro , Rohit Gheyi , Sven Apel

Determining possible failure scenarios is a critical step in the evaluation of autonomous vehicle systems. Real-world vehicle testing is commonly employed for autonomous vehicle validation, but the costs and time requirements are high.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Anthony Corso , Peter Du , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Static analysis is one of the most widely adopted techniques to find software bugs before code is put in production. Designing and implementing effective and efficient static analyses is difficult and requires high expertise, which results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Andrew Habib , Michael Pradel

Malware analysis and detection techniques have been evolving during the last decade as a reflection to development of different malware techniques to evade network-based and host-based security protections. The fast growth in variety and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Andrii Shalaginov , Sergii Banin , Ali Dehghantanha , Katrin Franke

As LLMs advance into autonomous agents with tool-use capabilities, they introduce security challenges that extend beyond traditional content-based LLM safety concerns. This paper introduces Sequential Tool Attack Chaining (STAC), a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jing-Jing Li , Jianfeng He , Chao Shang , Devang Kulshreshtha , Xun Xian , Yi Zhang , Hang Su , Sandesh Swamy , Yanjun Qi

With the celebrated success of deep learning, some attempts to develop effective methods for detecting malicious PowerShell programs employ neural nets in a traditional natural language processing setup while others employ convolutional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Gili Rusak , Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Una-May O'Reilly

Static bug detection tools help developers detect code problems. However, it is known that they remain underutilized due to various reasons. Recent advances to incorporate static bug detectors in modern software development workflows can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Junjie Li

Modern web services routinely provide REST APIs for clients to access their functionality. These APIs present unique challenges and opportunities for automated testing, driving the recent development of many techniques and tools that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Myeongsoo Kim , Qi Xin , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Modern web applications are dominated by HTTP/HTTPS messages that consist of one or more headers, where most of the exploits and payloads can be injected by attackers. According to the OWASP, the 80 percent of the web attacks are done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Tikam Alma , Manik Lal Das

With software systems becoming increasingly pervasive and autonomous, our ability to test for their quality is severely challenged. Many systems are called to operate in uncertain and highly-changing environment, not rarely required to make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Luca Giamattei , Roberto Pietrantuono , Stefano Russo

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

The detection of malware is a critical task for the protection of computing environments. This task often requires extremely low false positive rates (FPR) of 0.01% or even lower, for which modern machine learning has no readily available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas , James Holt

Static analysis is sound in theory, but an implementation may unsoundly fail to analyze all of a program's code. Any such omission is a serious threat to the validity of the tool's output. Our work is the first to measure the prevalence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jordan Samhi , René Just , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Michael D. Ernst , Jacques Klein

Scenario testing is an important technique for detecting errors in web systems. Testers draft test scenarios and convert them into test scripts for execution. Early methods relied on testers to convert test scenarios into test scripts.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhenyu Wan , Gong Chen , Qing Huang , Xiaoyuan Xie

CONTEXT: Applying vulnerability detection techniques is one of many tasks using the limited resources of a software project. OBJECTIVE: The goal of this research is to assist managers and other decision-makers in making informed choices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Sarah Elder , Nusrat Zahan , Rui Shu , Monica Metro , Valeri Kozarev , Tim Menzies , Laurie Williams

As software systems have grown in scale and complexity the test suites built alongside those systems have also become increasingly complex. Understanding key aspects of test suites, such as their coverage of production code, is important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Amjed Tahir , Stephen G. MacDonell