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In our times, when the world is increasingly becoming more dependent on software programs, writing bug-free, correct programs is crucial. Program verification based on formal methods can guarantee this by detecting run-time errors in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Rajendra Kumar Solanki

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting crashes (e.g., 500 HTTP server error status code). However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

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

Nowadays automated dynamic analysis frameworks for continuous testing are in high demand to ensure software safety and satisfy the security development lifecycle (SDL) requirements. The security bug hunting efficiency of cutting-edge hybrid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alexey Vishnyakov , Daniil Kuts , Vlada Logunova , Darya Parygina , Eli Kobrin , Georgy Savidov , Andrey Fedotov

In order to address the increasing compromise of user privacy on mobile devices, a Fuzzy Logic based implicit authentication scheme is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme computes an aggregate score based on selected features and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Feng Yao , Suleiman Y. Yerima , BooJoong Kang , Sakir Sezer

Static analysis tools (SATs) are widely adopted in both academia and industry for improving software quality, yet their practical use is often hindered by high false positive rates, especially in large-scale enterprise systems. These false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xueying Du , Jiayi Feng , Yi Zou , Wei Xu , Jie Ma , Wei Zhang , Sisi Liu , Xin Peng , Yiling Lou

Directed fuzzing is a dynamic testing technique that focuses exploration on specific, pre targeted program locations. Like other types of fuzzers, directed fuzzers are most effective when maximizing testing speed and precision. To this end,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chaitra Niddodi , Stefan Nagy , Darko Marinov , Sibin Mohan

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

Softwarization and virtualization in 5G and beyond require rigorous testing against vulnerabilities and unintended emergent behaviors for critical infrastructure and network security assurance. Formal methods operates efficiently in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jingda Yang , Ying Wang

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Ensuring the security and reliability of machine learning frameworks is crucial for building trustworthy AI-based systems. Fuzzing, a popular technique in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), can be used to develop secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ilya Yegorov , Eli Kobrin , Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Damian Gnieciak , Tomasz Szandala

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

Fault detection methods have their pros and cons. Thus, it is possible that some methods can complement each other and offer consequently better diagnostic systems. The integration of various characteristics is a way to develop "hybrid"…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Imtiez fliss , Moncef Tagina

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools play a vital role in modern software development by automatically detecting potential vulnerabilities in source code. However, their effectiveness is often limited by a high rate of false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tom Ohlmer , Michael Schlichtig , Eric Bodden

Side channels pose a significant threat to the confidentiality of software systems. Such vulnerabilities are challenging to detect and evaluate because they arise from non-functional properties of software such as execution times and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Yannic Noller , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Critical open source software systems undergo significant validation in the form of lengthy fuzz campaigns. The fuzz campaigns typically conduct a biased random search over the domain of program inputs, to find inputs which crash the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuntong Zhang , Jiawei Wang , Dominic Berzin , Martin Mirchev , Dongge Liu , Abhishek Arya , Oliver Chang , Abhik Roychoudhury

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Static code warning tools often generate warnings that programmers ignore. Such tools can be made more useful via data mining algorithms that select the "actionable" warnings; i.e. the warnings that are usually not ignored. In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Xueqi Yang , Jianfeng Chen , Rahul Yedida , Zhe Yu , Tim Menzies