Software Analysis or Static Program Analysis is a course of Nanjing University developed by Tian Tan and Yue Li in Spring 2020. In this course, we will learn about static program analysis, a useful ...

Static analysis works on source code and tries to identify errors based on what it can tell about the program. For example, it can highlight “dead code” that will never execute. And sometimes it can ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

Over the years, medical devices have become increasingly dependent on software. They have evolved from the use of a metronome circuit for early cardiac pacemakers to functions that include ...

I had an interesting conversation recently about the after-effects of Heartbleed and the challenges facing static analysis with Barton Miller, the chief scientist of the Software Assurance Marketplace ...

Given the great emphasis Agile teams place on the importance of software testing, it is surprising that organizations don't invest more time and money in static software testing tools. Of course, with ...

How exhaustive static analysis overcomes the limitations of traditional tests and static-analysis tools. How exhaustive static analysis identifies a buffer overflow by using code samples. How hardware ...

With the growing number of cybersecurity threats and stringent government policies, organizations are obliged to follow security measures to ensure robust protection at all times. This is where the ...

Every enterprise struggles to combat some ingrained partialities but, after 23 years in the QA industry, I’ve found that there’s a particular pattern of bias against static testing. It’s no industry ...