Uncovering Hidden Dependencies: Constructing Intelligible Path Witnesses using Dataflow Analyses
Kristóf Umann,
Gábor Horváth,
Zoltán Porkoláb
Abstract:The lack of sound, concise and comprehensive error reports emitted by a static analysis tool can cause increased fixing cost, bottleneck at the availability of experts and even may undermine the trust in static analysis as a method. This paper presents novel techniques to improve the quality of bug reports for static analysis tools that employ symbolic execution. With the combination of data and control dependency analysis, we can identify the relevance of particular code snippets that were previously missing … Show more
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