PSE explaining program failures via postmortem static analysis.

In this paper, we describe PSE (Postmortem Symbolic Evaluation), a static analysis algorithm that can be used by programmers to diagnose software failures. The algorithm requires minimal information about a failure, namely its kind (e.g. NULL dereference), and its location in the program's sour...

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Published in:	Software engineering notes. 29, 6 (2004).
Main Author:	Manevich, Roman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Software. Software engineering. Software / Program Verification. Testing and debugging. Algorithms. Reliability. Security. Verification. Alias Analysis. Postmortem analysis. Typestate. Value flow.