Static code analysis is widely used to support the development of high-quality software. It
helps developers detect potential bugs and security vulnerabilities in a program's source …

Traditional, or concrete, debuggers allow developers to step through programs and explore
the corresponding concrete program states—developers can query current values of …

Value-flow analysis is a fundamental technique in program analysis, benefiting various
clients, such as memory corruption detection and taint analysis. However, existing efforts …

Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …

Testing and debugging the implementation of static analysis is a challenging task, often
involving significant manual effort from domain experts in a tedious and unprincipled …

Static analysis is an important tool for detecting bugs in real-world software. The advent of
numerous analysis algorithms with their own tradeoffs has led to the proliferation of …

Software security vulnerabilities and leakages of private information are two of the main
issues in modern software systems. Several different approaches, ranging from design …

Static analyses provide the foundation for several tools that help developers find problems
before executing the program under analysis. Common applications include warning about …

ChatGPT is an advanced language model that has been gaining attention in the natural
language processing field. However, its functionalities go beyond languagerelated tasks …

Static analyses are powerful tools that can serve as a complement to dynamic approaches
such as testing. In order to ensure generality, many static analysis tools are configurable …