Optimizing incremental scope-bounded checking with data-flow analysis

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 408-417

  Shao, Danhua ^a   Gopinath, Divya ^a   Khurshid, Sarfraz ^a   Perry, Dewayne E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloy; Computation graph; Data flow analysis; First order logic; JML; Lightweight formal method; SAT; Scope bounded checking; White box testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION GRAPH; FIRST-ORDER LOGIC; JML; LIGHTWEIGHT FORMAL METHOD; SAT; SCOPE-BOUNDED CHECKING; WHITE-BOX TESTING;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA HANDLING; FORMAL LOGIC; FORMAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952017580     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2010.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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