Using dynamic analysis to discover polynomial and array invariants

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 683-693

  Nguyen, ThanhVu ^a   Kapur, Deepak ^a   Weimer, Westley ^b   Forrest, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

array invariants; dynamic analysis; invariant generation; nonlinear invariants; program analysis

Indexed keywords

AES ENCRYPTION; ARRAY INVARIANTS; ARRAY VARIABLES; CURRENT DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC INVARIANT DETECTION; DYNAMIC INVARIANTS; DYNAMIC PATTERNS; EQUATION SOLVING; INVARIANT GENERATION; LINEAR RELATION; MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; NONLINEAR INVARIANTS; NONLINEAR POLYNOMIALS; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; PROGRAM VARIABLES; REFACTORINGS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864217843     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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