Using checklists to review static analysis warnings

DEFECTS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems, Held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-15

  Ayewah, Nathaniel ^a   Pugh, William ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Bug patterns; Bugs; False positives; Findbugs; Java; Software defects; Software quality; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BUG PATTERNS; BUGS; FALSE POSITIVE; FINDBUGS; JAVA; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 85010718168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555860.1555864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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