| Date | Reading Assignment | Topic | Tool | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16/18 | Intro | BCEL instructions | |||
| Jan 23/25 |
PIN (PLDI 2005)
Slides: pdf, ppt |
PIN Homepage at U Colorado | PIN instructions | Godmar | |
| Jan 30/1 |
JIVE
jGrasp SIGCSE'04 |
Visualizing Java in Action Page at Brown University Additional material for presenter: Study: Jain ACMSE '05 Compares several tools - finds jGrasp, JIVE & LIVE on top. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148493.1148497 Local copy: Experimental Evaluation of Animated-Verifying Object Viewers for Java - talks about jGrasp. |
JIVE & jGrasp instructions | Jai | |
| Feb 6/8 | Valgrind (2003) |
Alternative/additional reading: Valgrind (PhD thesis) valgrind.org publications |
Valgrind instructions | Patrick | |
| Feb 13/15 | Top | An Infrastructure for detecting Application-Specific
Program Errors by Binary Runtime Instrumentation
|
Top instructions | Jai | |
| Feb 20/22 | Daikon |
The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants Additional material: MIT page |
Daikon instructions | Karthik B. | |
| Feb 27/1 | PQL |
Finding Application Errors and Security Flaws
Using PQL: a Program Query Language
Sourceforge |
PQL instructions | Patrick | |
| Mar 13/15 | FindBugs |
FindBugs Sourceforge Comparison paper |
FindBugs instructions | Karthik B. | |
| Mar 20/22 | Eraser | Dynamic race detection for Java
Related material:
"Precise Race Detection and Efficient Model Checking using Locksets",
"Goldilocks: Efficiently Computing the Happens-Before Relation using Locksets",
"LOCKSMITH: Context-Sensitive Correlation Analysis for Race Detection:
or Zing ModelChecker |
CheckSync or Ladybug. instructions | Karthik C. | |
| Mar 27/29 | Chord | Static race detection for Java | Chord instructions | Corban | |
| Apr 3/5 | CIL | CIL - Infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation | instructions | Michael N. | |
| Apr 10/12 | ESC/Java | Static sound checking for Java Include JML as related here. | instructions | Corban | |
| Apr 17/19 | Metal | Static unsound checking with Metal | Coverity instructions | Volunteer/Godmar | |
| Apr 24/26 | MS SAL | Microsoft SAL Howard's blog | instructions | Michael N. | |
| May 1 | To be determined | ||||
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1036 A survey of systems for detecting serial run-time errors Glenn R. Luecke *, James Coyle, Jim Hoekstra, Marina Kraeva, Ying Li, Olga Taborskaia, Yanmei Wang
Spec#
JLint; PMD; Bandera; JCrasher; MS SLAM
Delta Debugging
DART
ModelChecking: PathFinder or FiSC/EXE:
Fugue, Vault, ESP?
Delta Debugging Program Shepherding
Campbell's LIVE (does C++, Java - simplified. Parses into AST, then interprets.) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/792548.611972