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Many static and dynamic analyses have been developed to improve program quality. Several of them are well known and widely used in practice. It is not entirely clear, however, how to put these analyses together to achieve their combined benefits. This paper reports on our experiences with building a sequence of increasingly more powerful combinations of static and dynamic analyses for bug finding in the tools JCrasher, Check ’n’ Crash, and DSD-Crasher. We contrast the power and accuracy of the tools using the same example program as input to all three.
At the same time, the paper discusses the philosophy behind all three tools. Specifically, we argue that trying to detect program errors (rather than to certify programs for correctness) is well integrated in the development process and a promising approach for both static and dynamic analyses. The emphasis on finding program errors influences many aspects of analysis tools, including the criteria used to evaluate them and the vocabulary of discourse.
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Smaragdakis, Y., Csallner, C. (2007). Combining Static and Dynamic Reasoning for Bug Detection. In: Gurevich, Y., Meyer, B. (eds) Tests and Proofs. TAP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73770-4_1
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