To What Extent Could We Detect Field Defects? —An Empirical Study of False Negatives in Static Bug Finding Tools

Software defects can cause much loss. Static bug-finding tools are believed to help detect and remove defects. These tools are designed to find programming errors; but, do they in fact help prevent actual defects that occur in the field and reported by users? If these tools had been used, would they...

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Main Authors: Thung, Ferdian, Lucia, -, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao, Devanbu, Premkumar, Rahman, Foyzur
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1570
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2351685
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English