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

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
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
Static bug-finding tools
field defects
false negatives
Computer Sciences
Software Engineering
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

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