Program Analysis Techniques
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Principles Of Program Analysis
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Author : Flemming Nielson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Principles Of Program Analysis written by Flemming Nielson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Computers categories.
Program analysis utilizes static techniques for computing reliable information about the dynamic behavior of programs. Applications include compilers (for code improvement), software validation (for detecting errors) and transformations between data representation (for solving problems such as Y2K). This book is unique in providing an overview of the four major approaches to program analysis: data flow analysis, constraint-based analysis, abstract interpretation, and type and effect systems. The presentation illustrates the extensive similarities between the approaches, helping readers to choose the best one to utilize.
Program Analysis Techniques For Algorithmic Complexity And Relational Properties
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Author : Jia Chen (Ph. D. in computer science)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Program Analysis Techniques For Algorithmic Complexity And Relational Properties written by Jia Chen (Ph. D. in computer science) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Analyzing standard safety properties of a given program has traditionally been the primary focus of the program analysis community. Unfortunately, there are still many interesting analysis tasks that cannot be effectively expressed with standard safety properties. One such example is to derive the asymptotic complexity of a given program. Another example is to verify relational properties, i.e. properties that must be satisfied jointly by multiple programs of multiple runs of one program. Existing program analysis techniques for standard safety properties are usually not immediately applicable to asymptotic complexity analysis problems and relational verification problems. New approaches are therefore needed to solve these unconventional problems. This thesis studies techniques for algorithmic complexity analysis as well as relational verification. To that end, we present three case studies: (1) We propose a new fuzzing technique for automatically finding inputs that trigger a program's worst-case resource usage. (2) We show how to build a scalable, end-to-end side channel detection tool by combining static taint analysis and a program logic designed for verifying non-interference of a given program. (3) We propose a general and effective relational verification algorithm that combines reinforcement learning with backtracking search. A common theme among all these solutions is to exploit problem-specific structures and adapt existing techniques to exploit those structures accordingly
Program Analysis Techniques For Identifying Concurrency Errors
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Author : Qichang Chen
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-22
Program Analysis Techniques For Identifying Concurrency Errors written by Qichang Chen and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with categories.
Today, multi-core/multi-processor hardware has become ubiquitous, which puts us at a fundamental turning point on software development. However, developing concurrent programs is difficult. Concurrency introduces the possibility of errors that do not exist in sequential programs. This book covers the state-of-the-art research achievements on detecting concurrency errors such as deadlock, race condition, and atomicity violation and also presents several aggressive performance optimization techniques for hybrid program analysis.
Public Program Analysis
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Author : Ronald Forthofer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Public Program Analysis written by Ronald Forthofer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the demand for analyses of health and public affairs program data. Governments at the federal and state levels have stimulated, if not mandated, much of this increased de mand and spawned numerous not-for-profit and quasi-public organizations research groups, lobbying organizations, consulting firms-who actively use analytic techniques. Program analysis is a broad term that encompasses activities such as pro gram planning and prediction, program assessment, and program evaluation. Though purposes differ and techniques vary, the common denominator for all applications is the attempt to use quantitative techniques to provide compre hensive and objective analyses. Program analysis in public health and public affairs shares another common feature: In many cases the data collected for these applications are categorical in nature-that is, discrete information rep resented by categories. Whether a defendant in a criminal trial is convicted (yes, no), the number of times a person visits a community health center in a month (0,1,2,3, ... ), how a person feels about a proposed program (agree, disagree, not sure, no opinion)-these are examples of categorical data. This book describes a multivariate categorical data analysis technique the weighted-least-squares (WLS) approach developed by Grizzle, Starmer, and Koch (GSK)-applied to program analysis in health and public affairs. It is written for in-service professionals who desire an introduction to applied cate gorical data analysis and for preservice students who are studying quantitative methods.
Proceedings Of The 3rd International Conference On Frontiers Of Intelligent Computing Theory And Applications Ficta 2014
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Author : Suresh Chandra Satapathy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Proceedings Of The 3rd International Conference On Frontiers Of Intelligent Computing Theory And Applications Ficta 2014 written by Suresh Chandra Satapathy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This volume contains 95 papers presented at FICTA 2014: Third International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications. The conference was held during 14-15, November, 2014 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. This volume contains papers mainly focused on Data Warehousing and Mining, Machine Learning, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, AI, E-commerce & Distributed Computing and Soft Computing, Evolutionary Computing, Bio-inspired Computing and its Applications.
Advanced Symbolic Analysis For Compilers
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Author : Thomas Fahringer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-12
Advanced Symbolic Analysis For Compilers written by Thomas Fahringer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Computers categories.
The objective of program analysis is to automatically determine the p- perties of a program. Tools of software development, such as compilers, p- formance estimators, debuggers, reverse-engineering tools, program veri?- tion/testing/proving systems, program comprehension systems, and program specializationtoolsarelargelydependentonprogramanalysis. Advancedp- gram analysis can: help to ?nd program errors; detect and tune performan- critical code regions; ensure assumed constraints on data are not violated; tailor a generic program to suit a speci?c application; reverse-engineer so- ware modules, etc. A prominent program analysis technique is symbolic a- lysis, which has attracted substantial attention for many years as it is not dependent on executing a program to examine the semantics of a program, and it can yield very elegant formulations of many analyses. Moreover, the complexity of symbolic analysis can be largely independent of the input data size of a program and of the size of the machine on which the program is being executed. In this book we present novel symbolic control and data ?ow repres- tation techniques as well as symbolic techniques and algorithms to analyze and optimize programs. Program contexts which de?ne a new symbolic - scription of program semantics for control and data ?ow analysis are at the center of our approach. We have solved a number of problems encountered in program analysis by using program contexts. Our solution methods are e?cient, versatile, uni?ed, and more general (they cope with regular and irregular codes) than most existing methods.
Nonlinear Programming
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Author : Mordecai Avriel
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Nonlinear Programming written by Mordecai Avriel and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Mathematics categories.
This overview provides a single-volume treatment of key algorithms and theories. Begins with the derivation of optimality conditions and discussions of convex programming, duality, generalized convexity, and analysis of selected nonlinear programs, and then explores techniques for numerical solutions and unconstrained optimization methods. 1976 edition. Includes 58 figures and 7 tables.
Tools And Methods Of Program Analysis
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Author : Anna Kalenkova
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Tools And Methods Of Program Analysis written by Anna Kalenkova and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tools and Methods for Program Analysis, TMPA 2019, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in November 2019. The 14 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers presented together with one keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as software test automation, static program analysis, verification, dynamic methods of program analysis, testing and analysis of parallel and distributed systems, testing and analysis of high-load and high-availability systems, analysis and verification of hardware and software systems, methods of building quality software, tools for software analysis, testing and verification.
Tools And Methods Of Program Analysis
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Author : Vladimir Itsykson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-29
Tools And Methods Of Program Analysis written by Vladimir Itsykson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-29 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tools and Methods for Program Analysis, TMPA 2017, Moscow, Russia, March 3-4, 2017. The 12 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented together with three abstracts of keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as software test automation, static program analysis, verification, dynamic methods of program analysis, testing and analysis of parallel and distributed systems, testing and analysis of high-load and high-availability systems, analysis and verification of hardware and software systems, methods of building quality software, tools for software analysis, testing and verification.
Practical Formal Methods For Software Analysis And Development
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Author : Konstantinos Ferles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Practical Formal Methods For Software Analysis And Development written by Konstantinos Ferles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Formal methods techniques for improving software correctness and reliability fall into two categories, namely, program analysis and program synthesis. Program analysis techniques automatically find defects (or prove the absence thereof) in existing software. In a dual way, program synthesis techniques generate correct-by-construction code from high-level specifications. In this thesis, we propose an array of formal method techniques that further improve the state-of-the-art of program analysis techniques, while also applying program synthesis techniques in previously unexplored domains. Broadly speaking, the long history of program analysis can be summarized as the battle between precision and scalability. As a first step in this thesis, we propose a technique called program trimming that helps arbitrary safety-checking tools to achieve a better balance between precision and scalability. In a nutshell, program trimming semantically simplifies the program by eliminating provably correct execution paths. Because the number of execution paths is a typical scalability bottleneck for some techniques (e.g., symbolic execution) and a source of imprecision for others (e.g., abstract interpretation), program trimming can be used to improve both precision and scalability of program analysis tools. We have implemented our technique in a tool called Trimmer and showed that Trimmer significantly improves the behavior of two different program analyzers over a set of challenging verification benchmarks. Program synthesis, on the other hand, has only recently started to appear in more practical aspects of software development. Formal method techniques in this area aim to ease programming for several domains while targeting a broad range of programmers, from novices to experts. In this thesis, we propose a novel program synthesis technique, implemented in a tool called Expresso, that aids experts in writing correct and efficient concurrent programs. Specifically, Expresso allows programmers to implement concurrent programs using the implicit signaling paradigm, where the programmer specifies the condition under which a thread should block but she does not need to worry about explicitly signaling other threads when this condition becomes true. Given such an implicit signaling program, Expresso generates an efficient and correct-by-construction program that does not contain deadlocks caused by improper signaling. Our evaluation shows that Expresso is able to synthesize efficient implementations of real-world monitors with performance comparable to the one written by programming experts. Finally, we observe that certain monitors require their clients to use their API in a manner that conforms to a context-free specification. Statically verifying that a client conforms to a context-free API protocol cannot be handled by any prior technique. To rectify this and ensure that client applications properly use such protocols, we propose CFPChecker, a tool that verifies the correct usage of context-free API protocols. Given a program, P, and an API protocol expressed as a parameterized context-free grammar, GS, CFPChecker either proves that P conforms to GS or provides a genuine program trace that demonstrates an API misuse. We have evaluated our proposed technique on a wide variety of popular context-free API protocols and several clients drawn from popular open-source applications. Our experiments show that CFPChecker is effective in both verifying the correct usage and finding counterexamples of context-free API protocols