Easing Maintenance of Academic Static Analyzers

Monat, Raphaël; Ouadjaout, Abdelraouf; Miné, Antoine

Type de document :

Pré-publication ou Document de travail

URL permanente :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/118377

Titre :

Easing Maintenance of Academic Static Analyzers

Auteur(s) :

Monat, Raphaël [Auteur]
Analyse symbolique et conception orientée composants pour des systèmes embarqués temps-réel modulaires [SYCOMORES]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Ouadjaout, Abdelraouf [Auteur]
Algorithmes, Programmes et Résolution [APR]
Miné, Antoine [Auteur]
Algorithmes, Programmes et Résolution [APR]

Date de publication :

2024-07-17

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

static analysis
abstract interpretation
Software engineering

Discipline(s) HAL :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Academic research in static analysis produces software implementations. These implementations are time-consuming to develop and some need to be maintained in order to enable building further research upon the implementation. ...
Lire la suite >Academic research in static analysis produces software implementations. These implementations are time-consuming to develop and some need to be maintained in order to enable building further research upon the implementation. While necessary, these processes can be quickly challenging. This article documents the tools and techniques we have come up with to simplify the maintenance of Mopsa since 2017. Mopsa is a static analysis platform that aims at being sound. First, we describe an automated way to measure precision that does not require any baseline of true bugs obtained by manually inspecting the results. Further, it improves transparency of the analysis, and helps discovering regressions during continuous integration. Second, we have taken inspiration from standard tools observing the concrete execution of a program to design custom tools observing the abstract execution of the analyzed program itself, such as abstract debuggers and profilers. Finally, we report on some cases of automated testcase reduction.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

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