Easing Maintenance of Academic Static Analyzers

Monat, Raphaël; Ouadjaout, Abdelraouf; Miné, Antoine

Document type :

Pré-publication ou Document de travail

Permalink :

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

Title :

Easing Maintenance of Academic Static Analyzers

Author(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]

Publication date :

2024-07-17

English keyword(s) :

static analysis
abstract interpretation
Software engineering

HAL domain(s) :

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

English abstract : [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. ...
Show more >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.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

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