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Author ORCID Identifier

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Open Access Dissertation

Document Type

dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Degree Program

Computer Science

Year Degree Awarded

2016

Month Degree Awarded

September

First Advisor

Yannis Smaragdakis

Subject Categories

Programming Languages and Compilers | Software Engineering

Abstract

This work proposes new combinations of static and dynamic analysis for bug detection and program understanding. There are 3 related but largely independent directions: a) In the area of dynamic invariant inference, we improve the consistency of dynamically discovered invariants by taking into account second-order constraints that encode knowledge about
invariants; the second-order constraints are either supplied by the programmer or vetted by the programmer (among candidate constraints suggested automatically); b) In the area of testing dataflow (esp. map-reduce) programs, our tool, SEDGE, achieves higher testing coverage by leveraging existing
input data and generalizing them using a symbolic reasoning engine (a powerful SMT solver); c) In the area of bug detection, we identify and present the concept of residual investigation: a dynamic analysis that serves as the
runtime agent of a static analysis. Residual investigation identifies with higher certainty whether an error reported by the static analysis is likely true.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/9032610.0

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