The lack of virtual memory protection is a serious source of unreliability in many embedded systems. Without the segment-level protection it provides, these systems are subject to...
Buffer overflow exploits make use of the treatment of strings in C as character arrays rather than as first-class objects. Manipulation of arrays as pointers and primitive pointer...
Software constantly undergoes changes throughout its life cycle, and thereby it evolves. As changes are introduced into a code base, we need to make sure that the effect of the ch...
Testing is among the most effective tools available for finding bugs. Still, we know of no automatic technique for generating test cases that expose bugs involving a combination ...
Despite advances in the application of automated statistical and machine learning techniques to system log and trace data there will always be a need for human analysis of machine...