User input validation is a technique to counter attacks on web applications. In typical client-server architectures, this validation is performed on the client side. This is ineff...
Tejeddine Mouelhi, Yves Le Traon, Erwan Abgrall, B...
Many software security solutions—including malware analyzers, information flow tracking systems, auditing utilities, and host-based intrusion detectors—rely on knowledge of s...
Abhinav Srivastava, Andrea Lanzi, Jonathon T. Giff...
Given a program and an assertion in that program, determining if the assertion can fail is one of the key applications of program analysis. Symbolic execution is a well-known techn...
Computing unique input-output sequences (UIOs) from finite state machines (FSMs) is important for conformance testing in software engineering, where evolutionary algorithms (EAs)...
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...