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Kalvala, Sara and Warburton, Richard (2011) A formal approach to fixing bugs. In: Simao, A. and Morgan, C., (eds.) Formal methods, foundations and applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7021 . Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 172-187. ISBN 9783642250316
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25032-3_12
Abstract
Bugs within programs typically arise within well-known motifs, such as complex language features or misunderstood programming interfaces. Some software development tools often detect some of these situations, and some integrated development environments suggest automated fixes for some of the simple cases. However, it is usually difficult to hand-craft and integrate more complex bug-fixing into these environments. We present a language for specifying program transformations which is paired with a novel methodology for identifying and fixing bug patterns within Java source code. We propose a combination of source code and bytecode analyses: this allows for using the control flow in the bytecode to help identify the bugs while generating corrected source code. The specification language uses a combination of syntactic rewrite rules and dataflow analysis generated from temporal logic based conditions. We demonstrate the approach with a prototype implementation.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Java (Computer program language), Debugging in computer science, Formal methods (Computer science) | ||||
| Series Name: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Berlin | ||||
| ISBN: | 9783642250316 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0302-9743 | ||||
| Book Title: | Formal methods, foundations and applications | ||||
| Editor: | Simao, A. and Morgan, C. | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 7021 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 172-187 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-25032-3_12 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Description: | Proceedings of 14th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2011, Sao Paulo, September 26-30 2011 |
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| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||
| Grant number: | EP/DO32466/1 (EPSRC) | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
| Title of Event: | 14th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2011 | ||||
| Type of Event: | Other | ||||
| Location of Event: | São Paulo, Brazil | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 26-30 Sep 2011 |
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