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To what extent could we detect field defects? An extended empirical study of false negatives in stat...

To what extent could we detect field defects? An extended empirical study of false negatives in stat...

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To what extent could we detect field defects? An extended empirical study of false negatives in static bug-finding tools

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To what extent could we detect field defects? An extended empirical study of false negatives in static bug-finding tools

Publisher

New York: Springer US

Journal title

Automated software engineering, 2015-12, Vol.22 (4), p.561-602

Language

English

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New York: Springer US

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Contents

Software defects can cause much loss. Static bug-finding tools are designed to detect and remove software defects and believed to be effective. However, do such tools in fact help prevent actual defects that occur in the field and reported by users? If these tools had been used, would they have detected these field defects, and generated warnings t...

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To what extent could we detect field defects? An extended empirical study of false negatives in static bug-finding tools

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2918202278

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2918202278

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ISSN

0928-8910

E-ISSN

1573-7535

DOI

10.1007/s10515-014-0169-8

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