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ISSTA 2018
Sun 15 - Sat 21 July 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with ECOOP and ISSTA 2018
Wed 18 Jul 2018 14:57 - 15:13 at Winterthur - Session 2

Junior Submission
Symbolic execution is an effective technique for exploring paths in a program and reasoning about all possible values on those paths. However, the technique still struggles with code that uses complex heap data structures, in which a pointer is allowed to refer to more than one memory object. In such cases, symbolic execution typically forks execution into multiple states, one for each object to which the pointer could refer. In this work, we propose a technique that avoids this expensive forking scheme by using a flat memory scheme instead, i.e. essentially merging all memory objects into one. To make this approach feasible, we use alias analysis to split the flat memory into multiple memory pools, and also implement a hybrid approach in which the flat memory and forking schemes co-exist. We evaluate our technique on a mix of synthetic benchmarks (which manipulate standard data structures such as matrices and hash tables) and real programs (such as m4 and make), and observe significant gains in terms of performance and memory usage, respectively.

Wed 18 Jul

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13:30 - 15:24
14:00
25m
Doctoral symposium paper
Optimization based on Facts and Fiction
ECOOP and ISSTA Doc Symposium
Olivier Flückiger Northeastern University, USA
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14:25
16m
Doctoral symposium paper
Two-phase Analysis for Precision and Scalability
ECOOP and ISSTA Doc Symposium
Anastasios Antoniadis University of Athens, Greece
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14:41
16m
Doctoral symposium paper
Transparent Static Analysis for the Detection of Security Vulnerabilities
ECOOP and ISSTA Doc Symposium
Goran Piskachev Fraunhofer IEM
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14:57
16m
Doctoral symposium paper
Improving Symbolic Flat Memory Models with Pointer Alias Analysis
ECOOP and ISSTA Doc Symposium
Timotej Kapus Imperial College London
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15:13
16m
Doctoral symposium paper
Auto-tuning Framework for Multi-core Interference Analysis
ECOOP and ISSTA Doc Symposium
Dan Iorga Imperial College London, UK