Dynamic program analysis for error detection using goal-seeking input data generation
Sergey Pavlovitch Vartanov, Alexander Yurievich Gerasimov · Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of RAS · 2014
This paper describes the principles of program dynamic analysis for defect detection using input data generation. Techniques of program transformation allowing execution trace extraction, data flow tracing and input data generation for execution path coverage approaches are considered. We clarify in what way such an approach allows us to perform fully automatic analysis using executable or interpretable code. This paper also presents dynamic analysis tools developed at Institute for System Programming RAS---Avalanche (Valgrind-based tool) and a prototype tool for Java applications. The paper concludes with an evaluation of practical results of applying Avalanche tool to a set of open source projects as well as results of applying Java analysis tool to detect concurrency defects.