Sound Analysis: Can We Tell the Truth About Programs?
Telling the truth about all program behaviors collectively is hard. Can an analysis say something useful and true without making assumptions that are violated by nearly all real programs?
Archive of posts tagged: static analysis
From Programs to Deep Models – Part 1
The wealth of code now available on-line is fertile ground to enable machine learning to be applied to programming tasks. This post discusses the promise of and some progress on the problem “deep code.” It is the first in a series.
What Does It Mean for a Program Analysis to Be Sound?
The purpose of a program analysis is to infer whether a certain property of a program execution can be observed at runtime. The notion of an analysis’ soundness defines how much confidence one should put in its results. The notion is not uniform and is determined by whether the analysis is intended to be used as a testing or as a verification tool.
