When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As ...

Smart contracts are the backbone of decentralized applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), and blockchain ecosystems. Unlike traditional software, once deployed, smart contracts are immutable, ...

Abstract: This study investigates the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) as quantitative evaluators of code readability in industrial-scale Java-to-Kotlin migrations. Focusing on a ...

Static program analysis (or static analysis) is the analysis of computer programs performed without executing them, in contrast with dynamic program analysis, which is performed on programs during ...

Details the application of design, development, and performance testing to an automated program repair tool we built that repairs C/C++ code. Static analysis (SA) tools produce many diagnostic alerts ...

Abstract: Code smells are indicators of potential problems in software source code that may hinder maintainability, increase complexity, and elevate the likelihood of future defects. This paper ...

Our tool, Redemption, automatically repairs source code for 100% of static analysis alerts for two types of code flaws, even if the alert is a false positive. Static analysis tools often produce too ...

Finally, Microsoft C++ Code Analysis now offers enhanced Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF) output to include detailed information about warning suppressions, most notably the ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

ABSTRACT: Security vulnerabilities are a widespread and costly aspect of software engineering. Although tools exist to detect these vulnerabilities, non-machine learning techniques are often rigid and ...