Evaluating Static Analysis Defect Warnings on Production Software

Abstract

Classification of static analysis warnings into false positive, trivial or serious bugs: Experience on Java JDK and Google codebase

Citation: Evaluating Static Analysis Defect Warnings on Production Software, Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh, J. David Morgenthaler, John Penix, YuQian Zhou, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering, 2007, pp. 1-8.

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