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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fetzer, Christof
• Xiao, Zhen

Titel

Automatic Testing for Robustness Violations

Ist Teil von

• Testing Commercial-off-the-Shelf Components and Systems, p.349-362

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Detecting programming errors in component-based systems can be difficult and very expensive. Due to the trend in outsourcing the development of software, companies are deploying more third-party software for mission critical systems. Hence, there is an increased need to assess the robustness and security of software. The traditional way of supporting component-oriented programming is to provide components in the form of shared libraries. In this chapter we describe a tool called HEALERS that can detect programming errors and security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries without source code access. A major advantage of our approach is that it is highly automated and could be used by component users who have little knowledge about the internals of a library.