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20172026
most cited"False negative -- that one is going to kill you": Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing

32 citations · 78 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CR2026

CauSec: Unboxing the Causal Drivers of Static Vulnerability Analysis Performance

Akram Khan, Md Akram Khan, Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas +3

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools are widely used in both industry and academia. Such tools often make design choices that sacrifice detection to achieve higher perf…

cs.CR2025

From base cases to backdoors: An Empirical Study of Unnatural Crypto-API Misuse

Victor Olaiya, Adwait Nadkarni

Tools focused on cryptographic API misuse often detect the most basic expressions of the vulnerable use, and are unable to detect non-trivial variants. The question of whether tool…

cs.SE2025

Testing Practices, Challenges, and Developer Perspectives in Open-Source IoT Platforms

Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, Safwat Ali Khan, Prianka Mandal +3

As the popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms grows, users gain unprecedented control over their homes, health monitoring, and daily task automation. However, the testing…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes

Prianka Mandal, Sunil Manandhar, Kaushal Kafle +3

Prior work has developed numerous systems that test the security and safety of smart homes. For these systems to be applicable in practice, it is necessary to test them with realis…

cs.CR2023★ 6 cited

MASC: A Tool for Mutation-Based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors

Amit Seal Ami, Syed Yusuf Ahmed, Radowan Mahmud Redoy +5

While software engineers are optimistically adopting crypto-API misuse detectors (or crypto-detectors) in their software development cycles, this momentum must be accompanied by a…

cs.CR2023★ 32 cited

"False negative -- that one is going to kill you": Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing

Amit Seal Ami, Kevin Moran, Denys Poshyvanyk +1

The demand for automated security analysis techniques, such as static analysis based security testing (SAST) tools continues to increase. To develop SASTs that are effectively leve…