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Dynamic Patch Generation for Null Pointer Exceptions using Metaprogramming
Thomas Durieux, Benoit Cornu, Lionel Seinturier +1
Null pointer exceptions (NPE) are the number one cause of uncaught crashing exceptions in production. In this paper, we aim at exploring the search space of possible patches for nu…
NPEFix: Automatic Runtime Repair of Null Pointer Exceptions in Java
Benoit Cornu, Thomas Durieux, Lionel Seinturier +1
Null pointer exceptions, also known as null dereferences are the number one exceptions in the field. In this paper, we propose 9 alternative execution semantics when a null pointer…
Dynamic Analysis can be Improved with Automatic Test Suite Refactoring
Jifeng Xuan, Benoit Cornu, Matias Martinez +3
Context: Developers design test suites to automatically verify that software meets its expected behaviors. Many dynamic analysis techniques are performed on the exploitation of exe…
Casper: Debugging Null Dereferences with Dynamic Causality Traces
Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier +1
Fixing a software error requires understanding its root cause. In this paper, we introduce ''causality traces'', crafted execution traces augmented with the information needed to r…
Reasoning and Improving on Software Resilience against Unanticipated Exceptions
Benoit Cornu, Lionel Seinturier, Martin Monperrus
In software, there are the errors anticipated at specification and design time, those encountered at development and testing time, and those that happen in production mode yet neve…