Software metrics are widely-used indicators of software quality and several studies have
shown that such metrics can be used to estimate the presence of vulnerabilities in the code …

Despite the acknowledged importance of quantitative security assessment in secure
software development, current literature still lacks an efficient model for measuring internal …

The exploitation of software security vulnerabilities can have severe consequences. Thus, it
is crucial to devise new processes, techniques, and tools to support teams in the …

Vulnerability detection is an important challenge in the security community. Many different
techniques have been proposed, ranging from symbolic execution to fuzzing in order to help …

The malicious exploitation of security flaws by attackers can lead to a range of problems.
While several techniques and tools allow detecting vulnerabilities during the Software …

Software trustworthiness allocation and reallocation are the symmetry of software
trustworthiness measure. They can provide the optimization scheme for trustworthiness …

Developing embedded software applications is a challenging task, chiefly due to the
limitations that are imposed by the hardware devices or platforms on which they operate, as …

Web application security has become paramount for the organisation's operation, and
therefore, static analysis tools (SAT) for vulnerability detection have been widely researched …

The increasingly intensive use of software systems in diverse sectors, especially in
business, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructures, makes it essential to deliver …

The popularity of web applications and their world-wide use to support business critical
operations raised the interest of hackers on exploiting security vulnerabilities to perform …