Code smells or bad smells are an accepted approach to identify design flaws in the source
code. Although it has been explored by researchers, the interpretation of programmers is …

Due to the lack of established real-world benchmark suites for static taint analyses of
Android applications, evaluations of these analyses are often restricted and hard to …

The usage of empirical methods has grown common in software engineering. This trend
spawned hundreds of publications, whose results are helping to understand and improve …

Today, every application uses software libraries. Yet, while a lot of research exists wrt
analyzing applications, research that targets the analysis of libraries independent of any …

Static analysis is used to automatically detect bugs and security breaches, and aids compiler
optimization. Whole-program analysis (WPA) can yield high precision, however causes long …

In the past, researchers have developed a number of popular taint-analysis approaches,
particularly in the context of Android applications. Numerous studies have shown that …

Grown software systems often contain code that is not necessary anymore. Such
unnecessary code wastes resources during development and maintenance, for example …

Call graphs are at the core of many static analyses ranging from the detection of unused
methods to advanced control-and data-flow analyses. Therefore, a comprehensive …

An integral part of developing a new analysis is to validate the correctness of its
implementation and to demonstrate its usefulness when applied to real-world code. As a …

The systematic evaluation of program analyses as well as software-engineering tools
requires benchmark suites that are representative of real-world projects in the domains for …