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A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World

By Al Bessey, Ken Block, Ben Chelf, Andy Chou, Bryan Fulton, Seth Hallem, Charles Henri-Gros, Asya Kamsky, Scott McPeak, Dawson Engler
Communications of the ACM, February 2010, Vol. 53 No. 2, Pages 66-75
10.1145/1646353.1646374
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detail of W. Bradford Paley's CodeProfiles — W. Bradford Paley's CodeProfiles was originally commissioned for the Whitney Museum of American Art's "CODeDOC" exhibition and later included in MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition. CodeProfiles explores the space of code itself.

"CodeProfiles" by W. Bradford Paley, http://didi.com

How Coverity built a bug-finding tool, and a business, around the unlimited supply of bugs in software systems.

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Bjarne Stroustrup

January 29, 2010 09:53

I hugely enjoyed this article. I can't think when I last read an article that made so many important points. Thanks for not sugar-coating the description of real-world problems and real solutions. And thanks for not drowning those points in jargon.

Moshe Vardi

February 18, 2010 04:55

See discussion at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3824

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