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A Static Analyzer for Finding Dynamic Programming Errors. (appears in Software - Practice and Experience Vol. 30 No. 7, 2000)
BMAT – A Binary Matching Tool. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-99-83)
Building Scalable Failure-proneness Models Using Complexity Metrics for Large Scale Software Systems.
Dynamic Points-To Sets: A Comparison with Static Analyses and Potential Applications in Program Understanding and Optimization. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-38)
Effectively Prioritizing Tests in Development Environment. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-15)
Efficient Integration Testing using Dependency Analysis. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-94)
ESP: Path-Sensitive Program Verification in Polynomial Time. (PLDI '02: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.)
Evaluating the Efficacy of Test-Driven Development: Industrial Case Studies.
Flow-Insensitive Static Analysis for Detecting Integer Anomalies in Programs. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-44)
Framework for Instruction-level Tracing and Analysis of Program Executions.
Modular Checking for Buffer Overflows in the Large. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-139)
Mojo: A Dynamic Optimization System.
Optimization for Compression. (CGO '03: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.)
Path-Sensitive Dataflow Analysis with Iterative Refinement.
Perracotta: Mining Temporal API Rules From Imperfect Traces.
Profile-guided Proactive Garbage Collection for Locality Optimization.
PSE: Explaining Program Failures via Postmortem Static Analysis.
Righting Software.
Scalable Context-Sensitive Flow Analysis Using Instantiation Constraints.
Software Validation via Scalable Path-Sensitive Value Flow Analysis.
Speeding Up Dataflow Analysis Using Flow-Insensitive Pointer Analysis. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-18)
Symbolic Path Simulation in Path-Sensitive Dataflow Analysis.
Unification-based Pointer Analysis with Directional Assignments.
Vulcan: Binary Transformation in a Distributed Environment. (Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-50)