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

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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

Al Bessey, Ken Block, Ben Chelf, Andy Chou, Bryan Fulton, Seth Hallem, Charles Henri-Gros, Asya Kamsky, Scott McPeak, Dawson Engler

February 1, 2010

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

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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.

   — Bjarne Stroustrup, January 29, 2010

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

   — Moshe Vardi, February 18, 2010
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