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Differentially Testing Soundness and Precision of Program Analyzers
In the last decades, numerous program analyzers have been developed both by
academia and industry. Despite their abundance however, there is currently no
systematic way of comparing the effectiveness of different analyzers on
arbitrary code. In this paper, we present the first automated technique for
differentially testing soundness and precision of program analyzers. We used
our technique to compare six mature, state-of-the art analyzers on tens of
thousands of automatically generated benchmarks. Our technique detected
soundness and precision issues in most analyzers, and we evaluated the
implications of these issues to both designers and users of program analyzers