A Couple Billion Lines of Code Later: Static Checking in the Real World
Abstract:
This talk describes lessons learned taking an academic tool that "worked fine" in the lab and using it to check billions of lines of code across several hundred companies. Some ubiquitous themes: reality is weird; what one thinks will matter often doesn't; what one doesn't even think to reject as a possibility is often a first-order effect.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {224362,
author = {Dawson Engler and Ben Chelf and Andy Chou and Seth Hallem},
title = {A Couple Billion Lines of Code Later: Static Checking in the Real World},
booktitle = {17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 08)},
year = {2008},
address = {San Jose, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/17th-usenix-security-symposium/couple-billion-lines-code-later-static-checking-real-world},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
author = {Dawson Engler and Ben Chelf and Andy Chou and Seth Hallem},
title = {A Couple Billion Lines of Code Later: Static Checking in the Real World},
booktitle = {17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 08)},
year = {2008},
address = {San Jose, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/17th-usenix-security-symposium/couple-billion-lines-code-later-static-checking-real-world},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}