BEAM is a tool for finding errors in C++ programs by source code analysis.
It uses data flow analysis to find paths leading to an error. Classical data flow
analysis propagates information along all paths, including non-executable ones,
which results in reporting errors that are not real. To avoid this problem,
BEAM restricts data flow analysis to paths that are executable, and in addition
also consistent with user's assumptions on initial state of memory. However, the
user is not required to specify his assumptions. The main contribution of this paper
is an algorithm for finding an executable path to error, while avoiding path enumeration.
By: Daniel Brand
Published in: RC21484 in 1999
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