Title
Measuring the Occurrence of Security-Related Bugs through Software Evolution
Abstract
A security-related bug is a programming error that introduces a potentially exploitable weakness into a computer system. This weakness could lead to a security breach with unfortunate consequences. Version control systems provide an accurate historical record of the software code's evolution. In this paper we examine the frequency of the security-related bugs throughout the evolution of a software project by applying the Find Bugs static analyzer on all versions of its revision history. We have applied our approach on four projects and we have come out with some interesting results including the fact that the number of the security-related bugs increase as the project evolves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/PCi.2012.15
Panhellenic Conference on Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
accurate historical record,software project,computer system,exploitable weakness,software evolution,bugs static analyzer,security-related bugs,project evolves,security-related bugs increase,software code,interesting result,security-related bug,databases,computer bugs,history,software engineering,static analysis,data mining,security
Data mining,Computer science,Software bug,Static analysis,Software,Security bug,Bebugging,Software evolution,Debugging
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2720-6
7
0.71
References 
Authors
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitris Mitropoulos19015.14
Georgios Gousios2133367.86
Diomidis Spinellis32023178.89