Peli at RiSE

Sebastian Burckhardt gives a short tutorial of some of the new features of CHESS: data race detection and ChessBoard. CHESS is a concurrency testing tool takes a concurrent unit test and executes it with different thread schedules. Sebastian explains us how CHESS can detect…

Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko present a new exciting project: Qex. Pavel did an internship in the Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) investigating automatic data generation methods for parameterized SQL queries. In this video, he shows the result of his 3-month…

Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga showcase the Code Contracts Editor Extensions. The extensions integrate Code Contracts into the C# intellisense, the Code Definition View and even the editor text itself. Download the Code Contracts Editor Extensions Try Code Contracts in your browser at…

Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga, a high school intern at RiSE, sit down to talk about Code Contracts for .NET and documentation. Daryl has been working this summer on a tool that inserts contracts elements into the Xml Documentation files generated by the C#/VB…

A (very) short video with Ethan Jackson on BAM. BAM is a new approach to developing cloud applications through modeling, code synthesis, and simulation. With BAM you design applications that work in a dynamic environment with fluctuating resources. You can also check out a …

Patrice Godefroid gives an overview of Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing, a powerful testing technique applied at Microsoft through a tool called SAGE. Listen how he is working with the SAGE team to 'eradicate all buffer overrun bugs' in Windows... Read more in this paper…

Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux sit down for a quick coding session that shows how to use Code Contracts and Pex together. Code Contracts can be used to specify what your code should do, they get turned into runtime checks which Pex can analyse and try to find…

Herman Venter announces the Common Compiler Infrastructure (CCI) as an open source project on codeplex! CCI is a set of tools and components that are useful to build compilers: readers and writers for MSIL and symbol files, and more. You’ve may have heard and probably used different…

Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn talk about Nozzle, a new tool to detect heap spraying attacks, a new security attack that significantly increases the exploitability of existing memory corruption errors in type unsafe applications. Ben^2 give us a quick course on the basics of heap spraying…

Mike Barnett gives a step-by-step tutorial on Code Contracts, a new way to express preconditions, postconditions and invariants in any .NET language. The contracts team have built a runtime instrumentation tool and also advanced static checkers that can understand and reason about…