Provably Sound Nullness Analysis of Java Code

Null pointer dereferences in Java raise exceptions, occur often, are hard to debug and cost a lot of unnecessary effort and resources. Therefore, a lot of effort has been put in analyses spotting those null pointer dereferences. As developers rely on those analyses it is important that they are sound. However, proving null pointer analyses sound...

Provably Sound Typechecking of JavaScript

Since its inception in 1995, JavaScript usage has grown far beyond its initial domain of interactive websites. As the size of applications developed in the language grows, so does the desire for static analysis such as typechecking to provide safety and reliability. Many developments have been made in recent years on increasing the precision of...