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Usama Hameed
dblp:329/0791
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software maintenance and evolution · 62% Program analysis · 38% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Systems and software security · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software maintenance and evolution › software reengineering
software debloating |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Trimmer: An Automated System for Configuration-Based Software Debloating · IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2022 |
Systems and software security
attack surface reduction |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Trimmer: An Automated System for Configuration-Based Software Debloating · IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2022 |
Program analysis › data flow analysis
constant propagation |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Trimmer: An Automated System for Configuration-Based Software Debloating · IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2022 |
Program analysis
static analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Trimmer: An Automated System for Configuration-Based Software Debloating · IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sparse constant propagation · 1.1inter-procedural constant propagation · 1.1dead code elimination · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Trimmer: An Automated System for Configuration-Based Software DebloatingabstractSoftware bloat has negative implications for security, reliability, and performance. To counter bloat, we proposeTrimmer, a static analysis-based system for pruning unused functionality.Trimmerremoves code that is unused with respect to user-provided command-line arguments and application-specific configuration files.Trimmeruses concrete memory tracking and a custom inter-procedural constant propagation analysis that facilitates dead code elimination. Our system supports both context-sensitive and context-insensitive constant propagation. We show that context-sensitive constant propagation is important for effective software pruning in most applications. We introducesparse constant propagationthat performs constant propagation only for configuration-hosting variables and show that it performs better (higher code size reductions) compared to constant propagation for all program variables. Overall, our results show thatTrimmerreduces binary sizes for real-world programs with reasonable analysis times. Across 20 evaluated programs, we observe a mean binary size reduction of 22.7 percent and a maximum reduction of 62.7 percent. For 5 programs, we observe performance speedups ranging from 5 to 53 percent. Moreover, we show that winnowing software applications can reduce the program attack surface by removing code that contains exploitable vulnerabilities. We find that debloating usingTrimmerremoves CVEs in 4 applications. Aatira Anum Ahmad, Abdul Rafae Noor, Hashim Sharif, Usama Hameed, Shoaib Asif, Mubashir Anwar, Ashish Gehani, Fareed Zaffar, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui |
IEEE Trans. Software Eng. | 4 |