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Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance

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This Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance project focuses on measuring and assessing trustworthiness in software, systems and applications. It conducts research

Software Performance Project

Completed
NOTE: This work was succeeded by the Software Metrology Project Software Metrology: Helping physical scientists and computer scientists understand one another a

Publications

Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3

Author(s)
Paul E. Black, William Mentzer, Elizabeth Fong, Bertrand Stivalet
The Vulnerability Test Suite Generator (VTSG) Version 3 can create vast numbers of synthetic programs with and without specific flaws or vulnerabilities. Such

SATE VI Report: Bug Injection and Collection

Author(s)
Aurelien Delaitre, Paul E. Black, Damien Cupif, Guillaume Haben, Loembe Alex-Kevin, Vadim Okun, Yann Prono, Aurelien Delaitre
The SATE VI report presents the results of a security-focused bug finding evaluation exercise carried out from 2018 to 2023 on various code bases using static