JIT spraying is a new code-reuse technique to attack virtual machines based on JIT (Just-in-time) compilation. It has proven to be capable of circumventing the defenses such as data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization(ASLR), which are effective for preventing the traditional code injection attacks. In this paper, we describe JITDefender, an enhancement of standard ...

The promise of object-oriented software has been somewhat dimmed by the continuing need for source code familiarity to realize the goals of code-reuse and manageability. Software design has been hampered by the infeasibility of predicting all possible circumstances of use. Composing applications out of reusable components has remained a myth, primarily due to limitations of the simplistic share...

Successfully introducing a reuse program into an organization requires many things, such as proven processes, an organization for reuse, and management support. However, management needs to understand the value of reuse before they will allocate resources. Key to showing this value is a business case based on consistent, realistic, and easy to understand metrics. I have found that combining rea...

***[ChTitle]Reuse in the world of end-user programmers*** ***Authors: Christopher Scaffidi, Mary Shaw*** ***Abstract:*** End-user programmers often reuse one another’s code when creating new programs, but this reuse is rarely as clean or simple as the blackbox reuse that professional programmers aspire to achieve. In this chapter, we explore the motivations that drive reuse of end-user code, th...

Software reuse has the potential of reducing development time and increasing software quality. There are several types of knowledge that can be reused, with code being the most common reused one. Code reuse is the most direct and easier type of reuse, but is not the most efficient one. Design reuse is more productive than code reuse, because changes at the design level can have big effects on t...

Today, the growing size and complexity of software along with decreasing development times causes tremendous challenges to software testing. This has driven the whole software industry to seek new ways to test more efficiently and effectively. Software reuse has been practiced for decades and successful industrial studies have demonstrated such profits as increased productivity and quality as w...

We present an approach for a lightweight datatype-generic programming in Objective Caml programming language aimed at better code reuse. We show that a large class of transformations usually expressed via recursive functions with pattern matching can be implemented using the single per-type traversal function and the set of objectencoded transformations, which we call transformation objects. Ob...

An automated tool to assist in the understanding of legacy code can be useful both in the areas of software reuse and software maintenance. Most previous work in this area has concentrated on functionally-oriented code. Whereas object-oriented code has been shown to be inherently more reusable than functionally-oriented code, in many cases the eventual reuse of the object-oriented code was not ...