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   * Introduction to SAMATE
   * Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD)
   * Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE)
   * The Bugs Framework
   * SAMATE Publications
   * SAMATE Tool Survey
   * SAMATE-Related Web Sites and Resources


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WELCOME TO THE SOFTWARE ASSURANCE METRICS AND TOOL EVALUATION (SAMATE) WEBSITE!

Software assurance is a set of methods and processes to prevent, mitigate or
remove weaknesses and vulnerabilities and ensure that software functions as
intended. The Introduction to SAMATE page provides more details. SAMATE’s major
efforts include defining bug classes, collecting a corpus of programs with known
bugs, and enabling better understanding of tool effectiveness.

The Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD) is a growing collection of
thousands of test programs with documented weaknesses. The Acknowledgments and
Test Case Descriptions page describes the content. The Manual explains how to
use the SARD website.

The Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) is a recurring study designed to
advance research in static analysis tools that find security-relevant weaknesses
in source code. We provide a set of programs to tool makers, then they run their
tools and return tool outputs for analysis.

The Bugs Framework (BF) is a structured, complete, orthogonal, and
language-independent classification of software weaknesses (bugs). BF allows
unambiguous descriptions of software vulnerabilities.


NEWS:

 * Juliet Test Suite for C# version 1.3, developed by NSA Center for Assured
   Software, was released in August 2020.
 * BF was enhanced with the Memory Bugs Model and the definitions of Memory
   Allocation Bugs, Memory Use Bugs, Memory Deallocation Bugs, and Memory
   Addressing Bugs in May 2020.
 * SATE VI Ockham Sound Analysis Criteria, NIST Internal Report (IR) 8304 was
   released in April 2020.

We invite you to participate in the SAMATE mailing list!  The mailing list web
site is https://list.nist.gov/samate-discuss. Note that as of November 2019, the
SAMATE mailing list moved to Google Groups.

We pronounce SAMATE as suh-mate, which rhymes with date.

If you are looking for the (similarly named) Software Engineering Method And
Theory (SEMAT) project web site, please visit http://semat.org/(link is
external).

This web site was created in July 2005. 

Software research and Software testing


CONTACTS

 * Questions or Comments
   samate@nist.gov(link sends email)
   

Created February 3, 2021, Updated October 28, 2021
 * Introduction to SAMATE ›


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