This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Static
Analysis SAS 2009 held in Los Angeles CA USA in August 2009 - co-located with LICS 2009
the 24th IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. The 21 revised full papers presented
together with two invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.
The papers address all aspects of static analysis including abstract domains abstract
interpretation abstract testing compiler optimizations control flow analysis data flow
analysis model checking program specialization security analysis theoretical analysis
frameworks type based analysis and verification systems.
