This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Static Analysis
Symposium SAS 2016 held in Edinburgh UK in September 2016. The 21 papers presented in this
volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The contributions cover a
variety of multi-disciplinary topics in abstract domains abstract interpretation abstract
testing bug detection data flow analysis model checking new applications program
transformation program verification security analysis theoretical frameworks and type
checking.