Devices, methods, and computer program products for detecting Points Of Failures in an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. The integrated circuit device is described by a structural description (2) comprising a plurality of elements, the elements representing cells and wires interconnecting the cells, the structural description further comprising portions representing a set of sensitive functional blocks (16), each sensitive functional block comprising one or more inputs, at least one sensitive output, and a set of elements interconnected such that the value of the sensitive output is a Boolean function of the input values of the sensitive functional block. The detection device (100) comprises: a selection unit (101) configured to iteratively select a n-tuple of elements in at least the portions of the netlist corresponding to said sensitive functional blocks, a testing unit (104) configured to test each selected n-tuple of elements, the testing unit being configured to: modify said selected n-tuple of elements from an initial state to a testing state; determine if the derivative of the Boolean function associated with each sensitive functional block is equal to zero. The detection device (100) is configured to detect that said n-tuple represents a Point Of Failure of order n in the integrated circuit (IC) device if the derivative of the Boolean function associated with said sensitive functional block is equal to zero.