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PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers
Compilers should be correct. To improve the quality of C compilers, we created Csmith, a randomized test-case generation tool, and spent three years using it to find compiler bug...
Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, Eric Eide, John Regehr
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Isolating and understanding concurrency errors using reconstructed execution fragments
In this paper we propose Recon, a new general approach to concurrency debugging. Recon goes beyond just detecting bugs, it also presents to the programmer short fragments of buggy...
Brandon Lucia, Benjamin P. Wood, Luis Ceze
CSMR
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Clustering Data Retrieved from Java Source Code to Support Software Maintenance: A Case Study
Data mining is a technology recently used in support of software maintenance in various contexts. Our works focuses on achieving a high level understanding of Java systems without...
Dimitris Rousidis, Christos Tjortjis
IFIP
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team
Refactoring is a hot and controversial issue. Supporters claim that it helps increasing the quality of the code, making it easier to understand, modify and maintain. Moreover, the...
Raimund Moser, Pekka Abrahamsson, Witold Pedrycz, ...
SC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Parallel Programmer Productivity: A Case Study of Novice Parallel Programmers
In developing High-Performance Computing (HPC) software, time to solution is an important metric. This metric is comprised of two main components: the human effort required develo...
Lorin Hochstein, Jeffrey Carver, Forrest Shull, Si...