Program quality represents the most significant part of software quality control that assures all characteristics of software products to satisfy the user's explicit and impl...
Effect systems are important for reasoning about the side effects of a program. Although effect systems have been around for decades, they have not been widely adopted in practice...
Mohsen Vakilian, Danny Dig, Robert L. Bocchino Jr....
Mainstream object-oriented languages, such as C++ and Java1 , provide only a restricted form of polymorphic methods, namely uni-receiver dispatch. In common programming situations...
Christopher Dutchyn, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Steve...
Proving that particular methods within a code base are functionally pure--deterministic and side-effect free--would aid verification of security properties including function inve...
Matthew Finifter, Adrian Mettler, Naveen Sastry, D...
Despite Java’s automatic reclamation of memory, memory leaks remain an important problem. For example, we frequently encounter memory leaks that cause production servers to crash...