We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...
Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
Manual debugging is expensive. And the high cost has motivated extensive research on automated fault localization in both software engineering and data mining communities. Fault l...
This paper tackles the problem of providing correct information about program variable values in a software-pipelined loop through a non-transparent debugging approach. Since mode...
All programmers should understand the concept of program families and know the techniques for constructing them. This paper describes a case study that can be used to introduce st...