Using automated reasoning techniques, we tackle the niche activity of proving that a program is free from run-time exceptions. Such a property is particularly valuable in high inte...
Andrew Ireland, Bill J. Ellis, Andrew Cook, Roderi...
In co-located software development, diagramming practices, such as sketching ideas out with a pen and paper, support the creative process and allow designers to shape, analyze, an...
Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen, Koji Yatani, Victor...
A system built in terms of autonomous agents may require even greater correctness assurance than one which is merely reacting to the immediate control of its users. Agents make su...
Cu D. Nguyen, Anna Perini, Paolo Tonella, Simon Mi...
Evolutionary structural testing is an approach to automatically generating test cases that achieve high structural code coverage. It typically uses genetic algorithms (GAs) to sea...
This paper introduces a technique for incremental and compositional model checking that allows efficient reuse of model-checking results associated with the features in a product l...