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SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 25 days ago
Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards

Book
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15 years 5 months ago
Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
"The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, i...
Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tracking pointers with path and context sensitivity for bug detection in C programs
This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S. Lam
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Testing pervasive software in the presence of context inconsistency resolution services
Pervasive computing software adapts its behavior according to the changing contexts. Nevertheless, contexts are often noisy. Context inconsistency resolution provides a cleaner pe...
Heng Lu, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Scaling regression testing to large software systems
When software is modified, during development and maintenance, it is regression tested to provide confidence that the changes did not introduce unexpected errors and that new feat...
Alessandro Orso, Nanjuan Shi, Mary Jean Harrold