Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code, and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to 2/3 of system crashes [6], hence are worthy of ser...
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...
A requirement of any source language is to be rich in features and concise to use by the programmers. As a drawback, it is often too complex to analyse, causing research studies t...
The design and implementation of a novel visual interactive execution environment for Java is described. This system displays both the run-time object structure as well as the int...
jContractor is a purely library based approach to support Design By Contract specifications such as preconditions, postconditions, class invariants, and recovery and exception hand...