This paper describes the application of the Test Automation Framework on the Mars Polar Lander (MPL) software. The premature shutdown of the descent engine on the MPL spacecraft i...
Mark R. Blackburn, Robert Busser, Aaron Nauman, Ro...
We show that in perfect-information stochastic parity games with a finite state space both players have optimal pure positional strategies. Contrary to the recent proofs of this f...
Agile methodologies represent a ‘people’ centered approach to delivering software. This paper investigates the social processes that contribute to their success. Qualitative g...
Initial system specifications, such as use-case scenarios and properties, only partially specify the future system. We posit that synthesizing partial component-level behavior mod...
Ivo Krka, Yuriy Brun, George Edwards, Nenad Medvid...
The craft of software understanding and verification can benefit from technologies that enable evolution toward a true engineering discipline. In current practice, software develo...