Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated patter...
Library writers wish to provide a guarantee not only that each procedure in the library performs correctly in isolation, but also that the procedures perform correctly when run in ...
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
Fault insertion based techniqueshave been used for measuring test adequacy and testability of programs. Mutation analysis inserts faults into a program with the goal of creating m...
Roger T. Alexander, James M. Bieman, Sudipto Ghosh...
In this paper we introduce a new view on roles in Object Oriented programming languages, based on an ontological analysis of roles. A role is always associated with an object inst...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van d...