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LCTRTS
2011
Springer
13 years 20 days ago
An approach to improving the structure of error-handling code in the linux kernel
nguage does not provide any abstractions for exception handling or other forms of error handling, leaving programmers to devise their own conventions for detecting and handling er...
Suman Saha, Julia L. Lawall, Gilles Muller
APIN
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
Defeasible Logic on an Embedded Microcontroller
Defeasible logic is a system of reasoning in which rules have exceptions, and when rules conflict, the one that applies most specifically to the situation wins out. This paper repo...
Michael A. Covington
AC
2002
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C is Not My Favorite Language
How much does the choice of a programming language influence the prevalence of bugs in the resulting code? It seems obvious that at the level at which individuals write new progra...
Richard J. Fateman
GECCO
2003
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Predicate Expression Cost Functions to Guide Evolutionary Search for Test Data
Several researchers are using evolutionary search methods to search for test data with which to test a program. The fitness or cost function depends on the test goal but almost in...
Leonardo Bottaci
CACM
1999
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13 years 9 months ago
Putting OO Distributed Programming to Work
stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...
Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad