Attempts to dereference null result in an exception or a segmentation fault. Hence it is important to know those program points where this might occur and prove the others (or the...
In many software development projects, people tend to repeat same mistakes due to lack of shared knowledge from past experiences. Generally, it is very difficult to manually find ...
Localizing the cause(s) of an observable error lies at the heart of program debugging. Fault localization often proceeds by comparing the failing program run with some “successf...
Maintenance costs make up the bulk of the total life cycle costs of a software system. Besides organizational issues such as knowledge management and turnover, the longterm mainte...
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert
Despite the advantages that object technology can provide to the software development community and its customers, the fundamental problems associated with identifying objects, th...