An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
This paper presents CMOD, a novel tool that provides a sound module system for C. CMOD works by enforcing a set of four rules that are based on principles of modular reasoning and...
Saurabh Srivastava, Michael Hicks, Jeffrey S. Fost...
In situations in which developers are not familiar with a system or its documentation is inadequate, the system’s source code becomes the only reliable source of information. Unf...
Vladimir Jakobac, Alexander Egyed, Nenad Medvidovi...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...