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IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Mendel: A Model, Metrics, and Rules to Understand Class Hierarchies
Inheritance is an important mechanism when developing object-oriented programs with class-based programming languages: it enables subtyping, polymorphism, and code reuse. Inherita...
Simon Denier, Yann-Gaël Guéhéne...
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the value of program analysis tools
It is difficult to determine the cost effectiveness of program analysis tools because we cannot evaluate them in the same environment where we will be using the tool. Tool evalua...
Ciera Jaspan, I-Chin Chen, Anoop Sharma
VL
2003
IEEE
139views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
14 years 10 days ago
Strategies and behaviors of end-user programmers with interactive fault localization
End-user programmers are writing an unprecedented number of programs, due in large part to the significant effort put forth to bring programming power to end users. Unfortunately,...
Shrinu Prabhakararao, Curtis R. Cook, Joseph R. Ru...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding transactional memory performance
Abstract—Transactional memory promises to generalize transactional programming to mainstream languages and data structures. The purported benefit of transactions is that they ar...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou