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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
User guidance for creating precise and accessible property specifications
Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Behaviour model elaboration using partial labelled transition systems
State machine based formalisms such as labelled transition systems (LTS) are generally assumed to be complete descriptions m behaviour at some level of abstraction: if a labelled ...
Sebastián Uchitel, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Detecting implied scenarios in message sequence chart specifications
Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are becoming increasingly popular as part of a requirements specification. Scenarios describe how system compo...
Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebastián Uchitel
POPL
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Atomizer: a dynamic atomicity checker for multithreaded programs
Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected interactions between concurrent threads. Much previous work has focused on det...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Jungloid mining: helping to navigate the API jungle
Reuse of existing code from class libraries and frameworks is often difficult because APIs are complex and the client code required to use the APIs can be hard to write. We obser...
David Mandelin, Lin Xu, Rastislav Bodík, Do...