Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...