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Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
"The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, i...
Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Dynamic slicing long running programs through execution fast forwarding
Fixing runtime bugs in long running programs using trace based analyses such as dynamic slicing was believed to be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we present a novel execu...
Xiangyu Zhang, Sriraman Tallam, Rajiv Gupta
PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pacer: Proportional Detection of Data Races
Data races indicate serious concurrency bugs such as order, atomicity, and sequential consistency violations. Races are difficult to find and fix, often manifesting only in deploy...
Michael D. Bond, Katherine E. Coons, Kathryn S. Mc...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Null dereference analysis in practice
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...
Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh
ESE
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Replaying development history to assess the effectiveness of change propagation tools
As developers modify software entities such as functions or variables to introduce new features, enhance old ones, or fix bugs, they must ensure that other entities in the software...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt