The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
Advice is a mechanism, widely used in aspect-oriented languages, that allows one program component to augment or modify the behavior of other components. When advice and other com...
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers, William R...
A method for extracting syntactic specifications from heapmanipulating code is described. The state of the heap is represented as an environment mapping each variable or field to ...
tic analysis tools based on abstraction are sound but not complete. Several practical static analysis tools are heuristic in nature —they are neither sound nor complete, but have...
When software products are assembled from pre-defined components, performance prediction should be based on the components also. This supports rapid model-building, using previous...