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TSE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Privately Finding Specifications
Buggy software is a reality and automated techniques for discovering bugs are highly desirable. A specification describes the correct behavior of a program. For example, a file mus...
Westley Weimer, Nina Mishra
ACMSE
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Methods for the prevention, detection and removal of software security vulnerabilities
Over the past decade, the need to build secure software has become a dominant goal in software development. Consequently, software researchers and practitioners have identified wa...
Jay-Evan J. Tevis, John A. Hamilton Jr.
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Gestalt: integrated support for implementation and analysis in machine learning
We present Gestalt, a development environment designed to support the process of applying machine learning. While traditional programming environments focus on source code, we exp...
Kayur Patel, Naomi Bancroft, Steven M. Drucker, Ja...
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
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action
Introductory computer science students rely on a trial and error approach to fixing errors and debugging for too long. Moving to a reflection in action strategy can help students ...
Stephen H. Edwards