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KBSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Static Validation of C Preprocessor Macros
—The widely used C preprocessor (CPP) is generally considered a source of difficulty for understanding and maintaining C/C++ programs. The main reason for this difficulty is CP...
Andreas Saebjoernsen, Lingxiao Jiang, Daniel J. Qu...
ICST
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Using JML Runtime Assertion Checking to Automate Metamorphic Testing in Applications without Test Oracles
It is challenging to test applications and functions for which the correct output for arbitrary input cannot be known in advance, e.g. some computational science or machine learni...
Christian Murphy, Kuang Shen, Gail E. Kaiser
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A comparative study of programmer-written and automatically inferred contracts
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Nadia Polikarpova, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Detecting Precedence-Related Advice Interference
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been proposed in literature to overcome modularization shortcomings such as the tyranny of the dominant decomposition. However, the new langu...
Maximilian Storzer, Florian Forster
KBSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic test factoring for java
Test factoring creates fast, focused unit tests from slow system-wide tests; each new unit test exercises only a subset of the functionality exercised by the system test. Augmenti...
David Saff, Shay Artzi, Jeff H. Perkins, Michael D...