Diagnosing production run failures is a challenging yet important task. Most previous work focuses on offsite diagnosis, i.e. development site diagnosis with the programmers prese...
Joseph Tucek, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huang, Spiros Xanth...
Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising techniqu...
Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li, Ho-Seop Kim, Yua...
Refactoring is one means of improving the structure of existing software. Locations for the application of refactoring are often based on subjective perceptions such as ”bad sme...
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
Faults that occur in production systems are the most important faults to fix, but most production systems lack the debugging facilities present in development environments. TraceB...
Andrew Ayers, Richard Schooler, Chris Metcalf, Ana...