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KDD
2007
ACM
151views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
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Efficient mining of iterative patterns for software specification discovery
Studies have shown that program comprehension takes up to 45% of software development costs. Such high costs are caused by the lack-of documented specification and further aggrava...
Chao Liu 0001, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Activity-based prototyping of ubicomp applications for long-lived, everyday human activities
We designed an activity-based prototyping process realized in the ActivityDesigner system that combines the theoretical framework of Activity-Centered Design with traditional iter...
Yang Li, James A. Landay
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OSDI
2006
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
From Uncertainty to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within
Automatic tools for finding software errors require a set of specifications before they can check code: if they do not know what to check, they cannot find bugs. This paper presen...
Ted Kremenek, Paul Twohey, Godmar Back, Andrew Y. ...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
122views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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Finding min-repros in database software
Testing and debugging database system applications is often challenging and time consuming. A database tester (or DB tester for short) has to detect a problem, determine why it ha...
Nicolas Bruno, Rimma V. Nehme
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
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Muse: a system for understanding and designing mappings
Schema mappings are logical assertions that specify the relationships between a source and a target schema in a declarative way. The specification of such mappings is a fundamenta...
Bogdan Alexe, Laura Chiticariu, Renée J. Mi...