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ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Sound Methods and Effective Tools for Engineering Modeling and Analysis
Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...
David Coppit, Kevin J. Sullivan
COMPSAC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
Detecting Null Pointer Violations in Java Programs
The use of formal methods has been growing steadily and there have been a number of successful applications of formal methods in a range of application areas. It seems agreed that...
Xiaoping Jia, Sushant Sawant, Jiangyu Zhou, Sotiri...
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research
The popularity of empirical methods in software engineering research is on the rise. Surveys, experiments, metrics, case studies, and field studies are examples of empirical method...
Walter F. Tichy, Frank Padberg
ISESE
2002
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
'Bad Practice' or 'Bad Methods' -- Are Software Engineering and Ethnographic Discourses Incompatible?
Organisational problems in industry have evoked increased interest in empirical methodologies in the broader software engineering community. In particular, the human role in softw...
Kari Rönkkö, Olle Lindeberg, Yvonne Ditt...
APSEC
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
Fuzzy concepts and formal methods: some illustrative examples
It has been recognised that formal methods are useful as a modelling tool in requirements engineering. Specification languages such as Z permit the precise and unambiguous modell...
Chris Matthews, Paul A. Swatman