This paperdescribes the use of a powerful graph query language for querying programs, and a novel combination of transformations for generating efficient implementations of the q...
K. Tuncay Tekle, Michael Gorbovitski, Yanhong A. L...
There have been several efforts to bring static type inference to object-oriented dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, and Perl. In our experience, however, such type inference...
Jong-hoon (David) An, Avik Chaudhuri, Jeffrey S. F...
Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for aiding program understanding. However, slices of even small programs are often too large to be generally useful. Imprecise poi...
Markus Mock, Darren C. Atkinson, Craig Chambers, S...
We present an analysis to automatically determine if a program represents a continuous function, or equivalently, if infinitesimal changes to its inputs can only cause infinitesim...
Because the concept of program correctness is generally taught as an activity independent of the programming process, most introductory computer science (CS) students perceive it ...
Timothy S. Gegg-Harrison, Gary R. Bunce, Rebecca D...