Many tools designed to help programmers view and manipulate source code exploit the formal structure of the programming language. Language-based tools use information derived via ...
Abstract—As programmers are asked to manage more complicated parallel machines, it is likely that they will become increasingly dependent on tools such as multi-threaded data rac...
— As new versions of software are developed bugs inevitably arise either due to regression or new functionality. Challenges arise in discovering, managing, and testing the impact...
Kevin J. Hoffman, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Patri...
As a framework evolves, changes in its Application Programming Interface (API) can break client programs that extend the framework. Repairing a client program can be a challenging...
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...