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ICSQP
1994
13 years 8 months ago
Using Strongest Postconditions to Improve Software Quality
: The cost of developing and maintaining high quality software remains at a premium. In this paper we introduce a practical approach for enhancement of software quality, based on c...
Si Pan, R. Geoff Dromey
WCRE
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Strongest Postcondition Semantics as the Formal Basis for Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
KBSE
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Formal Automated Approach for Reverse Engineering Programs with Pointers
Given a program S and a precondition Q, the strongest postcondition, denoted sp(S Q), is defined as the strongest condition that holds after the execution of S, given that S term...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
OOPSLA
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Contract Soundness for Object-Oriented Languages
Checking pre- and post-conditions of procedures and methods at runtime helps improve software reliability. In the procedural world, pre- and post-conditions have a straightforward...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Felleisen
QNS
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Improving the quality of software quality determination processes
This paper suggests a systematic, orderly, process-based approach to stating software quality objectives and knowing if and when they have been achieved. We suggest that quality i...
Leon J. Osterweil