Most flight software testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory relies on the use of hand-produced test scenarios and is executed on systems as similar as possible to actual mission...
Analyzing a program run can provide important insights about its correctness. Dynamic analysis of complex correctness properties, however, usually results in significant run-time ...
Matthew B. Dwyer, Alex Kinneer, Sebastian G. Elbau...
Function precedence protocols define ordering relations among function calls in a program. In some instances, precedence protocols are well-understood (e.g., a call to pthread mut...
We analyze the version history of 7 software systems to predict the most fault prone entities and files. The basic assumption is that faults do not occur in isolation, but rather ...
Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, E. James Whitehead...
Proponents of design notations tailored for specific application domains or reference architectures, often available in the form of UML stereotypes, motivate them by improved unde...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...