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ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
A human study of patch maintainability
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...
Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Finding errors in multithreaded GUI applications
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
Sai Zhang, Hao Lü, Michael D. Ernst
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Measuring enforcement windows with symbolic trace interpretation: what well-behaved programs say
A static analysis design is sufficient if it can prove the property of interest with an acceptable number of false alarms. Ultimately, the only way to confirm that an analysis d...
Devin Coughlin, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Amer Diwan, Je...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Cooperative types for controlling thread interference in Java
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to unintended interference between concurrent threads. To address this problem, we argue that yield annotations in the source code sho...
Jaeheon Yi, Tim Disney, Stephen N. Freund, Cormac ...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Static detection of brittle parameter typing
To avoid receiving incorrect arguments, a method specifies the expected type of each formal parameter. However, some parameter types are too general and have subtypes that the me...
Michael Pradel, Severin Heiniger, Thomas R. Gross