Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...
Software system faults are often caused by unexpected interactions among components. Yet the size of a test suite required to test all possible combinations of interactions can be...
Myra B. Cohen, Peter B. Gibbons, Warwick B. Mugrid...
Database systems play an important role in nearly every modern organization, yet relatively little research effort has focused on how to test them. AGENDA, A (test) GENerator for ...
We present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. Our approach is compositional, naturally enabling us to decompos...
Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Alex Groce, Somesh ...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
There has been little research on end-user program development beyond the activity of programming. Devising ways to address additional activities related to end-user program devel...
Margaret M. Burnett, Curtis R. Cook, Omkar Pendse,...
Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...
Step-wise refinement is a powerful paradigm for developing a complex program from a simple program by adding features incrementally. We present the AHEAD (Algebraic Hierarchical Eq...
Don S. Batory, Jacob Neal Sarvela, Axel Rauschmaye...
Preparations for Y2K reminded the software engineering community of the extent to which long-lived software systems are embedded in our daily environments. As systems are maintain...
Evelyn J. Barry, Chris F. Kemerer, Sandra Slaughte...