SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
A compiler-checked immutability guarantee provides useful documentation, facilitates reasoning, and enables optimizations. This paper presents Immutability Generic Java (IGJ), a n...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
Model checking techniques have traditionally dealt with temporal logic languages and automata interpreted over -words, i.e., infinite in the future but finite in the past. However...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
Automated verification is a technique for establishing if certain properties, usually expressed in temporal logic, hold for a system model. The model can be defined using a high-l...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
We improve on previous recommender systems by taking advantage of the layered structure of software. We use a random-walk approach, mimicking the more focused behavior of a develo...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
The systematic exploration of the space of all the behaviours of a software system forms the basis of numerous approaches to verification. However, existing approaches face many c...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
When enacting a web service orchestration defined using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) we observed various safety property violations. This surprised us considerab...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a widely used visual formalism for scenario-based specifications of distributed reactive systems. In its conventional usage, an MSC captures an ...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2007
ACM
This paper presents a specification-based approach for systematic testing of products from a software product line. Our approach uses specifications given as formulas in Alloy, a ...