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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Deriving input syntactic structure from execution
Program input syntactic structure is essential for a wide range of applications such as test case generation, software debugging and network security. However, such important info...
Zhiqiang Lin, Xiangyu Zhang
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Randomized active atomicity violation detection in concurrent programs
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
Chang-Seo Park, Koushik Sen
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Profile-guided program simplification for effective testing and analysis
Many testing and analysis techniques have been developed for inhouse use. Although they are effective at discovering defects before a program is deployed, these techniques are oft...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Automated identification of parameter mismatches in web applications
Quality assurance techniques for web applications have become increasingly important as web applications have gained in popularity and become an essential part of our daily lives....
William G. J. Halfond, Alessandro Orso
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Towards compositional synthesis of evolving systems
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Marsha Chechik, ...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Alchemy: transmuting base alloy specifications into implementations
Alloy specifications are used to define lightweight models of systems. We present Alchemy, which compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against persistent...
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, Daniel J. Dou...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Using assertions to help end-user programmers create dependable web macros
Web macros give web browser users ways to "program" tedious tasks, allowing those tasks to be repeated more quickly and reliably than when performed by hand. Web macros ...
Andhy Koesnandar, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Gregg Rothe...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Automatically locating framework extension examples
Using and extending a framework is a challenging task whose difficulty is exacerbated by the poor documentation that generally comes with the framework. Even in the presence of do...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Harold Ossher
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Javert: fully automatic mining of general temporal properties from dynamic traces
Program specifications are important for many tasks during software design, development, and maintenance. Among these, temporal specifications are particularly useful. They expres...
Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
Empirical evidence of the benefits of workspace awareness in software configuration management
In this paper, we present results from our empirical evaluations of a workspace awareness tool that we designed and implemented to augment the functionality of software configurat...
Anita Sarma, David F. Redmiles, André van d...