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MOMPES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adopting Computational Independent Models for Derivation of Architectural Requirements of Software Product Lines
The alignment of the software architecture and the functional requirements of a system is a demanding task because of the difficulty in tracing design elements to requirements. Th...
Alexandre Bragança, Ricardo Jorge Machado
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Extracting rights and obligations from regulations: toward a tool-supported process
Security, privacy and governance are increasingly the focus of government regulations in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. This trend has created a “regulation compliance” probl...
Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Nicola Zeni, Travis D. Breau...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tools for model-based security engineering: models vs. code
We present tools to support model-based security engineering on both the model and the code level. In the approach supported by these tools, one firstly specifies the securitycr...
Jan Jürjens, Yijun Yu
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Context-aware statistical debugging: from bug predictors to faulty control flow paths
Effective bug localization is important for realizing automated debugging. One attractive approach is to apply statistical techniques on a collection of evaluation profiles of pr...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evacon: a framework for integrating evolutionary and concolic testing for object-oriented programs
Achieving high structural coverage such as branch coverage in objectoriented programs is an important and yet challenging goal due to two main challenges. First, some branches inv...
Kobi Inkumsah, Tao Xie
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling bug report quality
Software developers spend a significant portion of their resources handling user-submitted bug reports. For software that is widely deployed, the number of bug reports typically ...
Pieter Hooimeijer, Westley Weimer
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance
Completing software maintenance and evolution tasks for today’s large, complex software systems can be difficult, often requiring considerable time to understand the system well...
Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Finding errors in components that exchange xml data
Two or more components (e.g., objects, modules, or programs) interoperate when they exchange data, such as XML data. Using Application Programming Interface (API) calls exported b...
Mark Grechanik
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Ensuring consistency in long running transactions
Flow composition languages permit the construction of longrunning transactions from collections of independent, atomic services. Due to environmental limitations, such transaction...
Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assertion-based repair of complex data structures
Programmers have long used assertions to characterize properties of code. An assertion violation signals a corruption in the program state. At such a state, it is standard to term...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Ivan Garcia, Yuk Lai Suen, Sar...