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ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 2 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
BIRTHDAY
2012
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
The Logical Execution Time Paradigm
Embedded systems must interact with their real-time environment in a timely and dependable fashion. Most embeddedsystems architectures and design processes consider “nonfunction...
Christoph M. Kirsch, Ana Sokolova
ISQED
2011
IEEE
230views Hardware» more  ISQED 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Constraint generation for software-based post-silicon bug masking with scalable resynthesis technique for constraint optimizatio
Due to the dramatic increase in design complexity, verifying the functional correctness of a circuit is becoming more difficult. Therefore, bugs may escape all verification effo...
Chia-Wei Chang, Hong-Zu Chou, Kai-Hui Chang, Jie-H...
LPAR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Dafny: An Automatic Program Verifier for Functional Correctness
Traditionally, the full verification of a program's functional correctness has been obtained with pen and paper or with interactive proof assistants, whereas only reduced ver...
K. Rustan M. Leino
IFM
2010
Springer
133views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Probabilistic Modelling in Event-B
Abstract. Event-B provides us with a powerful framework for correctby-construction system development. However, while developing dependable systems we should not only guarantee the...
Anton Tarasyuk, Elena Troubitsyna, Linas Laibinis
MJ
2007
119views more  MJ 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Automated energy calculation and estimation for delay-insensitive digital circuits
With increasingly smaller feature sizes and higher on-chip densities, the power dissipation of VLSI systems has become a primary concern for designers. This paper first describes...
Venkat Satagopan, Bonita Bhaskaran, Anshul Singh, ...
BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Stochastic Theory of Black-Box Software Testing
Abstract. We introduce a mathematical framework for black-box software testing of functional correctness, based on concepts from stochastic process theory. This framework supports ...
Karl Meinke
CALCO
2007
Springer
88views Mathematics» more  CALCO 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Datatypes in Memory
Besides functional correctness, specifications must describe other properties of permissible implementations. We want to use simple algebraic techniques to specify resource usage ...
David Aspinall, Piotr Hoffman
DATE
2007
IEEE
80views Hardware» more  DATE 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Engineering trust with semantic guardians
The ability to guarantee the functional correctness of digital integrated circuits and, in particular, complex microprocessors, is a key task in the production of secure and trust...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco