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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Memories of bug fixes
The change history of a software project contains a rich collection of code changes that record previous development experience. Changes that fix bugs are especially interesting, ...
Sunghun Kim, Kai Pan, E. James Whitehead Jr.
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
From multi-modal scenarios to code: compiling LSCs into aspectJ
We exploit the main similarity between the aspect-oriented programming paradigm and the inter-object, scenario-based approach to specification in order to construct a new way of ...
Shahar Maoz, David Harel
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using task context to improve programmer productivity
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information n...
Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Interpolation for data structures
Interpolation based automatic abstraction is a powerful and robust technique for the automated analysis of hardware and software systems. Its use has however been limited to contr...
Deepak Kapur, Rupak Majumdar, Calogero G. Zarba
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Bit level types for high level reasoning
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...
Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting increases in feature coupling using regression tests
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Olivier Giroux, Martin P. Robillard
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Carving differential unit test cases from system test cases
Unit test cases are focused and efficient. System tests are effective at exercising complex usage patterns. Differential unit tests (DUT) are a hybrid of unit and system tests. T...
Sebastian G. Elbaum, Hui Nee Chin, Matthew B. Dwye...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Simulation-based test adequacy criteria for distributed systems
Developers of distributed systems routinely construct discrete-event simulations to help understand and evaluate the behavior of inter-component protocols. Simulations are abstrac...
Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexande...