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MSR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating process quality in GNOME based on change request data
The lifecycle of defects reports and enhancement requests collected in the Bugzilla database of the GNOME project provides valuable information on the evolution of the change requ...
Holger Schackmann, Horst Lichter
MSR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Code siblings: Technical and legal implications of copying code between applications
Source code cloning does not happen within a single system only. It can also occur between one system and another. We use the term code sibling to refer to a code clone that evolv...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ya...
MSR
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Assigning bug reports using a vocabulary-based expertise model of developers
For popular software systems, the number of daily submitted bug reports is high. Triaging these incoming reports is a time consuming task. Part of the bug triage is the assignment...
Dominique Matter, Adrian Kuhn, Oscar Nierstrasz
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A formal analysis of requirements-based testing
The aim of requirements-based testing is to generate test cases from a set of requirements for a given system or piece of software. In this paper we propose a formal semantics for...
Charles Pecheur, Franco Raimondi, Guillaume Brat
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A comparative study of programmer-written and automatically inferred contracts
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Nadia Polikarpova, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Precise pointer reasoning for dynamic test generation
Dynamic test generation consists of executing a program while gathering symbolic constraints on inputs from predicates encountered in branch statements, and of using a constraint ...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. ...
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic system testing of programs without test oracles
Metamorphic testing has been shown to be a simple yet effective technique in addressing the quality assurance of applications that do not have test oracles, i.e., for which it is ...
Christian Murphy, Kuang Shen, Gail E. Kaiser
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Efficient mutation testing by checking invariant violations
David Schuler, Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exception analysis and points-to analysis: better together
Exception analysis and points-to analysis are typically done in complete separation. Past algorithms for precise exception analysis (e.g., pairing throw clauses with catch stateme...
Martin Bravenboer, Yannis Smaragdakis