Nowadays, large-scale industrial software systems may involve hundreds of developers working on hundreds of different but related models representing parts of the same system spec...
We propose static program analysis techniques for identifying the impact of relational database schema changes upon object-oriented applications. We use dataflow analysis to extra...
We present TReMer+, a tool for consistency checking of distributed models (i.e., models developed by distributed teams). TReMer+ works by first constructing a merged model before ...
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Shiva Nejati, Steve M. Easterb...
Test-driven software development tackles the problem of operationally defining the features to be implemented by means of test cases. This approach was recently ported to the earl...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...
Many software engineering projects use open source software tools or components. The project team's active participation in the open source community may be necessary for the...
Programmers seek to answer questions as they investigate the functioning of a software system, such as "which execution path is being taken in this case?" Programmers at...
Software is increasingly deployed in vehicles as demand for new functionality increases and cheaper and more powerful hardware becomes available. Likewise, emerging wireless commu...
Aline Senart, Douglas C. Schmidt, Serena Fritsch, ...
WS-BPEL applications are a kind of service-oriented application. They use XPath extensively to integrate loosely-coupled workflow steps. However, XPath may extract wrong data from...
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...