BACKGROUND – the systematic review is becoming a more commonly employed research instrument in empirical software engineering. Before undue reliance is placed on the outcomes of...
Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara ...
Abstract—In multilevel systems it is important to avoid unwanted indirect information flow from higher levels to lower levels, namely the so called covert channels. Initial stud...
Ruggero Lanotte, Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini, Angelo...
— Describing and managing activities, resources and constraints of software development processes is a challenging goal for many organizations. A first generation of Software Pro...
We present an algorithm Dash to check if a program P satisfies a safety property ϕ. The unique feature of the algorithm is that it uses only test generation operations, and nes ...
Nels E. Beckman, Aditya V. Nori, Sriram K. Rajaman...
—In this paper, we explore the concept of code readability and investigate its relation to software quality. With data collected from 120 human annotators, we derive associations...
This paper presents an innovative model of a program’s internal behavior over a set of test inputs, called the probabilistic program dependence graph (PPDG), that facilitates pr...
— Web script crashes and malformed dynamically-generated web pages are common errors, and they seriously impact the usability of web applications. Current tools for web-page vali...
Shay Artzi, Adam Kiezun, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, ...
—In the past, researchers have developed specialized programs to aid programmers in detecting concurrent programming errors such as deadlocks, livelocks, starvation, and data rac...
—Voting is the process through which a democratic society determines its government. Therefore, voting systems are as important as other well-known critical systems, such as air ...
Davide Balzarotti, Greg Banks, Marco Cova, Viktori...
—Discovering program behaviors and functionalities can ease program comprehension and verification. Existing program analysis approaches have used text mining algorithms to infer...