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ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
2009
ACM
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...
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2000
ACM
It is generally acknowledged that developing correct multithreaded codes is difficult, because threads may interact with each other in unpredictable ways. The goal of this work i...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
The errors that Java programmers are likely to encounter can roughly be categorized into three groups: compile-time (semantic and syntactic), logical, and runtime (exceptions). Wh...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2003
ACM
We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...