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POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 26 days ago
Access permission contracts for scripting languages
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 2 days ago
Mining exception-handling rules as sequence association rules
Programming languages such as Java and C++ provide exception-handling constructs to handle exception conditions. Applications are expected to handle these exception conditions and...
Suresh Thummalapenta, Tao Xie
ICST
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Quality Assurance of Software Applications Using the In Vivo Testing Approach
Software products released into the field typically have some number of residual defects that either were not detected or could not have been detected during testing. This may be...
Christian Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Ian Vo, Matt Chu
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Isolating and understanding concurrency errors using reconstructed execution fragments
In this paper we propose Recon, a new general approach to concurrency debugging. Recon goes beyond just detecting bugs, it also presents to the programmer short fragments of buggy...
Brandon Lucia, Benjamin P. Wood, Luis Ceze
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
(Un-)Covering Equivalent Mutants
—Mutation testing measures the adequacy of a test suite by seeding artificial defects (mutations) into a program. If a test suite fails to detect a mutation, it may also fail to...
David Schuler, Andreas Zeller