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ICSQP
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Using Strongest Postconditions to Improve Software Quality
: The cost of developing and maintaining high quality software remains at a premium. In this paper we introduce a practical approach for enhancement of software quality, based on c...
Si Pan, R. Geoff Dromey
WCRE
1995
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Strongest Postcondition Semantics as the Formal Basis for Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
KBSE
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Formal Automated Approach for Reverse Engineering Programs with Pointers
Given a program S and a precondition Q, the strongest postcondition, denoted sp(S Q), is defined as the strongest condition that holds after the execution of S, given that S term...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
OOPSLA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Contract Soundness for Object-Oriented Languages
Checking pre- and post-conditions of procedures and methods at runtime helps improve software reliability. In the procedural world, pre- and post-conditions have a straightforward...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Felleisen
QNS
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the quality of software quality determination processes
This paper suggests a systematic, orderly, process-based approach to stating software quality objectives and knowing if and when they have been achieved. We suggest that quality i...
Leon J. Osterweil