Popular code coverage measures, such as branch coverage, are indicators of the thoroughness rather than the fault detection capability of test suites. Mutation testing is a fault-...
ion techniques are indispensable for the specification and verification of functional behavior of programs. In object-oriented ation languages like JML, a powerful abstraction tec...
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
: Modularity is one of the most important principles in software engineering and a necessity for every practical software. Since the design space of software is generally quite lar...
: Feature diagrams (FDs) are a family of popular modelling languages, mainly used for managing variability in software product lines. FDs were first introduced by Kang et al. as pa...
Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Jean-Chris...