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SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Empirical evaluation of defect projection models for widely-deployed production software systems
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
PSE: explaining program failures via postmortem static analysis
In this paper, we describe PSE (Postmortem Symbolic Evaluation), a static analysis algorithm that can be used by programmers to diagnose software failures. The algorithm requires ...
Roman Manevich, Manu Sridharan, Stephen Adams, Man...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Scaling regression testing to large software systems
When software is modified, during development and maintenance, it is regression tested to provide confidence that the changes did not introduce unexpected errors and that new feat...
Alessandro Orso, Nanjuan Shi, Mary Jean Harrold
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Heuristic-guided counterexample search in FLAVERS
One of the benefits of finite-state verification (FSV) tools, such as model checkers, is that a counterexample is provided when the property cannot be verified. Not all counterexa...
Jianbin Tan, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Clarke, Sh...