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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Detecting increases in feature coupling using regression tests
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Olivier Giroux, Martin P. Robillard
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
How is aliasing used in systems software?
We present a study of all sources of aliasing in over one million lines of C code, identifying in the process the common patterns of aliasing that arise in practice. We find that ...
Brian Hackett, Alex Aiken
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation-based test adequacy criteria for distributed systems
Developers of distributed systems routinely construct discrete-event simulations to help understand and evaluate the behavior of inter-component protocols. Simulations are abstrac...
Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexande...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Interpolation for data structures
Interpolation based automatic abstraction is a powerful and robust technique for the automated analysis of hardware and software systems. Its use has however been limited to contr...
Deepak Kapur, Rupak Majumdar, Calogero G. Zarba
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Lightweight extraction of syntactic specifications
A method for extracting syntactic specifications from heapmanipulating code is described. The state of the heap is represented as an environment mapping each variable or field to ...
Mana Taghdiri, Robert Seater, Daniel Jackson