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ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting purity for atomicity
The notion that certain procedures are atomic is a fundamental correctness property of many multithreaded software systems. A procedure is atomic if for every execution there is a...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund, Shaz Qadeer
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An optimizing compiler for batches of temporal logic formulas
Model checking based on validating temporal logic formulas has proven practical and effective for numerous software engineering applications. As systems based on this approach ha...
James Ezick
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Faster constraint solving with subtypes
Constraints in predicate or relational logic can be translated into boolean logic and solved with a SAT solver. For faster solving, it is common to exploit the typing of predicate...
Jonathan Edwards, Daniel Jackson, Emina Torlak, Vi...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Automating commutativity analysis at the design level
Two operations commute if executing them serially in either order results in the same change of state. In a system in which commands may be issued simultaneously by different use...
Greg Dennis, Robert Seater, Derek Rayside, Daniel ...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Testing malware detectors
In today’s interconnected world, malware, such as worms and viruses, can cause havoc. A malware detector (commonly known as virus scanner) attempts to identify malware. In spite...
Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Active learning for automatic classification of software behavior
James F. Bowring, James M. Rehg, Mary Jean Harrold
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary testing in the presence of loop-assigned flags: a testability transformation approach
Evolutionary testing is an effective technique for automatically generating good quality test data. However, for structural testing, the technique degenerates to random testing i...
André Baresel, David Binkley, Mark Harman, ...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Testing of java web services for robustness
This paper presents a new compile-time analysis that enables a testing methodology for white-box coverage testing of error recovery code (i.e., exception handlers) in Java web ser...
Chen Fu, Barbara G. Ryder, Ana Milanova, David Won...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Model checking XML manipulating software
The use of XML as the de facto data exchange standard has allowed integration of heterogeneous web based software systems regardless of implementation platforms and programming la...
Xiang Fu, Tevfik Bultan, Jianwen Su