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KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Inferring Finite-State Models with Temporal Constraints
Finite state machine-based abstractions of software behaviour are popular because they can be used as the basis for a wide range of (semi-) automated verification and validation ...
Neil Walkinshaw, Kirill Bogdanov
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
QuARS Express - A Tool Demonstration
Requirements analysis is an important phase in a software project. Automatic evaluation of Natural Language (NL) requirements documents has been proposed as a means to improve the...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Stefania Gnesi, Giuseppe Lami...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Consistency of Web Conversations
Abstract—We describe BPELCheck, a tool for statically analyzing interactions of composite web services implemented in BPEL. Our algorithm is compositional, and checks each proces...
Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar, Francesco Sorrent...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Swarm Verification
Reportedly, supercomputer designer Seymour Cray once said that he would sooner use two strong oxen to plow a field than a thousand chickens. Although this is undoubtedly wise when...
Gerard J. Holzmann, Rajeev Joshi, Alex Groce
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Semi-Automating Pragmatic Reuse Tasks
Developers undertaking a pragmatic reuse task must collect and reason about information that is spread throughout the source code of a system before they can understand the scope ...
Reid Holmes, Robert J. Walker
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Rhizome: A Feature Modeling and Generation Platform
Rhizome is an end-to-end feature modeling and code generation platform that includes a feature modeling language (FeatureML), a template language (MarkerML) and a template-based c...
Guozheng Ge, E. James Whitehead Jr.
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing the Cost of Path Property Monitoring Through Sampling
Run-time monitoring can provide important insights about a program’s behavior and, for simple properties, it can be done efficiently. Monitoring properties describing sequences...
Matthew B. Dwyer, Madeline Diep, Sebastian G. Elba...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
APPAREIL: A Tool for Building Automated Program Translators Using Annotated Grammars
—Operations languages are used to write spacecraft operations procedures. The APPAREIL tool automates the process of generating program translators between operations languages, ...
Diego Ordóñez Camacho, Kim Mens
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Test-Suite Augmentation for Evolving Software
One activity performed by developers during regression testing is test-suite augmentation, which consists of assessing the adequacy of a test suite after a program is modified an...
Raúl A. Santelices, Pavan Kumar Chittimalli...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
VCR: Virtual Capture and Replay for Performance Testing
This paper proposes a novel approach to performance testing, called Virtual Capture and Replay (VCR), that couples a capture-and-replay technique with the checkpointing capabiliti...
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Antonino ...