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KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Generating Fixes from Object Behavior Anomalies
Advances in recent years have made it possible in some cases to locate a bug (the source of a failure) automatically. But debugging is also about correcting bugs. Can tools do thi...
Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller, Bertrand Meyer
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Case for Automated Debugging Using Data Structure Repair
—Automated debugging is becoming increasingly important as the size and complexity of software increases. This paper makes a case for using constraint-based data structure repair...
Muhammad Zubair Malik, Khalid Ghori, Bassem Elkara...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Modelling Language for Interactive Web Applications
—Web applications are increasingly becoming the most important platform for software applications in industry, with many modelling languages proposed to handle the complexity of ...
Jevon M. Wright
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reggae: Automated Test Generation for Programs Using Complex Regular Expressions
Abstract—Test coverage such as branch coverage is commonly measured to assess the sufficiency of test inputs. To reduce tedious manual efforts in generating high-covering test i...
Nuo Li, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Hal...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding the Value of Software Engineering Technologies
SEESAW combines AI search tools, a Monte Carlo simulator, and some software process models. We show here that, when selecting technologies for a software project, SEESAW out-perfo...
Phillip Green II, Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Ous...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Design Rule Hierarchies and Parallelism in Software Development Tasks
—As software projects continue to grow in scale, being able to maximize the work that developers can carry out in parallel as a set of concurrent development tasks, without incur...
Sunny Wong, Yuanfang Cai, Giuseppe Valetto, Georgi...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Static Validation of C Preprocessor Macros
—The widely used C preprocessor (CPP) is generally considered a source of difficulty for understanding and maintaining C/C++ programs. The main reason for this difficulty is CP...
Andreas Saebjoernsen, Lingxiao Jiang, Daniel J. Qu...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Alattin: Mining Alternative Patterns for Detecting Neglected Conditions
—To improve software quality, static or dynamic verification tools accept programming rules as input and detect their violations in software as defects. As these programming rul...
Suresh Thummalapenta, Tao Xie
KBSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
ReAssert: Suggesting Repairs for Broken Unit Tests
—Developers often change software in ways that cause tests to fail. When this occurs, developers must determine whether failures are caused by errors in the code under test or in...
Brett Daniel, Vilas Jagannath, Danny Dig, Darko Ma...