JOT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Abstract We propose a dependence-based representation for object-oriented programs, named Call-based Object-Oriented System Dependence Graph (COSDG). Apart from structural features...
ENTCS
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper we present how refactoring of object-oriented programs can be accomplished by using refinement. Our approach is based on algebraic laws of an object-oriented languag...
JSS
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The high cost of software maintenance could be reduced by automatically improving the design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have constructed a so...
VISSYM
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Modern object-oriented programs are hierarchical systems with many thousands of interrelated subsystems. Visualization helps developers to better comprehend these large and comple...
FMOODS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Reasoning about object-oriented programs is hard, due to , dynamic binding and the need for data abstraction and framing. Reasoning about concurrent object-oriented programs is eve...
ECOOP
1995
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1995
Springer
Previous studies have shown that object-oriented programs have different execution characteristics than procedural programs, and that special object-oriented hardware can improve p...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Encapsulation of states in object-oriented programs hinders the search for test data using evolutionary testing. As client code is oblivious to the internal state of a server obje...
EUROGP
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2004
Springer
Most programs currently written by humans are object-oriented ones. Two of the greatest benefits of object oriented programming are the separation of interface from implementation,...
AMAST
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents a new rule for reasoning about method calls in object-oriented programs. It is an adaptation of Hoare's rule of adaptation to the object-oriented paradigm,...
PLDI
1994
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1994
ACM
: Object-oriented programs are difficult to optimize because they execute many dynamically-dispatched calls. These calls cannot easily be eliminated because the compiler does not k...