SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
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 ...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Testing and code editing are interleaved activities during program development. When tests fail unexpectedly, the changes that caused the failure(s) are not always easy to find. W...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Pervasive context-aware software is an emerging kind of application. Smart personal digital assistants and RFID-based location sensing software are two examples. Many of these sys...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Recent software systems usually feature an automated failure reporting system, with which a huge number of failing traces are collected every day. In order to prioritize fault dia...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
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 ...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
We consider the problem if a given program satisfies a specified safety property. Interesting programs have infinite state spaces, with inputs ranging over infinite domains, and f...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Models are increasingly recognized as an effective means for elaborating requirements and exploring designs. For complex systems, model building is far from an easy task. Efforts ...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...