SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Automatic bug-finding tools have a high false positive rate: most warnings do not indicate real bugs. Usually bug-finding tools assign important warnings high priority. However, t...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Studies show that programs contain much similar code, commonly known as clones. One of the main reasons for introducing clones is programmers' tendency to copy and paste code...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
There has recently been a great deal of interest in search? based test data generation, with many local and global search algorithms being proposed. However, to date, there has be...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
With the growing complexity of web applications, identifying web interfaces that can be used for testing such applications has become increasingly challenging. Many techniques tha...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Use case diagrams (UCDs) are widely used to describe requirements and desired functionality of software products. However, UCDs are loosely linked to source code, and maintaining ...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Regression testing, as it's commonly practiced, is unsound due to inconsistent test repair and test addition. This paper presents a new technique, differential testing, that ...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
Malware detectors require a specification of malicious behavior. Typically, these specifications are manually constructed by investigating known malware. We present an automatic t...