SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Alloy specifications are used to define lightweight models of systems. We present Alchemy, which compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against persistent...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Web macros give web browser users ways to "program" tedious tasks, allowing those tasks to be repeated more quickly and reliably than when performed by hand. Web macros ...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Using and extending a framework is a challenging task whose difficulty is exacerbated by the poor documentation that generally comes with the framework. Even in the presence of do...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Program specifications are important for many tasks during software design, development, and maintenance. Among these, temporal specifications are particularly useful. They expres...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we present results from our empirical evaluations of a workspace awareness tool that we designed and implemented to augment the functionality of software configurat...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Software fails and fixing it is expensive. Research in failure prediction has been highly successful at modeling software failures. Few models, however, consider the key cause of ...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Getting the right software requirements under the right environment assumptions is a critical precondition for developing the right software. This task is intrinsically difficult....
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Modern Web 2.0 applications, such as GMail, Live Maps, Facebook and many others, use a combination of Dynamic HTML, JavaScript and other Web browser technologies commonly referred...