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ICECCS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
A Refinement Driven Component-Based Design
Modern software applications ranging from enterprise to embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex, and require very high levels of dependability assurance. The most effec...
Zhenbang Chen, Zhiming Liu, Volker Stolz, Lu Yang,...
FM
2009
Springer
153views Formal Methods» more  FM 2009»
13 years 4 months ago
Iterative Refinement of Reverse-Engineered Models by Model-Based Testing
Abstract. This paper presents an iterative technique to accurately reverseengineer models of the behaviour of software systems. A key novelty of the approach is the fact that it us...
Neil Walkinshaw, John Derrick, Qiang Guo
AAAI
2008
13 years 8 months ago
A Formalization of Program Debugging in the Situation Calculus
Program debugging is one of the most time-consuming parts of the software development cycle. In recent years, automatic debugging has been an active research area in software engi...
Yongmei Liu
ESSOS
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Pattern-Based Confidentiality-Preserving Refinement
Abstract. We present an approach to security requirements engineering, which makes use of special kinds of problem frames that serve to structure, characterize, analyze, and solve ...
Holger Schmidt
CIBSE
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Using Refinement Checking as System Testing
Abstract. Software testing is an expensive and time-consuming activity; it is also error-prone due to human factors. But, it still is the most common effort used in the software in...
Cristiano Bertolini, Alexandre Mota