Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
The pervasive use of pointers with complicated patterns in C programs often constrains compiler alias analysis to yield conservative register allocation and promotion. Speculative...
Aspect-based refactoring, called aspectualization, involves moving program code that implements cross-cutting concerns into aspects. Such refactoring can improve the maintainabili...
One of ACL2’s most interesting features is that it is executable, so users can run the programs that they verify, and debug them during verification. In fact, the ACL2 implemen...
Typed -calculus is an important tool in programming language research because it provides an extensible framework for studying language features both in isolation and in their rel...