Abstract—During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming ...
Angela Lozano, Andy Kellens, Kim Mens, Gabriela Ar...
Fluent model checking is an automated technique for verifying that an event-based operational model satisfies some state-based declarative properties. The link between the event-b...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
Many automatic testing, analysis, and verification techniques for programs can be effectively reduced to a constraint-generation phase followed by a constraint-solving phase. Th...
Adam Kiezun, Vijay Ganesh, Philip J. Guo, Pieter H...
To realize the benefits of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), developers must refactor active and legacy code bases into an AOP language. When refactoring, developers first need...
David Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, Lori L. Pollock, Mar...
The MDA approach aims to ease software maintenance faced with platform and business evolution. In this approach, main development artifacts, i.e. models, are defined with the Meta...