All high-performance production JVMs employ an adaptive strategy for program execution. Methods are first executed unoptimized and then an online profiling mechanism is used to ...
Dries Buytaert, Andy Georges, Michael Hind, Matthe...
Abstract. Development environments typically present the software engineer with a structural perspective of an object-oriented system in terms of packages, classes and methods. Fro...
Symbolic execution can be problematic when applied to real applications. This paper addresses two of these problems: (1) the constraints generated during symbolic execution may be ...
Agarwal and Karahanna (2000) suggested that holistic user experiences with IT contribute to users’ evaluation of and reaction to using the technology. They proposed and empirica...
Controlled experiments are a key approach to evaluate and evolve our understanding of software engineering technologies. However, defining and running a controlled experiment is a...