Automatic repair of programs has been a longstanding goal in software engineering, yet debugging remains a largely manual process. We introduce a fully automated method for locati...
Westley Weimer, ThanhVu Nguyen, Claire Le Goues, S...
Classic fault localization techniques can automatically provide information about the suspicious code blocks that are likely responsible for observed failures. This information is...
Automatically detecting bugs in programs has been a long-held goal in software engineering. Many techniques exist, trading-off varying levels of automation, thoroughness of covera...
Because of the strong coupling of classes and the proliferation of unneeded class members induced by inheritance, the suggestion to use composition and delegation instead has beco...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...