Many testing and analysis techniques use finite state models to validate and verify the quality of software systems. Since the specification of such models is complex and timecons...
Exception handling is an important language feature for building more robust software programs. It is primarily concerned with capturing abnormal events, with the help of catch han...
traction and information hiding K. RUSTAN M. LEINO and GREG NELSON Compaq Systems Research Center er describes an approach for verifying programs in the presence of data abstractio...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
Since software systems need to be continuously available under varying conditions, their ability to evolve at runtime is increasingly seen as one key issue. Modern programming fra...