It has long been accepted that requirements analysis should precede architectural design and implementation, but in software evolution and reverse engineering this concern with bl...
A Java monitor is a Java class that defines one or more synchronized methods. Unlike a regular object, a Java monitor object is intended to be accessed by multiple threads simulta...
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When a system fails to satisfy its specification, the model checker produces an error trace (or counter-example) that demonstrates an undesirable behavior, which is then used in d...