Dynamically typed programming languages are powerful tools for rapid software development. However, there are scenarios that would benefit from actual type information being avai...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
Evolving solutions rather than computing them certainly represents an unconventional programming approach. The general methodology of evolutionary computation has already been know...
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...
One of the major costs of software development is associated with testing and validation of successive versions of software systems. An important problem encountered in testing and...