Static analysis tools report software defects that may or may not be detected by other verification methods. Two challenges complicating the adoption of these tools are spurious f...
Joseph R. Ruthruff, John Penix, J. David Morgentha...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
The standard language for describing the asymptotic behavior of algorithms is theoretical computational complexity. We propose a method for describing the asymptotic behavior of p...
Simon Goldsmith, Alex Aiken, Daniel Shawcross Wilk...
This paper describes a compositional proof strategy for verifying properties of requirements specifications. The proof strategy, which may be applied using either a model checker ...
Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are popular for requirement elicitation and specification. MSCs describe two distinct aspects of a system: on ...