The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Software testing is an important issue in software engineering. As software systems become increasingly large and complex, the problem of how to optimally allocate the limited test...
Knit is a new component definition and linking language for systems code. Knit helps make C code more understandable and reusable by third parties, helps eliminate much of the per...
Alastair Reid, Matthew Flatt, Leigh Stoller, Jay L...
We present a study of all sources of aliasing in over one million lines of C code, identifying in the process the common patterns of aliasing that arise in practice. We find that ...
We present a new set of metrics for analyzing the interaction between the modules of a large software system. We believe that these metrics will be important to any automatic or s...