Testing a large-scale, real-life commercial software application is a very challenging task due to the constant changes in the software, the involvement of multiple programmers an...
nt a new concurrency control abstraction for real-time systems called preemptible atomic regions (PARs). PARs a transactional mechanism that improves upon lock-based mutual exclus...
Jeremy Manson, Jason Baker, Antonio Cunei, Suresh ...
Library writers wish to provide a guarantee not only that each procedure in the library performs correctly in isolation, but also that the procedures perform correctly when run in ...
Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
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Abstract Flow Accounting is a passive monitoring mechanism implemented in routers that gives insight into trac behavior and network characteristics. However, processing of Flow Ac...