One of the most difficult tasks in software development is that features are implemented by changing the code of other features. This problem cannot be solved with existing general...
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Data-flow analysis is a common technique to gather program information for use in transformations such as register allocation, dead-code elimination, common subexpression elimina...
—Visualizations of actual run-time data support the comprehension of programs, like examples support the ion of abstract concepts and principles. Unfortunately, the required run-...
Michael Perscheid, Bastian Steinert, Robert Hirsch...
Continuous testing uses excess cycles on a developer’s workstation to continuously run regression tests in the background, providing rapid feedback about test failures as source...