SOCK is a process calculus for the modeling of Service Oriented systems recently extended with primitives for dynamic fault and compensation handling. In this paper we investigate...
Abstract. This paper explores a way to apply model checking techniques to parallel programs that use the nonblocking primitives of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The method h...
Design by Contract is a design methodology that promotes software reliability and reusability by requiring each component module to have a well-specified interface and leaves a mo...
Phillip L. Nico, Clark Savage Turner, Kimberly Kno...
Software systems increasingly integrate Off-The-Shelf (OTS) components. However, due to the lack of knowledge about the reused OTS components, this integration is fragile and can ...
—A random testing strategy can be effective at finding faults, but may leave some routines entirely untested if it never gets to call them on objects satisfying their preconditi...
Yi Wei, Serge Gebhardt, Bertrand Meyer, Manuel Ori...