We address the problem of testing and debugging concurrent, distributed Erlang applications. In concurrent programs, race conditions are a common class of bugs and are very hard t...
Koen Claessen, Michal Palka, Nicholas Smallbone, J...
Assessing software quality and understanding how events in its evolution have lead to anomalies are two important steps toward reducing costs in software maintenance. Unfortunatel...
Guillaume Langelier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Pierre Po...
We present the Stack Trace Analysis Tool (STAT) to aid in debugging extreme-scale applications. STAT can reduce problem exploration spaces from thousands of processes to a few by ...
Dorian C. Arnold, Dong H. Ahn, Bronis R. de Supins...
Object-oriented legacy systems are hard to maintain because they are hard to understand. One of the main understanding problems is revealed by the so-called ”yo-yo effect” tha...
One of the important activities in re-engineering process is detecting design flaws. Such design flaws prevent an efficient maintenance, and further development of a system. Th...