One of the issues in software evolution is debugging. Debugging large and complex software systems evolved requires a lot of effort since it is very difficult to localize and ide...
As computer systems continue to become more powerful and comdo programs. High-level abstractions introduced to deal with complexity in large programs, while simplifying human reas...
Kevin J. Hoffman, Patrick Eugster, Suresh Jagannat...
Traditionally, synchronous languages, such as Esterel, have been compiled into hardware, where timing analysis is relatively easy. When compiled into software ? e.g., into sequent...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Samarjit Chakraborty, Abh...
Program analysis has been increasingly used in software engineering tasks such as auditing programs for security vulnerabilities and finding errors in general. Such tools often re...
Monica S. Lam, John Whaley, V. Benjamin Livshits, ...
A major research goal for compilers and environments is the automatic derivation of tools from formal specifications. However, the formal model of the language is often inadequat...