Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
Producing reliable and robust software has become one of the most important software development concerns in recent years. Testing is a process by which software quality can be as...
Jonathan Misurda, James A. Clause, Juliya L. Reed,...
We describe the use of component architecture in an area to which this approach has not been classically applied, the area of cluster system software. By "cluster system soft...
Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Ewing L. Lusk, Ralf ...
Abstract. We present a new decision procedure for detecting property violations in pushdown models for concurrent programs that use lock-based synchronization, where each thread’...
Nicholas Kidd, Peter Lammich, Tayssir Touili, Thom...
We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...